The risk of sustaining tibia fractures as a result of a frontal crash is commonly assessed by applying measurements taken from anthropometric test devices to the Tibia Index. The Tibia Index is an injury tolerance criterion for combined bending and axial loading experienced at the midshaft of the leg. However, the failure properties of human tibia compact bone have only been determined under st...

in this paper, the mechanical behavior of three-phase inhomogeneous materials is modeled using the meso-scale model with lattice beams for static and dynamic analyses. the timoshenko beam theory is applied instead of the classical euler-bernoulli beam theory and the mechanical properties of lattice beam connection are derived based on the continuum medium using the non-local continuum theory. t...

To characterize the thermomechanical response, especially the superelastic behavior of NiTi shape-memory alloys (SMAs) at various temperatures and strain rates, we have performed a series of both quasi-static and dynamic uniaxial compression tests on cylindrical samples, using an Instron servohydraulic testing machine and UCSD’s enhanced Hopkinson technique. Strain rates from 10 /s to about 420...

In this paper, full scale load test of a horizontally curved steel box-girder bridge is carried out in order to detect structural defects, which reportedly result in unwanted vibrations in nearby buildings. The bridge is tested under the passage of six heavy vehicles at different speeds, so as to determine its static and dynamic responses. A total number of one hundred and two (102) sensors are...

the effects of carbon content on the dynamic and static softening mechanisms of ti microalloy steels were investigated both in ferrite and austenite regions. the results obtained showed that recrystallization rate decreased as the percentage of carbon content was increased from 0.0035 to 0.110. this is due to the ti(cn) and tic precipitates and also the free carbon content. in the ferrite regio...

The aim of the presented study is to identify some properties of the dynamic behavior of the cancellous bone and to identify the link between this mechanical behavior and the microstructural properties. 7 cylinders of bovine cancellous bone (diameter 41 mm, thickness 14 mm) were tested in quasi static loading (0.001 s), 8 in dynamic loading (1000 s) and 10 in dynamic loading (1500 s) with a con...