Recent studies have found that stringer-to-cross-girder connections in riveted railway bridges are susceptible to fatigue cracking. Fatigue damage in these connections is caused by secondary, deformation induced effects. These effects are difficult to interpret in terms of a single, applied stress descriptor, which is customarily used in an S-N assessment. In order to address this problem, and,...

One possible loosening mechanism of the femoral component in total hip replacement is fatigue cracking of the cement mantle. A computational method capable of simulating this process may therefore be a useful tool in the preclinical evaluation of prospective implants. In this study, we investigated the ability of a computational method to predict fatigue cracking in experimental models of the i...

The ageing of asphalt mixes, together with their exposure to low temperatures, causes a progressive increase of cracking. In this paper, the effect of ageing and temperature on the fatigue of asphalt concretes made with two types of binders, conventional (50/70) and polymer modified bitumen (PMB), is studied. For this purpose, specimens previously subjected to an accelerated laboratory ageing p...

In this research work, the influence of higher surface hardness on the fretting fatigue life of hard anodized aerospace AL7075-T6 alloy was investigated. An optimization of the parameters of hard anodized Al7075-T6 alloy to obtain higher surface hardness was presented. Confirmation test was carried out to show the improvement after using the best parameter combination attained from the optimiza...

Mechanism of fatigue crack initiation was investigated in ultrafine-grained (UFG) magnesium alloy AZ91 processed by equal channel angular pressing (ECAP). Fatigue behaviour of UFG material was compared to the behaviour of material in an initial as-cast state. Focused ion beam technique (FIB) was applied to reveal the surface relief and early fatigue cracks. Two substantially different mechanism...

When in the presence of liquid metal environments, structural materials can potentially lose the ability to deform and plastically flow. In the case of a ductile material, the result of this reduction in flow ability is a transition from ductile to brittle behavior, resulting in a brittle-like failure. This phenomenon is known as liquid metal embrittlement (LME) and is a subset of the more comm...

Cracking of laser hybrid welding of eccentric fillet joints has been studied for stainless steel. Laser hybrid welding enables narrow deep welds with freedom for shaping the upper weld geometry. The significance of geometrical aspects like weld toe radius, weld surface topography and lack of fusion on fatigue cracking is discussed. Constant amplitude four point bending tests, S/N-curve, topogra...

In this paper, it has been attempted to evaluate the performance of asphalt overlays which were reinforced with geogrid, modified by sasobit and combination of them on rehabilitation of reflective cracking. The laboratory tests under dynamic loading in bending mode were conducted to investigate reflective cracking retardation compared to reference samples. The results illustrated that in a cert...