Corrosion cracking of reinforced concrete caused by chloride salt is one of the main determinants of structure durability. Monitoring the entire process of concrete corrosion cracking is critical for assessing the remaining life of the structure and determining if maintenance is needed. Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensing technology is extensively developed in photoelectric monitoring technology ...

abstract fruit cracking of pomegranate is a phenomenon that is shown at most growing zones of the world. pomegranate cracking is the main obstacle for production and export, and have a lot of annual economic damage, the present study has been done about pomegranate trees. the purpose of this research is surveying the decreasing of pomegranate cracking and increasing the fruit quantities and qua...

Plates of 3–5 mm in thickness were extracted from an AZ91D ingot and then butt joints of the plates were produced using tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding method. The TIG arc was also used to deposit welding beads on some of the thin plates. No cracking was found in the butt joints. However, hot cracking was always observed to propagate from the heat affected zone (HAZ) under the welding bead int...

This study investigated the effect of oxygen and micro-cracking on the flotation of low grade nickel sulphide ore. The ore treated contained serpentine minerals which have a history of being difficult to process efficiently. The use of oxygen as a bubbling gas has been noted to be effective because it increases the pulp potential. The desired effect of micro cracking the ore is that the nickel ...

(This is part 2, continued from “Use of harsh Wafer Probing to Evaluate Traditional Bond Pad Structures”). Goals for circuit under pad (CUP) in aluminum – silicon dioxide (Al – SiO2) based IC pad structures include the design of metal interconnects in all layers beneath the pad Al, and the ability to withstand harsh probing and wirebonding stress without SiO2 cracking, without deforming or bend...

• Multi-joist timber-concrete composites of various connection layouts were tested to failure. Both moment and reaction sharing inferred across the full loading range. Cracking transformed support by a factor up 1.60. Connection yield bending 1.62. Nonlinear FE models reliably predict load response help elucidate TCC mechanics. This paper uses tests backed nonlinear analysis for parametric stud...

Abstract The ductile fracture behavior of a high strength steel is investigated using micromechanics-based approach with the objective to build predictive framework for strain and crack propagation under different loading conditions. Part I this study describes experimental results determination elastoplastic damage nucleation stress triaxiality Lode parameter values. mechanism starts early voi...

Brittle materials propagate opening cracks under tension. When stress increases beyond a critical magnitude, then quasistatic crack propagation becomes unstable. In the presence of several precracks, a brittle material always propagates only the weakest crack, leading to catastrophic failure. Here, we show that all these features of brittle fracture are fundamentally modified when the material ...