Abstract: Fiber-reinforced composites are being widely used in the aircraft and aerospace industry, as well as in other field such as automobile, electronics, etc. In this work, a method based on the ...

Abstract: Classically, lateral earth-pressure, bearing-capacity, and slope-stability problems are considered separately, although these problems are all related to the ultimate limit state of a system. The authors see that these ...

Abstract: A mathematical formulation is proposed to describe equilibrium and stability behavior of the cohesive‐crack model (mode 1 cracking). Under the condition that no unloading occurs, total potential energy of the system can ...

Abstract: The linear fictitious crack model with linear softening law is a very important special case of the general fictitious crack model proposed by Hillerborg. When the traction‐separation softening curve is assumed linear, the ...

Abstract: This paper proposes the architecture of a real-time slope monitoring system based on the Internet of Things (IoT), which consists of a sensing layer, data acquisition layer, cloud computing layer, and client layer. The ...

Abstract: Constant-load-amplitude stage II fatigue crack growth rates at 4 K were measured for duplex stainless steel castings. The results show that at a ΔK of 60 MPa•m1/2 , da/dN = 7.6 × 10−4 ...

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to investigate the elastic strength of cylindrical vessels with hillside nozzle under out-of-plane moment on the nozzle. A total of 5 model vessels with different ...

Abstract: The objective of this work is to study the plastic limit load of cylindrical vessels with different lateral angles θ under increasing internal loadings. Three full size test vessels with ...

Abstract: This paper presents several new results in the studies of the fictitious‐crack model. First, an engineering version of the stability theory of the fictitious‐crack model is presented in the framework of the finite element ...