This work deals with fatigue behaviour of cracked aircraft structural components under cyclic loads of constant amplitudes and load spectrum. This investigation is focused on developing efficient and reliable computational methods for fatigue life estimation of cracked aircraft lugs under cyclic loads of constant amplitude and load spectrum. For cr...

By Katarina Maksimovic, Slobodanka Boljanovic, Mina Djuric, Ivana Vasovic Maksimovic, Mirko Maksimovic

The onset of thermal instability in a dielectric rotating nanofluid layer saturating a porous medium with vertical AC electric field is investigated by employing Darcy model for porous medium. The rheology of the nanofluid is described by Walters’ (model B’) for calculating the shear stresses from the velocity gradients. The employed mo...

By Gian C. Rana, Poonam Gautam, Hemlata Saxena

A stress-strain history in the material of real concrete structures is usually unknown. An effect of concrete degradation is analyzed to describe how the initial degradation parameter can describe the stress-strain history. The idea is to introduce the initial damage of the structure by the degradation parameter to calculate the internal variables ...

By Dragan Rakić, Vladimir Dunić, Miroslav Živković, Nenad Grujović, Dejan Divac

In this paper, the effects of chemical reaction on unsteady MHD flow of viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid past an impulsively started oscillating vertical plate with variable temperature and constant mass diffusion in the presence of Hall current have been presented. The dimensionless governing partial differential equations of t...

By B. Prabhakar Reddy, Josephat Peter

The article proposed a general research scheme of heat transfer process in multilayer constructions for three basic geometric forms in order to simulate fire distribution. The scheme is based on linear differential equations, the Fourier method and the modified method of Eigen functions. The work considers five different layers’ design and do...

By Roman M. Tatsiy, Oleg Yu Pazen, Sergiy Ya. Vovk, Lubomyr Ya. Ropyak, Tetiana O. Pryhorovska

A Quick Adaptive Galerkin Finite Volume (QAGFV) solution of Cauchy momentum equations for plane elastic problems is presented in this research. A new damping coefficient is introduced to preserve the efficiency of the iterative pseudo-explicit solution procedure. It is shown that the numerical oscillations are not only effectively damped by the pro...

By Saeed Reza Sabbagh Yazdi, Tayebeh Amiri, Saeed Asil Gharebaghi

Improvement of the airfoil NACA 4415 aerodynamic performances by flow control using a passive technique was achieved in this study. Gothic-shaped vortex generators were added at the profile upper surface. Vortex Generators (VG) were used to avoid boundary layer separation at the profile trailing edge, thus reducing the drag force and improving aero...

By Hocine Hares, Ghazali Mebarki, Mourad Brioua, Mahieddine Naoun

The present investigation represents a study on the effects of heat and mass transfer flow in the presence of couple stress coefficient, heat source parameter, radiation parameter, chemical reaction parameter and Schmidt number using nanofluids over a stretching sheet. The governing partial differential equations are reduced to ordinary differentia...

By Meruva Parvathi, Appikatla Leela Ratnam, Malaraju Chengal Raju

During the total or partial hip replacement procedure, a damaged part of the hip joint is replaced with an artificial one. Both types of procedures include removal and replacement of the femoral head. After the femoral head is removed, an implant is inserted into the hollow femur. When the healing process starts, the newly formed bone interlocks wi...

By Aleksandra Vulovic, Nenad Filipovic

This research deals with the study of the irreversibility of three-dimensional mixed convection flow in an inclined duct with step. To reach this goal, an analysis of entropy generation is carried out according to the second law of thermodynamics. The effects of buoyancy force on the flow irreversibility are analyzed with all details. The results s...

By Meysam Atashafrooz, Tahereh Asadi