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I am Dhaneshwar Mishra, currently a PhD student at Ajou University, South Korea. I am working in the area of Bimaterial Fracture. Currently i am trying to calculate Stress Intensity factor of cracked bimaterial plate. I wanted to use Interaction Integral Method to seperate Complex stress intensity factor.

Will some one please through light on use of interaction Integral Method used for cracked bimaterial interfaces.

Hope to receive early suggestions.

Thank you.

With regards

Dhaneshwar Mishra

Hello students (and also others) at iMechanica,

Last weekend, while channel browsing on TV, I happened to notice a documentary on the Hoover dam (in the US). It showed a number of jets of water, huge ones, forcefully springing forth out of the rock faces just downstream of the dam. These were the water jets coming off the electricity generation plant of the dam, *after* their job of generating electricity was already over.

I've been doing a research for my thesis, it about the application of the Strain Energy Density (SED) criterion for the fracture fixation, which is related to the biomechanics field of study.

Hello All,

I am new here. I was searching for long time to find similar topics (see title) but nothing. 

So, it may be good to ask here.

My question is:

 Is it correct (for soft tissue) that prony series from relaxation test can be used to model "unloading" part of a cyclic test? If it is yes Why? 

I thank you in advance

Best regards,

Sugeng