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A preceding study of the competition between fracture modes in monolithic brittle materials in cyclic loading with curved indenters in liquid environments is here extended to brittle layers on compliant substrates. The fracture modes include outer and
An earlier FEM analysis of inner cone cracks in monolithic brittle solids subject to cyclic indentation in liquids is extended to include the case of a brittle layer bonded to a compliant substrate, using a model glass/polycarbonate bilayer system as an
Potential vulnerabilities to collapse have been identified for steel gravity framing systems with conventional gravity connections subjected to column loss. To address these potential vulnerabilities, a high-fidelity finite element modeling approach is