Crack closure is a phenomenon in fatigue loading, where the opposing faces of a crack remain in contact even with an external load acting on the material...

stress state at the crack tip, the lack of crack closure associated with short cracks and the large plastic zone in comparison to the crack length. In addition...

valid for cracks that grow in any direction. Nevertheless, for a two-dimensional crack that does indeed grow straight ahead, the crack closure integral...

increased rate of crack growth. This effect is often explained using the crack closure concept which describes the observation that the crack faces can remain...

residents.[citation needed] In some cases, enraged citizens have burned crack houses to the ground, in hopes that by destroying the sites for drug operations...

stress ratio, as does the Elber equation by modelling the effect of crack closure. The Paris–Erdogan equation holds over the mid-range of growth rate...

amplitude loading effects in crack growth using a crack closure model. The program uses a strip yield model of the crack tip that was first proposed by...

expansion. Autogenous healing of cementitious materials influences crack self-closure and, subsequently, durability and physical-mechanical performance...

used as benchmarks for new crack stress analysis methods. He developed the theory for predicting plasticity induced crack closure and software Fastran, which...

This means that cases involving multiple out-of-phase load inputs, or crack closure can be treated with high accuracy. Additionally, critical plane analysis...

loading cycle when contact between the opposite crack faces occurs in order to measure crack closure. Applied test loads are usually monitored on the...

treatments such as virtual crack closure techniques and remeshing to determine crack paths. In contrast, approaches using a diffuse crack representation retain...

(closure, Fastran, Hsu, Wheeler, and Generalized Willenborg), a strain-life based fatigue crack initiation model, and the ability to perform a crack growth...

High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell is a 1995 American documentary film directed by Richard Farrell, Maryann DeLeo and Jon Alpert. It was a co-production...

Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon (formerly known as Starchaser and Nightmare at Phantom Cave) was a twister roller coaster at Great Escape amusement park...

The Cretto di Burri (crack of Burri) or Cretto di Gibellina (crack of Gibellina), also known as "Il Grande Cretto (The Great Crack)", is a landscape artwork...

2020 Hall of Honor. On February 27, 2014, the stadium was closed due to cracking in concrete making it unsafe to use. All scheduled events were canceled...

applies compressive stress at the crack tip to prevent crack propagation as well as closure tractions at the crack wake. From another point of view, the...

Matthias (1 October 2010). "Mapping Ancient Germania: Berlin Researchers Crack the Ptolemy Code". Der Spiegel – via Spiegel Online. Verg, Erich; Verg,...

Beard, Mary (2014), Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press,...

Principal Himbry is murdered in his office. To celebrate the school's closure, Stu Macher, Tatum's boyfriend, hosts a party at his secluded home. Dewey...

Retrieved 28 August 2019. Beakley, Fred R. (4 February 2016). "CargoMetrics Cracks the Code on Shipping Data". Institutional Investor (magazine). Archived...

other days the museum was open only to artists and foreigners, except for closure on Mondays.: 39  That changed in 1855 when the museum became open to the...

raised by his grandmother, Ida Mae; his parents experienced addictions to crack cocaine, and as a child, he would only see them every few weeks. Thornton...

the cornice of the peristyle of the inner dome to prevent spreading and cracking. The Warrant Design showed external buttresses on the ground floor level...

surfaced that the crack had likely existed since August 2016. An emergency contract to repair the beam was awarded six days after the closure, and the bridge...

of business or residential premises. Similar to the Part 1 Order (Crack house closure order), it became an offence to remain in or re-enter the premises...

metallic tungsten. Tungsten carbide rings are brittle, however, and may crack under a sharp blow. The hardness and heat resistance of tungsten can contribute...

the global 'war on terrorism' gives these governments both the freedom to crack down on them without fear of international condemnation, and in some cases...

(13 December 2018). "Pastor Charged with 'Inciting Subversion' as China Cracks Down on Churches". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 15...