...Yinglong Chen; Thomas Siegmund The tearing response of sheets of nonwoven fiber material is investigated. It addresses the question on how notch length and notch geometry is related to the tearing strength and tearing processes. The system considered consists of elastic-brittle fibers connected...

... on hardness, tensile strength, and corrosion rate was investigated. The Tafel extrapolation method was carried out to determine the corrosion rates of AA6061 and AA7075 base metals and AA6061–AA7075 joints. Increasing heat input was found to be detrimental for both mechanical properties and corrosion...

... metallurgy processed gradient concentrated alloy particles showed an excellent level of hardness, strength, ductility, and fracture toughness in their bulk form, which was even much higher when compared with unalloyed magnesium. Despite having gradient solid solution structure, the developed alloy particles...

... the effect on strengths/behavior of the CSS samples due to embedded PFCS. Then carefully planned experiments are conducted to investigate the ability of the embedded PFCS to monitor the stress/strain levels and detect damages in CSS using modal analysis technique. The tensile tests show that both the average...

.... Characterization studies conducted on the extruded samples revealed that the increasing presence of SiC particles at nanolength scale did not affect the 0.2% yield strength but increased ultimate tensile strength and work of fracture. Most interestingly, the presence of SiC nanoparticles increased the uniform...