Fracture zones and their connectivity in geologic media are of great importance to ground water resources management as well as ground water contamination prevention and remediation. In this paper, we applied a recently developed hydraulic tomography (HT) technique and an analysis algorithm (sequential successive linear estimator) to synthetic fractured media. The application aims to explore th...

Cohesive zone models are explored in order to study cleavage fracture in adhesive bonded joints. A mode I cohesive model is defined which correlates the tensile traction and the displacement jump (crack faces opening) along the fracture process zone. In order to determine the traction-separation relation, the main fracture parameters, namely the cohesive strength and the fracture energy, as wel...

Aims Bone fracture risk analysis is a mandatory issue for the prevention of traumatic events and the reduction of medical efforts. The standard analysis for the evaluation of bone fracture risk is the analysis of Bone Mineral Density (BMD) [1, 2]. However, using only BMD to predict bone fracture risk was demonstrated to be not reliable [3]. This is probably due to the role of morphology in bone...

A model describing the crack propagation at the interface between a rigid substratum and a beam is considered. The interface is modeled using a fiber bundle model (i.e. using a discrete set of elements having a random strength). The distribution of avalanches, defined as the distance over which the crack is propagated under a fixed force, is studied in order to capture the effect of ageing and ...

Hydroacoustic data from the eastern equatorial Pacific reveal low-magnitude seismicity concentrated at the propagating tip of the Galapagos Rise in Hess Deep. The patterns of seismicity and faulting are similar to those observed in the process zone of laboratory-scale propagating tensile cracks. Because the fracture energy required for propagation scales with crack length and process zone size,...

the khushab anticline is located in the zagros fold-thrust belt in the lurestan. this anticline is affected by the balarud fault zone, which is a part of mountain front fault between the lurestan and dezful embayment zones. based on the measurement of the elements of fold style, this anticline is analyzed. according to these measurements, this anticline is a noncylindrical, asymmetrical and dis...