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Engineering Against Fracture

Proceedings of the 1st Conference

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  • Future technologies
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Table of contents (46 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Engineering Properties

    1. Effect of Talc Filler Content on Poly(Propylene) Composite Mechanical Properties

      • Lubomir Lapcik Jr., Pavlina Jindrova, Barbora Lapcikova
      Pages 73-80
    2. Influence of Width of Specimen on Tensile Properties of NiCo Thin Film

      • Jun -Hyub Park, Joong -Hyok An, Yun -Bae Jeon, Yun -Jae Kim, Yong -Hak Huh
      Pages 93-102
  3. Fatigue Damage Physics and Modeling

    1. Dynamic Properties and Fatigue Failure of Aircraft Component

      • Sergei Kuznetsov, Eriks Ozolinsh, IImars Ozolinsh, Igors Pavelko, Vitalijs Pavelko
      Pages 105-114
    2. Investigation of the Fatigue Behaviour of the Structural Magnesium Alloy AZ31

      • Spiros G. Pantelakis, Apostolos N. Chamos, Vasilis Spiliadis
      Pages 115-124
  4. Engineering Properties II

    1. Coulomb Failure Surfaces in Ductile Non Linear Elastic Materials

      • Nikos P. Andrianopoulos, Vassilios M. Manolopoulos, Ioannis T. Dernikas
      Pages 127-135
    2. Effect of Stress on the Fire Reaction Properties of Polymer Composite Laminates

      • A. E. Elmughrabi, A. M. Robinson, A. G. Gibson
      Pages 137-154
    3. Investigation of Failure and Failure Progression in Stiffened Composite Structures

      • Hans -G. Reimerdes, Sebastian Büsing
      Pages 155-167
    4. Next Generation Composite Aircraft Fuselage Materials under Post-crash Fire Conditions

      • Gaetano La Delfa, Johannes Luinge, Arthur Geoff Gibson
      Pages 169-181
  5. Fatigue Damage (Experimental)

    1. Fatigue Behavior of Non-crimp Fabrics

      • Peter Horst, Stephan Adden
      Pages 195-203
    2. Fatigue Crack Growth Assessment of Corroded Aluminum Alloys

      • Alexis Th. Kermanidis, Spiros G. Pantelakis
      Pages 205-214
    3. Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior under Spectrum Loading

      • Daniel Kujawski, Stoyan Stoychev
      Pages 215-233

About this book

Within the last thirty years there is a growing acknowledgement that prevention of catastrophic failures necessitates engagement of a large pool of expertise. Herein it is not excessive to seek advice from disciplines like materials science, structural engineering, mathematics, physics, reliability engineering and even economics. Today’s engineering goals, independently of size; do not have the luxury of being outsideaglobalperspective.Survivaloftheintegratedmarketsand?nancialsystems require a web of safe transportation, energy production and product manufacturing. It is perhaps the ?rst decade in engineering history that multidisciplinary - proaching is not just an idea that needs to materialise but has matured beyond infancy. We can witness such transition by examining engineering job descriptions and postgraduate curricula. The undertaking of organising a conference to re?ect the above was not easy and de?nitely, not something that was brought to life without a lot of work and c- st mitment. The 1 Conference of Engineering Against Fracture from its conceptual day until completion was designed in a way of underlying the need of bringing all the key players on a common ground that once properly cultivated can ?ourish. To achieve that the conference themes were numerous and despite their, in principle notional differences, it was apparent that the attendees established such common ground through argumentation. The reader can see this from the variety of research areas re?ected by the works and keynote lecturers presented.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Spiros Pantelakis, Chris Rodopoulos

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