In this paper, a sensitivity analysis of artificial neural networks (NNs) is presented and employed for estimating the patch load resistance of plate girders subjected to patch loading. To evaluate the accuracy of the proposed NN model, the results are compared with the previously proposed empirical models, so that we can estimate the resistance of plate girders subjected to patch loading. The ...

Prostacyclin (prostaglandin I2, PGI2) has a variety of functions, including inhibition of smooth muscle cell proliferation, vasodilation, and antiplatelet aggregation. PGI2 production in endothelial cells has been reported to increase biphasically after shear loading, but the underlying mechanism is not well understood. To clarify the mechanism for the second phase of PGI2 upregulation, we exam...

We analyze the initiation and propagation of adiabatic shear bands in a thick-walled 4340 steel tube with a V-notch in the middle. The material is modeled as strain hardening, strain-rate hardening and thermal softening. The deformations are assumed to be locally adiabatic and the effect of inertia forces is considered. Two different loadings, i.e., torsional, and combined torsional and axial p...

a framework for development of constitutive models including damage progress, based on semi-micromechanical aspects of plasticity is proposed for concrete. the model uses sub-loading surface with multilaminate framework to provide kinematics and isotropic hardening/softening in the ascending/descending branches of loading and can be able to keep stress/stain paths histories for each plane separ...

geometrical profile (roughness) of joint surfaces influences the behaviour of rock joints under shear loading. with regard to the dilation, there are two models of direct shear test that may simulate the original loading condition existing in the location from where the specimens have been sampled. the first model in which the normal load is constant (cnl) and the discontinuity is free to dilat...

Combined in-phase tension/torsion loading was applied to 8-ply 45° 4 E-glass/epoxy composite shafts under monotonic and fatigue conditions to determine the effects of multi-axial loading on its failure. A damage criterion for multi-axial monotonic loading was proposed considering the contribution of both normal and shear stresses on the plane of failure. The experimental data showed an excellen...