Catastrophic failure of cranes is a potentially very dangerous event and has often fatal consequences. The failures of two cranes are discussed in this study. Both cranes have different designs, but common root causes have ...

The dynamic plastic response of a simply supported circular plate is analysed. Emphasis is given to the plate behaviour after it has broken free from the supports due to a local material failure. The theoretical rigid ...

Viscoplastic constitutive formulations are characterized by instantaneous tangent operators which do no exhibit degradation from the elastic properties. As a consequence Viscoplastic materials descriptions were often ...

The authors describe paroxismal epileptiform EEG abnormalities in patients with chronic renal failure. One patient presented paroxismal epileptiform abnormalities in the right parietal region which proceded partial ...

The authors describe paroxismal epileptiform EEG abnormalities in patients with chronic renal failure. One patient presented paroxismal epileptiform abnormalities in the right parietal region which proceded partial ...

This work focuses on the evaluation of temperature effects on concrete failure behavior and modes by means of a realistic thermodynamically consistent non-local poroplastic constitutive model, previously developed by the ...

Some new aspects of the continuum strong discontinuity approach (CSDA) to model material failure in geomaterials are addressed. A new global algorithm, for tracking multiple crack lines/surfaces in 2D/3D cases is proposed. ...

The methodology proposed in this research work explores the use of the straininjection concept in a combination of classical strain localization methods andembedded strong discontinuities, to remove the flaws (stress locking ...

The work focuses on the connections of strain localization modeling of material failure and discrete fracture mechanics. It is an attempt to give an answer to the old question of whether the finite element solutions of ...