Critical aerospace parts require damage tolerance analysis to determine the inspection intervals in-service. Such analyses, based on linear fracture mechanics, that fatigue crack growth (FCG) rate relation stress intensity factor range is applicable independent of geometry and stress. FCG rates for laser powder bed fusion Ti6Al4V material conventional compact tension (CT) specimens have therefo...

Cardiotrophin-1 (CT-1) is known to promote survival but also to induce an elongated morphology of isolated cardiac myocytes, leading to the hypothesis that CT-1, which is chronically augmented in human heart failure, might induce eccentric cardiac hypertrophy and contractile failure. To address this, we used heart tissues reconstituted from neonatal rat cardiac myocytes (engineered heart tissue...

Plastic deformation in the form of slip lines is observed in front of notches in pure epoxy and robber-toughened epoxy specimens under four-point bending. In contrast to the case for pressure-insensitive materials, the angles between two families of slip lines emanating from notch surfaces are not 90°: they are smaller than 90 ° under tension, but they are larger than 90 ° under compression. Fo...

This paper presents a set of numerical and experimental results on the use of guided waves for structural health monitoring (SHM) of crack growth during a fatigue test in a thick steel plate used for civil engineering application. The capability of embedded piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) to perform in situ nondestructive evaluation (NDE) is explored. Numerical simulation and experime...

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 ...

Now a days product development using prototype methods for actual usage is a growing concept in engineering. Present work deals with simulation of Compact Tension specimen to get fracture parameters J – integral and Stress intensity factors of product built by polyjet technology 3D printer additive manufacturing system. FEA simulation is carried out with the help of Abaqus software by simulatin...

The changes in elastic lattice-strain profiles and plastic zone around the fatigue crack in a compact-tension specimen were investigated during monotonic tensile loading and unloading cycles using neutron diffraction. Spatially-resolved strain measurements were performed on a 316 LN stainless steel to determine the in-plane (parallel to the loading direction) lattice-strain profiles ahead of th...

Large deformation finite element analysis has been carried out to investigate the stress-strain fields ahead of a growing crack for compact tension (a/W=0.5) and three-point bend (a/W=0.1 and 0.5) specimens under plane stress condition. The crack growth is controlled by the experimental J-integral resistance curves measured by Sun et al. The results indicate that the distributions of opening st...

The analysis of a material that is subjected to variable loads complex subject and generally treated separately by fatigue fracture mechanics. We present an attempt extend the validity conventional approach (here strain-life) in scope fracture. This was achieved introducing zero thickness cohesive contact element coupled with damage parameter developed from observations strain controlled experi...

In this paper, the general plane problem for an infinite strip containing multiple cracks perpendicular to its boundaries is considered. The problem is reduced to a system of singular integral equations. Two specific problems of practical interest are then studied in detail. The first is the investigation of the interaction effect of multiple edge cracks in a plate or beam under tension or bend...