The physical interpretation of the service life of a material that is under load requires the direct study of evolution of its structure, analysis of connection between elementary phenomena of plastic deformation and damage, and establishing the damage accumulation relationships. The development of increasingly precise methods for studying the microstructure and identifying the defects is assoc...

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The 2014 Pacific hurricane season was the fourth most active on record. Iselle was the strongest storm to make landfall in the County of Hawaii. It originated in the Eastern Pacific, intensifying to a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph as it approached the Hawaiian archipelago. Downgraded to a tropical storm, it made landfall at 2:30 AM on Friday, August 8, 2014. Sustained...

This paper presents a scientific basis for the description of the causes of damage within an irreversible thermodynamic framework and the effects of damage as observable variables that signify degradation of structural integrity. The approach relies on the fundamentals of irreversible thermodynamics and specifically the notion of entropy generation as a measure of degradation and damage. We fir...

In this paper, the dynamic behavior of square plates with various thicknesses and stiffening configurations subjected to underwater explosion (UNDEX) are evaluated through a relatively novel approach which is called Incremental Explosive Analysis (IEA). The IEA estimates the different limit-states and deterministic assessment of plats’ behavior, considering uncertainty of loading conditions and...

The general progression of the deterioration of parchment collagen from a fibrous to a gelatine-like state was a major subject of study in the European joint project ‘Methods in the Micro-Analysis of Parchment’. The analytical results from this project strongly indicate that a correlation between physical properties at macroscopic and microscopic levels can be made. The new European joint proje...