0020-7683/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2010.07.010 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 386 3325. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Luo). Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) are increasingly used in automotive industry due to their superior strength and substantial weight advantage. However, their compromised ductility gives rise to numerous manufacturing is...

A meshfree method and (the related) a specified crack growth algorithm are used to simulate plugging fracture during high-speed impacts. In particular, we are simulating ballistic penetration of a steel plate, which is a ductile failure process involving projectile and target collision, contact, and subsequent projectile penetration companied plugging fracture inside steel plate. We have develo...

A 72-year-old male patient underwent mobile-bearing posterior-stabilized total knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis. He experienced a nontraumatic polyethylene tibial insert cone fracture 27 months after surgery. Scanning electron microscopy of the fracture surface of the tibial insert cone suggested progress of ductile breaking from the posterior toward the anterior of the cone due to repeated...

Space debris population in low Earth orbit has been increasing constantly with the increase in spacecraft missions. Hypervelocity space debris impacts limit the functionality of polymeric outer surfaces and, in extreme cases, might cause a total loss of a spacecraft. In this work, the fracture of Kapton films by ultrahigh velocity impacts was studied. A laser-driven flyer ground simulation syst...

An hypereutectic Al-18Si alloy was modified via an Al-3B master alloy. The effect of the added Al-3B and the modification temperature on the microstructure, tensile fracture morphologies, and mechanical properties of the alloy were investigated using an optical microscope, Image-Pro Plus 6.0, a scanning electron microscope, and a universal testing machine. The results show that the size of the ...

An investigation of how microstructural features affect the fracture and fatigue properties of a promising class of high temperature Mo-Si-B based alloys is presented. Fracture toughness and fatigue-crack growth properties are measured at 25o and 1300oC for five Mo-Mo3Si-Mo5SiB2 containing alloys produced by powder metallurgy with α-Mo matrices. Results are compared with previous studies on int...

J. Kasińska, Faculty of Mechatronics and Machine Design, Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, Poland The article presents the analysis of fracture surfaces after the three-point bending test at a temperature range from + 20 °C to 80 °C. The author shows a beneficial effect of mischmetal on the cracking mechanism and on the character of fractures. It has been shown that the width of the duct...