...Mohammad Zaeimi; Chiara Bertolin; Sara Gonizzi Barsanti; Rosa De Finis Purpose This paper presents a systematic literature review on Mode I fracture of wood in order to identify the research trends, highlight existing gaps and guide future studies. Design/methodology/approach The research...

...Amara Mouna; Fatima Zahra Khedim; Hadjer Didouh; Hayet Tati; Lamsadfa Sidamar; Mohammed Hadj Meliani; Rami K. Suleiman Purpose It is now well-known in the fracture-mechanics community that a single fracture parameter alone may not be adequate to describe crack-tip condition. To address...

...Raja Rajeshwari B.; Sivakumar M.V.N. Purpose Fracture properties depend on the type of material, method of testing and type of specimen. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate fracture properties by adopting a stable test method, i.e., wedge split test. Design/methodology/approach Coarse...

... of them are research conducted by the manufacturing company, which are limited to the basic properties of the material. However, knowledge about fracture mechanic of this material may be crucial in terms of usage. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach Analysis of the inside...

...Victor Rizov Purpose The purpose of this paper is to carry out a delamination fracture analysis of the three-dimensional functionally graded split cantilever beam (SCB) configuration. Design/methodology/approach The fracture behaviour was studied analytically in terms of the strain energy...

...Professor Spiros Pantelakis; Halil Ibrahim Ünal; Hakan Atapek; Baran Gürkan Beleli; Seyda Polat; Serap Gümüs; Ersoy Erisir Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the fracture of grade X42 microalloyed steel used as pipe material after tensile test at room temperature and impact...

... the integrity of cracked structures and components. Fracture of components can be considered as belonging to one of these three limit states: brittle fracture; elasto-plastic fracture; and plastic collapse. Structural integrity assessment is an evaluation and an investigation into the integrity...

... should be improved to advance MEMS applications. Reliability assessments of MEMS technology may be used to conduct virtual qualification of these devices more efficiently. The purpose of this paper is to create a simple, inexpensive test methodology to use the dynamic fracture strength of a MEMS device...

...Shashikant J. Joshi; Smita Manepatil Purpose The determination of stress intensity factors (SIF) is of fundamental importance in prediction of brittle failure using linear elastic fracture mechanics. The presence of a crack in the vicinity of another crack induces an interaction effect...

... used as a lower bound for the fatigue limit prediction. Findings Based on the results from the simulation of a welding process and a post‐weld heat treatment in combination with a fracture mechanics approach, this work successfully attempts to reproduce a fatigue behavior, which was observed...

.../methodology/approach The finite element method is used to determine the actual strain at surface and fracture mechanics parameters calculated from cracks at the surface. The model considers residual stress (in order to introduce the effect of shot peening) and the scratch geometry. The total fatigue life...

... denotes the total width of the fracture model, and t indicates thickness of the fracture model. The stress intensity factors at each degree of freedom (a and c end points) are calculated using a weight function methodology. A few researchers have used high and low fidelity...

... surface is used. Figure 4 shows the stochastic pattern applied to the specimen surface, which is used for strain calculation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Fracture Stress (materials) Mechanical behaviour of materials Image processing Structures Modern lightweight...

... crack growth orientation were performed by applying various critical plane models. In addition, fractographic analysis of the fracture surfaces was carried out. The estimated results are compared with experimental results. Findings Significant effects were observed of the different frequency between...

... approach is fatigue testing of two‐stiffener flat panels manufactured using three different processes, with a central initial crack perpendicular to the stiffeners and load, in order to identify striation spacing during crack growth up to final fracture, using SEM. Findings An increase of striation...

...Leslie Banks‐Sills; Natalie Konovalov; Adi Fliesher Purpose Fracture tests carried out on bimaterial Brazilian disk specimens have been reported elsewhere. Two material pairs are tested in which each of the constituents is linearly elastic, isotropic, and homogeneous. For this material type...