• An automatic fatigue crack growth algorithm was used to evaluate the influence of in-phase and out-of-phase loadings in FCG. In-phase lead deflection under a 0.5 biaxial load ratio due mixed mode loading conditions. Fatigue life is proportional initial notch angle but inversely phase shift. Crack propagation direction influenced by combination static cyclic on different axes. Different freque...

DISLOCATION nucleation from a stressed crack tip is analyzed based on the Peierls concept. A periodic relation between shear stress and atomic shear displacement is assumed to hold along the most highly stressed slip plane emanating from a crack tip. This allows some small slip displacement to occur near the tip in response to small applied loading and, with increase in loading, the incipient d...

This paper presents a novel three-dimensional active frequency selective surfaces loading a varactor diode to achieve electrically controllable, by loading different values of paranoid voltage to control the variable capacitance diode. Simulation results show that the structure has excellent resonant characteristics in the range of 3.34GHz-1.59GHz, and has certain sensitivity for the change of ...

Classical dynamic fracture theories predict the surface wave speed to be the limiting speed for propagation of in-plane cracks in homogeneous, linear elastic materials subjected to remote loading. This report presents experimental evidence to the contrary. Intersonic shear-dominated crack growth featuring shear shock waves was observed along weak planes in a brittle polyester resin under far-fi...

Background Knee osteoarthritis is a debilitating condition and increased dynamic loading at the knee has been linked with increased progression of the disease. Lateral wedge insoles have been used in clinical practice since the late 1980s. It is theorised that lateral wedge insoles increase the subtalar joint valgus orientation and increase the ankle valgus moment [1], with subsequent reduced k...

Compression loading: Compared to the intact spine, the inclusion of the uncontained defect led to marked increase in compressive loading at the anterior portion of the cortex (70%, Fig. 6.A vs. 6.B) and at the medial lateral and posterior portion of the cortex (19%). Marked increase in shear stresses along both M-L(S32) and A-P (S12) plane can be observed at the posterior cortex near the defect...

Functionally graded materials have gained considerable attention in the high-temperature applications. A study of parametric vibrations of functionally graded plates subjected to in-plane time-dependent forces is presented. Moderately large deflection equations taking into account a coupling of in-plane and transverse motions are used. Material properties are graded in the thickness direction o...

This letter is concerned with an interfacial edge crack in a piezoelectric bimaterial wedge interacting with a screw dislocation under antiplane mechanical and in-plane electric loading. In addition to a discontinuous electric potential across the slip plane, the dislocation is subjected to a line-force and a line-charge at the tip. The out-of-plane displacement and electric potentials are obta...

Aim: This study is to evaluate the pattern of stress distribution and bone failure around the Absoanchor micro-implant under various loading conditions and various force levels. Materials and Methods: FESA was originally introduced as a numerical form of analysis in aeronautical engineering and has the potential to obtain a computer generated mathematic model of a real object of complicated sha...