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A discontinuity may exist as a single feature (e.g. fault, isolated joint or fracture) and in some circumstances, a discontinuity is treated as a single discontinuity although it belongs to a discontinuity set, in particular if the spacing is very wide compared to the size of the engineering application or to the size of the geotechnical unit.
Values for the flexural strength measured with four-point bending will be significantly lower than with three-point bending., [8] Compared with three-point bending test, this method is more suitable for strength evaluation of butt joint specimens. The advantage of four-point bending test is that a larger portion of the specimen between two ...
For most normal-scale applications to metals and fine-grained ceramics, except for micrometer scale devices, the size is large enough for the Weibull theory to apply (but not for coarse-grained materials such as concrete). From Eq. 2 one can show that the mean strength and the coefficient of variation of strength are obtained as follows:
Simply supported beam with a constant 10 kN per meter load over a 15m length.. Take the beam shown at right supported by a fixed pin at the left and a roller at the right. . There are no applied moments, the weight is a constant 10 kN, and - due to symmetry - each support applies a 75 kN vertical force to the
The concept can also be applied to materials that exhibit small-scale yielding at a crack tip. The magnitude of K depends on specimen geometry, the size and location of the crack or notch, and the magnitude and the distribution of loads on the material. It can be written as: [2] [3] = (/)
The stress–strain index (SSI), of a bone, is a surrogate measure of bone strength [1] determined from a cross-sectional scan by QCT or pQCT (radiological scan).The stress–strain index is used to compare the structural parameters determined by analysis of QCT/pQCT cross-sectional scans to the results of three-point bending test.
During his PhD, he developed a theoretical model predicting the turbulent dispersion of sedimenting inertial particles, concurrently developing an empirical correlation for the integral time scale of fluid velocity observed by such particles, which came to be known as the Wang and Stock correction in multiphase flow literature.
Jensen's inequality generalizes the statement that a secant line of a convex function lies above its graph. Visualizing convexity and Jensen's inequality. In mathematics, Jensen's inequality, named after the Danish mathematician Johan Jensen, relates the value of a convex function of an integral to the integral of the convex function.