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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"abrupt failure"”.
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Design and Development of Damage-Tolerant Active Materials
… and can be prone to structural instabilities and abrupt failure. This thesis aims to enhance the damage tolerance of active materials by designing multi-phase composites incorporating secondary phases that can “proactively” divert damage into more benign forms. The specific focus is on fusion …
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Anti-plane Shear of Cylinders and Layered Systems: Cohesive Fracture and Instability
… process from incipient growth through complete failure. The anti-plane shear separation/slip process is assumed to be modeled by Needleman-type traction-separation relations (e.g., bilinear, Xu-Needleman, frictional) characterized by a shear cohesive strength, a characteristic force length and, …
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SIGNIFICANCE OF U-WRAP FRP SHEAR STRENGTHENING ON FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR OF RC BEAMS STRENGTHENED USING NEAR SURFACE MOUNTED FRP BARS
… than 60% of its ultimate capacity at RC beam failure by debonding of NSM-FRP from the surrounding adhesive. Here, a typical three-side FRP U-wrap using wet layup was employed to improve the shear strength of the RC beam. A test matrix of 25 beams was tested under static load to failure. Four …