Engineering Against Fracture: Proceedings of the 1st Conference

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Ball-Burnishing and Roller-Burnishing to Improve Fatigue Performance of Structural Alloys....Pages 1-11
Dual Scale Fatigue Crack Monitoring Scheme Considering Random Material, Geometric and Load Characteristics....Pages 13-29
Exploitation of the TRIP Effect for the Development of Formable, Fracture and Fatigue Resistant Steels for Automotive Applications....Pages 31-40
Hybrid Metal Laminates for Low Weight Fuselage Structures....Pages 41-57
Multifunctional Materials Used in Automotive Industry: A Critical Review....Pages 59-70
Effect of Talc Filler Content on Poly(Propylene) Composite Mechanical Properties....Pages 73-80
Fracture Properties of Polypropylene Reinforced with Short Glass Fibres: The Influence of Temperature, Notch Length and Geometry....Pages 81-91
Influence of Width of Specimen on Tensile Properties of NiCo Thin Film....Pages 93-102
Dynamic Properties and Fatigue Failure of Aircraft Component....Pages 105-114
Investigation of the Fatigue Behaviour of the Structural Magnesium Alloy AZ31....Pages 115-124
Coulomb Failure Surfaces in Ductile Non Linear Elastic Materials....Pages 127-135
Effect of Stress on the Fire Reaction Properties of Polymer Composite Laminates....Pages 137-154
Investigation of Failure and Failure Progression in Stiffened Composite Structures....Pages 155-167
Next Generation Composite Aircraft Fuselage Materials under Post-crash Fire Conditions....Pages 169-181
Progressive Fracture Analysis of Planar Lattices and Shape-Morphing Kagome Structure....Pages 183-191
Fatigue Behavior of Non-crimp Fabrics....Pages 195-203
Fatigue Crack Growth Assessment of Corroded Aluminum Alloys....Pages 205-214
Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior under Spectrum Loading....Pages 215-233
Small Crack in a Simulated Columnar Polycrystalline Aggregate with Random 2D and 3D Lattice Orientations....Pages 235-247
Thermo-Mechanical Methods for Improving Fatigue Performance of Wrought Magnesium Alloys....Pages 249-257
Investigations on Fracture of Collector Copper Lamellas....Pages 261-273
The Regularities of Fatigue Crack Growth in Airframes Elements at Real Operation Conditions....Pages 275-287
Fracture in Electronics....Pages 291-304
Improving the Crashworthiness of Aluminium Rail Vehicles....Pages 305-317
Information Fusion in Ad hoc Wireless Sensor Networks for Aircraft Health Monitoring....Pages 319-326
Roll Forming of AHSS: Numerical Simulation and Investigation of Effects of Main Process Parameters on Quality....Pages 327-336
Dependency of Micro-mechanical Properties of Gold Thin Films on Grain Size....Pages 339-346
Fracture and Failure in Micro- and Nano-Scale....Pages 347-355
Local, Semilocal and Nominal Approaches to Estimate the Fatigue Strength of Welded Joints....Pages 357-368
Superficial Strength Properties Modification of 2024 Aluminum Specimens Subjected to Cyclic Loading, Detected by Nanoindentations....Pages 369-379
Characterisation of Residual Stresses Generated by Laser Shock Peening by Neutron and Synchrotron Diffraction....Pages 383-398
Dry Ice Blasting – Energy-Efficiency and New Fields of Application....Pages 399-409
Fatigue Life Improvement for Cruciform Welded Joint by Mechanical Surface Treatment using Hammer Peening and UNSM....Pages 411-419
The use of Ultrasonic Impact Treatment to Extend the Fatigue Life of Integral Aerospace Structures....Pages 421-430
Analysis of Crack Patterns Under Three-Dimensional Residual Stress Field....Pages 433-441
BEM Solutions of Crack Problems in Gradient Elasticity....Pages 443-453
Fracture Analysis of Medium Density Polyethylene....Pages 455-464
Buckling Evaluation in Case of Complicated Stress Condition....Pages 467-475
Comparison of Two Currently used and One Proposed Seismic Design Methods for Steel Structures....Pages 477-486
Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Failure Pressure of Valve Housing....Pages 487-497
Fracture Analysis of a Bolted Joint of a Large Pump Frame of a Desalination Plant....Pages 499-512
The Accurate Prediction of the Thermal Response of Welded Structures Based on the Finite Element Method: Myth or Reality?....Pages 513-529
Application of a Fracture Methodology for Studying the Mechanics that Govern Failure of Aluminum Structures....Pages 533-549
BEM Prediction of TBC Fracture Resistance....Pages 551-560
A Numerical Investigation of Fractured Sandwich Composites under Flexural Loading....Pages 563-571
Mechanical Properties and Failure Investigation of Metallic Open Lattice Cellular Structures....Pages 573-581