Construction operations in cold regions may encounter frozen geomaterials. In construction, it is important to understand the processes by which geomaterials fail under common loading conditions to avoid accidents and work efficiently. In this work,...
Surrounding rock and lining are composite structures with asymmetric mechanical properties. Understanding the mechanical properties and failure characteristics of rock–concrete composites is crucial for gaining insights into the mechanisms that...
The TC/BC interface morphology in APS TBC is one of the important factors leading to crack propagation and coating failure. Long cracks are found near the bulge on the TC/BC interface. In this study, the TBC model with the bulge on the interface is d...
Hydraulic fracture height growth in thin sandstone–mudstone interbeds is often limited by bedding interface failure and multi-cluster stress interference. In this study, a coupled fracture–matrix interface finite element model was develop...
Achieving high-strength welding joint of aluminum to steel is a highly pressing and challenging task in the manufacturing industries, and friction stir lap welding (FSLW) has advantages for joining these two metals. To further heighten the strength o...
Rock–fill composite slopes formed during the transition from underground to open-pit mining in metal mines are highly susceptible to interface hydraulic weakening and sudden sliding under intense rainfall, mainly due to the permeability contras...
Damage in the bonding interface is a significant factor that leads to premature failure of dental bonded restorations. The imperfectly bonded dentin-adhesive interface is susceptible to hydrolytic degradation and bacterial and enzyme attack, severely...
Birmingham hip resurfacing (BHR) is an alternative to bone-sparing total hip arthroplasty; however, failures may be associated with the cementing technique. This study aimed to evaluate the characteristics of the cement layer and potential failure me...
Cement is always used in underground construction to reinforce and improve soft clay, resulting in the formation of a cemented soil–concrete interface. It is of great importance to study interface shear strength and failure mechanisms. So, in o...
The failure or debonding of CEIs (Concrete-Epoxy Interfaces) in Fiber-Reinforced Polymer concrete (FRP) systems occurs in one or a combination of three modes: CC (Cohesive failure in Concrete), CE (Cohesive failure in Epoxy), and IF (Interfacial Fail...
Many high-strength composite materials have been developed for aircraft structures. GLAss fiber REinforced aluminum (GLARE) is one of the high-performance composites. The review of articles, however, yielded no study on the impact damage of heated GL...
Carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) are widely used in aerospace and wind power applications, but the complex failure mechanisms of their connection structures pose challenges for connection design. This study aims to investigate the influence o...
Shell is a typical biomineralized inorganic–organic composite material. The essence of scallop deshelling is caused by the fracture failure at the interface of the organic and inorganic–organic matter composites. The constitutive equation...
Failure analysis of the dam-foundation interface in concrete dams is characterized by complexity, uncertainties on models and parameters, and a strong non-linear softening behavior. In practice, these uncertainties are dealt with a well-structured mi...
Background: Post–core bonding plays a critical role in restoration longevity, and both the post surface treatment and core composite polymerization mode may influence interfacial performance. Methods: This in vitro study evaluated the effect of...
The interface failure modes between fibers and asphalt mastic exhibit complex and diverse morphologies under the influence of multiple factors, making cluster analysis difficult. To address this issue, this study proposes an improved growth curve mix...
Cardiovascular disease is traditionally interpreted through macrocirculatory parameters such as cardiac output, vascular resistance, and epicardial coronary anatomy. However, clinical outcomes frequently diverge from predictions based solely on these...
Waterborne coating is the most popular type of coating, and improving its performance is a key point of research. Cathodic delamination is one of the major modes of failure for organic coatings. It refers to the weakening or loss of adhesion between...
Soil-rock composite strata are frequently encountered during shield tunneling for underground projects such as metros, railways, and other underground building facilities. The strong heterogeneity and abrupt variations in soil and rock mechanical pro...
Remanufacturing damaged components with high-performance materials often produces heterogeneous coating–substrate interfaces, which can substantially influence the rolling contact fatigue performance of repaired components. In this study, the f...
Transversely isotropic rocks are commonly encountered in rock engineering practices, and their strength and failure behavior is often governed by the property of anisotropy. The particle flow modeling method was utilized to investigate the failure me...
Due to their excellent ductility and crack-control ability, engineered cementitious composites (ECCs) combined with shaped steel can produce steel-reinforced engineering cementitious composite (SRECC) structures which exhibit significant advantages i...
Fiber-reinforced resin matrix composites are generally composed of fibers and matrix with significantly different properties, which are non-uniform and anisotropic in nature. Macro-failure criteria generally view composite plies as a uniform whole an...
Sulfide solid electrolytes (SSEs) are promising for all-solid-state lithium batteries (ASSLBs) due to their high ionic conductivity, mechanical deformability, and interfacial compatibility. However, SSE interfaces with anodes, cathodes, conductive ad...
The interface between asphalt and aggregate acts as a key link in load transfer and damage development; its shear mechanical behaviour has a decisive influence on the fatigue cracking and durability of bituminous pavements. In this study, SBS-modifie...
