Methods of damage development analyses for various types of composite materials such as 3-D woven composite have not been established sufficiently because it is quite difficult to simulate the failure propagation. A FEM simulation of failure process of 3-D composite was executed by Mibayashi including the thermal residual stresses after the curing process, and the deformations and stresses calc...

We present an efficient, implicit-explicit numerical method for wave propagation in solids containing fluid-filled cracks, motivated by applications in geophysical imaging of fractured oil/gas reservoirs and aquifers, volcanology, and mechanical engineering. We couple the elastic wave equation in the solid to an approximation of the linearized, compressible Navier–Stokes equations in curved and...

The characterization of critical levels of microstructural damage that can lead to fatigue-crack propagation under high-cycle fatigue loading conditions is a major concern for the aircraft industry with respect to the structural integrity of turbine engine components. The extremely high cyclic frequencies characteristic of in-flight loading spectra necessitate that a damage-tolerant design appr...

The propagation of (planar) cracks in a heterogeneous brittle material characterized by a random field of toughness is considered, taking into account explicitly the effect of the crack front roughness on the local stress intensity factor. In the socalled strong-pinning regime, the onset of crack propagation appears to map onto a second-order phase transition characterized by universal critical...

The collision of the Indian sub-continent with Asia involves complex mechanisms of deformation: the creation and propagation of faults which accommodate the extrusion of continental blocks, the thickening of the crust of the Earth. Our goal is to develop a simplified numerical model that should account for the main phenomena that interact in such collisions [1]. In this model, the crust is cons...

This work deals with the interaction of P-waves between a moving central crack and a pair of outer cracks situated at the interface of an orthotropic layer and an elastic half-space. Initially, we considered a two-dimensional elastic wave equation in orthotropic medium. The Fourier transform has been applied to convert the basic problem to solve the set of four integral equations. These set of ...

The authors have been developing a crack propagation analysis system that can deal with arbitrary shaped cracks in threedimensional solids. The system is consisting of mesh generation software, a large-scale finite element analysis program and a fracture mechanics module. To evaluate the stress intensity factors, a Virtual Crack Closure-Integral Method (VCCM) for the second-order tetrahedral fi...

This paper presents a method which combines electromagnetic simulation and ultrasonic simulation to build EMAT array models. For a specific sensor configuration, Lorentz forces are calculated using the finite element method (FEM), which then can feed through to ultrasonic simulations. The propagation of ultrasound waves is numerically simulated using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method ...

X-Ray Diffraction Contrast Tomography (DCT) is a recently developed, non-destructive synchrotron imaging technique which characterizes microstructure and grain orientation in polycrystalline materials in three dimensions (3D). By combining it with propagation based Phase Contrast Tomography (PCT) it is possible to get a full picture description for the analysis of local crack growth rate of sho...

Total-energy pseudopotential calculations are used to study the cleavage anisotropy in silicon. It is shown that cracks propagate easily on 111 and 110 planes provided crack propagation proceeds in the <1;10> direction. In contrast, if the crack is driven in a <001> direction on a 110 plane the bond breaking process is discontinuous and associated with pronounced relaxations of the surrounding ...