Numerical methods such as boundary element and finite element methods are widely used for the stress analysis in solid mechanics. This study presents boundary element method based on the displacement discontinuity formulation to solve general problems of interaction between hydraulic fracturing and discontinuities. The crack tip element and a higher order boundary displacement collocation techn...

The mechanical strength of pharmaceutical compacts is an important in-process control parameter to ensure that tablets have sufficient strength to withstand handling during production, transport and use. The introduction of the “Brazilian test” into the pharmaceutical sciences by Fell and Newton has enabled a fundamental understanding of the stresses involved in the breaking of compacts and pro...

The concrete always contains microstructures like micro-crack, voids, etc. These parameters affected the lifetime of materials. This article presents a computation algorithm to predict brittle materials which depends on distribution micro-crack in proposed model is based subcritical crack growth using linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) approach. considers both tensile and shear fracturing...

Abstract An influence of the bi-material interface between a steel substrate and thin protective layer applied through laser cladding was investigated. A range elastic properties thicknesses were considered to cover behaviour short crack in selected materials such as bronze, nickel or cobalt alloys. The special case terminating directly at investigated, which is connected necessity application ...

Finite Fracture Mechanics and Cohesive Crack Model can effectively predict the strength of plain, cracked or notched structural components, overcoming classical drawbacks Linear Elastic Mechanics. Aim present work is to investigate size effects by expressing each model as a unified system two equations, describing stress requirement energy balance, respectively. Brittle crack onset in different...

The importance of nonlinearities in material constitutive relations has long been appreciated in the continuum mechanics of macroscopic rods. Although the moment (torque) response to bending is almost universally linear for small deflection angles, many rod systems exhibit a high-curvature softening. The signature behavior of these rod systems is a kinking transition in which the bending is loc...

Cracking is a major distress in asphalt pavement which can lead to premature pavement failures and can cost agencies millions of dollars in maintenance and rehabilitation costs. Even with modern advances in pavement engineering, attempts to quantify and model cracking in asphalt pavements have proved extremely challenging; this is due to the visco-elastic behavior of asphalt concrete and the co...

Cracking is a major distress in asphalt pavement which can lead to premature pavement failures and can cost agencies millions of dollars in maintenance and rehabilitation costs. Even with modern advances in pavement engineering, attempts to quantify and model cracking in asphalt pavements have proved extremely challenging; this is due to the visco-elastic behavior of asphalt concrete and the co...

numerical methods such as boundary element and finite element methods are widely used for the stress analysis in solid mechanics. this study presents boundary element method based on the displacement discontinuity formulation to solve general problems of interaction between hydraulic fracturing and discontinuities. the crack tip element and a higher order boundary displacement collocation techn...