This paper presents a step towards the design of a novel test for simultaneous identification of all the stiffness components of orthotropic composite materials. A simulator was adopted to numerically simulate the whole identification process. Synthetic images were generated and then processed by Digital Image Correlation (DIC) to calculate the strain fields. The Virtual Fields Method (VFM) was...

Additive manufactured biomedical devices have been widely used in the fields due to the development of biomaterials and manufacturing techniques. Biodegradable Polylactic Acid-based polymers are most common material that can be using extrusion, one the most known additive manufacturing methods. However, medical grade polymers too expensive for degradation studies with common tensile specimens....

In this research, samples of locally manufactured and imported reinforcing steel with different diameters 14 16 mm were studied by conducting tensile test, which is an important mechanical test to know the properties materials study their behaviour under loading two each type using a general testing machine (SHUMIDUZ –UH2000). The results obtained from used find set represented in ultimate stre...