Woven ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), exhibiting excellent thermomechanical properties at high temperatures, are promising as alternative materials to the conventional nickel-based superalloys in hot section components of aero-engines. Therefore, understanding and predicting lifetime CMCs is critical. Fatigue prediction woven currently involves long-term costly testing. A feasible use predict...

This study aims to identify the fatigue lifetime of a thin-walled hollow spherical rubber isolator subjected harmonic and random vibrations. Firstly, nonlinear characteristics materials are tested analyzed through vibration experiments. The relationship among stiffness, damping, relative displacement amplitude is established. Secondly, an accelerated experiment under excitation carried out. cor...

The ability to accurately predict the lifetime of building components is crucial to optimizing building design, material selection and scheduling of required maintenance. This paper discusses a number of possible data mining methods that can be applied to do the lifetime prediction of metallic components and how different sources of service life information could be integrated to form the basis...

The heavy-vehicle automotive industry is constantly subjected to higher demands. In particular, new European emission standards are formulated with the intention of improving the environmental friendliness of newly-produced vehicles through reduced exhaust emission. In one way or another, this implies a successive improvement of the engine efficiency, which in turn, inevitably will require a hi...

We study the fatigue fracture of disordered materials by means of computer simulations of a discrete element model. We extend a two-dimensional fracture model to capture the microscopic mechanisms relevant for fatigue and we simulate the diametric compression of a disc shape specimen under a constant external force. The model allows us to follow the development of the fracture process on the ma...

This paper describes a finite element based method for simulating the effects of material removal, associated with fretting wear, on fretting fatigue parameters in a spline coupling. An incremental wear simulation technique is implemented with a single tooth finite element model of the coupling for symmetric loading, assuming equal wear on all teeth, using a comparatively coarse mesh model, for...

In this paper, a real-time composite fatigue life prognosis framework is proposed. The proposed methodology combines Bayesian inference, piezoelectric sensor measurements, and a mechanical stiffness degradation model for in-situ fatigue life prediction. First, the composites stiffness degradation is introduced to account for the composites fatigue damage accumulation under cyclic loadings and a...

Fatigue life prediction for a bridge should be based on the current condition of the bridge, and various sources of uncertainty, such as material properties, anticipated vehicle loads and environmental conditions, make the prediction very challenging. This paper presents a new approach for probabilistic fatigue life prediction for bridges using finite element (FE) model updating based on struct...

The measurement of acoustic nonlinear response is known as a promising technique to characterize material micro-damages. In this paper, nonlinear ultrasonic approach is used to characterize the evolution of fatigue induced micro-cracks in polymer bonded explosives. The variations of acoustic nonlinearity with respect to fatigue cycles in the specimens are obtained in this investigation. The pre...