This paper reports (1) the latest development and application of a modified hyperbolic sine law for minimum creep strain rate and stress for both low Cr and high Cr steels, and (2) the development of a creep fracture criterion based on cavity area fraction along grain boundaries for high Cr steel. This work is part of the fundamental development of creep damage constitutive equations which were...

This paper presents a new adaptive multiscale homogenization scheme for the simulation of damage and fracture in concrete structures. A two-scale homogenization method, coupling meso-scale discrete particle models to macroscale finite element models, is formulated into an adaptive framework. A continuum multiaxial failure criterion for concrete is calibrated on the basis of fine-scale simulatio...

The negative influences of slopping in a BOF are pollution to the environment. They give lower yield and cause equipment damage. The prediction of these phenomena is based on information processing from the measuring microphone. The change of frequency in certain range is done by a signal for the prediction of slopping. In this paper two methods for prediction of slopping are described. The fir...

Seventy-six subjects were exposed to single impulse noises produced by two small shoulder-fired rockets, and TTS2 was compared with the U-MBA limits. The single impulse, 95% protection, and grazing incidence correction factors of the CHABA damage-risk criterion were validated. Grazing-incidence shock waves produced comparable results when they arrived at the ear from the front and from the rear.

Damage from ion implantation in Si can lead to dislocation formation during subsequent thermal annealing. These dislocations may sharply degrade device performance, making it desireable to suppress their formation. In this paper the criterion for dislocation formation is reviewed. Knowing this criterion suggests several ways to avoid dislocation formation in high dose implants for device applic...

This paper presents damage strength optimization of laminates using a reliabilitybased method. Two complementary analyses are developed: The first is a mechanical analysis of damage behavior using a thermodynamics framework which determines the failure criterion; the second is a reliability method which takes not only randomness, but also subjective uncertainties into account for failure probab...

A thermodynamically consistent damage model is proposed for the simulation of progressive delamination in composite materials under variable-mode ratio. The model is formulated in the context of Damage Mechanics. A novel constitutive equation is developed to model the initiation and propagation of delamination. A delamination initiation criterion is proposed to assure that the formulation can a...