The reduction of maintenance and replacement work costs is an important driving force in the development of high temperature materials (T>800 °C) that can autonomously heal damage as a result of local cracks. In recent years some potential routes involving the addition of sacrificial particles have been identified, yet these systems have the drawback of reduced initial properties and being capa...

In this article, ultrasonic guided wave propagation and interaction with the rivet hole cracks has been formulated using closed-form analytical solution while the local damage interaction, scattering, and mode conversion have been obtained from finite element analysis. The rivet hole cracks (damage) in the plate structure gives rise to the non-axisymmetric scattering of Lamb wave, as well as sh...

ID No: 136 Abstract: Cracks are inevitable for concrete infrastructures during their service life. The presence of cracks reduces the mechanical properties and bring potential safety hazard to infrastructure. In this study, the influence of self-healing on the ECC’s (Engineered cementitious composite) tensile properties was investigated. ECC is a new kind of HPFRCC, featuring high strain capaci...

ID No: 136 Abstract: Cracks are inevitable for concrete infrastructures during their service life. The presence of cracks reduces the mechanical properties and bring potential safety hazard to infrastructure. In this study, the influence of self-healing on the ECC’s (Engineered cementitious composite) tensile properties was investigated. ECC is a new kind of HPFRCC, featuring high strain capaci...

PURPOSE The aims of the present study were to compare the image quality and visibility of tooth cracks between conventional methods and swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) and to develop an automatic detection technique for tooth cracks by SS-OCT imaging. METHODS We evaluated SS-OCT with a near-infrared wavelength centered at 1,310 nm over a spectral bandwidth of 100 nm at a ra...

An analytical solution is presented for the thermoelastic problem of a half-plane with several cracks under thermo mechanical loading using distributed dislocation technique. The uncoupled quasi-static linear thermoelasticity theory is adopted in which the change in temperature, if any, due to deformations is neglected. The stress field in a half-plane containing thermoelastic dislocation is ob...

This chapter is concerned with cracks . Real cracks in solids are complicated: they are thin cavities, their two faces may touch, and the faces may be rough. We consider ideal cracks. By definition, such a crack is modelled by a smooth open surface Ω (such as a disc or a spherical cap); the elastic displacement is discontinuous across Ω, and the traction vanishes on both sides of Ω (so that the...

The state of Victoria in Australia has many major roads assets. These roads, stretching about 196,000 in km, have to be maintained and managed by VicRoads, the road authority of Victoria[1], and the local councils. Pavement Management Services (PMS) [2] company was employed by VicRoads in 2002/3 to do the analysis and detection of the pavement cracking in Victoria. PMS uses up to five industria...

A model is presented herein for predicting the evolution of numerous cracks on multiple length scales, the objective of such a model being to develop the capability to predict failure of structural components to perform their intended tasks. Such a capability would then be useful as a predictive tool for designing structural components so as not to fail, but rather to succeed in performing thei...