Subcritical Crack Growth and Progressive Failure in Carrara Marble Under Wet and Dry Conditions

Subcritical crack growth law and its consequences

For brittle failures, the probability distribution of structural strength and lifetime are known to be Weibullian, in which case the knowledge of the mean and standard deviation suffices to determine the loading or time corresponding to a tolerable failure probability such as 10−6. Unfortunately, this is not so for quasibrittle structures, characterized by material inhomogeneities that are not ...

Subcritical Crack Growth and Its Relation to Predictive Analysis

This talk will discuss the relationships between subcritical crack growth and the nature of the loading, the environment under which the loading takes place and the type of material tested, and how this data is used in predictive analysis. Loading conditions will include sustained loading as well as constant and variable amplitude cyclic loading. The environments will include vacuum as a baseli...

Reply to Bogdan et al.: “Cubic ice” in cirrus clouds under dry and wet conditions.

Friction between footwear and floor covered with solid particles under dry and wet conditions.

Solid particles on the floor, both dry and wet, are common but their effects on the friction on the floor were seldom discussed in the literature. In this study, friction measurements were conducted to test the effects of particle size of solid contaminants on the friction coefficient on the floor under footwear, floor, and surface conditions. The results supported the hypothesis that particle ...

Kinetics and mechanisms of heterogeneous reaction of NO2 on CaCO3 surfaces under dry and wet conditions

With increasing NO2 concentration in the troposphere, the importance of NO2 reaction with mineral dust in the atmosphere needs to be evaluated. Until now, little is known about the reaction of NO2 with CaCO3. In this study, the heterogeneous reaction of NO2 on the surface of CaCO3 particles was investigated at 296 K and NO2 concentrations between 4.58×1015 molecules cm−3 to 1.68×1016 molecules ...