Abstract:   Previous research on bracing members show that the ductility of bracing members is compromised due to the buckling phenomena. Therefore, many researchers have tried to use special considerations to increase the fracture life of bracing members. Some of these recommendations such as increasing the slenderness ratio, using lower width to thickness ratio, increasing the out-of-p...

The fracture toughness of three new compositional variants of the Zr-Ti-Be-LTM (Late Transition Metal) family of bulk metallic glasses (BMG’s) are studied in the as-cast and annealed condition. Quaternary Zr-Ti-Cu-Be alloys consistently had linear elastic fracture toughness values greater than 80 MPa·m, while Vitreloy 1, a Zr-Ti-Cu-Ni-Be alloy, had an average fracture toughness of 48.5 MPa·m wi...

Trabecular bone fracture is a traumatic and localized event studied worldwide in order to predict it. During the years, researchers focused over the mechanical characterization of the trabecular tissue to understand its mechanics. Several studies pointed out the very local nature of the trabecular failure, finally identifying the fracture zone with the aim to study it separately. The complexity...

ID No. : FC-168 ABSTRACT Fiber-reinforced self-healing ceramic (shFRC) [1] is considered to be most attractive candidate of next generation structural materials using at high temperature, e.g. turbine blade, exhaust component of car engine etc. The shFRCs consist of three components, which are oxide fiber bundle, oxide matrix and self-healing agent interlayer. As the self-healing is generated a...

* Corresponding author; Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT Crack tunneling is a crack growth feature often seen in stable tearing crack growth tests on specimens made of ductile materials and containing through-thickness cracks with initially straight crack fronts. As a specimen is loaded monotonically, the mid-section of the crack front will advance first, which will be followed by crack growth ...

Uniaxial quasi-static, uniaxial dynamic and confined dynamic compression experiments have been performed to characterize the failure and deformation mechanisms of a sintered polycrystalline aluminum nitride using a servohydraulic machine and a modified Kolsky bar. Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) are used to identify the fracture and deformation mechanisms...

this paper investigated the effects of combining fibers with self-consolidating concrete (scc). 12 series of test specimens were prepared using three kinds of fibers including steel, polyphenylene sulfide (pps) and glass fibers with four different volumes fractions and one specimen without fibers as a reference sample. all plans were subjected to fresh concrete tests. for mechanical behavior of...

A new method of fractal measurement, the projective covering method (PCM), is proposed in this Letter. Based on the measurements by means of a laser profilometer, the fractal dimension D E [2,3) of a fracture surface is directly estimated. The projective covering probability function is introduced to systematically analyze the multifractal behavior of the fracture surfaces. @ 1998 Elsevier Scie...

The torsion property and rotary fatigue fracture behavior of Smart K file and R reamer made of nickel titanium alloy have been studied by means of Shimadzu Autograph DDS-10T universal tester and man-made cyclic system with curved copper tubes as simulated root canal. The instrument surface and the cyclic fatigue fracture surface have been investigated by optical microscope and scanning electro...

Atomistic simulations are performed to study the nonlinear mechanical behavior of graphene nanoribbons under quasistatic uniaxial tension, emphasizing the effects of edge structures (armchair and zigzag, without and with hydrogen passivation) on elastic modulus and fracture strength. The numerical results are analyzed within a theoretical model of thermodynamics, which enables determination of ...