The paper gives an overview on safe life and damage tolerance methods applied to railway
axles. It describes failure scenarios due to fatigue crack initiation and propagation. Besides …

Damage tolerance design approach such as the fatigue crack propagation approach
provides a more realistic solution for fatigue problems in concrete to overcome the …

Quasibrittle (or brittle heterogeneous) materials are becoming increasingly important for
modern engineering. They include concretes, rocks, fiber composites, tough ceramics, sea …

This work investigates the macroscopic thermomechanical behavior of lunar boulders by
modeling their response to diurnal thermal forcing. Our results reveal a bimodal …

This paper presents a comprehensive set of size effect experiments on fatigue crack kinetics
for Berea sandstone. It is observed that for all specimens the Paris-Erdogan law is …

A computational framework to model fatigue fracture in structures based on the phase-field
method and the solid-shell concept is herein presented. With the aim of achieving a locking …

To evaluate the residual fracture toughness and fracture energy of concrete with different
strengths after fatigue loading, the static, fatigue, and fatigue-static tests were conducted on …

The size effect on the compressive fatigue behaviour of fibre-reinforced concrete is herein
studied by testing cubes of 40 mm, 80 mm and 150 mm in edge length. Even though the …

This work investigated how the structure size affects the quasi‐static and fatigue behaviors
of graphene polymer nanocomposites, a topic that has been often overlooked. The results …

In this paper we describe the potential of employing the concept of thermodynamic entropy
generation to assess degradation in processes involving metal fatigue. It is shown that …