Fracture Mechanics & Materials Durability Laboratory
Publications
Publications over the last ten years

PUBLICATIONS

A Model of Quasibrittle Fracture of Solid (with S.K. Kanaun), International Journal of Damage Mechanics , Vol. 8, N1, p.p. 18-40, Jan. 1999.

Structural Characterization and Thermomechanical Behavior of Ziegler-Natta Polyproplenes of Varying Crystallinity (with J. Liu, C.P. Bosnyak, M.T. Bishop, J. Zryd), Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'99, II, pp. 1839-1843, New York City, May 2-6, 1999.

Observation and Characterization of Slow Crack Growth in Water Pipe Grade Polybutylene (with X. Niu, W. Zhou, S.S. Stivala), Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'99, III, pp. 3374-3378, New York City, May 2-6, 1999.

The Time Dependency of the Necking Process in Polyethylene (with W. Zhou, C.P. Bosnyak, K. Sehanobish), Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'99, III, pp. 3399-3402, New York City, May 2-6, 1999.

True – Stress – Strain – Temperature Diagrams for Polypropylenes (with J. Liu, C.P. Bosnyak, K. Sehanobish), Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'99, III, pp. 3438-3442, New York City , May 2-6, 1999.

On Modeling of Slow Crack Growth in Polyethylene (with J. Fan, Y. Shulkin), Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'99, III, pp. 3458-3462, New York City, May 2-6, 1999.

A Constitutive Model of Cold Drawing in Polycarbonate, International J. of Plasticity 15 (1999), 1139 – 1157.

Application of crack layer theory to modeling of slow crack growth in polyethylene (with Y. Shulkin), International J. of Fracture 97 : 83 – 102, 1999

Application of the Crack Layer Model for Understanding of the Correlation between Lifetime and Creep Behavior in Polyethylene (with J. Fan, D. Chen, Y. Shulkin, N. Jivraj, K. Sehanobish), Conference Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'2000, III, pp. 3138-3142, Orlando, Florida, May 7-11, 2000.

Ductile Failure and Delayed Necking in Polyethylene (with W. Zhou, D. Chen, Y. Shulkin, N. Jivraj, K. Sehanobish), Conference Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'2000, III, pp. 3148-3152, Orlando, Florida, May 7-11, 2000.

Notch Sensitivity of Pipe Grade Polyethylene and Polybutylene (with X. Niu, D. Chen, W. Zhou, N. Jivraj), Conference Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'2000, III, pp. 3158-3161, Orlando, Florida, May 7-11, 2000.

An Anamoly in the Lifetime-Temperature Relation of A Polybutylene for Pipe Applications (with X. Niu, W. Zhou, Y. Shulkin, N. Jivraj), Conference Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'2000, III, pp. 3162-3166, Orlando, Florida, May 7-11, 2000.

Durability Study of Conductive Copper Traces Within Polyimide Based Substrates (with E. Martynenko, W. Zhou, R. Li, L. Poglitsch), Conference Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'2000, III, pp. 3174-3178, Orlando, Florida, May 7-11, 2000.

True-Stress-Strain-Temperature Diagrams of Polyolefins and Their Application in Acceleration Tests for Life Time Predication (with J. Liu, W. Zhou, X. Niu), Conference Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'2000, III, pp. 3189-3193, Orlando, Florida, May 7-11, 2000.

The Effect of Chemical Degradation on Physical Properties and Fracture Behavior of Poly (Ethylene-Co-Carbon Monoxide) and Poly (1-Butene) (with X. Niu, E. Martynenko, S.H. Patel, S.S. Stivala), Conference Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'2000, III, pp. 3228-3232, Orlando, Florida, May 7-11, 2000.

Methodology for Durability analysis of HDPE Pipe (with K. Sehanobish, S. Wu), J. of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol. 122, No. 2, pp. 152-155, May 2000

Size effects in concrete fracture: Part I, Experimental setup and observations, (with Mo. Issa, Ma. Issa and M. Islam), Intern. J. of Fracture 102: 1-24, 2000.

Size effects in concrete fracture: Part II, Analysis of test results, (with Mo. Issa, Ma. Issa and M. Islam), Intern. J. of Fracture 102: 25-42, 2000.

Chlorine Resistance Testing of Plastic Piping Material (with W. Zhou, Jana lab), Conference Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'2001, III, pp. 2833-2839, Dallas , Texas , May 6-10, 2001.

Effect of Oxidation in Crack Growth Process in Polybutylene Tubing in Potable Water Application (with W. Zhou, Z. Gao, X. Niu, Y. Gogotsi, S. Stivala), Conference Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'2001, III, pp. 2844-2847, Dallas, Texas, May 6-10, 2001.

