A two dimensional finite model with inclined crack at different crack angles are being analyzed in mixed mode condition using photo elasticity method for the determination of Stress Intensity Factors. The well-known Sih’s equation and three points deterministic approach is used for the determination of stress intensity factors. The effects of biaxial load factor, crack angle, size factors were ...

This article presents a method for measuring three-dimensional mechanical displacement and strain fields using stimulated echo MRI. Additional gradient pulses encode internal displacements in response to an externally applied deformation. By limiting the mechanical transition to the stimulated echo mixing time, a more accurate static displacement measurement is obtained. A three-dimensional ela...

Finite element modelling of three dimensional elasticity problems gives rise to large sparse matrices. Various preconditioning methods are developed for use in preconditioned conjugate gradient iterative solution techniques. Incomplete factorizations based on levels of fill, drop tolerance, and a two level hierarchical basis are developed. Various techniques for ensuring that the incomplete fac...

Let Ω be an open connected subset of R and letΘ be an immersion from Ω into R. It is first established that the set formed by all rigid displacements, i.e., that preserve the metric, of the open set Θ(Ω) is a submanifold of dimension 6 and of class C∞ of the space H(Ω). It is then shown that the vector space formed by all the infinitesimal rigid displacements of the same set Θ(Ω) is nothing but...