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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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SI: Showcasing Structural Integrity Research in India Views: 729 Downloads: 425 Vol. 13, No. 49 (2019) June 24, 2019 pp. 536-546

Post- Impact Fatigue Damage Analysis of Quasi Isotropic CFRP Laminates through Infrared Thermography

Raghu Vasu Prakash, Mathew John

Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) materials used for lightweight aircraft structures are susceptible to low velocity accidental impacts during manufacture and while in service. In this study the CFRP laminates subjected to low…

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Miscellanea Views: 1,070 Downloads: 814 Vol. 12, No. 46 (2018) September 27, 2018 pp. 306-318

Fatigue crack propagation in welded joints X70

Adel Deliou, Benattou Bouchouicha

Structural failure assessment approaches take into account local parameters, specimen geometry, loading and material. In the case of welded joints, in addition to these parameters, consideration must be given to the effect of the…

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Analytical, Numerical and Physical Models Views: 959 Downloads: 740 Vol. 17, No. 66 (2023) September 27, 2023 pp. 191-206

Prediction of Mechanical Behavior of Epoxy Polymer Using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) And response Surface Methodology (RSM)

Khalissa Saada, Salah Amroune, Moussa Zaoui

The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of different geometries and sections on the mechanical properties of epoxy specimens. Five tensile tests were carried out on three types of series. The experimental results obtained were…

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Fatigue and Fracture of metallic alloys Views: 544 Downloads: 538 Vol. 20, No. 75 (2026) October 11, 2025 pp. 1-12

Impact of tool rotational speed on friction stir welded joints of AA2014-T6/AA5052-H32: synthesis, microstructural, mechanical and fractographic behaviour

N. N. Sathya, Mervin A. Herbert, Arun Kumar Shettigar, Manjunath Vatnalmath

This study examines the changes in microstructure and mechanical properties of friction stir-welded (FSW) dissimilar joints between AA2014-T6 and AA5052-H32 aluminium alloys, with an emphasis on optimizing tool rotation speed for enhanced…

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Reliability and Life Extension of Components Views: 1,218 Downloads: 1,341 Vol. 13, No. 50 (2019) August 10, 2019 pp. 46-53

Leak-Before-Break methodology applied to different piping materials: a performance evaluation

Israel Gleybson Ferreira da Silva, Arnaldo Homobono Paes de Andrade, Waldemar Alfredo Monteiro

This paper presents a study of the application of Leak-Before-Break (LBB) to nuclear piping using three different materials. Based on the fracture mechanics, the LBB concept considers that a leakage from a crack can be detected before it…

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Damage mechanics Views: 511 Downloads: 352 Vol. 19, No. 73 (2025) May 21, 2025 pp. 139-152

Damage mechanisms in hybrid composites: experimental characterisation and energy-based numerical analysis

João M. Parente, L.M. Ferreira, P.N.B. Reis

This study analyses the failure mechanisms of bilayer hybrid composites, consisting of carbon and glass fibres embedded in an epoxy matrix, under bending loads. The objective is to evaluate how different hybrid configurations influence…

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Miscellanea Views: 580 Downloads: 480 Vol. 13, No. 49 (2019) June 24, 2019 pp. 748-762

Prediction of thermomechanical behavior of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene using a newly developed nonlinear damage-reliability model

Abderrazak En-naji, N. Mouhib, H. Farid, M. El Ghorba

The aim of this work was to evaluate the influence of temperature on the mechanical behavior of an amorphous polymer, namely acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), based on a series of uniaxial tensile tests on smooth specimens at…

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Integrity of materials and structures Views: 292 Downloads: 148 Vol. 20, No. 76 (2026) February 15, 2026 pp. 183-211

Numerical assessment of the seismic vulnerability of the historical earthen remains of the Mansourah enclosure (Tlemcen, Algeria): influence of geometry and identification of critical damage zones

Walid Hanini, Nadir Boumechra

This work primarily aims to carry out a numerical assessment of the seismic vulnerability of the historical Rammed Earth (RE) remains of the enclosure of Mansourah, a small town in the Wilaya (Province) of Tlemcen, in northwestern Algeria.…

