ON SHORT CRACKS THAT DEPART FROM ELASTOPLASTIC NOTCH TIPS

On short cracks that depart from elastoplastic notch tips

The behavior of short cracks that depart from elastoplastic notch tips is modeled to estimate the stresses required to initiate and to propagate cracks in notched structural components, and to evaluate the size of tolerable crack-like defects under general loading conditions.This analysis can model both fatigue and environmentally assisted cracking

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Hope Springs Eternal: The Image of South Africa in Swedish Media

When South Africa is covered in the Swedish media, the focus is often on the history of South Africa, the role of Sweden in the anti-apartheid movement and, in more recent years, the political and socio-economic landscape of post-apartheid South Africa, marked by increased wealth gaps, social unrest, and corruption.How South Africa is covered by fo

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Comparison of Artificial Intelligence and Physical Models for Forecasting Photosynthetically-Active Radiation

Different kinds of radiative transfer models, including a relative sunshine-based model (BBM), a physical-based model for tropical environment (PBM), an efficient Dresser physical-based model (EPP), a look-up-table-based model (LUT), and six artificial intelligence models (AI) were introduced for modeling the daily photosynthetically-active radiati

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