The mechanical properties of wrought iron from multiple elements of six late 19th-century truss bridges is evaluated by a program of destructive and nondestructive testing, including hardness testing and tension tests to evaluate the yield stress (Fy), tensile strength (Fu), and ductility of the material. The yield stress and tensile strengths are found to be in accordance with those published ...

Myocardial infarction was experimentally induced in rat hearts and harvested immediately, 7, 14 and 28 days after the infarction induction. Anterior wall infarct samples underwent biaxial tensile and uniaxial compressive testing. Orientation of collagen fibres was analysed following mechanical testing. In this paper, we present the tensile and compressive stress-strain raw data, the calculated ...

in this research, the effect of 2.3 wt.% aluminum addition on the microstructure and tensile properties of high manganese austenitic steel fe-18mn-0.6c was studied. for this purpose, the samples were investment cast, homogenized and hot rolled. tensile testing was carried out at ambient temperature. microstructural investigations and fractography on the steel samples were carried out using an o...

A full field method for the description of in-plane strain fields is applied for improving Asphalt Mixture cracking behaviour insights. A Digital Image Correlation (DIC) system based on the Least Square Matching technique is used to compute strains and depict crack path in the process from microcrack initiation to failure. A Brazilian test was performed using hole-notched specimens. The test ge...

One of the crucial steps in the shaft design process is the optimal selection of the material. Two types of shaft steels with improved corrosion resistances, 1.4305 and 1.7225, were investigated experimentally and numerically in this paper in order to determine some of the material characteristics important for material selection in the engineering design process. Ultimate tensile strength and ...

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...