214 Result(s)
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Stress, intensity factors for corner cracks in rotating discs
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Determination of the full elastic-plastic stress field of a tensile crack by minimization of the complementary energy
In this paper, an energy method is proposed to study the full elastic-plastic field of a tensile crack. A statically admissible stress field is established by develo** an expansion of the stress function in ...
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A Dugdale–Barenblatt Model for a Plane Stress Semi-Infinite Crack under Mixed Mode Concentrated Forces
In this paper, a mixed mode Dugdale–Barenblatt model has been established for a semi-infinite crack in an ideally elastic-plastic thin plate loaded by a pair of self-equilibrating concentrated forces at the cr...
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Debonding of the interface as 'crack arrestor'
In this paper, we studied the interface debonding when a crack perpendicularly approaches an interface between two dissimilar elastic materials. An interface toughness law was first defined according to an adh...
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Stress singularities near the tip of a two-dimensional notch formed from several elastic anisotropic materials
In this paper, we studied the stress singularities near the tip of a two-dimension notch, which could be a crack tip, formed from several elastic materials, each of them may be generally anisotropic. By introd...
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Finite element implementation of thermal weight function method for calculating transient SIFs of a body subjected to thermal shock
The thermal weight function (TWF) is a universal function, which is dependent only on the crack configuration and body geometry, and is independent of temperature fields. The TWF method is especially suitable ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
DAMAGE CHARACTERISTICS OF Zr41Ti14Cu12.5Ni10Be22.5 BULK METALLIC GLASS IMPACTED BY HYPERVELOCITY PROJECTILES
The damage characteristics of Zr41Ti14Cu12.5Ni10Be22.5 bulk metallic glass under planar shock wave have been investigated by firing aluminum projectiles using a two-stage light gas gun. The SEM results show that ...
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Analysis of in-plane transonically propagating interface crack with a finite contact zone
The report of Lambros and Rosakis [(1995) J Mech Phys Solids 43(2): 169–188] has focused attention on steady-state transonic interfacial crack growth accounting for the phenomenon of crack face contact in elas...
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Investigations of vehicle securing without lashings for Ro-Ro ships
To reduce the area on deck occupied by each car and the labour and time required for lashing and unlashing cars, it has been proposed by the author that in some conditions, cars on decks could be transported w...
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Experimental and numerical analysis of nonlinear dynamics of rotor–bearing–seal system
Nonlinear dynamics and stability of the rotor–bearing–seal system are investigated both theoretically and experimentally. An experimental rotor–bearing–seal device is designed and corresponding tests are carr...
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Statistics of strength of ceramics: finite weakest-link model and necessity of zero threshold
It is argued that, in probabilistic estimates of quasibrittle structure strength, the strength threshold should be considered to be zero and the distribution to be transitional between Gaussian and Weibullian....
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Finite element formulation for dynamics of planar flexible multi-beam system
In some previous geometric nonlinear finite element formulations, due to the use of axial displacement, the contribution of all the elements lying between the reference node of zero axial displacement and the ...
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Comparative reliability analysis of ships under vector-load processes
This paper deals with reliability analysis of ships under vector-load processes. Failure is expressed by multiple response variables. Different methods can be used to assess failure probability, primary among ...
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Erratum to: Comparative reliability analysis of ships under vector-load processes
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Topological horseshoe analysis and the circuit implementation for a four-wing chaotic attractor
The paper first analyzes a newly reported three-dimensional four-wing chaotic attractor, and observes all kinds of attractors, including periodic and chaotic, by numerical simulation. Then, the chaotic charact...
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Stress field of a coated arbitrary shape inclusion
This paper presents an effective method for the plane problem of a coated inclusion of arbitrary shape embedded in an isotropic matrix subjected to uniform stresses at infinity. Based on the complex variable m...
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General size effect on strength of bimaterial quasibrittle structures
This paper presents a general size effect equation for the strength of hybrid structures, which are made of two dissimilar quasibrittle materials with a thin and weak bimaterial interface. Depending on the mat...
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Basic solutions of a 3-D rectangular limited-permeable crack or two 3-D rectangular limited-permeable cracks in piezoelectric materials
The solutions of a 3-D rectangular limited-permeable crack or two 3-D rectangular limited-permeable cracks in piezoelectric materials were given by using the generalized Almansi’s theorem and the Schmidt metho...
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A damage model for crack prediction in brittle and quasi-brittle materials solved by the FFT method
In this paper, we present a damage model and its numerical solution by means of Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT). The FFT-based formulation initially proposed for linear and non-linear composite homogenization (M...
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Coordinative control of multi-agent systems using distributed nonlinear output regulation
In this paper, the coordinative control problem of a multiagent system with general nonlinear dynamics is addressed. This multiagent coordination problem can be formulated as a nonlinear output regulation prob...