Durability of Steel Fibres Reinforcement Concrete Beams in Chloride Environment Combined with Inhibitor by AbdelMonem Masmoudi, Jamel Bouaziz

“…Crack width and crack spacing for beams under the same load showed that the use of SFRC with the inhibitor for concrete structures in chloride environments must have transferred tension across cracks that led to reducing crack spacing without any chloride ions attack.…”
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A Novel Cold-Mixed Epoxy Concrete and Its Comparison with Hot-Mixed Epoxy Asphalt Concrete by Kuan Li, Jianguang Xie, Youqiang Pan, Yanping Liu, Zhanqi Wang

“…CME concrete has a better crack resistance than HMEA concrete at low temperature, and a similar crack resistance compared with HMEA concrete at high temperature. …”
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Monitoring Environmental and Structural Parameters in Historical Masonry Buildings Using IoT LoRaWAN-Based Wireless Sensors by Noëlla Dolińska, Gabriela Wojciechowska, Łukasz Bednarz

“…Higher temperatures were associated with increased crack width, while elevated humidity levels correlated with greater crack displacement, showing the potential weakening of the masonry structure. …”
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Effect of Temperature on the Mechanical Properties of Carbon Composites by Ali Anvari

“…Hence, the probability of stress concentration and crack initiation within the interface of single-walled carbon nanotube and aluminum foam is higher than that within the interface of multiwalled carbon nanotube and aluminum foam. …”
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Research on Pure Modes I and II and Mixed-Mode (I/II) Fracture Toughness of Geopolymer Fiber-Reinforced Concrete by Sundaravadivelu Karthik, Kaliyaperumal Saravana Raja Mohan, Gunasekaran Murali, Gobinath Ravindran

“…This research examined the crack proliferation and fracture toughness of geopolymer concrete comprising different fibers using a cracked Brazilian disc. …”
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Numerical Calculation of Thermal Stress in Cement Rotary-kiln Foundation at an early age by Adek Tasri

“…The tensile stress was higher than the concrete tensile strength. So that crack developed in the surface. …”
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Intelligent Edge Computing Detection Vehicle and Detection Method Based on Tunnel Lining Concrete by Xiaoming You, Gongxing Yan, Zhengqiang Yang

“…The Canny, Deriche, and Lanser filters are relatively strong, and the extracted crack edge noise is relatively small. …”
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Damage of Rock Mass by Double-Hole Blasting with Slit Charge and Development of Stress Wave under High In Situ Stress by Jianyu Zhang, Zegong Liu, Shigui Fu, Guodong Qiao

“…To study the influence of high ground stress on crack propagation and stress propagation during deep rock blasting, a theoretical model of blasting stress wave propagation and rock damage under in situ stress conditions is developed. …”
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Experimental Study on Compressive and Flexural Performances of Polypropylene Fiber-Reinforced Concrete by Yimeng Wei, Yuan Qin, Junrui Chai, Chengyong Xu, Yue Zhang, Xianwei Zhang

“…Furthermore, the CFEC and CTI of PPFRC are both higher than those of PC, indicating that it has significant crack resistance and toughness.…”
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Evaluation of Self-Healing Performance of PE and PVA Concrete Using Flexural Test by Choonghyun Kang, Jungwon Huh, Quang Huy Tran, Kiseok Kwak

“…As a result, both the strength recovery effect and the stiffness recovery effect decreased with the delay of crack inducement, and specimens in the water environment showed higher healing effect than those in the air environment. …”
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Impacts of nano-clay particles and heat-treating on out-of-phase thermo-mechanical fatigue characteristics in piston aluminum-silicon alloys by H. Bahmanabadi, M. Azadi, A. Dadashi, J. Torkian, M.S.A. Parast, G. Winter, F. Grun

“…The damage mechanism was also due to the Si-rich phase and intermetallics, respectively for the crack propagation and the micro-crack initiation…”
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Cyclic Stress Response and Fracture Behaviors of Alloy 617 Base Metal and Weld Joints under LCF Loading by Seon Jin Kim, Rando Tungga Dewa, Woo Gon Kim, Min Hwan Kim

“…At the all testing conditions, weld joint specimens have shown higher peak stresses than the base metal specimens, whereas the plastic strain accumulation of the base metal specimens is comparatively higher than those of the weld joint specimens. …”
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Defect Recognition: Applying Time-Lapse GPR Measurements and Numerical Approaches by Enas Abdelsamei, Diaa Sheishah, Mohamed Aldeep, Csaba Tóth, György Sipos

“…Despite the higher frequency of transverse cracks compared to other defects, longitudinal cracks exhibited the highest mean dielectric value (~10.3), while alligator cracks had the lowest (~8.33). …”
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Experimental Investigation of the Size Effect of the Mode I Static Fracture Toughness of Limestone by Sheng Zhang, Longfei Wang, Mingzhong Gao

“…The results show that a longer fracture is correlated with a lower fracture toughness value for the same sample size and that a larger specimen radius is correlated with a higher fracture toughness value for the same crack length. …”
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Acoustic emission evaluation and localization correction of concrete damage considering stress levels by Xiuxin Li, Tianjiao Miao, Tao Liu, Rengan Chen, Aiping Yu

“…Compared to the traditional steady-state wave velocity localization methods, considering velocity attenuation in the localization correction method results in higher precision for reflecting crack morphology, increasing localization accuracy by 27.609 %.…”
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Effect of Strain Rate on Hot Ductility of a Duplex Stainless Steel by Zhenhua Wang, Wenyuan Ma, Chengming Wang

“…The reduction in area exhibited a small decrease when the strain rate was greater than 0.5 s–1. More than 85% of cracks formed between the ferrite and austenite, and no less than 70% of crack tips propagated between the ferrite and austenite. …”
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Study on Mechanical Properties and Acoustic Emission Characteristics of Sandstone under Freezing and Thawing by Ziyi Wang, Ping Liu, Chang Luo, Yichao Jia, Zhen Chen

“…The change of acoustic emission event rate of green sandstone is mainly in the elastic deformation stage and stable crack propagation stage, and the change of acoustic emission event rate of yellow sandstone is concentrated in the crack closure stage. …”
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Investigation of Energy Mechanism and Acoustic Emission Characteristics of Mudstone with Different Moisture Contents by Jingdong Jiang, Jie Xu

“…The dissipated energy of the soaking sample, by contrast, has the first increase speed, and natural sample comes second at the beginning. When entering the crack stable development stage, the dry sample has the fastest growing rate of dissipated energy, meaning that dissipated energy used for crack propagation gradually decreases with the increase of moisture content. …”
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Experimental Study on Load Bearing Characteristics of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Lining in the Soft Surrounding Rock Tunnel by Guang-yao Cui, Jia-suo Qi, Dao-yuan Wang

“…The test results show that the initial crack load and ultimate load of the steel fiber reinforced concrete lining are significantly higher than those of the other two materials, and the crack development path is more tortuous, and the number of cracks is greater. …”
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Microstructural optimization by two-step tempering treatment and quantitative analysis of microstructure effect on the toughness at −40 °C in CrNiMoV steel by Li Wang, Junwei Qin, Yuzhi Zhu, Kaixuan Chen, Yanlin Wang, Zidong Wang

“…Moreover, the more uniform and finer the block, the higher the proportion of high-angle grain boundaries, which increases the frequency of crack deflection, preventing rapid crack propagation and thereby enhancing energy absorption. …”
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