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SI: Structural Integrity and fatigue mechanisms: applications and recent trends Views: 556 Downloads: 544 Vol. 18, No. 69 (2024) May 11, 2024 pp. 181-191

Enhancing the flexural performance of lightweight concrete slabs with CFRP Sheets: an experimental analysis

Mustafa Khadim, Abdulkhalik Abdulridha

The flexural behavior of lightweight concrete two-way slabs is investigated in this work, with a focus on the strengthening or repairing method of externally attaching carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets. Five 1000 mm by 1000 mm…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.69.13

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SI: IGF26 - 26th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity Views: 755 Downloads: 661 Vol. 16, No. 59 (2022) December 22, 2021 pp. 359-373

A probabilistic fatigue crack growth life approach to the definition of inspection intervals for railway axles

C. Mallor, S. Calvo, J.L. Nuñez, R. Rodriguez-Barrachina, A. Landaberea

Different options that rely on fracture mechanics are currently used in engineering during the design and assessment of components. One of the most important aspects is the time taken for a crack to extend to its critical size. If this…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.59.24

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SI: Structural Integrity and Safety: Experimental and Numerical Perspectives Views: 803 Downloads: 542 Vol. 13, No. 50 (2019) August 19, 2019 pp. 264-275

Web Rotational Stiffness of Continuous Steel-Concrete Composite Castellated Beams

Carla Cristiane Silva, Rodrigo Barreto Caldas, Ricardo Hallal Fakury, Hermes Carvalho, João Victor Fragoso Dias

Continuous composite beams may suffer a global instability know as lateral distortional buckling (LDB). The design code EN 1994-1-1:2004 provides a procedure for the verification of this ultimate limit state, in which the resistant bending…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.50.22

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SI: Crack Paths Views: 652 Downloads: 406 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) March 3, 2019 pp. 442-450

Initial orientation of the fretting fatigue cracks in shrink-fit connection specimens

Ciro Santus

The bending configuration of shrink-fitted connection fretting fatigue tests causes a fluctuation of the contact pressure and in turn a more favourable condition for shear, rather than tensile, crack initiation. According to the…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.48.42

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Structural Integrity and Durability of Structures Views: 774 Downloads: 683 Vol. 16, No. 60 (2022) March 25, 2022 pp. 102-113

Experimental investigation on the mechanical behavior of concrete reinforced with Alfa plant fibers

Tidjani Messas, Djamel Achoura, Boutrid Abdelaziz, Belgacem Mamen

Currently, the reinforcement of ordinary concrete with synthetic fibers poses ecological problems because the manufacturing process of these products is very polluting. Plant fiber composites are a new challenge for environmental…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.60.08

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Analytical, Numerical and Physical Models Views: 840 Downloads: 548 Vol. 14, No. 51 (2020) November 25, 2019 pp. 199-214

Influence of porosity on the analysis of sandwich plates FGM using of high order shear-deformation theory.

Slimane Merdaci, Adda Hadj Mostefa

In this article, the analytical solutions for static of bending analysis of functionally graded sandwich plates using four-variable high order shear-deformation theory is presented. During manufacture of these plates, defects such as…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.51.16

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Miscellanea Views: 1,013 Downloads: 498 Vol. 12, No. 46 (2018) September 27, 2018 pp. 285-294

Performance Index of Natural Stones-GFRP Hybrid Structures

Luca Sorrentino, Costanzo Bellini, Wilma Polini, Sandro Turchetta

Natural stone is a material that presents durableness over time and high aesthetic characteristic, but it is brittle and its tensile strength is significantly lower than compressive one: these peculiarities must be taken into account for…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.46.26

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SI: New Trends in Fatigue and Fracture Views: 797 Downloads: 584 Vol. 13, No. 49 (2019) June 19, 2019 pp. 463-477

Numerical study of semi-elliptical cracks in the critical position of pipe elbow

Bassam Gamal Nasser Muthanna, Omar Bouledroua, Madjid Meriem-Benziane, Mohammed Hadj-Meliani, Guy Pluvinage, Rami Khalid Suleiman

Pipelines are considered as a major tool to transport hydrocarbons due to its important role in transporting fluids taking into account the operating conditions. Despite the importance of the elbow which considered as a critical part in…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.44

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Miscellanea Views: 938 Downloads: 634 Vol. 6, No. 22 (2012) September 30, 2012 pp. pages 31-38

