INCEFA-PLUS is a five year project supported by the European Commission HORIZON2020 programme which commenced in mid 2015. 16 organisations from across Europe have combined... Read More

This paper presents a new analytical criterion for brittle failure of rocks and heavily over-consolidated soils. Griffith’s model of a randomly oriented defect under a... Read More

Thermal cutting is a common engineering practice that is used to obtain the final shape of structural components. The characteristics of the cut surface and... Read More

Thermal cutting is commonly used in engineering practice to obtain the final shape of structural components, and includes oxy-fuel, plasma and laser cut technologies. The... Read More

Thermal cutting, which includes oxy-fuel, plasma and laser cut technologies, is frequently used in engineering practice to obtain the final shape of structural components. These... Read More

When the fatigue behaviour of structural components containing holes is analysed, Eurocode 3 only considers the fatigue performance of drilled holes, limiting the use of... Read More

This paper presents an analysis of the notch effect on the fracture behaviour of short glass fibre reinforced polyamide 6 (SGFR-PA6) with different amounts of... Read More

Thermal cutting processes introduce changes in the heat affected zone (HAZ), which can lead to a significant reduction of the service life of components. In... Read More

This paper analyses the failure of three bolts used in the structural connections of a number of steel towers located in northern Europe. The analysis... Read More

Thermal cutting includes oxy-fuel, plasma and laser cut technologies. These cutting methods generate cut surfaces and material transformations that determine the final fatigue behaviour of... Read More