Sentence examples for crack closer from inspiring English sources
It is assumed that, just before failure, the shear is resisted exclusively by the concrete flexural compression head at the critical section, placed at the tip of the shear crack closer to the support.
Analysis of the actual crack growth is hard to achieve using approaches such as cohesive zone element (CZE) and virtual crack closer technique (VCCT) due to the well-known fact that in these schemes the crack path has to be defined in advance.
But he was an empathetic observer, a strong joke writer, and, as Rainbow puts it, a natural "hustler," able to sell ideas and to crack closed systems.
Uniaxial tensile strength is 4.1 N/mm2, crack opening shear transfer coefficient is 0.3 and crack closing shear transfer coefficient is 0.95.
"That effectively bonds the crack closed," Dr. White said.
When the crack closes, compressive stresses normal to the crack can be transferred.
The epoxy expands at a rate greater than the concrete and the crack closes.
The experimental results indicated that the mixtures with CSA and CA showed favorable surface crack closing ability.
The increase in the residual load carrying capacity with increasing CMOD indicates that the steel fibers are effective in providing crack closing stresses with increasing crack opening.
The surface of a crack might be a distribution of asperities which progressively come into contact as the crack closes with pressure (Carlson and Gangi 1985).
Based upon the ΔPeff variation as a function of crack length, details of the crack closing behavior were further discussed.
