In this paper, the stress intensity factor (SIF) variations along an arbitrarily developing crack front, the non-planar fatigue-crack growth patterns, and the fatigue life of a round bar with an initially straight-fronted surface crack, are studied by employing the 3D symmetric Galerkin boundary element method-finite element method (SGBEM-FEM) alternating method. Different loading cases, involv...

This paper reports the application of consecutive-interpolation procedure into four-node quadrilateral elements for analysis two-dimensional cracked solids made functionally graded composite plate. Compared to standard finite element method, recent developed has been shown possess many desirable features, such as higher accuracy and smooth nodal gradients it still satisfies Kronecker-delta prop...

Some cyclically loaded components such as mooring chains can develop fatigue cracks in locations where the shape of part is equivalent to that a curved or bent round bar. Here we consider semi-elliptical crack growing from surface This geometry for example represent chain link segment with located at its inner- outer radius. The be either almond shaped, sickle shaped straight-fronted. Stress in...

As a part of damage tolerance assessment, the goal this research is to estimate two-dimensional crack propagation trajectory and its accompanying stress intensity factors (SIFs) using adaptive finite element method. The code was developed Visual Fortran language. advancing-front method used construct an mesh structure, whereas singularity represented through construction quarter-point single el...

Rapidly destructive arthritis (RDA) of the shoulder is a rare disease. Here, we report two cases, with different destruction patterns, which were most probably due to subchondral insufficiency fractures (SIFs). Case 1 involved a 77-year-old woman with right shoulder pain. Rapid destruction of both the humeral head and glenoid was seen within 1 month of the onset of shoulder pain. We diagnosed s...

Salmonella enterica are facultative intracellular bacterial pathogens that proliferate within host cells in a membrane-bounded compartment, the Salmonella-containing vacuole (SCV). Intracellular replication of Salmonella is mediated by bacterial effectors translocated on to the cytoplasmic face of the SCV membrane by a type III secretion system. Some of these effectors manipulate the host endoc...

The interaction integral is a conservation integral that relies on two admissible mechanical states for evaluating mixed-mode stress intensity factors (SIFs). The present paper extends this integral to functionally graded materials in which the material properties are determined by means of either continuum functions (e.g. exponentially graded materials) or micromechanics models (e.g. self-cons...

A label-free fluorescence aptasensor for highly selective and sensitive detection of ATP and thrombin was developed by using PicoGreen (PG) as signal molecule and surface-bound metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) substrates (silver island films, SIFs) as signal enhancers. On binding with ATP or thrombin, aptamers undergo structure switching, leading to a reduction of fluorescence intensity of PG....

The boundary element method (BEM) has proven to be an efficient approach for crack analysis in fracture mechanics, while its versatility application problems of complex structures with irregular boundaries deserves further attention. In this study, improve the applicability analysis, a cracked superelement is first established BEM model near-crack region, and problem then solved within frame fi...