Abstract: Damage mechanics describes the degradation process that takes place in materials and structures. Traditionally, Coffin–Manson type empirical curves are used to determine the fatigue life. Damage ...

Abstract: Conventionally, iterative learning control law is updated using past error information. As a result, the controller is effectively open-loop, apart from being unable to control unstable systems, ...

Abstract: A porous cavity filled with methane (C1), n-butane (nC4), and dodecane (C12) at a pressure of 35.0MPa is used to investigate numerically the flow interaction due to the presence of thermodiffusion ...

Abstract: This paper reports numerical analyses of shallowly embedded hemispherical and toroidal penetrometers under torsional and vertical load. These novel penetrometers are a new design suited to the assessment of near-surface ...

Abstract: In this paper, the heat transfer characteristics of a circular air jet vertically impinging on a flat plate near to the nozzle (H/d=1–6, where H is the nozzle-to-target spacing and d is the ...