Abstract: A study of the effect of mechanical prestraining on the tensile behavior of metal matrix composites was conducted. Using both a two-member cylindrical composite simulation model and actual ...

Abstract: An analytical model was developed to predict the mechanical response to axial loading of oriented fiber composite materials containing a third (dissimilar) material at the fiber-matrix interface. ...

Abstract: An analytical model has been developed for the elastic and elastoplastic bending of rectangular bars in which the neutral bending plane need not remain in the geometric center of the bar. ...

Abstract: An analytical model has been developed which shows that the fracture of surface hardened components initiates at the subsurface interface because of the triaxial stress-state developed at this location.