Sn and Ti influences on intermetallic phases damage in hot dip galvanizing

V. Di Cocco

Protection against metallic materials corrosion is one of the most important means to reduce both aintenance costs and environmental impact. In the last years new studies on chemical baths compositions and fluxes have been performed in…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.22.05

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Structural Integrity and Durability of Structures Views: 980 Downloads: 488 Vol. 14, No. 52 (2020) March 1, 2020 pp. 163-180

Object-Oriented Software for Fitness-For-Service Assessment of Cracked Cylinder Based on API RP 579

Jirapong Kasivitamnuay, Pairod Singhatanadgid

Fitness-for-service assessment of a cracked component intends to evaluate its remaining strength and remaining life to support the implementation of a maintenance plan. This research aims to develop a fitness-for-service assessment…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.52.14

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SI: Crack Paths Views: 658 Downloads: 465 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) February 24, 2019 pp. 10-17

Fatigue crack growth in welded S355 specimens subjected to combined loadings

Roberto Brighenti, Prof., Janusz Lewandowski, Prof., Dariusz Rozumek, Prof., Grzegorz Lesiuk, Prof.

The paper presents a result of experimental tests of welded S355 specimens subjected to combined bending and torsion loading. In order to analyse how the fillet joints’ shape and the load ratio affect the crack growth, we selected two…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.48.02

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Miscellanea Views: 1,429 Downloads: 452 Vol. 9, No. 33 (2015) June 19, 2015 pp. pages 17-24

Three-dimensional effects on cracked components under anti-plane loading

F. Berto, A. Campagnolo

The existence of three-dimensional effects at cracks has been known for many years, but understanding has been limited, and for some situations still is. Understanding improved when the existence of corner point singularities and their…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.33.03

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Fracture Views: 1,526 Downloads: 528 Vol. 16, No. 59 (2022) December 22, 2021 pp. 486-513

Self-healing mortar using different types, content, and concentrations of bacteria to repair cracks.

Mohamed.A.R. Elmahdy, A.A. ELShami, El-Shikh M. Yousry, Seleem S. E. Ahmad

The creation of cracks, which are the most common cause of structural failure, has a significant impact on the structure's strength and durability. As a result, effective repair and maintenance are vital and unavoidable for treating any of…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.59.32

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Fracture Views: 616 Downloads: 551 Vol. 13, No. 50 (2019) July 10, 2019 pp. 38-45

Investigation of Failure Mechanism of Al2O3 Specimens Subjected to Three-Point Bending Test

Mikhail Olegovich Eremin, Igor Smolin, Alexey Kulkov, Valentina Mikushina

Experimental loading and FEM simulation-based approach at macroscale are utilized to investigate the failure mechanisms of Al₂O₃ ceramics. Experimental characterization of microstructure is carried out using SEM. Recently the microscale…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.50.05

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SI: Russian mechanics contributions for Structural Integrity Views: 978 Downloads: 529 Vol. 19, No. 71 (2025) November 21, 2024 pp. 239-245

Mechanical testing of miniature carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) samples under digital light microscopy

Eugene Statnik, Iu. A. Sadykova, E. N. Prokopev, A.I. Salimon, E. V. Nazarov, N. V. Turbin, A.M. Korsunsky

The rapid development of inhomogeneous and anisotropic materials like carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) with epoxy matrices necessitates a multidisciplinary approach for safe use. This approach should integrate computational modeling…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.71.17

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Miscellanea Views: 904 Downloads: 632 Vol. 16, No. 62 (2022) September 22, 2022 pp. 107-125

Experimental and numerical investigation of gap K-joints of rectangular hollow section trusses

Faycal Slimani, Mohammed Benzerara, Messaoud Saidani

This paper is concerned with investigating of the plastic behaviour on gap K-joints of truss girders, made from thin-walled rectangular hollow section members. An experimental study was carried out on a full-scale girder under a…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.62.08

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Miscellanea Views: 416 Downloads: 331 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) March 5, 2019 pp. 208-221

Mechanical Stability Investigation of Advanced Composite Plates Resting on Elastic Foundations Using a New Four-Unknown Refined Theory

Yassine khalfi, Aboubakar Seddik BOUCHIKHI, Yassine BELLEBNA

A refined and simple shear deformation theory for mechanical buckling of composite plate resting on two-parameter Pasternak’s foundations is developed. The displacement field is chosen based on assumptions that the in-plane and transverse…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.48.22

