Sentence examples for elementary damage from inspiring English sources

The tensile fatigue behaviour of UHPFRC is analysed based on elementary damage mechanics theory.

Elementary damage mechanics is used to relate the measured rate of damage accumulation to the foam's tensile failure strain.

Damage processes at the micro and mesoscale are fully described in order to extract the elementary damage mechanisms, their sequence and kinetics.

A simple model for describing the competition between interface decohesion and particle cracking as the elementary damage nucleation mechanisms in heterogeneous materials is proposed.

From observations it is clearly evidenced that cavitation plays a major role in the fatigue damage process as it triggers all elementary damage mechanisms observed at the microscale.

More precisely, a special attention is here paid to the respective role of surface finishing and environmental effects on the elementary damage stages, namely crack initiation and crack propagation.

These elementary fatigue damage patterns are investigated at the microscopic scale by distinguishing crack initiation and crack growth.

At this scale, five elementary fatigue damage patterns are defined, three correspond to external macroscopic cracks and two correspond to internal macroscopic cracks.

As an example, the proposed framework is applied to identify the material parameters of the elementary ply damage mesomodel developed at LMT-Cachan.

At the scale of the Representative Elementary Volume (REV), damage is obtained by integrating crack densities over the unit sphere, which represents all possible crack plane orientations.

The discrete elementary equations of continuum damage mechanics are derived from the action functional.