Investigating the Influence of Holes as Crack Arrestors in Simulating Crack Growth Behavior Using Finite Element Method

YA Fageehi, AM Alshoaibi - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
The primary focus of this paper is to investigate the application of ANSYS Workbench 19.2
software's advanced feature, known as Separating Morphing and Adaptive Remeshing …

Stress intensity factor evolution considering fracture process zone development of granite under monotonic and stepwise cyclic loading

S Miao, PZ Pan, W Hou, B He, P Yu - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2022 - Elsevier
Quasi-brittle materials like rocks may present mechanical non-linearity during cylic loading
due to the formation of fracture process zone (FPZ), which poses a challenging task for …

Determination of mode I fracture toughness of rocks with field fitting and J-integral methods

S Miao, PZ Pan, W Hou, M Li, Z Wu - Theoretical and Applied Fracture …, 2022 - Elsevier
Static fracture testing was performed on ISRM-suggested semi-circular bend (SCB)
specimens with a constant CMOD increment rate of 0.0002 mm· s− 1, and the digital image …

Experimental and Numerical Evaluation of Equivalent Stress Intensity Factor Models under Mixed-Mode (I+ II) Loading

E Gómez-Gamboa, JG Díaz-Rodríguez… - Infrastructures, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study determines the equivalent stress intensity factor (SIF) model that best fits the
experimental behavior of low-carbon steel under mixed modes (I and II). The study assessed …

Monotonic crack propagation in a notched polymer matrix composite reinforced with continuous fiber and printed by material extrusion

JG Díaz-Rodríguez, AD Pertúz-Comas… - Progress in Additive …, 2023 - Springer
The study presents the crack mouth opening and propagation of cracks in a composite
material printed by material extrusion subjected to monotonic loading. The composite …

LEFM crack path models evaluation under proportional and non-proportional load in low carbon steels using digital image correlation data

JG Díaz, JLF Freire - International Journal of Fatigue, 2022 - Elsevier
Crack path models were evaluated with experimentally obtained SIF for proportional and
non-proportional loading for plane and tubular ductile steel samples. For non-proportional …

Plastic Zone Radius Criteria for Crack Propagation Angle Evaluated with Experimentally Obtained Displacement Fields

JG Díaz-Rodríguez, AD Pertúz-Comas… - Buildings, 2024 - mdpi.com
The monitoring and maintenance of cracked structures are generally carried out using
structural integrity assessments. The plastic zone (PZ) crack path (CP) criteria state that a …

Fatigue crack growth of Al 5083-H111 subjected to mixed-mode loading

AR Shahani, I Shakeri, CD Rans - Journal of the Brazilian Society of …, 2020 - Springer
Fatigue is a major cause of failure in several industries, and in many practical cases, local
mixed-mode conditions prevail at the crack front. The effect of plane mode mixity on the …

Implementación de la Técnica de Correlación de Imágenes Digitales con Software Libre

JG Diaz-Rodríguez… - AiBi Revista de …, 2020 - revistas.udes.edu.co
Hoy en día, la medición experimental de esfuerzos se hace por medio de técnicas que
entregan campos completos de deformación o de la diagonal principal de una matriz de …

Identification of crack tip location using edge detection algorithms and artificially generated displacement fields

JG Díaz, DC Paez - … Conference on Advanced Engineering Theory and …, 2019 - Springer
The present paper shows a way to identify crack tip location (CTL) using edge detection
algorithms. Arbitrary crack tip coordinates were fed to Linear Elastic Facture mechanics …