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Advanced Manufacturing and Processing Views: 1,603 Downloads: 1,666 Vol. 17, No. 63 (2023) December 21, 2022 pp. 309-320

High Entropy Cantor Alloys (HEAs) modification induced by tungsten alligation, heat treatment and deep cold plastic deformation

Andrea Brotzu, Stefano Natali, Zortea Laura, De Filippo Barbara

High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) is a unique class of materials that combine particular properties in a large-scale of temperatures, able to guarantee new unexplored materials and alloys with several potentially engineering applications (i.e.…

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Miscellanea Views: 913 Downloads: 553 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) March 6, 2019 pp. 530-544

Fatigue strength evaluation and fracture behavior of joined dual phase steel/AA6061-T6 aluminum alloy

Ruben Perez Mora, Celso Eduardo Cruz Gonzalez, Saul Daniel Santillan Gutierrez, Jose Jaime Taha Tijerina, Benjamin Vargas Arista, Arturo Barba Pingarron

The fatigue strength evaluation and fracture behavior for a dual phase steel-AA6061-T6 bonded joints with three different adhesives (DC-80, Betamate 120 and MP55420) are presented in this paper. Single lap shear tests were used to…

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SI: Modeling in Structural Integrity Views: 514 Downloads: 278 Vol. 20, No. 75 (2026) October 21, 2025 pp. 124-156

Elasto-plastic truss optimization under geometric nonlinearity using a genetic algorithm

Péter Grubits, Pálma Porrogi, Majid Movahedi Rad

This paper presents an advanced optimization methodology for truss structures, addressing both elasto-plastic design cases—where plastic deformations are controlled within predefined limits—and purely elastic scenarios, in which inelastic…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.75.10

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Miscellanea Views: 882 Downloads: 403 Vol. 13, No. 49 (2019) June 24, 2019 pp. 791-799

Friction influence on the AA6060 aluminium alloy formability

Costanzo Bellini, Gillo Giuliano, Luca Sorrentino

Using a finite element calculation code, this work analyses the influence of friction during a stamping test conducted on the AA6060 aluminium-based alloy. The study focuses on phenomena happening when the sheet necking appears. This…

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Fatigue and Fracture of metallic alloys Views: 549 Downloads: 128 Vol. 20, No. 75 (2026) November 1, 2025 pp. 250-264

Consecutive shock waves and fatigue loads: action invariants as optimization parameters under Laser Shock Pinning

Mikhail Bannikov, Oleg Naimark, Aleksandr Balakhnin, Vladimir Oborin, Sergey Uvarov, Aleksandra Yurina

The criteria for optimizing shock-wave modes to increase the fatigue life of aircraft engine alloys are discussed with reference to laser shock peening (LSP). They are based on the self-similarity of plastic wave fronts and the kinetics of…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.75.18

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Advanced Manufacturing and Processing Views: 621 Downloads: 448 Vol. 14, No. 53 (2020) July 19, 2020 pp. 124-133

Comparison of mechanical performance between friction-stir spot welded and adhesive bonded joints

Paulo NB Reis, Ana Amaro, Altino Loureiro

The main objective of this study is to compare the mechanical strength of friction stir spot welded (FSSW) joints and adhesive bonded single lap ones. The present study aims to compare the morphology and strength of welded and adhesive…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.53.10

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Miscellanea Views: 2,407 Downloads: 1,196 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) March 15, 2019 pp. 748-756

Effect of protective coatings on the water absorption and mechanical properties of 3D printed PLA

Carlos Vicente, João Fernandes, Augusto Deus, Maria Vaz, Marco Leite, Luis Reis

This work aims to study the influence of protective coatings on the water absorption and mechanical properties of 3D printed poly–lactic acid (PLA) parts. The PLA parts were fabricated with different levels of the 3D printing process…

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Integrity of materials and structures Views: 436 Downloads: 226 Vol. 19, No. 74 (2025) August 10, 2025 pp. 89-114

Experimental Investigation of Tensile and Bond Strength for a GFRP–SSWM Hybrid Wraps

Vipul Kalyani, Digesh Joshi, Paresh Patel

This study experimentally investigates the tensile and bond performance of novel GFRP–SSWM hybrid wraps developed using two epoxy adhesives - Sikadur 30 LP and Sikadur 330. A total of 42 coupon specimens for tensile testing and 48 dumbbell…

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Environmentally Assisted Fracture Views: 861 Downloads: 488 Vol. 13, No. 50 (2019) July 10, 2019 pp. 21-28

Stress corrosion behavior of X80 pipeline steel in natural seawater with different dissolved oxygen

Xiaoguang Huang, Zhongying Han

Slow strain rate stress corrosion test of X80 steel in the natural seawater are carried out to study to effect of dissolved oxygen on the sensitivity of stress corrosion. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) combined electrochemical…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.50.03

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Structural Integrity and Durability of Structures Views: 384 Downloads: 406 Vol. 14, No. 54 (2020) September 23, 2020 pp. 36-55

A Novel Method to Estimate the Damage Severity Using Spatial Wavelets and Local Regularity Algorithm

Mallikarjuna Reddy, Arun Kumar K

In the process of structural damage detection using continuous wavelet transform (CWT), the perturbation or damage is located by identifying the defects locally in the input signal data. In this work the damage identification procedure…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.54.03

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Miscellanea Views: 1,010 Downloads: 400 Vol. 12, No. 43 (2018) December 29, 2017 pp. Pages 171-181

Fatigue assessment of Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy laser welded joints in absence of filler material by means of full-field techniques

Pasqualino Corigliano, Vincenzo Crupi, Eugenio Guglielmino, Carmine Maletta, Emanuele Sgambitterra, Giuseppe Barbieri, Fabrizia Caiazzo

The aim of this research activity was to study the fatigue behavior of laser welded joints of titanium alloy, in which the welding was performed using a laser source and in the absence of filler material, by means of unconventional full…

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Fatigue and Fracture of non metallic materials Views: 777 Downloads: 556 Vol. 18, No. 67 (2024) December 17, 2023 pp. 24-42

The effect of beam width and crack-depth ratio on mode I fracture toughness of RCB: an experimental and numerical study

Seleem Ahmad, Ghada Gamiaa, Abd El-Monem El-Kholy

In the present work, the fracture performance of pre-cracked reinforced concrete beams was investigated numerically and experimentally. Experimental and numerical programs were designed to examine the effect of beam width, b, (120 and 250…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.67.03

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Miscellanea Views: 1,087 Downloads: 435 Vol. 11, No. 42 (2017) September 29, 2017 pp. Pages 303-314

Influence the loading conditions and the stress concentrators on the spatial-time inhomogeneity due to the yield delay and the jerky flow: study by using the digital image correlation and the infrared analysis

Tatyana V. Tretyakova, Valery E. Wildemann

The paper deals with the investigation of the temporal instabilities and spatial localization due to the Lüders behavior and the Portevin–Le Chatelier effect in the carbon steel C1010 and the aluminummagnesium alloy AA5052, which manifest…

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SI: Additive Manufacturing Views: 757 Downloads: 560 Vol. 14, No. 51 (2020) December 13, 2019 pp. 534-540

Local scale fracture characterization of an advanced structured material manufactured by fused deposition modeling in 3D printing.

Joseph Marae Djouda, Donato Gallittelli, Marouene Zouaoui, Ali Makke, Julien Gardan, Naman Recho, Jérôme Crépin

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a promising way to produce complex structures by adding layers. It arises great interest both in industrial and academic sectors to develop new advanced structured material. To benefit from its advantages, it…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.51.40

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SI: Crack Paths Views: 463 Downloads: 339 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) March 5, 2019 pp. 503-512

Microcrack interaction with circular inclusion and interfacial zone

Tomas Profant, Miroslav Hrstka, Jan Klusak

A geometrically simplified plane elasticity problem of a finite small crack emanating from a thin interfacial zone surrounding the circular inclusion situated in the finite bounded domain is investigated. The crack is arbitrarily oriented…

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Failure Analysis, Case Studies and Forensic Engineering Views: 939 Downloads: 704 Vol. 15, No. 55 (2021) December 28, 2020 pp. 110-118

