Seeking light and transparent bridge designs, engineers and architects have found an efficient and artistic way to fulfill their requirements: steel tubular bridges. Like any other welded structure, the joints of this kind of bridge suffer from high tensile weld residual stresses. Combined with high stress concentrations, tensile residual stress is a relevant factor in fatigue crack development...

Many steel rope systems are subjected to fluctuating tensile loads and therefore can fail due fatigue. There indications that the fatigue resistance of full-locked coil ropes is somewhat lower than other types rope. Fatigue test data on have been collected, but they terminate at different conditions. A semi-empirical model employed extrapolate results full failure The resulting S-N curve being ...

Fatigue life, morphological studies, and thermal aging properties of rattan powder-filled natural rubber (NR) composites were investigated as a function of filler loading and a silane coupling agent. NR composites were prepared by the incorporation of rattan powder in the range of 0 to 30 phr into a NR matrix with a laboratory size two roll mill. Thermal aging was carried out for 7 and 14 days ...

The heat-resistant steel after aluminized was treated by laser shock processing (LSP) with high power Nd:YAG laser, and then was tensile tested at 400 . The effects of the high °C -temperature behavior after LSP were analyzed from residual stress and fracture organization. The results showed that the yield strength and tensile strength of heat-resistant steel after aluminized were improved obvi...

The influence of martensitic microstructure and prior austenite grain (PAG) size on the mechanical properties of novel maraging steel was studied. This was achieved by looking at two different martensitic structures with PAG sizes of approximately 40 µm and 80 µm, produced by hot rolling to different reductions. Two ageing heat-treatments were considered: both heat-treatments consisted of auste...

The effect of polymeric coatings on the static fatigue of double-coated optical fibers is investigated. A closed form solution of the tensile stress in the glass fiber under the action of a constant tensile force in the fiber’s axial direction is obtained using viscoelastic theory. The tensile force is applied to the glass fiber and polymeric coatings. The applied tensile fore is gradually tran...

in the present study, mechanical properties and low cycle fatigue behavior of a solid-solutionized aa6061 aluminum alloy produced by equal channel angular pressing (ecap) process were investigated. the grain refinement after two passes of ecap significantly increased the yield stress and ultimate tensile stress and decreased the ductility of the alloy. however, the improvement of low cycle fati...

Increasing the efficiency of wind turbines will be vital for the wind energy sector to continue growing. The drive for increased efficiency is pushing turbine manufacturers to shift from glass fibre composite blades towards carbon/glass fibre-hybrid composite blades. This shift brings significant challenges in terms of optimising the design and understanding the failure of these new blade mater...