Browsing School of Engineering by Author "TAYLOR, DAVID"
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Applications of the Theory of Critical Distances in Failure Analysis
TAYLOR, DAVID (Elsevier, 2010)The Theory of Critical Distances (TCD) is the name which I use to describe a group of methods employed for the prediction of failure in cases where stress concentrations are present and where the failure mode involves ... -
Art in Fracture: The making of the new cover for Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics
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Biomechanical factors in the adaptations of insect tibia cuticle
TAYLOR, DAVID (2016)Insects are among the most diverse groups of animals on Earth. Their cuticle exoskeletons vary greatly in terms of size and shape, and are subjected to different applied forces during daily activities. We investigated the ... -
Buckling failures in insect exoskeletons.
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The effect of bisphosphonate treatment on the biochemical and cellular events during bone remodelling in response to microinjury stimulation
TAYLOR, DAVID; O'BRIEN, FERGAL (2015)Osteoporosis is one of the most prevalent bone diseases worldwide and is characterised by high levels of bone turnover, a marked loss in bone mass and accumulation of microdamage, which leads ... -
Fatigue resistant components: what can we learn from Nature?
TAYLOR, DAVID (2015) -
The fracture toughness of eggshell
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The fracture toughness of soft tissues
TAYLOR, DAVID; SIMMS, CIARAN; O'REILLY, PETER (2012)Fracture toughness is important for any material, but to date there have been few investigations of this mechanical property in soft mammalian tissues. This paper presents new data on porcine muscle tissue and a detailed ... -
Notch and Mean Stress Effect in Fatigue as Phenomena of Elasto-Plastic Inherent Multiaxiality
TAYLOR, DAVID (2011)The present paper summarises an attempt of estimating fatigue lifetime of notched metallic materials by directly accounting for the degree of multiaxiality of the local elasto-plastic stress/strain fields acting on the ... -
Numerical Evaluation of Fatigue Strength on Mechanical Notched Components under Multiaxial Loadings
TAYLOR, DAVID (Elsevier, 2011)This paper deals with the fatigue behaviour of complex, three-dimensional, stress concentrations under multiaxial loadings. Starting from the stress field obtained by means of a linear elastic analysis and taking advantage ... -
Physically short crack propagation in metals during high cycle fatigue
TAYLOR, DAVID; TAYLOR, DAVID (Elsevier, 2009)In metals, during high cycle fatigue on plain specimens, almost the entire fatigue life is spent as short crack initiation and propagation. The fatigue short crack life can be schematically divided into two subsequent ... -
Rupture of osteocyte processes across microcracks: the effect of crack length and stress
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The Scissors Model of Microcrack Detection in Bone: Work in Progress
TAYLOR, DAVID; MULCAHY, LAUREN; TISBO, PIETRO; DOOLEY, CLODAGH; DUFFY, GARRY (2010)We have proposed a new model for microcrack detection by osteocytes in bone. According to this model, cell signalling is initiated by the cutting of cellular processes which span the crack. We show that shear displacements ... -
The Theory of Critical Distances as an alternative experimental strategy for the determination of KIc and ΔKth
TAYLOR, DAVID (2010)The present technical note is concerned with the use of the Theory of Critical Distances, applied in the form of the Point Method, to estimate the range of the threshold value of the stress intensity factor, ?Kth, as well ... -
The Theory of Critical Distances to estimate lifetime of notched components subjected to variable amplitude uniaxial fatigue loading
TAYLOR, DAVID; SUSMEL, LUCA (Elsevier, 2011)The present paper summarises an attempt of reformulating the so-called Theory of Critical Distances (TCD) to make it suitable for estimating finite life of notched components subjected to variable amplitude (VA) uniaxial ... -
The Variable Radius Notch: Two New Methods for Reducing Stress Concentration
SUSMEL, LUCA; TAYLOR, DAVID; KELLY, ANDREW (2011)Geometrical features such as notches and corners give rise to stress concentrations. In industrial components these features are often designed with a constant radius, however it is already known that a more complex shape, ...