This study examines the fatigue and anisotropy behaviour of cold rolled AA1200 aluminium alloy for light weight automotive connecting rod application. Aluminium (Al) 1200 ingots were melted at temperature of 680 0C (after one hour of heating) cast in sand mould and cast samples homogenized for 6 hrs at 480 0C. The cold rolling process was carried out after homogenisation for 10, 20, 30, 40 and ...

vocal fatigue is a voice symptom which is frequently reported by professional voice users. teachers, singers, actors and other professions that require prolonged voice use are especially at-risk group. the vocal fatigue results in auditory perceptual and acoustic changes in the voice signal and can lead to serious pathological conditions. the present study has examined acoustic manifestations o...

Title Chronic fatigue in type 1 diabetes: highly prevalent but not explained by hyperglycaemia or glucose variability. Objective: Fatigue is a classical symptom of hyperglycemia, but the relationship between chronic fatigue and diabetes has not been systematically studied. We investigated prevalence, impact and potential determinants of chronic fatigue in patients with type 1 Diabetes Mellitus ...

Several key fracture-mechanics parameters associated with the onset of subcritical and critical cracking, specifically the fracture toughness, crack-resistance curve, and fatigue threshold, have recently been reported for the superelastic alloy Nitinol, in the product form of the thin-walled tube that is used to manufacture several biomedical devices, most notably endovascular stents. In this s...

The mechanical properties of Sheet Moulding Composite (SMC) have been analyzed by means of static and fatigue tests in tension. SMCs show a substantial in-plane anisotropy either in terms of stiffness or strength. Fatigue data were modeled adopting a fatigue model with two parameters, represented by the cyclic number and the mean stress. The statistical implementation of such model was based on...

For many of the Pb-free solders required under the European RoHS directive, there is now sufficient information, primarily in the form of the results of accelerated thermal cycling of various levels of severity, to develop acceleration models for the creep-fatigue of these solders. In this paper the parameters for the SAC405/305, SAC205, SAC105 and SnAg to replace the parameters for eutectic Sn...

The study of human fatigue stretches back centuries and remains a significant part of medical and social discourse. In the exercise sciences fatigue is routinely related to the ability to produce muscle force or to the recovery from force decrements. However, the study of fatigue has by virtue of the experimental paradigm excluded the subjective sense a person attributes to an event or experien...