The growth of a single cylindrical hole ahead of a blunt crack tip was studied using large deformation finite element analysis in three-point bend specimens with different precrack depth. The effect of small second phase particles was taken into account by incorporating Gurson’s constitutive equation. The effects of strain hardening and the initial distance from the hole to the crack tip were a...

In present paper, using Acoustic Emission (AE) as a ultrasonic technique, Welding crack has been investigated on the HG70 steel used by truck crane during three-point bending test was carried out. The study shows that the activity of AE increases greatly during the welding crack initiates and propagates, and the distributing range of AE characteristic parameters can be fixed. AE signals of weld...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.07.022 1359-6454/ 2015 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. E-mail address: [email protected] (R.O. Ritchie). 1 Intrinsic toughening mechanisms operate ahead of the crack tip to resistance to microst...

A B S T R A C T Using a model of a single layered foundation to describe a highway or an airfield pavement and an integral formulation, the problem of a pavement containing on-the-top layer a crack of finite length 2c is solved for the stress distribution around the crack tip. The analysis shows that the stresses possess the usual 1/e 1⁄2 singular behavior which is characteristic of crack probl...

In this work, repaired crack in 6061T6 aluminum plate with composite patches presented, firstly we determine the displacement, strain and stress, also the first six mode shape of the plate, secondly we took the same model adding central crack initiation, which is located in the center of the plate, its seize vary from 20 mm to 60 mm and we compare the first results with second. Thirdly we repai...

Numerical aspects of the grain level micromechanical model presented in part I are discussed in this study. They include, an examination of solution convergence in the context of cohesive elements used as an approach to model crack initiation and propagation; performance of parametric studies to assess the role of grain boundary strength and toughness, and their stochasticity, on damage initiat...

Successful in-situ monitoring of crack initiation and growth is a necessary prerequisite for applying ultrasonic methods to structural health monitoring. For conventional ultrasonic testing methods, a focused beam may be used to directly image the crack tip; however, this method is difficult to apply during fatigue testing because of access limitations and couplant contamination issues. However...

A major part of fracture mechanics is concerned with studying the initiation and propagation of fatigue cracks. This typically requires constant monitoring of crack growth during fatigue cycles and the knowledge of the precise location of the crack tip at any given time. One technique currently available for measuring fatigue crack length is the Potential Drop method[1]. The method, however, ma...