Until a few years ago there had been no record of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) as a main cause of failures in Argentine pipelines, but as the pipeline system became of a certain age this mechanism started to have an ...

This book addresses the failures of structural elements, i.e. those components whose primary mission is to withstand mechanical loads. The book is intended as a self-contained source for those with different technical ...

In the present work, mechanical properties and failure modes of natural and synthetic fiber reinforced composite sandwich panels under three point bending were studied. Analytical models were developed in order to predict ...

Studies of structural reliability are very common in the analysis of a civil structure. When it comes to structures and mechanical designs the same concepts are not used as often to define the safety of equipment and ...

Detailed finite element models were developed to represent beam and column test frames comprising box sections connected together with innovative monolithic glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) cuff connections. Model ...