[en] Bi-material plates were generally used to joint electronic devices or mechanical components requiring dissimilar materials to be attached. During services, mechanical failure can be occurred due to the formation of cracks at the interfacial joint or away from the centre. Generally, linear elastic fracture mechanics approach is used to characterize these cracks based on stress intensity factors (SIF). Based on the literature survey, the SIFs for the central cracks were easily available. However, the SIFs for eccentric cracks were difficult to obtain. Therefore, this paper presented the SIFs for eccentric cracks subjected to mode I tension loading. Three important parameters were used such as relative crack depth, a/L, relative offset distance, b/L and elastic mismatch, E₁/E₂ or α. It was found that such parameters significantly affected the characteristic of SIFs and it was depend on the location of cracks

[en] This paper reports the study of stress intensity factors (SIF) of three edge cracks in a finite plate under bending moments. The goal of this paper was to analyze the three edge crack interactions under such loading. Several studies can be found in literature discussing on mode I SIF. However, most of these studies obtained the SIFs using tensile force. Lack of SIF reported discussing on the SIFs obtained under bending moments. ANSYS finite element program was used to develop the finite element model where singular elements were used to model the cracks. Different crack geometries and parameters were utilized in order to characterize the SIFs. According to the present results, crack geometries played a significant role in determining the SIFs and consequently induced the crack interaction mechanisms

[en] The present paper investigates the effect of axial loading compression on jute fibre reinforced polyester composite round tubes. The specimen of composite tube was fabricated by hand lay-up method of 120 mm length with fix 50.8 mm inner diameter to determine the behaviour of energy absorption on number of layers of 45⁰ angle fibre and internally reinforced with and without foam filler material. The foam filler material used in this studies were polyurethane (PU) and polystyrene (PE) with average of 40 and 45 kg/m³ densities on the axial crushing load against displacement relations and on the failure modes. The number of layers of on this study were two; three and four were selected to calculate the crush force efficiency (CFE) and the specific energy absorption (SEA) of the composite tubes. Result indicated that the four layers’ jute/polyester show significant value in term of crushing load compared to 2 and 3 layers higher 60% for 2 layer and 3% compared to 3 layers. It has been found that the specific energy absorption of the jute/polyester tubes with polystyrene foam-filled is found higher respectively 10% to 12% than empty and polyurethane (PU) foam tubes. The increase in the number of layers from two to four increases the mean axial load from 1.01 KN to 3.60 KN for empty jute/polyester and from 2.11 KN to 4.26 KN for the polyurethane (PU) foam-filled jute/polyester tubes as well as for 3.60 KN to 5.58 KN for the polystyrene (PE) foam-filled jute/polyester. The author’s found that the failure of mechanism influence the characteristic of curve load against displacement obtained and conclude that an increasing number of layers and introduce filler material enhance the capability of specific absorbed energy. (paper)

[en] Portable water filter has grown significantly in recent years. The use of water bottles as a water drink stuff using hand pump water filtration unit has been suggested to replace water bottled during outdoor recreational activities and for emergency supplies. However, quality of water still the issue related to contaminated water due to the residual waste plants, bacteria, and so on. Based on these issues, the study was carried out to design a portable water filter that uses membrane filtration system by applying Design for Six Sigma. Design for Six Sigma methodology consists of five stages which is Define, Measure, Analyze, Design and Verify. There were several tools have been used in each stage in order to come out with a specific objective. In the Define stage, questionnaire approach was used to identify the needs of portable water filter in the future from potential users. Next, Quality Function Deployment (QFD) tool was used in the Measure stage to measure the users’ needs into engineering characteristics. Based on the information in the Measure stage, morphological chart and weighted decision matrix tools were used in the Analyze stage. This stage performed several activities including concept generation and selection. Once the selection of the final concept completed, detail drawing was made in the Design stage. Then, prototype was developed in the Verify stage to conduct proof-of-concept testing. The results that obtained from each stage have been reported in this paper. From this study, it can be concluded that the application of Design for Six Sigma in designing a future portable water filter that uses membrane filtration system is a good start in looking for a new alternative concept with a completed supporting document. (paper)

[en] The constitutive models adopted to represent dynamic plastic behaviour are of great importance in the current design and analysis of forming processes. Many have studied this topic, leading to results in various technologies involving analytical, experimental and computational methods. Despite of this current status, it is generally agreed that there is still a need for improved constitutive models. There are still many issues relating to algorithm implementation of the proposed constitutive model in the selected code to represent the proposed formulation. Using this motivation, the implementation of a new constitutive model into the LLNL-DYNA3D code to predict the deformation behaviour of commercial aluminium alloys is discussed concisely in this paper. The paper initially explains the background and the basic structure of the LLNL-DYNA3D code. This is followed by a discussion on the constitutive models that have been chosen as the starting point for this work. The initial stage of this implementation work is then discussed in order to allow all the required material data and the deformation gradient tensor F to be read and initialised for the main analysis. Later, the key section of this implementation is discussed, which mainly relates to subroutine f3dm93 including equation of state (EOS) implementation. The implementation of the elastic-plastic part with isotropic plastic hardening, which establishes the relationship between stress and strain with respect to the isoclinic configuration Ω̄_i in the new deviatoric plane, is then presented before the implemented algorithm is validated against Plate Impact test data of the Aluminium Alloy 7010. A good agreement is obtained in each test. (paper)

[en] The solutions of stress intensity factors (SIFs) of double edge cracks in large groove plates are investigated. The plate is assumed to fulfil the plain strain condition and it is axially stressed. According to the literature, the SIFs of the cracks in circular notches are available. However, the roles of cracks in large groove are difficult to obtain. Therefore, different grooves and crack geometries are modelled numerically using the ANSYS finite element software. The present model is first validated using an existing model of double edge cracks without notches and it is found that both models are in close agreement. The large grooves are then introduced and the cracks are positioned in the mid-point. It is found numerically that the SIFs are strongly affected by the relative crack depth and the groove geometries. It is also found that the large groove is capable of reducing the SIFs in comparison with the circular notched due to lower stress concentration factors. (paper)

[en] This paper presents the probabilistic analysis of the plate with a hole using several multiaxial high cycle fatigue criteria (MHFC). Dang Van, Sines, Crossland criteria were used and von Mises criterion was also considered for comparison purpose. Parametric finite element model of the plate was developed and several important random variable parameters were selected and Latin Hypercube Sampling Monte-Carlo Simulation (LHS-MCS) was used for probabilistic analysis tool. It was found that, different structural reliability and sensitivity factors were obtained using different failure criteria. According to the results multiaxial fatigue criteria are the most significant criteria need to be considered in assessing all the structural behavior especially under complex loadings.