Fatigue loading characteristic for the composite steel-concrete beams

Ahmed I.Hassanin, Hesham M. Fawzy, Ahmed I. Elsheikh

During the past few decades, composite beams (steel I beam and concrete slab) have had a wide range of uses, particularly in bridge construction. This is due to its relatively low economic cost compared to individual steel structures or…

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SI: Developments in the fracture and fatigue assessment of materials Views: 798 Downloads: 516 Vol. 12, No. 46 (2018) September 23, 2018 pp. 94-101

High cycle fatigue assessment of steel load-carrying cruciform welded joints: an overview of recent results

song wei, Xuesong Liu

In this paper, high cycle fatigue failure behavior of Load-carrying Cruciform Welded Joints (LCWJ) is assessed using Strain Energy Density (SED) approach. Different analytical solutions are proposed and applied to illustrate the effects of…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.46.10

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Analytical, computational and physical models Views: 439 Downloads: 268 Vol. 20, No. 75 (2026) November 19, 2025 pp. 351-361

Modified multi-scale constitutive model of Aluminum: complex loading with variable thermal conditions

Anastasiya Vshivkova, Alexey Shveykin, Kirill Romanov

During manufacturing of parts from metals and alloys through forming and subsequent thermal and mechanical treatments the materials are often subjected to complex loading. In such cases materials significantly change their structure, which…

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Structural Integrity and Durability of Structures Views: 532 Downloads: 438 Vol. 16, No. 59 (2022) December 22, 2021 pp. 49-61

Analysis of the bond-slip performance of steel bars and steel fiber recycled concrete based on the constitutive relationship model

Zhengbing Xia, Xiaofang Duan

In order to promote the application of steel fiber recycled concrete in projects such as roads and bridges, 25 groups of steel fiber recycled concrete with different mix proportions were designed, taking the replacement rate of recycled…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.59.04

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Fracture Views: 607 Downloads: 446 Vol. 14, No. 53 (2020) July 19, 2020 pp. 223-235

Plastic stress intensity factor behavior at small and large scale yielding

Alexander Zakharov, Valery Shlyannikov, Anastasia Tartygasheva

In this paper the plastic stress intensity factor (SIF) is used to study the coupling effects of loading biaxiality, material properties and cracked body configuration in both the small- and large-scale yielding ranges. A finite element…

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SI: Portuguese contributions for Structural Integrity Views: 552 Downloads: 406 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) March 9, 2019 pp. 666-675

Fatigue crack growth in notched specimens: a numerical analysis: Fatigue crack growth in notched specimens

Fernando Ventura Antunes, Ricardo Branco, Pedro Prates, José Domingos Costa

Fatigue crack growth (FCG) is linked to irreversible and non-linear processes happening at the crack tip, which explains different problems observed in the use of da/dN-DK curves. The replacement of DK by non-linear crack tip parameters…

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Fatigue and Fracture of metallic alloys Views: 425 Downloads: 255 Vol. 20, No. 75 (2026) November 5, 2025 pp. 265-280

Experimental and 3D numerical analysis on the effect of specimen thickness on fracture toughness of Al6061-SiC-cenosphere Hybrid composites

E. Ashoka, T.H. Manjunatha, H. S. Naveen Kumar, S. V. Lingaraju, H. N. Ravikumar

This study examines the fracture toughness of Al6061 alloy-based hybrid composites reinforced with silicon carbide particles and cenosphere microspheres. Aluminum alloy Al6061 is widely utilized in structural applications due to its…

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Impact & Dynamics Views: 716 Downloads: 517 Vol. 15, No. 57 (2021) June 22, 2021 pp. 259-280

Enhancement of Blast Resistance of R.C Beams Using Micro/Nano Silica in Presence of Steel Fibers

Mahmoud Nawar, Ahmed Eisa

An analytical investigation using ABAQUS/Explicit dynamic analysis was carried out to investigate the effect of using Micro/Nano silica in the presence of steel fibers on improving the dynamic response of reinforced concrete beams.…

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SI: New Trends in Fatigue and Fracture Views: 756 Downloads: 406 Vol. 13, No. 49 (2019) June 27, 2019 pp. 450-462

Characterisation and Evaluation of the Mechanical Behaviour of Endodontic-grade NiTi Wires

