International Journal of Structural Integrity: Volume 13 Issue 2

High-cycle and very-high-cycle fatigue behavior of a stainless steel for air-conditioning compressor valve plates

Xu Jia, Yang Ou Xiang, Hu Yuan Pei, Song Wei

The investigations could guide the structural design and fatigue life prediction of air-conditioning compressor valve plates.

Research on anti-fatigue design method of welded structure oriented to stiffness coordination strategy

Chunliang Niu, Suming Xie, Tao Zhang

In order to obtain the relationship between the geometry and stress concentration of load-bearing welded joints, the fatigue design method of welded structures based on stiffness…

A study of wire tool surface topography and optimization of wire electro-spark machined UNS N06690 using the federated mode of RSM-ANN

Atul Raj, Joy Prakash Misra, Dinesh Khanduja, Vikas Upadhyay

The purpose of this study is to examine the postprocessed wire tool surface using scanning electron microscopy and find out the streamlined conditions of input process variables…

Effect of randomly dispersed short fibers on the flexural resistance factor of concrete beams reinforced with GFRP bars

Bashar Ramzi Behnam, Mohammed M. Mahmood Al-Iessa

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential design advantage in terms of resistance factors for normal weight concrete beams containing moderate-dose randomly…

Development of a photomicroscope method for in situ damage monitoring under ultrasonic fatigue test

Kai Tan, Victor Postel, Yujia Liu, Dongtong Yang, Sen Tang, Chong Wang, Qingyuan Wang

Mechanical issues related to the information and growth of small cracks are considered to play a major role in very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) for metallic materials. Further…

Evaluation and prediction of material fatigue characteristics under impact loads: review and prospects

Xintian Liu, Que Wu, Shengchao Su, Yansong Wang

The properties of materials under impact load are introduced in terms of metal, nonmetallic materials and composite materials. And the application of impact load research in…

Fracture properties of fibrous self compacting concrete using three-point bend test and wedge splitting test methods

B. Raja Rajeshwari, M.V.N. Sivakumar

Fracture properties of concrete are mainly influenced by specimen shape, size and type of testing method. The study aims to identify the characteristic divergence in fracture  

A reliability analysis strategy for main shaft of wind turbine using importance sampling and Kriging model

Le Ling, Yan Li, Sicheng Fu

When dealing with simple functional functions, traditional reliability calculation methods, such as the linear second-order moment and quadratic second ordered moment, Monte Carlo…

Prediction and evaluation of fatigue life considering material parameters distribution characteristic

Xintian Liu, Jiazhi Liu, Haijie Wang, Xiaobing Yang

To improve the accuracy of parameter prediction for small-sample data, considering the existence of error in samples, the error circle is introduced to analyze original samples.

Research on seismic performance of prefabricated concrete-filled steel tubular frame joints

Shufeng Li, Di Zhao, Yating Zhou

Concrete-filled steel tube structures are widely used for their high bearing capacity, good plasticity, good fire resistance and optimal seismic performance. In order to give full…