International Journal of Structural Integrity: Volume 4 Issue 3

Assessment of progressive failure analysis capabilities of commercial FE codes

Rosario Borrelli, Francesco Di Caprio, Umberto Mercurio, Fulvio Romano

The main objective of this work is to assess the current capabilities of different commercial finite element (FE) codes in simulating the progressive damage of composite…

Influence of crack tip and crack offset distance on crack interaction and growth direction in multiple cracks

Deepayan Gope, Prakash Chandra Gope, Aruna Thakur

This paper aims to deal with the study of interaction between multiple cracks in an aluminum alloy under static loading. Self-similar as well as non-self-similar crack growth has…

Effect of delamination on nonlinear transient response of composite shells in hygrothermal environments

Namita Nanda, S.K. Sahu, J.N. Bandyopadhyay

– The purpose of this paper is to study the nonlinear forced vibration responses of delaminated composite shells in hygrothermal environments.

Improvement of fatigue limit by overload for high-tensile strength steel containing a crack in the stress concentration zone

Keiji Houjou, Koji Takahashi, Kotoji Ando

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of overload (bending moment with plastic deformation: Mp) on three point bending specimen at the fatigue limit of…

Finite element simulation of road tanks for ADR and fatigue assessments

Georgios Savaidis, Michail Malikoutsakis, Alexander Savaidis

The paper aims to illustrate the application of a state-of-the-art fatigue prediction concept (IIW recommendations) to the ADR calculation requirements, in order to include…

Crack propagation curves on flexure adhesion tests

Silvio de Barros, Laurent Champaney

Two different methods to obtain crack propagation curves are considered in this work. In an analytical approach, the adhesion between the plates is considered perfect. In such…