S. Bulatović, Yugoslav River Shipping, Serbia, Lj. Milović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Serbia, A. Sedmak, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Serbia, I. Samardžić, University of Osijek, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Slavonski Brod, Croatia Low cycle fatigue test was performed in ambient atmosphere at room temperature. Cycle loading of ...

Thermal stress, wear and material damage produce effects of high-cycle fatigue failures in aircraft engines. The loading configuration on turbine blades of aircraft engines consists of an axial load. The axial load is the centrifugal force combined with the tensile and compressive loads, caused by the natural vibrations of the blades themselves. Low-cycle fatigue and high-cycle fatigue loading ...

This paper reviews the capabilities of a plasticity-induced crack-closure model to predict fatigue lives of metallic materials using “small-crack theory” for various materials and loading conditions. Crack tip constraint factors, to account for three-dimensional stateof-stress effects, were selected to correlate large-crack growth rate data as a function of the effective-stress-intensity factor...

Damage evolution during low cycle fatigue, creep, and their interaction behavior is actually a ductility exhaustion process in response to cyclic and static creep. In this article, a novel viscosity-based model for low cycle fatigue creep life prediction is presented in an attempt to condition viscosity-based approaches for general use in isothermal and thermo-mechanical loading. In this model,...

Synchrotron real-time radioscopy and in situ microtomography are the only techniques providing direct visible information on a micrometre scale of local deformation in the implant-abutment connection (IAC) during and after cyclic loading. The microgap formation at the IAC has been subject to a number of studies as it has been proposed to be associated with long-term implant success. The next st...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the microstructures, tensile lap shear strength, and fatigue resistance of 6022-T43 aluminum alloy joints welded via a solid-state welding technique-ultrasonic spot welding (USW)-at different energy levels. An ultra-fine necklace-like equiaxed grain structure is observed along the weld line due to the occurrence of dynamic crystallization, with smaller grain...

Studies on the growth of small cracks have led to the observation that fatigue life of many engineering materials is primarily “crack growth” from micro-structural features, such as inclusion particles, voids, slip-bands or from manufacturing defects. This paper reviews the capabilities of a plasticity-induced crack-closure model to predict fatigue lives of metallic materials using “small-crack...

The significance of strain measurement is obvious for the analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composites. Conventional strain measurement methods are sufficient for static testing in general. Nevertheless, if the requirements exceed the capabilities of these conventional methods, more sophisticated techniques are necessary to obtain strain data. Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors have man...

Percutaneous heart valve replacement is currently limited to the replacement of pulmonary and aortic valves in a targeted group of patients. Designing a heart valve for mitral valve replacement is further limited by its distinctive anatomical feature, which places a constraint on its range of design options. To overcome such limitations, the objectives of this study were to use computational mo...

Predicting the peak distribution of stochastic stress responses is critical for various fatigue analysis problems with stochastic uncertainties. In this paper, a method, based on the first-order reliability method (FORM), is proposed for estimating the peak distribution of stochastic response. The method linearizes the stochastic process at the associated most probable point. After linearizatio...