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Fatigue and Fracture of non metallic materials Views: 701 Downloads: 291 Vol. 20, No. 75 (2026) October 16, 2025 pp. 76-87

Realization of introducing non-woven veil on interlaminar radial strength of Glass Epoxy L-Bend composites

Shivakumar Gouda, Vinayak S. Uppin, I. Sridhar, G. Hatti, M. A. Umarfarooq, A. Muddebihal, K. N. Bharath, A. Edacherian

This study investigates the effect of interleaving non-woven veils and their surface areal density on the curved beam strength (CBS) and interlaminar radial stress (ILRS) of glass/epoxy L-bend composite laminates. Carbon veils with areal…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.75.07

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Environmentally Assisted Fracture Views: 1,213 Downloads: 708 Vol. 16, No. 60 (2022) March 25, 2022 pp. 438-450

Recycling of plastic waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as a modifier in asphalt mixture: study of Creep-Recovery at Low, Medium, and Hot Temperatures

Amine Bekhedda, M’hammed Merbouh

One environmental problem in most countries is the huge quantities of plastic waste, which has different types of polymers such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polypropylene (PP)., These plastics become a problem because of their…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.60.30

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Fracture Views: 1,043 Downloads: 697 Vol. 17, No. 64 (2023) March 21, 2023 pp. 148-170

Experimental and numerical investigations of the flexural behaviour ‎of Green - Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete ‎beams under repeated loads

Ayman Abdo, Ramadan Asker, Dina Atif sobhy, Sayed Ahmed

There are various benefits to ultra-high-performance fiber-reinforced concrete ‎‎(UHPFRC). However, using a lot of cement in this type of concrete has a severe disadvantage since it causes pollution and several environmental concerns.…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.64.10

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Impact & Dynamics Views: 673 Downloads: 449 Vol. 15, No. 58 (2021) September 25, 2021 pp. 151-165

Damage severity for cracked simply supported beams

Ehab Samir Mohamed Mohamed Soliman

This paper investigated the static and dynamic behaviors of isotropic cracked simply supported beam using finite element analysis (FEA), ANSYS software. Modal and harmonic vibration analysis of intact and damaged beam were performed in…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.58.11

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Miscellanea Views: 1,087 Downloads: 792 Vol. 16, No. 61 (2022) June 19, 2022 pp. 69-88

Flexural behavior of delta and bi-delta cold-formed steel beams: experimental investigation and numerical analysis

Yazid Hadidane, Nadia Kouider, Mohammed Benzerara

Cold-formed steel (CFS) structural members retain their positions in the lightweight construction industry. This is due to the significant advantages of CFS. The optimization of these CFS elements will allow the construction of economical…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.61.05

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SI: Structural Integrity and Safety: Experimental and Numerical Perspectives Views: 581 Downloads: 469 Vol. 14, No. 51 (2020) October 25, 2019 pp. 45-51

Experimental investigation of fatigue crack initiation from notch for 2024 T351 Al-alloy

Mustapha Benachour, Nadjia Benachour, Mohamed Benguediab

In this investigation, fatigue criterion was established to predict crack-initiation at the tip of a notch in aged hardening aluminum alloy. This criterion was used to predict the residual lifetime in aeronautical structures using concept…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.51.04

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Miscellanea Views: 522 Downloads: 366 Vol. 13, No. 47 (2019) December 18, 2018 pp. 468-481

Influence of material inhomogeneity and non-linear mechanical behavior of the material on delamination in multilayered beams

Victor Rizov

The delamination fracture in four-point bending beams made of adhesively bonded lengthwise vertical layers is studied assuming that each layer exhibits smooth material inhomogeneity along the width and length of the layer. The study aims…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.47.37

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Miscellanea Views: 1,000 Downloads: 585 Vol. 13, No. 49 (2019) June 24, 2019 pp. 698-713

Finite Element Analysis of the thermo-Mechanical Behavior of composite Pipe Elbows under Bending and Pressure loading

Elamine Abdelouahed, M. Mokhtari, H. Benzaama

Elbows under load experience more stress and strain than straight tubes. The strength of the composite tubes plays an important role in their use, the damage under a thermomechanical behavior of a composite tubular structure bent between…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.63

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Miscellanea Views: 1,107 Downloads: 904 Vol. 16, No. 62 (2022) September 22, 2022 pp. 26-53

