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Elementary Quantum Mechanics

This is the first graduate course on elementary quantum mechanics in Internet written for the benefit of undergraduate and graduate students. It is a translation (with corrections) of the Romanian version of the course, which I did at the suggestion of several students from different countries. The topics included refer to the postulates of quantum mechanics, one-dimensional barriers and wells,...

Fracture mechanics

In this article, after a brief description of some signi®cant catastrophic structural failures going back to the period when iron and steel began to replace wood and masonry as the primary structural materials, the historical development of the ®eld of fracture mechanics is discussed. First, the basic concepts of the ®eld, the motivation underlying their development and the key contributions ma...

FRACTURE MECHANICS WHAT IS FRACTURE MECHANICS Fracture mechanics is mechanics of solids containing planes of displacement discontinuities (cracks)

Fracture mechanics-based life prediction of a riveted lap joint

In this paper, three-dimensional modeling of the fatigue crack growth profiles was performed in a simple riveted lap joint. Simulation results showed that mode I was dominated on the one side of the plates and the crack straightly grew on this side, while the other side of the plates was in a mixed-mode condition and the crack propagation path was not straight on this side. Afterward, the fract...