Samuel Pereira, André Rui Dantas Carvalho, Luís Reis, Manuel Freitas, Diogo Montalvão

With the introduction of new materials and advances in medical science, the endodontic files have changed since the early days of root canal treatments. In the late days, we have seen an increasing use of Nickel-Titanium (NiTi) alloys, to…

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Miscellanea Views: 829 Downloads: 499 Vol. 7, No. 24 (2013) March 20, 2013 pp. Pages 112-118

Temporal peculiarities of brittle fracture of rocks and concrete

Y. Petrov, I. Smirnov, A. Evstifeev, N. Selyutina

When we want to compare the strength of two materials, we compare the table values of quasistatic strength. However results of some experiments show that the strength ratio of the materials can change with increase in rate of loading. Such…

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SI: IGF27 - 27th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity Views: 734 Downloads: 862 Vol. 18, No. 69 (2024) April 27, 2024 pp. 142-153

Experimental investigation on the fatigue and fracture properties of a fine pearlitic rail steel

Davide Leonetti, Bart Schotsman

This study reports an experimental investigation of the fatigue and fracture resistance of R350HT, a heat-treated pearlitic rail steel with refined microstructure used in rails. Monotonic tensile, rotating bending, linear elastic plane…

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Structural Integrity and Safety: Experimental and Numerical Perspectives Views: 590 Downloads: 1,338 Vol. 16, No. 60 (2022) March 25, 2022 pp. 1-12

Interaction diagram for RC column strengthened by steel angles and strips

Osman Shallan, Thrwat Sakr, Mahmoud Khater, Ahmed Ismail

This paper presents an analytical model to construct the interaction diagrams (normal force and moment) for the RC column strengthened using the steel jacket technique. The proposed model is defined using the strain distribution block by…

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Fracture Views: 923 Downloads: 486 Vol. 14, No. 54 (2020) September 23, 2020 pp. 202-210

Probabilistic Elastic-plastic Fracture Mechanics Analysis of Propagation of Cracks in Pipes under Internal Pressure

Belaïd Mechab, Mokadem Salem, Medjahdi Malika, Serier Boualem

This study presents a three dimensional finite element method analysis of semi-elliptical surface cracks in pipes under internal pressure load. In the elastic–plastic case, estimates of the J-integral are presented for various ratios…

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Fracture Views: 1,177 Downloads: 559 Vol. 14, No. 51 (2020) December 12, 2019 pp. 477-485

Microstructural damage evaluation of ferritic-ausferritic spheroidal graphite cast iron

Diego Omar Fernandino, Vittorio Di Cocco, Nicolas Tenaglia, Costanzo Bellini, Francesco Iacoviello, Roberto Enrique Boeri

The goal of this work is to improve the understanding of the relation between the microstructural characteristics of Intercritical Austempered Ductile Cast Iron (IADI) and the damage micromechanisms observed during its tensile loading. The…

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SI: Russian mechanics contributions for Structural Integrity Views: 651 Downloads: 305 Vol. 20, No. 75 (2026) October 16, 2025 pp. 35-45

Influence of laser shock peening on the residual strains and stresses in additively manufactured TC4

Mariia Bartolomei, Aleksei N. Vshivkov, Igor S. Kudryashev, Denis V. Lozhkin, Andrey V. Chumaevskii, Alexander M. Korsunsky

Additively manufactured materials possess significant heterogeneities and anisotropies of stiffness and strength properties between the growth and transverse directions. Residual stresses induced by the fabrication and processing stages…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.75.04

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Fracture Views: 882 Downloads: 439 Vol. 16, No. 62 (2022) September 22, 2022 pp. 1-13

Elastic and nonlinear crack tip solutions comparison with respect to failure probability

Valery Shlyannikov, Andrey Tumanov, Nataliya Boychenko

This study represents a methodology to assess the probability of failure based on three the driving force formulations defined by the corresponding brittle and ductile fracture criteria for compact and bending specimens made of 34XH3MA and…

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Analytical, Numerical and Physical Models Views: 618 Downloads: 529 Vol. 15, No. 55 (2021) December 28, 2020

Analytical solution for statif bending analyses of functionally grades plates with porosities

