Accumulation of fatigue microdamage in cortical bone specimens is commonly measured by a modulus or stiffness degradation after normalizing tissue heterogeneity by the initial modulus or stiffness of each specimen measured during a preloading step. In the first experiment, the initial specimen modulus defined using linear elastic beam theory (LEBT) was shown to be nonlinearly dependent on the p...

The stress analysis of pressurized circumferential pipe weldments under steady state creep is considered. The creep response of the material is governed by Norton’s law. Numerical and analytical solutions are obtained by means of perturbation method, the unperturbed solution corresponds to the stress field in a homogeneous pipe. The correction terms are treated as stresses defined with the help...

A vehicle body, two bogie frames and two wheelsets for each bogie frame are used to describe the railway vehicle model. The system dynamic is modeled using a 38-DOF system including the longitudinal, lateral, vertical, roll, pitch and yaw displacements. A heuristic nonlinear creep model and the elastic rail are used to simulate the wheel-rail contact. Stable movement and the corresponding limit...

Creep-cyclic plasticity and creep-fatigue damage interaction of a welded flange are studied considering both the thermo-mechanical load welding residual stress (WRS). The presence WRS was found to have minimal effect on shakedown ratcheting curves, though distribution changes considerably in WRS. is predominant for initial cycles after which it relaxes so that at steady state creep-cyclic respo...

Eyring’s non-linear visco-elastic model has been used to describe two important time dependent mechanical behaviors for textile materials such as stress relaxation and creep. Three yarns suitable for the production of stretch fabrics, viz. 100% wool, wool–lycra and polyester–wool–lycra spun from siro spinning technology are considered in this study. The complex mathematical equations of Eyring’...

The Young's modulus E of ice is an important parameter in models of tidal deformation [1, e.g] and in converting flexural rigidities to ice shell thicknesses [2, e.g.]. There is a disagreement of an order of magnitude between measurements of E in the laboratory (9 GPa) and from field observations (≈1 GPa). Here I use a simple yielding model to address this discrepancy, and conclude that E = 9 G...

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