Numerical investigation on strengthening steel beams with web openings using GFRP

Hamda Guedaoura, Yazid Hadidane, Mohammed J Altaee

This study presents the first investigation into the use of glass fiber reinforced polymer GFRP to strengthen steel beams with web openings. Based on previous research about the strengthening of steel beams with web perforation using…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.62.03

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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…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.48.15

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SI: IGF26 - 26th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity Views: 654 Downloads: 457 Vol. 16, No. 60 (2022) March 25, 2022 pp. 13-29

Effect of petrographic composition and chemistry of aggregate on the local and general fracture response of cementitious composites

Michal Vyhlídal, Iva Rozsypalová, Hana Šimonová, Barbara Kucharczyková, Leona Vavro, Martin Vavro, Jiří Němeček, Pavla Rovnaníková, Zbyněk Keršner

This paper concerns the results of research into the influence of the composition of rock inclusions on the fracture response of cement-based composite specimens. Specially designed specimens of the nominal dimensions 40 × 40 × 160 mm with…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.60.02

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SI: Research activities of the Greek Society of Experimental Mechanics of Materi Views: 564 Downloads: 416 Vol. 13, No. 50 (2019) September 2, 2019 pp. 517-525

Multi-parameter analysis of curing cycle for GNPs/glass fabric/ epoxy laminated nanocomposites

Georgios Seretis, Aikaterini Polyzou, Dimitrios Manolakos, Christopher Provatidis

In this study, a multi-parameter analysis, using Taguchi method for design of experiments, has been conducted to investigate the optimum curing conditions for GNPs/E-glass fabric/epoxy laminated nanocomposites. The independent variables in…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.50.43

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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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SI: Russian mechanics contributions for Structural Integrity Views: 64 Downloads: 22 Vol. 20, No. 77 (2026) May 21, 2026 pp. 281-297

Effect of ultrasonic welding conditions and energy director thickness on structure and properties of lap-joints of PEEK-based composites reinforced with short carbon fibers

Sergey Panin, Vladislav Alexenko, Alexey Zelenkov, Dmitry Buslovich, Lyudmila Kornienko, Shaowei Lu

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of thickness of energy director (EDs) and ultrasonic welding (USW) process parameters on structure formation and interlaminar shear strength (LSS) values of lap-joints of composite…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.77.17

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SI: Characterisation of Crack Tip Fields Views: 587 Downloads: 427 Vol. 13, No. 49 (2019) May 28, 2019 pp. 1-11

Further investigation on microstructure refinement of internal crack initiation region in VHCF regime of high-strength steels

Yukun Chang, Liang Zheng, Xiangnan Pan, Youshi Hong

The profile samples prepared by focused ion beam (FIB) in crack initiation region (CIR) and fish-eye (FiE) region of failed specimens subjected to rotary bending (RB) and ultrasonic axial (UL) fatigue testing with various stress ratios (R)…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.01

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SI: Failure Analysis of Materials and Structures Views: 917 Downloads: 615 Vol. 16, No. 61 (2022) June 19, 2022 pp. 230-243

Observing the simulation behaviour of Magnesium alloy metal sandwich panel under cyclic loadings

Muhammad Shamsul Baharin, Shahrum Abdullah, Noorsuhada Md Nor, Mohd Khairul Faidzi Muhamad Paudzi, Azli Arifin, Salvinder Singh Karam Singh

This study aims to investigate the delamination effect of a metal sandwich panel using a four-point bending simulation under continual spectrum loading. The most recent core designs of the sandwich panel have a cavity that can increase…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.61.15

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SI: IGF25 – International Conference 2019 Views: 661 Downloads: 470 Vol. 14, No. 51 (2020) November 6, 2019 pp. 127-135

A biomechanical study of the role of sitagliptin on the bone characteristics of diabetic rats

Stavros K Kourkoulis, Ermioni Pasiou, Arezoo Abdi, Despoina Perrea, John Vlamis

An experimental protocol is described aiming to explore the influence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on the biomechanical response of the bone tissue and, also, to quantify the potential beneficial role of a pharmaceutical treatment, based…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.51.10

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Miscellanea Views: 767 Downloads: 478 Vol. 13, No. 47 (2019) December 5, 2018 pp. 367-382

