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de Jonge, Christa P. (author), Kolken, H.M.A. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)The concept of "mechanical metamaterials" has become increasingly popular, since their macro-scale characteristics can be designed to exhibit unusual combinations of mechanical properties on the micro-scale. The advances in additive manufacturing (AM, three-dimensional printing) techniques have boosted the fabrication of these mechanical...review 2019
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Panjeh Shahi, E. (author)Hollow sections are most suitable for welded connections between members. The welding procedure is fairly straightforward in RHS, because they do not require profiling which is necessary for circular hollow sections. Although many multiplanar and uniplanar joints in structures are present, limited evidence is available for the fatigue behaviour...journal article 1995
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Zarouchas, D. (author), van Diën, C.C.J. (author), Eleftheroglou, N. (author)This paper presents the results for an experimental campaign of in-situ impact during tension-tension fatigue loading for open-hole carbon fibre reinforced polymer specimens. High-speed low energy impact was introduced to the specimen with the use of a canon, which was attached to testing bench enabling the impact without the need to remove...journal article 2021
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Pedrosa, Bruno (author), Correia, José (author), Rebelo, Carlos (author), Veljkovic, M. (author), Gervásio, Helena (author)All over the world, the number of civil engineering structures, particularly bridges with long service periods, has been increasing. The most common evidences of damages are the presence of corroded metallic elements and cracks in structural details due to the fatigue phenomenon. A large number of cases were found in which fatigue cracks were...journal article 2021
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Rajpal, D. (author), Mitrotta, F.M.A. (author), Socci, C.A.M. (author), Sodja, J. (author), Kassapoglou, C. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)The aim of the paper is to experimentally validate a numerical design methodology for optimizing composite wings subject to gust and fatigue loading requirements and to assess the effect of fatigue on the aeroelastic performance of the wing. Traditionally, to account for fatigue in composite design, a knockdown factor on the maximum stress...journal article 2021
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Wardenier, J. (author), de Vries, P.A. (author), Timmerman, Gerrit (author)This paper is part of an evaluation of fatigue cracks in a crane runway girder with full penetration welds between the web and flange. The fatigue analysis of this actual crane runway girder is described in [1]. The investigation described in this paper deals with additional experimental tests on equivalent welded I sections on scale of...journal article 2017
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Gan, Y. (author), Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Liang, M. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), van Breugel, K. (author), Šavija, B. (author)In this study, a numerical model using a 2D lattice network is developed to investigate the fatigue behaviour of cement paste at the microscale. Images of 2D microstructures of cement pastes obtained from XCT tests are used as inputs and mapped to the lattice model. Different local mechanical and fatigue properties are assigned to different...journal article 2021
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Hageman, R.B. (author), van der Meulen, F.H. (author), Rouhan, A. (author), Kaminski, M.L. (author)In order to obtain valuable information from an Hull Structure Monitoring system, a large data set and consistent analysis of that data is required. The monitoring requires significant efforts over multiple years and as a result, uncertainties obtained from in-service measurements are rarely published. Instead, researchers have to rely on...journal article 2022
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Kolken, H.M.A. (author), Garcia, A. Fontecha (author), Plessis, A. Du (author), Meynen, A. (author), Rans, C.D. (author), Scheys, L. (author), Mirzaali, Mohammad J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)The fatigue performance of additively manufactured auxetic meta-biomaterials made from commercially pure titanium has been studied only recently. While certain assumptions have been made regarding the mechanisms underlying their fatigue failure, the exact mechanisms are not researched yet. Here, we studied the mechanisms of crack formation...journal article 2022
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Salvati, Enrico (author), Tognan, Alessandro (author), Laurenti, L. (author), Pelegatti, Marco (author), De Bona, Francesco (author)Defects in additively manufactured materials are one of the leading sources of uncertainty in mechanical fatigue. Fracture mechanics concepts are useful to evaluate their influence, nevertheless, these approaches cannot account for the real morphology of defects. Preliminary attempts to exploit a more comprehensive description of defects can...journal article 2022
