sudden fracture is one of the major failure modes in brittle materials. plexiglass (polymethyl methacrylate) is a well known brittle polymer, widely used in various industries. many types of notches, particularly v-shaped notches, are sometimes used in the components made of plexiglass. these notches can dramatically decrease the load bearing capacity of components due to the concentration of s...

In this paper, a numerical study is conducted to investigate the stress shadow effects (stress reorientation and change) during hydraulic fracturing in a transverse multiple fracture system. A numerical model is used for the numerical study. It is a 3D model and can simulate the fracture operation from injection begin to full closure (fracture contact). Therefore, there is no need to assume the...

Stress is a proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint model was analyzed by the two-dimensional and three-dimensional finite element methods (FEM) to study the onset mechanisms of the middle phalangeal base fracture. The structural shapes were obtained from sagittally sectioned specimens of the PIP joint for making FEM models. In those models, four different material properties were given correspond...

Some fundamental mechanisms associated with cooling/heating of the rock in the context of drilling and reservoir stimulation in enhanced geothermal systems are described. The role of temperature and pore pressure in wellbore failure and fracture width is considered using analytical and boundary element models. Results indicate that cooling induces a pore pressure drop inside the formation that ...

The application of roof-cutting and pressure-relief gob-side entry retention plays a critical role in controlling the stability surrounding rock at entry, easing continuity tension improving resource recovery ratio. excavation 360,803 airway Xinji No. 1 Mine is affected by intense mining 360,805 working face. Hence, to address problem airway, mass blast weakening theory was used this study anal...

There are a large number of non-penetrating collinear cracks in the rock slope an open-pit mine. The timeliness mass is problem that cannot be ignored terms engineering safety. Based on superposition principle and fracture mechanics, stress intensity factor crack tip with fractures under biaxial compression was calculated this study. A mechanical model propagation constant load established acco...

Characterization of stress-dependent single-phase and multiphase fluid transport in fractured geo-materials is essential for a wide range applications, including CO2 sequestration, energy storage, geo-energy extraction. However, pivotal studies on capillarity flow deformable rock fractures are surprisingly sparse. In this study, we initially investigated the hydro-mechanical properties an intac...

fractures are considered as one of the important structures in fractured reservoirs due to their effect on fluid currents and reservoirparameters such as porosity and permeability. fracture parameters can only be directly calculated with core and image logs. cores haveserious limitations, so image logs are the best method. the aim of this study is the systematic fractures analysis of the asmari...

This article describes the independent factors that affect kyphotic angle reduction in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures with kyphoplasty. Between January 2008 and September 2011, one hundred twenty-six patients with a single-level osteoporotic compression fracture who underwent kyphoplasty were evaluated for a minimum of 1 year postoperatively. Nine independent vari...

We study atomistically the fracture of single-crystal silicon at atomically sharp notches with opening angles of 0° ~a crack!, 70.53°, 90° and 125.3°. Such notches occur in silicon that has been formed by etching into microelectromechanical structures and tend to be the initiation sites for failure by fracture of these structures. Analogous to the stress intensity factor of traditional linear e...