Unavoidable issues of micro-arc oxidation (MAO) coated Al alloys are the micro-defects and
residual stress generation. Some scientists have reported the effects of micro-defects and …

The interfacial fracture behaviors between brittle ceramic coating and ductile metal substrate
system are vital under uniaxial tensile loading for engineering applications. In this work, the …

Because of the large stress gradient in the coated structure and the more and more thin
thickness of coating, it is too hard to guarantee the calculation accuracy by the commercial …

Laser cladding (LC), a metal additive manufacturing process, is employed to strengthen
steel plate which has benefits over traditional steel structure retrofit approaches. In this …

Because of the large stress gradient in the coated structure and the more and more thin
thickness of coating, it is too hard to guarantee the calculation accuracy by the commercial …

Ambiguous fatigue failure mechanism of micro-arc oxidation (MAO) coated samples was an
urgent issue to be solved. In this paper, the influence mechanism of coating defects on the …

In engineering fracture problems, cracks tend to interact with each other rather than exist
singly. In recent years, the phenomenon of multi-cracking has received attention from both …

The present paper aims to use the concurrent coupling approach of Finite Element Method
(FEM) and Discrete Element Method (DEM) to simulate the surface cracking and the local …

Soft layered material systems are ubiquitous in nature and engineering–from natural
biological tissues to engineered devices. However, from the mechanics perspective, why …

In this article, an elasto-plastic channel-cracking model is presented to study the open-mode
fracture of a thin layer brittle coating grown on a polymer substrate. A linear elastic shear …