Abstract: Various methods are available to assess the performance of welded joints under creep conditions. One approach uses the creep rupture testing of cross weld geometries in uniaxial tension. This ...

Abstract: When hard rough surfaces slide repeatedly on softer half-spaces, systems of protective residual stresses may be developed in the near surface layers of the softer material which enable loads ...

Abstract: Methods previously used to describe crack growth under creep conditions are reviewed. Under some conditions, materials can be notch insensitive and a model is developed based on engineering ...

Abstract: A Green’s function for the computation of stress-intensity factors for edge cracks in rectangular plates is given for any distribution of stress in the uncracked plate which is tensile over ...

Abstract: The interpretation of in situ rheometry based on shear wave propagation techniques is examined in terms of various viscoelastic model assumptions concerning sediment behavior under water waves. It is shown that, due to ...

Abstract: A laboratory characterization of cohesive sediment has been carried out in which data obtained from standard sedimentation and rheological measurements were combined in a determination of the critical solid concentration ...

Abstract: The time variation of the phase velocity of a high-frequency shear wave was measured using a miniature rheometer in a laboratory mud bed subjected to monochromatic waves. The fall in the velocity, starting with an undisturbed ...