Abstract: Under time-varying extreme dynamic environmental conditions, fatigue damage could gradually accumulate with increased stress cycles at critical details of steel or other metallic structures. As a promising tool, a fatigue ...

Abstract: Previously proposed self-centering moment-resisting frames relied on gap opening and closing in the beam–column interface to achieve recentering capability and energy dissipation capacity. The gap-opening mechanism in the ...

Abstract: Bending fatigue, as one of the impact factors to reduce a metal’s service life, could play a critical role in fatigue life estimation of aerospace components and civil infrastructures, such as in machine gears, splined ...

Abstract: Dislocation accumulation caused by a crystallographic slip or plastic flow is one of the most critical factors for the growth of fatigue cracks. The dislocation density-based crystal plasticity method accounting for mobile ...

Abstract: Nail connections, serving as critical nodes in the loading path of wood residential buildings, could play a crucial role in structural analysis and damage prediction when the structures are subjected to winds and floodings ...

Abstract: A multiscale crack iteration and remeshing model was proposed and implemented to predict the low-cycle crack propagation behavior for steel. Crack propagation behavior was quantified by fatigue indicator parameters (FIPs) ...

Abstract: To evaluate short crack growth and fatigue damage accumulation in steel structures, efforts have been made based on a two-dimensional (2D) grain-based model for fatigue life assessment under variable amplitude loads. ...