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Ghaderiaram, A. (author), Mohammadi, R. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Fotouhi, M. (author)Engineering structures, such as bridges, wind turbines, airplanes, ships, buildings, and offshore platforms, often experience uncertain dynamic loadings due to environmental factors and operational conditions. The lack of knowledge about the load spectrum for these structures poses challenges in terms of design and can lead to either over...journal article 2024
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Shakeri, I. (author), Wu, W. (author), Michel, Alexander (author), Eder, Martin A. (author)The present study proposes a novel model to modify master S-N curves of components according to their load redistribution capability reflected in different boundary conditions (BCs) based on the fracture mechanics analysis. To that end, a comprehensive numerical study was conducted on a Single Edge Notch Bend (SENB) specimen constrained with...journal article 2024
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Kazmi, Syed Baqir Ali (author)This dissertation endeavors to introduce a novel supervised Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) methodology for the detection of damage and the prediction of fatigue life in asphalt concrete materials. Grounded in the principles of S-N (strain-number of cycles until failure) curves, this research addresses the intricate task of proficiently...master thesis 2023
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Poliakov, Mykyta (author)Fibre Metal Laminates (FMLs) have been widely utilised in aircraft structures for their specific strength, durability and damage tolerance. Most aircraft structures, due to their size, require joining, and FMLs allow for a special type of joint called the splice, a unique but a lesser known joint.<br/><br/>The bulk of research into the splice...master thesis 2023
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Erkens, S. (author)This study aims to propose critical fatigue indicators for evaluating the restoration effectiveness of various rejuvenators on the fatigue performance of aged bitumen. The influence factors of rejuvenator type/dosage and aging degree of bitumen are involved, and different fatigue parameters from linear viscoelastic (LVE), linear amplitude sweep ...journal article 2023
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Sun, Renjuan (author), Han, Lebing (author), Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Ge, Zhi (author), Guan, Yanhua (author), Ling, Yifeng (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)This paper presents a study on cracking characterization of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) under flexural cyclic load using digital image correlation (DIC) technique. Five stress levels, namely 0.65, 0.75, 0.8, 0.85 and 0.9 of the flexural strength, were applied. Strain map at the side surface was obtained by DIC and used to drive...journal article 2022
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Theodoridis, Giannis (author)Structural health monitoring of maritime and offshore structures can contribute to the reduction of the amount of uncertainty in assessment of the operational loads and the structural integrity. Such a survey can also reduce the large safety margins during the design and optimize the conservative inspection and maintenance schedules. One of the...master thesis 2021
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Yousefi, Armin (author), Serjouei, Ahmad (author), Hedayati, R. (author), Bodaghi, Mahdi (author)In the present study, the fatigue behavior and tensile strength of A6061-T4 aluminum al-loy, joined by friction stir spot welding (FSSW), are numerically investigated. The 3D finite element model (FEM) is used to analyze the FSSW joint by means of Abaqus software. The tensile strength is determined for FSSW joints with both a probe hole and a...journal article 2021
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Yousefi, Armin (author), Jolaiy, Saman (author), Hedayati, R. (author), Serjouei, Ahmad (author), Bodaghi, Mahdi (author)Bonded patches are widely used in several industry sectors for repairing damaged plates, cracks in metallic structures, and reinforcement of damaged structures. Composite patches have optimal properties such as high strength‐to‐weight ratio, easiness in being applied, and high flexibility. Due to recent rapid growth in the aerospace industry,...journal article 2021
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Liu, Zhiping (author), Li, Z. (author), Huang, Chuanhai (author), Jiang, X. (author)In this paper, we implement the combined method of drilling stop hole and FRP reinforcement to repair cracked steel plates subjected to cyclic tension. The crack initiation and growth are experimentally investigated. The stress distribution at the stop hole and the residual fatigue life are evaluated by the FEM. The effects on prolonging...journal article 2021
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Xu, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Tabakovic, A. (author), Schlangen, E. (author)Self-healing asphalt, which is designed to achieve autonomic damage repair in asphalt pavement, offers a great life-extension prospect and therefore not only reduces pavement maintenance costs but also saves energy and reduces CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. The combined asphalt self-healing system, incorporating both encapsulated rejuvenator and...journal article 2021
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Xiao, Hong (author), Yan, Dongwei (author), Liu, Guangpeng (author), Wang, Haoyu (author)High-speed railways adopt continuous welded rail to maintain the smoothness and continuity of the rail surface. However, the welded joint became one of the weakest parts. In order to clear the characteristics and mechanical properties of the new reinforced device, a dynamic three-dimensional vehicle-reinforced device-track coupling model is...journal article 2020
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van der Wateren, Maarten (author)Currently the transport & planning (transport & logistics) group from Royal HaskoningDHV makes their pre-design for steel orthotropic bridge decks by using rules of thumb and experience. In the final design-stage this is verified whereby the force distribution is checked with the help of 3D finite element software (FEM). In this stage...student report 2019
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Milaković, Aleksandar-Saša (author), Braun, Moritz (author), Willems, Tom (author), Hendrikse, H. (author), Fischer, Claas (author), Ehlers, Sören (author)Due to increasing trend of building offshore wind turbines (OWTs) in seas at high latitudes where seasonal sea ice occurs, novel methods for design of such structures are needed. Specifically, the effect of ice-induced vibrations (IIVs) on fatigue life of the structures is currently poorly understood. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to...conference paper 2019
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Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)A new constant life diagram (CLD) model is proposed to predict the fatigue life of carbon fibre-reinforced epoxy laminates under constant amplitude (CA) loading. The CLD is asymmetric and non-linear, and it is built upon the anisomorphic CLD model. It consists of two sub-models; one sub-model is applicable to laminates with lay-ups...journal article 2019
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Xin, H. (author), Veljkovic, M. (author)The assessment of fatigue crack initiation behavior of steel structures is essential and important especially to improve the application of high strength steel in construction. For a complete understanding of fatigue endurance, it is necessary to combine the phenomenological damage model with finite element numerical approach. In this paper,...journal article 2019
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Broer, Agnes (author)Fatigue life prediction models, used in the design and analysis of cyclic loaded structures, often require experimental data in order to interpolate or extrapolate fatigue behaviour to different loading conditions. Due to scatter in fatigue life data, as well as model input requirements of several S-N curves, large numbers of experimental tests...master thesis 2018
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Xin, L. (author)Railway turnouts are important components of railway infrastructure as they provide flexibility and guidance to the rail traffic. Because of geometrical discontinuities in the crossing area of the turnouts, high impact forces due to passing wheels acting on the crossing nose can occur. In the field, severe rail damage problems are found in...doctoral thesis 2017
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de Krijger, Joep (author), Rans, C.D. (author), Van Hooreweder, B.S.K. (author), Lietaert, Karel (author), Pouran, B. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Additively manufactured (AM) porous metallic biomaterials are considered promising candidates for bone substitution. In particular, AM porous titanium can be designed to exhibit mechanical properties similar to bone. There is some experimental data available in the literature regarding the fatigue behavior of AM porous titanium, but the...journal article 2017
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Dekker, S.H. (author), Wurzel, G. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author)Fatigue life is a random variable. The reliability of a conservative fatigue life prediction for a component in the helicopter dynamic system thus needs to be substantiated. A standard analytical substantiation method uses averaged manoeuvre loads instead of seeing manoeuvre loads as a random variable whose distribution is estimated with limited...journal article 2016