International Journal of Structural Integrity: Volume 4 Issue 4

Fatigue modelling of aluminium plates reinforced with bonded fibre metal laminates

Jeremy Doucet, Xiang Zhang, Philip Irving

This paper aims to present the implementation of a finite element (FE) model used to establish crack and delamination development in a Glare reinforced aluminium plate under…

Retardation of fatigue crack growth in aircraft aluminium alloys via laser heating: Simulation-based design optimisation

Dirk Schnubel, Manfred Horstmann, Norbert Huber

While normally the formation of thermally induced residual stresses is seen mainly as detrimental side effect from production processes like welding or casting, the well-directed…

Finite element crack propagation analysis of shear loaded buckling panels

Julia Bierbaum, Peter Horst

In former work, test results of cracks in aluminium panels under cyclic shear buckling showed that cracks in the tensile stress field of a buckle propagate. The main influencing…

Safety factors in structural integrity assessment of components with defects

Yury Matvienko

The purpose of this paper is to develop basic principles of deterministic structural integrity assessment of a component with a crack- or notch-like defect by including safety…

Bounds on the compression buckling strength of hygro-thermally curvature-stable laminate with extension-twisting coupling

Mohd Hafizi Shamsudin, Jingjing Chen, Christopher B. York

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the buckling strength of simply supported plates with mechanical extension-twisting coupling. Bounds of the compression buckling…

Fatigue crack propagation behavior in railway steels

Daniel Peixoto, Luis Andrade Ferreira

The present paper aims to characterize the fatigue crack propagation behavior of wheel and rail steels, in particular the AVE wheel steel and an UIC60 rail steel, including…

Special issue: 1st International Conference of the IJSI, Porto, Portugal, June 25-28, 2012

P.M.S.T. de Castro, Sergio M.O. Tavares