Considering the fact that rocks fail faster under tensile stress, rock tensile strength is of greatimportance in applications such as blasting, rock fragmentation, slope stability, hydraulic fracturing,caprock integrity, and geothermal energy extraction. There are two direct and indirect methods tomeasure tensile strength. Since direct methods always encompass difficulties in test setup, indire...

Asphalt pavement recycling has grown dramatically over the last few years as the preferred way to rehabilitate existing asphalt pavements. Rehabilitation of existing asphalt pavements has employed different techniques; one of them, cold in-place recycling with foamed asphalt (CIR-foam), has been effectively applied in Iowa. However, Iowa’s current cold in-place recycling (CIR) practice utilizes...

Applications of magnesium alloys as biodegradable orthopaedic implants are critically dependent on the mechanical integrity of the implant during service. In this study, the mechanical integrity of an AZ91 magnesium alloy was studied using a constant extension rate tensile (CERT) method. The samples in two different geometries that is, circumferentially notched (CN), and circumferentially notch...

This study treats the measurement uncertainties that we can find in stiffness modulus of bituminous test. We present all sensors installed on rigidity chains and also their uncertainty ranges. Several parameters influence module's value, such as related to experimental conditions, others are rather connected equipment's specification, which speed, loading level, temperature, tested sample dimen...

The hole stress concentration effects on the tensile strength of SMC-R50 sheet moulding compound composites were studied with consideration being given to both centric and eccentric hole locations. It is shown that the tensile strength of the R50 material is improved by applying a transverse normal pressure around the hole boundary. A few preliminary experiments indicate that the fatigue life o...

Total strain-controlled low-cycle-fatigue tests with and without hold times were performed at temperatures ranging from 816°C to 982°C in a laboratory air on a nickel-based superalloy, HASTELLOY X. The influence of hold times on the cyclicstress response and fatigue life was studied. At the temperatures considered, the alloy exhibited initial cyclic hardening, followed by a saturated cyclic-str...

In vivo microcracks in cortical bone are typically observed within more highly mineralized interstitial tissue, but postmortem investigations are inherently limited to cracks that did not lead to fracture which may be misleading with respect to understanding fracture mechanisms. We hypothesized that the one fatigue microcrack which initiates fracture is located spatially adjacent to elevated in...