Background and objective The fibula free flap (FFF) has been extensively used to repair
large segmental bone defects in the maxillofacial region. The reconstruction plate plays a …

A cohesive zone model is a phenomenological model of the fracture process, which
straddles empiricism and material science and as such provides a pragmatic choice for …

In this paper, the distinction between material ratchetting and structural ratchetting is
clarified, and the concept of constant life diagram is extended to depict low cycle fatigue life …

While prosthetic devices have been extensively used to treat a wide range of human
diseases and injuries, failure of these devices due to fatigue under cyclic loading has been …

The paper presents the results of Acoustic Emission (AE) testing of fatigue fracture initiation
and propagation in metal plates. The information Entropy of the AE data (ie, AE Entropy) is …

Paris' power law is commonly used to describe transverse thermal cracking propagation in
asphalt concrete (AC) pavements. In its most common format, it relates the rate of change in …

Finite element simulations are widely used in several industrial sectors (civil, aerospace,
mechanical, naval, biomedical, etc.) to design components or structures. Often, the …

The paper presents innovative approaches for the simulation of fatigue crack growth (FCG)
in metallic compact tension (CT) specimens using finite element (FE) analysis and analytical …

This dissertation is the product of my work as a head of the Workgroup Modeling and
Simulation at the Chair of Materials Test Engineering (WPT) of TU Dortmund University. At …

This paper elucidates the structural response of perfobond shear connectors with triangular
holes which are connected to composite structures. The reason for use of triangular holes in …