Abstract Ductile metals undergo a considerable amount of plastic deformation before failure. Void nucleation, growth and coalescence is the mechanism failure in such metals. ? – ? titanium alloys are ductile nature widely used for their unique set properties as specific strength, fracture toughness, corrosion resistance to fatigue failures. Voids these have been reported nucleate on phase bound...

1 Mines ParisTech, Centre des matériaux, CNRS UMR 7633, BP87 91003 Evry Cedex, France [email protected] Flat to slant crack transition can typically be observed in ductile thin sheet materials. The crack initiates perpendicularly to the loading direction from the notch and then turns to 45° with respect to the loading direction during crack propagation. This phenomenon is, how...

1. Fever (temp >37.8 0 C) 2. Production of purulent sputum 3. Cough 4. Leucocytosis (WBC count >10000/ cumm) 1 The etiological agents of CAP are different in different countries. It varies with time and geographical distribution within the same country. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common etiological agent in United Kingdom, Europe, United States of America and Iraq. In India S. pneumon...

In this paper we introduce LODE, the Live OWL Documentation Environment, an online service that automatically generates a human-readable description of any OWL ontology (or, more generally, an RDF vocabulary), taking into account both ontological axioms and annotations, and ordering these with the appearance and functionality of a W3C Recommendations document. This documentation is presented to...

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...

1 School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, BT52 1SA, UK 2 Siena Eye Laser, 53035 Monteriggioni, Siena, Italy 3 Emmetropia Mediterranean Eye Institute, Plateia Eleytherias 44, 71201, Heraklion, Crete, Greece 4 School of Life & Health Sciences, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK 5 Midland Eye Institute, 50 Lode Lane, Solihull, West Midlan...

Learning Objects (LOs) can be a valuable tool to diffuse pedagogical innovation among teachers. We suggest that LOs repositories should be structured so to become a means to improve the pedagogical quality of teachers’ work, and motivate them to get involved both as users and co-constructors. In this paper we describe LODE (Learning Objects Discussion Environment) a collaborative environment wh...