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Miscellanea Views: 1,210 Downloads: 898 Vol. 17, No. 66 (2023) September 27, 2023 pp. 140-151

Predicting the lifetime of CPVC under increasing temperature and crosshead speed

Abderrahim Khtibari, A En-Naji, A. Kartouni, M. El Ghorba

CPVC is an increasingly popular material for plumbing pipes and other applications that require strong and temperature-resistant material. This resin is created using a chlorination process, giving it Chlorine levels that range from 63 to…

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Fatigue and Fracture of non metallic materials Views: 1,142 Downloads: 764 Vol. 18, No. 70 (2024) July 3, 2024 pp. 1-23

Predicting Damage in Notched Functionally Graded Materials Plates through extended Finite Element Method based on computational simulations

Hakim Siguerdjidjene, Amin Houari, Kouider Madani, Salah Amroune, Mohamed Mokhtari, Barhm Mohamad, Chellil Ahmed, Abdelkrim Merah, Raul Campilho

Presently, Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs) are extensively utilised in several industrial sectors, and the modelling of their mechanical behaviour is consistently advancing. Most studies investigate the impact of layers on the…

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Advanced Manufacturing and Processing Views: 1,304 Downloads: 845 Vol. 16, No. 62 (2022) September 22, 2022 pp. 75-90

Damage assessment of different FDM-processed materials adopting Infrared Thermography

Danilo D'Andrea, Giacomo Risitano, Marcello Raffaele, Filippo Cucinotta, Dario Santonocito

The use of components obtained through the additive manufacturing (AM) technique has become increasingly widespread in recent years, playing a central role in industrial production, and in particular in some fields such as automotive…

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Damage mechanics Views: 414 Downloads: 259 Vol. 20, No. 75 (2026) November 1, 2025 pp. 220-237

Effect of the stress state on ultimate strain energy density in the failure of reinforced epoxy resin

Dmitry Vichuzhanin, Sergey Smirnov, Alexander Pestov, Viktoriya Osipova

Epoxy resin reinforced with 10% of TiO₂ and pure epoxy resin are taken to exemplify the possibility of constructing a fracture locus for engineering organic polymers as a dependence of ultimate strain energy density in cohesive failure on…

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SI: Crack Paths Views: 751 Downloads: 497 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) February 26, 2019 pp. 125-134

Influence of microstructure on fatigue property of ultra high-strength steels

Kanji OKUDA, Kazuhiro OGAWA, Yuji ICHIKAWA, Tsuyoshi SHIOZAKI, Naoki YAMAGUCHI

Ultra-high-strength steels (with tensile strength higher than 980 MPa) are widely used in automobile manufacturing owing to their lightweight that contributes to fuel efficiency. The fatigue strength of ultra-high-strength steels with a…

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Miscellanea Views: 688 Downloads: 442 Vol. 13, No. 49 (2019) June 22, 2019 pp. 666-675

A viscoelastic-viscoplastic model for a thermoplastic and sensitivity of its rheological parameters to the strain-rate

Younès Saadallah, Semcheddine Derfouf, Belhi Guerira

The behavior of thermoplastics depends on several factors, mainly time and temperature. The present work is the subject of an analysis of the dependence of viscoelastic viscoplastic parameters of a model of rheological behavior at the…

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Fatigue and Fracture of non metallic materials Views: 793 Downloads: 421 Vol. 19, No. 71 (2025) October 8, 2024 pp. 22-36

Mechanical, Fracture, and Thermal Characterization of Post-Cured Hybrid Epoxy Nanocomposites Reinforced with Graphene Nanoplatelets and h-Boron Nitride

M.A. Umarfarooq, Mantesh Choukimath, N. R. Banapurmath

The post-curing process of cured composites is essential in enhancing the strength, stiffness, elevating the glass transition temperature, and reducing residual stress in polymer thermoset composites. The curing temperature and time are…

