Overpressurization of intergranular fission gas bubbles and pores in oxide fuel pellets may
occur in nuclear reactor accidents that involve rapid overheating of the fuel. The …

Geomaterials contain numerous cracks whose interaction affects the macroscopic
mechanical properties of the materials significantly. We propose a mechanical model of …

This paper investigates the Mode-I crack problem that a three-dimensional infinite space of
transversely isotropic multi-ferroic composite medium is weakened by multiple coplanar …

The paper presents the experimental validation of the applicability of the effective spring
boundary conditions (ESBC), where spring stiffness is expressed in terms of material …

It is known from the split Hopkinson pressure bars experiments on dynamic uniaxial
compression of brittle materials such as rocks and concrete that the strength increases with …

The paper proposes a novel computational method for simulating diffraction of obliquely
incident plane waves by a doubly periodic array of arbitrarily shaped planar delaminations …

In this paper, how to determine the Weibull modulus of a fracture strength distribution is
discussed with its physical implications for quasi-brittle materials. Based on the Markov …

In the present study frequency dependent effective spring boundary conditions are
formulated to simulate wave propagation through an interface with distributions of micro …

A finite element-based method for accurately determining stress intensity factors (SIF) for
interacting arbitrarily-shaped 3D cracks is proposed. The method utilizes the superposition …

Elastic waves in the presence of a damaged interface between two dissimilar elastic media
is investigated in the three-dimensional case. The damaged is modeled as a stochastic …