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... stress intensity factors and the direction and dominant mode of crack growth were determined from the crack-tip stresses. The effect of surface cracking on the evolution of plasticity in the second layer and the significance of topography (fractal) parameters on crack growth are interpreted in terms...

...Yung-Chuan Chen; Jao-Hwa Kuang This study employs an elastic-plastic finite element model to investigate the effect of oblique rail surface crack on the wheel-rail contact stress distribution under partial slip rolling conditions. Numerical simulations are performed to explore the effects...

...Z.-Q. Gong, Graduate Student; K. Komvopoulos, Professor, Fellow ASME Surface cracking in a multi-layered medium due to sliding of a rigid asperity was analyzed using linear elastic fracture mechanics and the finite element method. Overlapping of the crack faces and assumptions about...

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