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Fractography and Advanced metallography Views: 588 Downloads: 439 Vol. 15, No. 56 (2021) March 28, 2021 pp. 56-64

Haynes 242 Alloy for Lares 2 Satellite

Daniela Pilone, Andrea brotzu, Ferdinando Felli, Ignazio Ciufolini, Barbara Negri, Claudio Paris

The satellite LARES 2 is designed to test dragging of inertial frames, or frame-dragging, predicted by Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, with accuracy of a few parts in a thousand. For this purpose, besides the typical requirements…

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SI: Crack Paths Views: 657 Downloads: 520 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) February 25, 2019 pp. 97-104

Experimental characterization of fiber-reinforced cementitious mortar under tension

Patrizia Bernardi, Roberto Cerioni, Daniele Ferretti, Filippo Leurini, Elena Michelini

This work focuses on the mechanical characterization of the inorganic matrix used for Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Matrix (FRCM) composites, nowadays widely used to retrofit existing reinforced concrete and masonry structures. While…

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SI: Developments in the fracture and fatigue assessment of materials Views: 835 Downloads: 690 Vol. 12, No. 46 (2018) September 23, 2018 pp. 1-13

Simulation of the behavior of aluminum alloys welded in Friction Stir Welding FSW: (Case of AA5083 and AA 6082)

Bounini Bousekrine Taha, Bouchouicha Benattou, Abdelkader Ghazi

The friction stir welding FSW is a topical technique to date, either for experimental or numerical research topics. Based on the fact that the majority of the heat generated, comes from the contact between the workpiece and the shoulder…

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Fatigue and Fracture of metallic alloys Views: 523 Downloads: 367 Vol. 19, No. 74 (2025) August 18, 2025 pp. 129-151

Fatigue behaviour of high-strength low-alloy steel sheets: influence of loading direction and microstructure on microcrack initiation and growth

María Cecilia Marinelli, Felipe Díaz, Raúl Bolmaro

This work presents an in-depth study of the low-cycle fatigue behaviour of ferritic-pearlitic HSLA-420 high-strength steel sheets, with emphasis on the influence of loading direction on fatigue life and damage mechanisms. Plastic…

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Fatigue Views: 848 Downloads: 541 Vol. 13, No. 50 (2019) August 26, 2019 pp. 310-318

The effect of temperature on low-cycle fatigue of shape memory alloy

Volodymyr Iasnii, Petro Yasniy, Denys Baran, Anna Rudawska

The influence of temperature on the fatigue properties of pseudoelastic NiTi under low-cycle fatigue are investigated. Tests were performed under the uniaxial tensile deformation (pull-pull) at 0°С and 20°С which is above the austenite…

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Fatigue and Fracture of non metallic materials Views: 839 Downloads: 909 Vol. 18, No. 68 (2024) February 15, 2024 pp. 94-108

Uniaxial fatigue study of a natural-based bio-composite material reinforced with fique natural fibers

Maria C. Chaves, Dayal Castro, Alberto David Pertuz Comas

This research addresses environmental concerns by exploring environmentally friendly composite materials as substitutes for non-biodegradable synthetic fibers. The study proposes the development of polymer matrix composites reinforced with…

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Miscellanea Views: 545 Downloads: 794 Vol. 16, No. 59 (2022) December 22, 2021 pp. 265-310

Cracking Patterns of Brittle Hemispherical Domes: an Experimental Study

Siwen Cao, Andras A. Sipos

Crack formation in hemispherical domes is a distinguished problem in structural mechanics. The safety of cracked domes has a long track record; the evolution of the cracking pattern received less attention. Here, we report…

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Miscellanea Views: 658 Downloads: 478 Vol. 13, No. 47 (2019) December 1, 2018 pp. 1-16

Numerical Simulation Method Study of Rock Fracture Based on Strain Energy Density Theory

Shuchen Li, Luchen Zhang, Qian Sun, Ma Tengfei

Many numerical methods are carried out to study the nonlinear failure behaviors of the rock; however, the numerical simulation methods for the failed rock are still in the research stage. This paper establishes the damage constitutive…

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