Professor Y. Murakami has been a dominant figure in the field of fatigue, pinpointing the
most important things for research. However, in order to further improve the prediction …

Hydrofracturing is a routine industrial technique whose safety depends on fractures
remaining confined within the target rock volume. Both observations and theoretical models …

Gassy sediments contribute to destabilization of aquatic infrastructure, air pollution, and
global warming. In the current study a precise shape and size of the buoyant mature …

Gas-charged sediments of shallow water bodies are significant sources of atmospheric
methane (CH 4), an important greenhouse gas. They are a source of a permanent concern …

Traditional computational approaches in simulating crack propagation in perfectly brittle
materials rely on the estimate of stress intensity factors along the rupture front. This proves …

Fatigue durability, damage tolerance and strength evaluations of cracked structural
components require accurate determination of stress intensity factors (SIF). Most practical …

Methane and other gases released from soft sediments are among the main sources of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In this paper, a growth model for isolated bubbles in …

Two advanced high-order smooth elliptical crack elements are developed. These elements
are implemented within the boundary element method (BEM) framework to model the closed …

This study presents normalized three-dimensional mixed-mode stress intensity factor (SIF)
distributions for inclined surface cracks in finite-thickness plates under uniaxial tension …

In this paper, we use the weight function for an elliptical crack embedded in an infinite elastic
media in conjunction with the alternating method to derive the exact analytical solution for …