Slimane Merdaci, Adda Hadj Mostefa, Youcef Beldjelili, Mohamed Merazi, Sabrina Boutaleb, Hadjira Hellal

The paper examines a static bending of porous functional plates (FGP) and rectangular plate solutions, based on an underlying high-order shear deformation theory. The proposed high-order shear deformation theory, as opposed to other…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.55.05

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SI: Russian mechanics contributions for Structural Integrity Views: 553 Downloads: 402 Vol. 13, No. 49 (2019) June 16, 2019 pp. 370-382

Simulation of deformation and fracture processes in nanocomposites

Alexander Vasilyevich Vakhrushev, A.Y. Fedotov

The paper studies the processes of deformation and fracture in nanocomposites. The study was curry out by the method of mathematical modeling. The behavior of the nanosystem was described by the molecular dynamics apparatus. A modified…

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Structural Integrity and Safety: Experimental and Numerical Perspectives Views: 597 Downloads: 481 Vol. 16, No. 59 (2022) December 22, 2021 pp. 374-395

Reinforced Soft Soil by CSV with/without Polypropylene fibres: Experimental and Numerical analysis.

Anouar Souadeuk, Zeineddine Boudaoud

Columns of mixed soil-sand-cement (CSV), is one of the most unknown used methods for soft soil stabilization that has not been studied before. To this end, in this paper, consolidated drained (CD) triaxial compression tests after have been…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.59.25

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Analytical, Numerical and Physical Models Views: 907 Downloads: 384 Vol. 14, No. 53 (2020) July 19, 2020 pp. 434-445

Experimental and analytical investigation on the coupled elastoplastic damage model of coal-rock: The investigation on damage model of coal-rock

Yundong Shou, Jianwei Zhang, Filippo Berto

In this paper, a novel coupled elastoplastic damage model for coal-rock is proposed to predict the deformation and potential disaster in coal mining. The conditions of small deformation and thermodynamic potential are considered, as well…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.53.34

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SI: Crack Paths Views: 661 Downloads: 478 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) March 8, 2019 pp. 639-647

Multi-axial fatigue numerical crack propagation in cruciform specimens

Venanzio Giannella, Michele Perrella

Two cracks, initiated from the opposite tips of a central notch inclined by 45°, were considered in cruciform specimens made of Ti6246. A static load was applied to a cruciform arm while a cyclic load was applied along the other arm.…

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Integrity of materials and structures Views: 546 Downloads: 267 Vol. 20, No. 75 (2026) November 1, 2025 pp. 238-249

Experimental field analysis of damage-failure transition in composite material with a stress concentrator under cyclic loading (application of DIC and X-ray tomography techniques)

Mikhail Bannikov, Yuriy Bayandin, Aleksandr Nikityuk, Sergey Uvarov, Oleg Naimark

Predicting the failure of carbon fiber composites remains a challenge due to the complex evolution of damage, where the collective behavior of defects like pores and microcracks dictates material strength. The objective of this work is to…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.75.17

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Fatigue Views: 949 Downloads: 696 Vol. 17, No. 65 (2023) June 22, 2023 pp. 224-245

Impacts of nano-clay particles and heat-treating on out-of-phase thermo-mechanical fatigue characteristics in piston aluminum-silicon alloys

H. Bahmanabadi, Mohammad Azadi, A. Dadashi, J. Torkian, M.S.A. Parast, G. Winter, F. Grün

Abstract. In this article, the effect of nano-clay particles and heat-treating on thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) behaviors and failures of piston aluminum-silicon (AlSi) alloys was investigated. For this purpose, thermo-mechanical fatigue…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.65.15

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SI: New Trends in Fatigue and Fracture Views: 944 Downloads: 1,137 Vol. 13, No. 49 (2019) June 27, 2019 pp. 429-434

Fatigue strength of inner knurled interference fit joined by forming and cutting methods

Lukas Suchy, E. Leidich, A. Hasse, T. Gerstmann, B. Awiszus

The joining of machine parts by plastic forming is a common method for transmitting forces and torque. In drive trains, the ‘knurled interference fit’ has a high transmission capacity through the combination of frictional connection and…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.41

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