In this investigation ‚the fracture toughness of A356 containing15%SiC composite was studied. Al/SiC composites have been considered because of their mechanical and erosion properties .Low fracture toughness in Al/SiC as compared with Aluminium alloys is one of its disadvantage. In this study at first A356 alloy was melted in a smelting electrical furnace then poured into the mould. A356-15% Si...

This thesis consists of three main chapters, an introduction, and an appendix. The introduction (chapter 1) gives a general historical introduction to the problem of brittle fracture in disordered media. Chapters 2 and 4 are concerned with various aspects of fracture in disordered fuse networks. Chapter 2 investigates the asymptotic properties of fracture strength distributions, and explores th...

The brittle portion of the Earth’s lithosphere contains a distribution of joints, faults and cataclastic zones that exist on a wide range of scale-lengths and usually have complex geometries including bends, jogs, and intersections. The material around these complexities is subjected to large stress concentrations, which lead during continuing deformation to the generation of new fracture and g...

Fluid migration and distribution are important aspects of the evolution of sedimentary basins. An essential parameter affecting fluid flow is permeability. Even mm thick fractures have permeabilit ies many orders of magnitude above surrounding sediments, and thus have the potential of focusing fluid flow. It is a major task to establish the importance of these fractures as fluid conduits. One a...

Under low confinement axial compression, the failure of brittle rock is mainly caused by tensile fracture. Many scholars adopt sliding crack as an idealized model to present intrinsic mechanism but due complex configuration crack, its stress intensity factor (SIF) calculation has always been a difficult problem. In this study, improved proposed; in context linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEF...

There are increasing amounts of evidence that earthquake rupture is a mixed process between what is called frictional slip failure and fracture of intact rock mass. In fact, there is a strong possibility that what is called a 'barrier' or 'asperity' on earthquake faults is a local patch of high rupture growth resistance whose strength equals the strength of intact rock. In addition, the lithost...

The analysis of mechanical response and deformation-cracking behavior contributes to the high-efficiency extraction geo-energy long-term safety underground engineering structures. Compared natural cores, properties 3D-printed samples made from quartz sand as raw material are relatively homogeneous, can be used for quantitative studies on influence defects rocks. In this work, with single fractu...