Abstract: Fracture is an important mode of failure in steel structures, whereas traditional fracture mechanics is difficult to apply in predicting ductile fracture in the presence of large-scale yielding or in flaw-free geometries. ...

Abstract: The 15th turbine unit in the Three Gorges hydropower station was proposed to use a complete bearing spiral case, a first in large hydropower stations in China. This research performs a three-dimensional, nonlinear, ...