... Viaduct. Focus is made on comparisons between experimental data and simulations results. Influence of vehicle speed on bridge response is also analyzed. 01 05 2012 25 06 2012 26 11 2012 orthotropic steel bridges deck bituminous materials viscoelasticity FEM Millau Viaduct...

... 2009 28 06 2010 10 08 2010 miniature specimen fracture toughness test yield strength tensile test FEM ABAQUS References Pandey , R. K. and Bhowmick , S. , “ Studies on Miniature Test Techniques for the Assessment of Residual Life ,” Proceedings of Trends...

... helicopter component. KEYWORDS: fatigue, crack, Al Li, experimental, FEM, helicopter frame Introduction The design of a helicopter airframe uses methods like damage tolerance and fail safe to increase the safety of the components and to optimize the strength and structural ef ciency, i.e., strength versus...

...Ling Cong; Jun Yang; Haoran Zhu; Juan Cui This paper establishes a finite element method (FEM) model to predict rutting development of a double-layered pavement system with stone mastic asphalt as its upper layer and mastic asphalt as its bottom layer, which is widely used in orthotropic steel...

... elastodynamics shape reconstruction inverse Born inversion inverse Kirchhoff inversion FEM References Bar-Cohen , Y. , “ Emerging NDT Technologies and Challenges at the Beginning of the Third Millennium, Part, 1 ,” Mater. Eval.   0025-5327 , Vol. 58 , No. 1 , 2000 , pp. 17 – 30...

.... The hoop strain at the bottom of the pipe is the critical design element, since it is the only pipe response that increases with the soil and pipe creep. KEY WORDS: vertical shafts, pipe, plastic, flexible, large-diameter, manhole, axisymmetric, FEM Nomenclature r Radius of cylinder or pipe 3', Total unit...