The stress distribution on the tip of the cracks and the stress intensity factor on them are the main courses in the fracture mechanic. The stress intensity factor of the cracks with the different load exited and the different geometry are listed in the tables of the standard books. In all of them, the cracks are located in the central point of the plates. In the uniform edge loaded case, the c...

initial cracks occur in high strength concrete sleepers for various reasons, such as shrinkage and wrong curing and long lifetime of over 50 years of sleepers. these cracks may lead to complete failure of the structure. in order to more accurately design the sleepers, fracture mechanics (not strength of materials) should be incorporated. in order to achieve this purpose, it is important to fore...

It is generally accepted that residual stresses present in welded joints alter the conditions for fracture initiation by contributing to the crack-driving force. In this study, it is shown that weld residual stresses also alter crack-tip constraint, affecting fracture in an additional way. The fracture behavior of two crack geometries, a large pressure shell and a small fracture specimen, both ...

carbon nanotube (cnt) is considered as a new generation of material possessing superior mechanical, thermal and electrical properties. the applications of cnt, especially in composite materials, i.e. carbon nanotube reinforced polymer have received great attention and interest in recent years. to characterize the influence of cnt on the stress intensity factor of nanocomposites, three fracture ...

Generation of naturally fractured reservoir subsurface fracture maps and prediction its production potential are considered complex process due to insufficient data available such as bore hole images, core data and proper reservoir simulator model. To overcome such shortcomings, the industry has relied on geo-statistical analyses of hard and soft data, which are often referred to as static data...

stress-intensity factors (sifs) are the most important parameters in fracture mechanics analysis of structures. these parameters are evaluated for a stationary crack in functionally graded plates of arbitrary geometry using a novel galerkin based mesh-free method. the method involves an element-free galerkin method (efgm), where the material properties are smooth functions of spatial coordinate...

In order to study the effect of ultrasound (US) on bone healing, a complete transverse fracture was made in the right radius of adult male rabbits by a cutter. 52 rabbits were used: group I. control (n= 17): group 2. test (n:=: 15): group 3, intact (n= I) and group 4 (n= 12) who were examined only for evaluation of the cutter effects in detail. 7 animals were operated with a Gigli saw. The ...

The authors have been developing a crack propagation analysis system that can deal with arbitrary shaped cracks in threedimensional solids. The system is consisting of mesh generation software, a large-scale finite element analysis program and a fracture mechanics module. To evaluate the stress intensity factors, a Virtual Crack Closure-Integral Method (VCCM) for the second-order tetrahedral fi...

objective: in this paper, finite element model of the l4 vertebra subjected to combination of compression and flexion loading in isotropic and anisotropic cases is investigated. methods: in both cases, the vertebra is considered homogeneous. also, the body of vertebra is divided to cancellous and cortical sections in anisotropic model, but the process is assumed isotropic such as isotropic mode...

in this study, displacement field around v-notches of a poly methyl metha crylate (pmma) specimen with tip cracks will be analyzed using digital image correlation technique. first intensity factor in combination with in-plane rigid body translations and rotation components will be determined by linear least squares fitting of the displacement field data to the corresponding relations among stre...