Abstract: The effects of the variation of stress field triaxiality on the prediction of the fatigue growth of semielliptic surface flaws are investigated. The concepts of crack closure are used in a ...

Abstract: Dynamic fracture is often studied by means of the dynamic tear (DT) test, which involves transverse impact by a mass on a beam. This process generates a complicated elastic wave pattern in ...

Abstract: A technique consisting of stress-freezing photoelasticity coupled with a Taylor Series Expansion of the maximum local in-plane shearing stress known as the Taylor Series Correction Method (TSCM) ...