Abstract Lightweight design has had an important role to play in recent gear developments. One way of reducing weight is apply a shot-peening process addition the usual case-hardening because higher compressive residual stresses within material mean that same torque values can be transmitted with smaller gears. However, due stresses, fisheye failures at non-metallic inclusions occur, which have...

While a new tire may have excellent resistance to crack initiation and propagation between the steel belts, an aged tire of the exact same construction can exhibit dramatically reduced crack growth resistance, which in some cases may contribute to tire failure. This article will review the research that has gone into quantifying the rate of oxidation the steel belt rubber oxidizes in different ...

Acoustic Emission monitoring during three-point load test on concrete blocks prepared using variety of glass aggregates indicates that the mode and nature of crack initiation and propagation is highly dependent on the composition and the type of aggregates. The mechanism of crack arresting and bridging can only be investigated using Acoustic Emission. The results obtained are encouraging and le...

Oxide scales that form on superalloys eventually spall, especially upon thermal cycling. This phenomenon is motivated by the large residual compression in the oxide. Buckling and interface crack propagation are known aspects of this behavior, but the origin of the interface separation that precedes and activates buckling is not understood. One mechanism is described and analyzed in this article...

Debonding of films attached to substrates as well as fibers embedded in matrices typically involves initiation, steady-state propagation and a final transient as the debond converges on an edge or another debond. The emphasis in this paper is on the mechanics of the transient. Under most circumstances, a converging debond crack is characterized by an energy release rate that approaches zero, ca...

While the formation of cracks is often stochastic and considered undesirable, controlled fracture would enable rapid and low cost manufacture of micro/nanostructures. Here, we report a propagation-controlled technique to guide fracture of thin films supported on soft substrates to create crack arrays with highly controlled periodicity. Precision crack patterns are obtained by the use of strateg...

A cell structure development and a crack initiation during fatigue of an Fe-3 mass%Si alloy was investigated through electron channeling contrast imaging in scanning microscope back-scatter diffraction analysis. The crystal rotation regions (CRRs), deformation bands (DBs), (CBs) together formed hierarchy the dislocation structures. In early stage fatigue, is constrained near grain boundaries; t...

Osteonal bone is often compared to a composite material and to metals as discontinuities within the material may provide sites of stress concentration for crack initiation and serve as barriers to crack growth. However, little experimental data exist to back up these hypotheses. Fluorescent chelating agents were applied at specific intervals to bone specimens fatigue tested in cyclic compressio...