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...

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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Jiang Y. "An effective fracture analysis method based on the virtual crack closure-integral technique implemented in CS-FEM", Applied Mathematical Modelling...

Jiang Y. "An effective fracture analysis method based on the virtual crack closure-integral technique implemented in CS-FEM", Applied Mathematical Modelling...

inventions are designed around the principle of using a "sledgehammer to crack a nut". Some of Wallace's contraptions are based on real-life inventions...

outside the diaphragm required to open the valve is known as the cracking pressure. This cracking pressure difference is usually negative relative to ambient...

October 2014 a new kind of crack in the graphite moderator bricks was found at the Hunterston B reactor. This keyway root crack has been previously theorised...

selling them out in exchange for her family's safety. Sebastian has to crack the safe in the lorry while Brad, Rolph, and Interpol pursue them. He succeeds...

Microcracks in rock, also known as microfractures and cracks, are spaces in rock with the longest length of 1000 μm and the other two dimensions of 10...

(AMC Empire 25) December 16, 2011 (official release) Scrat's Continental Crack-up: Part 2 Computer animation/Live action Fox 2000 Pictures Regency Enterprises...

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convicted—for their roles in the narcotics operation, which distributed crack cocaine, powdered cocaine, and marijuana in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Federal...

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...

company 20th Century Fox acquired by Disney in 2019, later the former's closure in 2021. He has also voiced the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise...