Dynamic interfacial fracture of a double cantilever beam

The double cantilever beam test applied to mode I fracture characterization of cortical bone tissue.

The primary objective of this work was to analyse the adequacy of the Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) test in determining fracture toughness under pure mode I loading of cortical bone tissue. A new data reduction scheme based on specimen compliance and the crack equivalent concept was used to overcome the difficulties inherent in crack monitoring during its growth. It provides a complete resistanc...

Neurocontrol of a Cantilever Beam

The civil engineering community is currently moving towards the continuous monitoring of civil structures in order to forecast their unavoidable failure with enough precision. So-called smart technologies seem to be well adapted to this specific task. For a civil structure, such as a bridge or a dam, a monitoring smart system often includes a set of sensors, whose data is passed onto a controll...

Nonlinear Vibration Analysis of a cantilever beam with nonlinear geometry

Analyzing the nonlinear vibration of beams is one of the important issues in structural engineering. According to this, an impressive analytical method which is called Modified Iteration Perturbation Method (MIPM) is used to obtain the behavior and frequency of a cantilever beam with geometric nonlinear. This new method is combined by the Mickens and Iteration methods. Moreover, this method don...

Automatic Optical Crack Tracking for Double Cantilever Beam Specimens

1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 2 Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 3 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 4 Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana...

Cantilever-Based Optical Interfacial Force Microscopy