Abstract: Bending fatigue, as one of the impact factors to reduce a metal’s service life, could play a critical role in fatigue life estimation of aerospace components and civil infrastructures, such as in machine gears, splined ...

Abstract: Dislocation accumulation caused by a crystallographic slip or plastic flow is one of the most critical factors for the growth of fatigue cracks. The dislocation density-based crystal plasticity method accounting for mobile ...

Abstract: Nail connections, serving as critical nodes in the loading path of wood residential buildings, could play a crucial role in structural analysis and damage prediction when the structures are subjected to winds and floodings ...

Abstract: With recent hurricanes causing devastating economic losses, structural damages, and societal impacts on coastal communities, residential building hurricane mitigation measures have gained increasing attention. However, ...

Abstract: A multiscale crack iteration and remeshing model was proposed and implemented to predict the low-cycle crack propagation behavior for steel. Crack propagation behavior was quantified by fatigue indicator parameters (FIPs) ...

Abstract: With growing shoreline populations and projections of damage and losses from coastal natural hazards, such as hurricanes and nor’easters, coastal community resilience has attracted increasing attention. To ensure coastal ...

Abstract: Under time-varying extreme dynamic environmental conditions, fatigue damage could gradually accumulate with increased stress cycles at critical details of steel or other metallic structures. As a promising tool, a fatigue ...