Composite sandwich impact response: experimental and numerical analysis

Filippo Cucinotta, Paolo Neri, Felice Sfravara, Armando Razionale

The use of composite materials allows to have a great flexibility in terms of mechanical and physical characteristics. One of the most used composite structure in naval field, is the sandwich, which is composed by a stacking sequence of…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.47.27

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SI: Russian mechanics contributions for Structural Integrity Views: 1,116 Downloads: 682 Vol. 18, No. 68 (2024) February 24, 2024 pp. 267-279

A method for rapid estimation of residual stresses in metal samples produced by additive manufacturing

Alexey Fedorenko, Denis Firsov, Stanislav Evlashin, Boris Fedulov, Evgeny Lomakin

The mechanical methods for measuring residual stresses typically rely on so-called destructive techniques where some stress components can be determined based on part deflection after material removal (cutting, etching, drilling, etc.).…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.68.18

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Miscellanea Views: 979 Downloads: 1,440 Vol. 13, No. 49 (2019) June 24, 2019 pp. 763-774

A Determination of fracture toughness in plain concrete specimens by R curve

Hamza Chbani, Bouchra Saadouki, Mostapha Boudlal, Mohamed Barakat

Since the last two centuries, concrete has become the number one building material in the world. Therefore, we are interested in studying the mechanical behavior at failure of this material and calculate its toughness. In this paper, we…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.68

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Miscellanea Views: 911 Downloads: 593 Vol. 7, No. 24 (2013) March 20, 2013 pp. Pages 89-95

Research of the effectiveness of mechanical testing methods with analysis of features of destructions and temperature effects

A.V. Babushkin, D.S. Lobanov, A.V. Kozlova, I.D. Morev

In this paper is carried out the comparative analysis of effectiveness of test methods of determination of stiffness and strength properties of highly filled unidirectional fiberglass (Direct "E" roving 0.7 - orthophthalic polyester resin…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.24.09

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SI: Modeling in Structural Integrity Views: 909 Downloads: 321 Vol. 19, No. 71 (2025) October 11, 2024 pp. 67-79

Determination of the geometric parameters of the defects based on the tomographically obtained data and their influence on the fatigue behavior of the S960 with laser cladded protective layers

Pavel Doubek, Ivana Kumpová, Lucie Malíková, Mohammad Sami Al Khazali, Stanislav Seitl

This article deals with identifying defects of layered high strength steel materials with the help of tomography measurement. Test samples were made of S960 High Strength Steel to which layers of either aluminium bronze, hardchrome, cobalt…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.71.06

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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…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.62.01

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Structural Integrity and Durability of Structures Views: 610 Downloads: 401 Vol. 14, No. 53 (2020) July 19, 2020 pp. 38-50

Longitudinal fracture analysis of inhomogeneous beams with continuously varying sizes of the cross-section along the beam length

Victor Rizov, Holm Altenbach

Analyses of longitudinal fracture behavior of inhomogeneous beams which have continuously varying sizes of the cross-section along the beam length are carried-out. Beams of a rectangular cross-section are studied. It is assumed that beams…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.53.04

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SI: Crack Paths Views: 1,573 Downloads: 808 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) February 25, 2019 pp. 105-115

Influence of secondary dendrite arm spacing (SDAS) on the fatigue properties of different conventional automotive aluminum cast alloys

Sascha Gerbe, Ulrich Krupp, Wilhelm Michels

For industrial in-series castings, the presence of casting defects, like porosity, geometrically complex intermetallic precipitates and the occurrence of eutectic silicon of varying morphologies, is well known but hard to prevent due to…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.48.13

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Miscellanea Views: 1,183 Downloads: 744 Vol. 10, No. 38 (2016) pp. Pages 339-350

Process of cracking in reinforced concrete beams (simulation and experiment)

I. N. Shardakov, A. P. Shestakov, I.O. Glot, A.A. Bykov

The paper presents the results of experimental and theoretical investigations of the mechanisms of crack formation in reinforced concrete beams subjected to quasi-static bending. The boundary-value problem has been formulated in the…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.38.44

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Integrity of materials and structures Views: 547 Downloads: 334 Vol. 18, No. 70 (2024) September 4, 2024 pp. 227-241

Optimization of the internal structure of 3D-printed components for architectural restoration

Valentina Tomei, Ernesto Grande, Maura Imbimbo

In recent years, 3D printing technology has assumed an important role in advanced construction processes across various engineering fields. Among these, the application to the architectural restoration of historic structures is…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.70.13

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