Various stresses add to the railway rails and accumulate fatigue damage due to daily use. Fracture mechanics clarification concerning the growth behavior of cracks is needed, in order to decide the inspection period and the cycle [1], . Though the crack progression and influence of residual stress on fatigue strength has been researched [3] for many years, they are not clear now. The aims of th...

The present paper examines crack growth in a range of aerospace and automotive structural adhesive joints under cyclic-fatigue loadings. It is shown that cyclic-fatigue crack growth in such materials can be represented by a form of the Hartman–Schijve crackgrowth equation, which aims to give a unique and linear ‘master’ representation for the fatigue data points that have been experimentally ob...

Performance requirements of the patch repair material are strength, size stability, shieldability, durability, bond property with the substrate concrete, ductility and so forth. Various kinds of patch repair materials with short fibers have been developed and used. Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) which provides multiple cracking and strain hardening behavior is also one of the attracti...

Improving the design and performance of medical stents for implantation in the human body is of current interest. This paper describes a study of fatigue-crack propagation behavior in the superelastic alloy Nitinol. Specifically, the objective of this work was to study the effect of environment on cyclic crack-growth resistance in an approximately 50Ni-50Ti (atom %) alloy and to provide the nec...

The mechanics governing the lateral cracks that form when a hard object plastically penetrates a ceramic is presented. The roles of indentation load, penetration depth, and work of indentation are all highlighted, as are the influences of the mechanical properties of the material. A closed form solution for cracking induced by expansion of a two-dimensional cavity is used to bring out essential...

Glass–ceramic filler particles containing various amounts of fluoroapatite–mullite crystalline phases were synthesised using SiO2–Al2O3–P2O5–CaF2–CaO system as the base glass formulation. Different additives were used to promote crystallisation in this system. Composite samples were prepared by incorporating the silane treated glass–ceramic particles into the BisGMA/TEGDMA (60 : 40 mass ratio) ...

The modeling of statistical size effect of concrete structures that fail at crack initiation is studied, with special attention to the interaction between the autocorrelation length and the size of the failure zone. The mechanical failure of concrete is modeled by a network of axial springs with degrading stiffness. The heterogeneity of concrete is idealized by spatial variation of the tensile ...

A combined effect of purification and yttrium (Y) addition was investigated to improve impact properties of high-chromium V-xCr-4Ti alloys. Tensile tests and Charpy impact tests were carried out by using miniaturized specimens. V-10Cr-4Ti-0.15Y alloy had ultimate tensile stress (UTS) at 700 oC and yield stress (YS) approximately equal to and higher than those of V-4Cr-4Ti alloy, respectively. V...

The use of nanomaterials for strain sensors has attracted attention due to their unique electromechanical properties. However, nanomaterials have yet to overcome many technological obstacles and thus are not yet the preferred material for strain sensors. In this work, we investigated graphene woven fabrics (GWFs) for strain sensing. Different than graphene films, GWFs undergo significant change...