Abstract: In this paper, a crack in a strip of a viscoelastic functionally graded material is studied under antiplane shear conditions. The shear relaxation function of the material is assumed as μ=μ0 ...

Abstract: This paper presents an extension of the correspondence principle (as applied to homogeneous viscoelastic solids) to nonhomogeneous viscoelastic solids under the assumption that the relaxation (or ...

Abstract: It is well known that, for homogeneous materials, the path-independent J contour integral is the (potential) energy release rate. For general nonhomogeneous, or graded materials, such a contour ...

Abstract: This work studies mode I crack growth in ceramic/metal functionally graded materials (FGMs) using three-dimensional interface-cohesive elements based upon a new phenomenological cohesive fracture ...

Abstract: Two operating advanced power plants, a supercritical steam plant and a gas-steam turbine combined cycle, have been analyzed using a methodology of graphical exergy analysis (EUDs). The comparison ...

Abstract: We formulate and solve the boundary value problem of a linearly elastic, infinite Cosserat plate which contains a circular hole and which is loaded in tension at infinity. The effect of hole ...