The Horizontal Displacement on a Bolted Joint Subjected to Repeated Tangential Static Loads

Fracturing at contact surfaces subjected to normal and tangential loads

A variety of rock engineering problems including drilling, cutting, abrasion and milling involve rock-tool contact and indentation. The pattern of indentation fractures and the role of slip conditions, surface roughness, tool radius, and initial aw size for an arbitrarily loaded contact are not fully known. The present paper aims to identify the elastic stress eld for a contact subjected to bot...

Evaluation of Piled Raft Behavior based on the Taguchi Method subjected to Combination of Vertical and Horizontal Loads

The results of an ongoing FEM parametric study are presented regarding the dependence of the resulting piled raft behavior under lateral load and combination of loads on pile diameter, pile length, arrangement of piles and raft thickness. Taguchi method with Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was employed to calculate the contribution ratio of these factors on the lateral displacement of piled raft. ...

Temporomandibular joint loads in subjects with and without disc displacement

The likelihood of development of degenerative joint disease (DJD) of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is related to the integrity of the TMJ disc. Predilection for mechanical failure of the TMJ disc may reflect inter-individual differences in TMJ loads. Nine females and eight males in each of normal TMJ disc position and bilateral disc displacement diagnostic groups consented to participate in...

Vibration analysis of horizontal self-weighted beams and cables with bending stiffness subjected to thermal loads

Frictional systems subjected to oscillating loads

If a discrete elastic system with frictional interfaces is subjected to periodic loading, the eventual steady-state response may depend on the initial condition or an initial transient phase of the loading history. In cases where shakedown is possible, it is known that it will occur for all initial conditions if there is no coupling between slip displacements and normal contact tractions, but t...