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Trabal, Guillem Gall (author), Bak, Brian Lau Verndal (author), Chen, B. Y. (author), Carreras, Laura (author), Lindgaard, Esben (author)A novel efficient numerical formulation for the analysis of multiple fatigue-driven delamination cracks is presented. A cohesive zone model is used in combination with an Adaptive Refinement Scheme (ARS) and an Adaptive Floating Node Method (A-FNM) element that refine the model effectively during the analysis. Novel techniques are proposed to...journal article 2022
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Liao, D.L. (author), Zhu, Shun Peng (author), Correia, J.H.G. (author), De Jesus, Abílio M.P. (author), Veljkovic, M. (author), Berto, Filippo (author)Wind, as a sustainable and affordable energy source, represents a strong alternative to traditional energy sources. However, wind power is only one of the options, together with other renewable energy sources. Consequently, the core concerns for wind turbine manufacturers and operators are to increase its reliability and decrease costs,...journal article 2022
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Bufalari, G. (author), den Besten, J.H. (author), Kaminski, M.L. (author)The response of maritime structures can be multiaxial, involving predominant mode-I and non-negligible mode-III components. Adopting a stress distribution formulation based effective notch stress as fatigue strength parameter for mixed mode-{I, III} multiaxial fatigue assessment purposes, a mode-I equivalent von Mises type of failure...journal article 2024
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Schrijvershof, Pim (author), Rahimi, A. Masie (author), Leone, Nicola (author), Bloemendaal, Alexander (author), Daams, Freek (author), Arezzo, Alberto (author), Mintz, Yoav (author), Horeman, T. (author)Surgeons performing robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery experience physical stress and overuse of shoulder muscles due to sub-optimal arm support during surgery. The objective is to present a novel design and prototype of a dynamic arm support for robotic laparoscopic surgery to evaluate its ergonomics and performance on the AdLap-VR...journal article 2024
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Yao, Liaojun (author), Wang, Jiexiong (author), He, Yonglyu (author), Zhao, Xiuhui (author), Chen, Xiangming (author), Liu, J. (author), Guo, Licheng (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author)Fatigue delamination growth (FDG) is an important failure in composite structures during their long-term operations. Hygrothermal aging can have significant effects on interlaminar resistance. It is therefore really necessary to explore FDG behavior in composite laminates with hygrothermal aging. Dynamic mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA),...journal article 2024
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Kolken, H.M.A. (author), Garcia, A. Fontecha (author), Du Plessis, A. (author), Rans, C.D. (author), Mirzaali, Mohammad J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Meta-biomaterials offer a promising route towards the development of life-lasting implants. The concept aims to achieve solutions that are ordinarily impossible, by offering a unique combination of mechanical, mass transport, and biological properties through the optimization of their small-scale geometrical and topological designs. In this...journal article 2021
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Olivier, G. (author), Csillag, Fruzsina (author), Tromp, Elisabeth (author), Pavlovic, M. (author)As traffic loads are ever increasing and bridge infrastructure is ageing, existing materials and connection methods used in renovation and new construction projects are reaching their limits. New materials, such as Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) in the form of hollow decks can be a competitive solution due to good resistance to fatigue and...journal article 2021
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Olivier, G. (author), Csillag, Fruzsina (author), Tromp, Elisabeth (author), Pavlovic, M. (author)Due to constantly increasing traffic loads and ageing infrastructure, innovative materials for implementation in renovation and new bridge construction projects are gaining attention. One such innovation is hybrid structures consisting of Glass Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) composite decks connected to a steel girder(s) superstructure. By...journal article 2021
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Galanopoulos, Georgios (author), Milanoski, Dimitrios (author), Eleftheroglou, N. (author), Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author)An increasing interest for Structural Health Monitoring has emerged in the last decades. Acoustic emission (AE) is one of the most popular and widely studied methodologies employed for monitoring, due to its capabilities of detecting, locating and capturing the evolution of damage. Most literature so far, has employed AE for characterizing...journal article 2023
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Kleiberg, T.N.J. (author), Tieleman, Orson (author), Versluis, Marco (author), Kortlever, Wim (author), ten Oever, Erik (author), Hofland, Bas (author)This paper presents a novel design method to predict fatigue of flood gates due to dynamic wave loading. The accumulation of fatigue damage is predicted probabilistically over the entire lifetime of the structure rather than with a set of normative events. Load events are defined using a joint probability distribution of historical wind and...journal article 2022