CLEAVAGE RUPTURE OF Ti ALLOY TC11 UNDER FATIGUE-CREEP INTERACTION

The cleavage rupture behaviour of the Ti alloy TC11 with various microstructures,i.e., equiaxed,duplex and interweaving,has been studied under fatigue-creep interaction at 520℃.It was found to be not only related to the rate of creep void initiating,but also control- led by the creep strain accumulation on holding under tension test and stress state at crack-tip.This seem to be combinably offected by both value of critic void initiating strain and parameter,V_(GC),of critic void growth.

The Effect of Initial Defects on Overall Mechanical Properties of Concrete Material

Considering the fact that the initial defects,like the imperfect interfacial transition zones(ITZ)and the micro voids in mortar matrix,weaken the mechanical properties of concrete,this study develops corresponding constitutive models for ITZ and matrix,and simulates the concrete failure with finite element methods.Specifically,an elastic-damage traction-separation model for ITZ is constructed,and an anisotropic plastic-damage model distinguishing the strength-difference under tension and compression for mortar matrix is proposed as well.In this anisotropic plastic-damage model,the weakening effect of micro voids is reflected by introducing initial isotropic damage,the distinct characteristic of tension and compression which described by decomposing damage tensor into tensile and compressive components,and the plastic yield surface which established on the effective stress space.Furthermore,by tracking the damage evolution of concrete specimens suffering uniaxial tension and compression,the effects of imperfect status of ITZ and volume fraction of initial voids on the concrete mechanical properties are investigated.

A method of determining nonlinear large strain consolidation parameters of dredged clays

A method of obtaining the large strain consolidation parameters of dredged clays considering the influence of the initial water content is investigated in this study. According to the test results of remolded clays with high initial water contents reported by Hong et al. （2010）, a relationship between the void ratio （e） and effective stress （a3 is established. Furthermore, based on the available permeability data from the literature, a new relationship between the permeability coefficient （k） and the ratio （e/eL） of the void ratio to the void ratio at the liquid limit （eL） is proposed. The new proposed expression considering the initial water content improves the e-k equation established by Nagaraj et al. （1994）. Finally, the influence of the initial void ratio and effective stress on the large strain consolidation coefficient g（e） defined by Gibson et al. （1981） and k/（1 ＋e） in large strain analysis is discussed. The results show that, under a constant effective stress, the value of k/（1 ＋e） increases with the initial void ratio. The large strain consolidation coefficient shows the law of segmentation change, which decreases with the increase of the effective stress when the effective stress is less than the remolded yield stress, but increases rapidly with the effective stress when the effective stress is larger than the remolded yield stress.

Initial Stable State of Ocean Floor Deposits

Extensive oedometer tests and physical tests have been conducted on remolded and reconstituted marine soils with different initial water contents and liquid limits. The oedometer test data can be well fitted with a straight line in the bilogarithmic ln(1+ e ) ～ lg p plot. The initial effective stress corresponding to the initial void ratio is determined by extrapolation of the bilogarithmic compression line. This new way of extrapolating oedometer test data to the initial void ratio overcomes the difficulty of measuring the residual effective stress of soils in the remolded state. The initial stable compression line of ocean floor deposits under different deposition environments corresponds to the compression line at the sensitivity equal to one. This initial stable compression line obtained in this study is consistent with the available compression line at the sensitivity equal to one which is proposed based on the experimental data of remolded undrained strength and the theoretical concept of Cam clay critical state line.