De la Cruz-Lázaro E¹, G Castañón-Najera², NP Brito-Manzano¹, A Gómez-Vázquez¹, V Robledo-Torres³, AJ Lozano del Río³

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.79, pp. 11-17, 2010, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2010.79.011

Abstract Estimation of genetic parameters using diallel crosses experiments aids to objective decision making in plant breeding programs. The objectives of this study were to estimate heterosis, the general combining ability (GCA) of eight tropical maize populations, and the specific combining ability (SCA) of 28 crosses. The populations evaluated were: population 21, 22, 23, 25, 32, 43, 49 and the commercial variety VS 536. The Griffing method 2 design was utilized to estimate GCA and SCA effects, on a complete randomized block design with two replications, at two planting dates. The diallel analysis showed significant differences… More >

Lovey¹ RJ, P Perissé², C V ieyra³, JC Coraglio³

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.79, pp. 5-10, 2010, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2010.79.005

Abstract Cologania broussonetii (Balb.) DC. (Fabaceae) grows from the Bolivian eastern Andes to the north west of Argentina, Cordoba hills and San Luis Province. It is recognized as a native forage. The objectives of this study were to characterize the seed, the germination and the seedling of C. broussonetii. Seed structure was characterized through free hand sections and analyzed with optical and stereoscopic microscopy. The germination assay treatments were: (1) intact non-scarfied seeds at 25 °C constant, (2) scarified seeds at 25 °C constant, (3) intact non-scarified seeds at 20-30 °C alternating, and (4) scarified seeds at 20-30… More >

A.V. Ekhlakov², O.M. Khay², Ch. Zhang², J. Sladek³, V. Sladek³

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.6, No.3&4, pp. 329-350, 2010, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2010.006.329

Abstract In this paper, transient crack analysis in two-dimensional, isotropic, continuously non-homo -ge -neous and linear elastic functionally graded materials is presented. A boundary-domain element method based on boundary-domain integral representations is developed. The Laplace-transform technique is utilized to eliminate the dependence on time. Laplace-transformed fundamental solutions of linear coupled thermoelasticity for isotropic, homogeneous and linear elastic solids are applied to derive boundary-domain integral equations. The numerical implementation is performed by using a collocation method for the spatial discretization. The time-dependent numerical solutions are obtained by the Stehfest's inversion algorithm. For an edge crack in a More >

G. Dhondt¹, D. Bremberg²

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.6, No.3&4, pp. 305-328, 2010, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2010.006.305

Abstract In a previous article the K-distritubion along the crack front of several mixed-mode specimens was investigated [Dhondt, Chergui, and Buchholz (2001)]. Both the modified virtual crack closure integral method and the quarter point element stress field method yielded results close to the available reference solutions in the literature [Murakami (1987)]. The present paper extends these results in two aspects. First, the meshing procedure used to obtain a focused mesh at the crack front is modified in order to deal with highly curved cracks. Secondly, the K-distribution along the initial crack is used to perform a More >

Masanori Kikuchi¹, Kazuhiro Suga¹

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.6, No.3&4, pp. 289-304, 2010, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2010.006.289

Abstract Crack closure effect on interaction of two surface crack growth processes by fatigue is studied. At first, change of C value in Paris' law along crack front of single surface crack is measured experimentally. It is shown that C value decreases near specimen surface. Crack closure effect is studied numerically for a surface crack by elastic-plastic cyclic analyses. It is found that closure effect appears more strongly near specimen surface than the maximum-depth point. By determining effective stress intensity factor including closure effect, it is shown that change of C value is equal to the More >

Qing-fen Li¹, Li Zhu¹, Shi-fan Zhu¹, F-G Buchholz¹

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.6, No.3&4, pp. 273-288, 2010, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2010.006.273

Abstract The fracture behavior in all fracture mode (AFM)-specimen with a single edged crack under different loading conditions is investigated by the aid of the commercial ANSYS code. The separated strain energy release rates (SERRs) along the crack front are calculated by the modified virtual crack closure integral (MVCCI)-method. It is shown that the computational results of the AFM-specimen are in good agreement with some available findings for pure mode I, mode II, mode III, and mixed-mode I+III loading conditions. Furthermore, the crack growth problems under complex mixed-mode II+III loading condition by using the AFM-specimen, are More >

H. Theilig¹

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.6, No.3&4, pp. 239-272, 2010, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2010.006.239

Abstract The aim of this paper is to give an overview to some problems and solutions of the fracture analysis of 2D structures. It will be shown that the common computer-aided two-dimensional fatigue crack path simulation can be considerably improved in accuracy by using a predictor-corrector procedure in combination with the modified virtual crack closure integral (MVCCI) method. Furthermore the paper presents an improved finite element technique for the calculation of stress intensity factors of mixed mode problems by the MVCCI Method. The procedure is devised to compute the separated strain energy release rates by using the… More >

A.P.Cisilino¹, M.H. Aliabadi²

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.6, No.3&4, pp. 213-238, 2010, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2010.006.213

Abstract This paper presents a review of the dual boundary element method for modeling crack growth in two-dimensional and three-dimensional mixed mode problems. The modeling strategy for crack coalescence using the DBEM is presented and comparisons are made with alternative solutions where available. Also presented are three-dimensional multiple crack growth and microcrack growth problems. More >

W. Brocks¹, I. Scheider²

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.6, No.3&4, pp. 189-212, 2010, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2010.006.189

Abstract Material parameters are adjustable coefficients in constitutive equations of the mechanical behaviour. Their identification requires a combined experimental and numerical approach, which results in a generally ill-posed inverse problem. Methods commonly applied in computational mechanics like optimisation and neural networks are addressed, and problems like sensitivity, uniqueness and stability are discussed. The cohesive model for describing ductile tearing is chosen as practical example to substantiate the general considerations. More >

H.A. Richard¹, M. Fulland², G. Kullmer¹, N.-H. Schirmeisen¹

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.6, No.3&4, pp. 161-188, 2010, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2010.006.161

Abstract Fracture processes in real structures are in many cases of a three dimensional (3D) character. In this paper some basic problems of 3D-fracture processes are considered and discussed, in particular for general mixed-mode loading conditions, when modes I and II and III are superimposed. For experimental investigations an AFM-specimen is under consideration, while numerical simulations are carried out with the program ADAPCRACK3D. More >