Interface slip is one of the main failure forms of an anchor structure, but the debonding slip process of rockbolt cannot be directly observed under impact load, so it is important to study the failure mechanism of the interface debonding of an ancho...
To investigate the fracture mechanism of rock–concrete (R–C) systems with an interface crack, Brazilian splitting tests were conducted, with a focus on understanding the influence of the interface crack angle on failure patterns, energy e...
The spray-applied pipe lining (SAPL) method, extensively employed in the trenchless rehabilitation of reinforced concrete pipes (RCPs) due to its operational versatility, remains constrained by an incomplete understanding of the failure behavior of r...
The durability of reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) is a worldwide concern in structural engineering. As an important part of the strengthened beam, the performance of the CFRP–concrete inte...
Macroscopic fatigue tests, mesoscopic finite element simulations, and microscopic molecular dynamics simulations were composed to study the damage and failure of drainage asphalt mixtures in multiscale. The applicability of the fatigue models fit by...
Layered transition-metal oxides (NaxTMO2) are among the most promising cathode candidates for sodium-ion batteries, yet their interfacial degradation under high voltage, deep desodiation, and humid environments remains the central bottleneck to comme...
Nanoindentation simulations are performed for a Ni(111) bi-crystal, in which the grain boundary is coated by a graphene layer. We study both a weak and a strong interface, realized by a
This study presents a new interface for wellbore stability analysis, which visualizes and quantifies the stress condition around a wellbore at shear and tensile failure. In the first part of this study, the Mohr–Coulomb, Mogi–Coulomb, mod...
Biofilms are self-organized microbial communities embedded in a self-produced matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). Usually studied as biofouling or persistent infection, they can also be treated as self-assembling, self-repairing biolo...
This study investigated the microstructural evolution of the weld interface and creep fracture behavior of 10% Cr martensitic steel welds using Haynes 282 filler metal. The welded joints were subjected to post-weld heat treatment (PWHT) at temperatur...
In hybrid carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP)/Ti machining, the bi-material interface is the weakest region vulnerable to severe damage formation when the tool cutting from one phase to another phase and vice versa. The interface delamination as w...
As a prospective candidate material for surface coating and repair applications, nickel-based superalloy Inconel 718 (IN718) was deposited on American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) 4140 alloy steel substrate by laser engineered net shaping (LENS) t...
Charge-trapping memory (CTM) exhibits significant potential in high-density memory, yet reliability degradation resulting from the coupling of program/erase (P/E) cycles and electrical stress remains a key bottleneck for large-scale commercialization...
During the service life of karst tunnels, groundwater containing Ca2+ and CO32− can migrate along the shotcrete–surrounding rock interface and induce calcite deposition, thereby changing the interfacial material composition and load trans...
Recent progresses in nanotechnology have clearly shown that the incorporation of nanomaterials within concrete elements leads to a sensible increase in strength and toughness, especially if used in combination with randomly distributed short fiber re...
The long-term interfacial reliability of Cu/Al brazed joints is critical for power equipment but is often compromised by severe intermetallic compound (IMC) degradation during thermal aging. This study investigates the evolution mechanism and mechani...
Significant discrepancies persist between the predicted and measured bearing capacities of Strength Composite (SC) piles in engineering practice, largely due to incomplete consideration of dominant failure modes and the absence of scientifically cali...
Existing studies have not considered the impact of interface bond strength on the ease of crack propagation at the cement sheath interface. Through Brazilian splitting and direct shear tests, the normal and shear bond strengths at interfaces I and II...
An extended hybrid method for the analysis of the symmetric structural behavior of segmental tunnel linings is proposed. Their deformations cannot be determined by the traditional hybrid methods when the convergences are close to the serviceability l...
Understanding the physical vapor deposition (PVD) process of metallic coatings on an inorganic substrate is essential for the packaging and semiconductor industry. In this work, we investigate a Copper (Cu) film deposition on a glassy Calcium Alumino...
Various types of internal defects occur during manufacturing and handling of composite materials. It is practically impossible to manufacture composite structures without defects, making it crucial to understand the effect of defects on their failure...
The traditional calculation method for a transient process has high accuracy when the pipeline only contains liquid, but when the pipeline contains both gas and liquid the accuracy is greatly reduced. The coupling characteristics of gas–liquid interf...
To reveal the strengthening mechanism and re-failure mechanism of grouting on fractured rock, the variable-angle shear tests, real-time acoustic emission (AE) tests and VIC-3D (non-contact full field strain measurement system) tests were carried out...
In landfill cover, geosynthetic packages are often used to fulfil different and simultaneous functions: drainage, waterproofing, separation, reinforcement, and soil protection. In this regard, various types of geosynthetics are combined in succession...
The determination of shear strength and the identification of potential failure modes are the crucial steps in designing and evaluating the structural performance of reinforced concrete (RC) columns. However, the current design codes and guidelines d...
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