Abstract: This state-of-the-art review identifies and discusses the existing methods of predicting the high-cycle fatigue life, their limitations, and base-technology needs. The cycle stress-strain approach ...

Abstract: A damage detection and assessment algorithm is developed based on a parameter estimation with an adaptive parameter grouping scheme. Damage is characterized by a reduction in a constitutive property of a parameterized ...

Abstract: A method for the analysis of the fatigue crack growth rate for short cracks has been developed and is applied to the case of fatigue crack growth of short surface cracks in a 1045 carbon ...

Abstract: The objective of this research was to experimentally investigate the effects of the prestressing reinforcement ratio, the magnitude of the prestressing force, the loading type, and the sectional shape on the flexural ...

Abstract: Twelve concrete prisms pretensioned with 2,400-MPa strands were fabricated to investigate the effects of initial prestress (fpi), concrete compressive strength at prestress release (fci′), and the spacing of the lateral ...

Abstract: A new theory was developed for the fluid-filled semi-infinite tube model subjected to pressure impulse. The new model takes into account the shear and flexural waves of the elastic tube. The ...

Abstract: A waveguide absorber removes and dissipates vibrational energy from a structure by traveling waves. The performance of a wave guide absorber is determined by the driving point impedance. In ...

Abstract: A methodology for calculating the correlation factors to combine the long-term dynamic stress components of ship structure from various loads in seas is presented. The proposed methodology is ...

Abstract: A waveguide absorber is a device mounted on a vibrating structure at the selected points to transfer energy from the structure to the device which dampens the energy. The waveguide absorbers ...