Scaled experimentation can potentially provide significant benefits such as reduced costs materials and time in testing but is afflicted by the phenomena of scale effects, where behaviour at be markedly different to that full size. The design scaled experiments presently predominantly founded on theory dimensional analysis, which itself grounded invariance dimensionless governing equations with...

Forecasting failure events is one of the most important problems in fracture mechanics and related sciences. In this paper, we use the Molchan scheme to investigate the error diagrams in a fracture model which has the notable advantage of displaying two completely different regimes according to the heterogeneity of the system. In one regime, a characteristic event is observed while for the seco...

The nucleation of microvoids from second phase particles in an AlMgSi alloy has been investigated. The work has comprised detailed stress analyses of elastic particles situated in an elastic-plastic matrix as well as damage mechanics analyses of the ductile fracture behaviour of smooth and notched axisymmetric tensile specimens. Based on the micromechanical analyses of isolated particles, gener...