Failure Analysis of High Density Polyethylene in Engineering Applications (with W. Zhou, Jana lab), Conference Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'2001, III, pp. 2853-2855, Dallas , Texas , May 6-10, 2001.

Geometrical Modeling of Cold Drawing (Necking) in Engineering thermoplastics (with Serge Preston), 2001 Mechanics and Materials Summer Conference, MMC2001, pp. 72, San Diego, CA, June 27 – 29, 2001.

Variational Formulation of a Material Ageing Model (with Serge Preston), In Configurational Mechanics of Materials, pp.273 – 307, Edited by Reinhold Kienzler and Gerard A. Maugin, Published by Springer Wien New York, 2001.

Hydraulic Fracture Containment in Layered Media, Experiment and Computer Simulation (with J. Fan, Y Shulkin, J.W.Dudley, W.B.Nichols, G. K.Wong), Rock Mechanics in the National Interest, Elsworth, Tinucci & Heasley (eds), Swets & Zeitling Lisse, ISBN 90 2651 827 7, 2001, pp. 273 – 279.

Crack Interaction with an Interface in Laminated Elastic Media (with B.Nuller, M.Ryvkin, J.W.Dudley, G. K.Wong), Rock Mechanics in the National Interest, Elsworth, Tinucci & Heasley (eds), Swets & Zeitling Lisse, ISBN 90 2651 827 7, 2001, pp. 289 – 296.

Observation and Modeling of Stress Corrosion and Fatigue Corrosion Cracking (with B.H. Choi, Y. Kin and A Teitsma), Proceedings of the Eighth International Fatigue Congress, Fatigue 2002, Editor A. F. Blom, Stockholm, Sweden, June, 2002, pp 3309-3313.

Stress Corrosion Crack Growth in Pipe Grade Steels in Near Neutral PH Environment (with B.H.Choi), International Journal of Fracture 116: L43-L48, 2002.

Configuration mechanics of necking phenomena in engineering thermoplastics (with S. Preston), Mechanics research Communication 29 (2002) 465-475.

Fatigue evaluation of Derakane Vinylester/Glass fiber composites (Nabi Bus Program) (with H. Wu, W. Zhou, N.E. Verghese, D. Z. Ridley), Conference Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'2002, III, pp. 3055, San Francisco, CA, May 6-10, 2002.

Review of plastic pipe lifetime evaluation methods: predictive capability and limitations (with K. Sehanobish), Conference Proceedings SPE/ANTEC'2002, III, pp. 3134, San Francisco , CA , May 6-10, 2002.

Fractal dimension – a measure of fracture roughness and toughness of concrete (with Mohsen A. Issa, Mahmoud a. Issa, Md. S. Islam), Engineering Fracture Mechanics 70 (2003) 125-137.

Fracture initiation in Polybutylene tubing in Potable water application (with Byoung-Ho Choi, Wen Zhou, Pak M. Cham and Thoi Ho), ANTEC 2003, Proceeding of 61 st Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, vol. XLIX, Nashville , TN , May 4-8, Society of Plastics Engineering, pp. 2916-2920.

Accelerated testing for slow crack growth in HDPE (with S. Wu, K. Sehanobish, Y. Shulkin and Z. Zhou), ANTEC 2003, Proceeding of 61 st Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, vol. XLIX, Nashville , TN , May 4-8, Society of Plastics Engineering, pp. 2952-2956.

Characterization of polyethylene resistance to slow crack growth (with Y. Shulkin, Z. Zhou, S. Wu and K. Sehanobish), ANTEC 2003, Proceeding of 61 st Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, vol. XLIX, Nashville, TN, May 4-8, Society of Plastics Engineering, pp. 2976-2981.

Strength, Toughness, Lifetime and Reliability of Plastics in Engineering Applications, ANTEC 2004, Proceeding of 62 st Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, vol., Chicago, IL, May 16-20, Society of Plastics Engineering, pp..

Accelerated Test for stress corrosion crack initiation in PB tubing (with X. Niu, W. Zhou), ANTEC 2004, Proceeding of 62 st Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, vol., Chicago, IL, May 16-20, Society of Plastics Engineering, pp..

Assessment of Polycarbonate toughness by creep test (with W. Zhou, C.p. Bosnyak, K. Sehanobish), ANTEC 2004, Proceeding of 62 st Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, vol., Chicago , IL , May 16-20, Society of Plastics Engineering, pp..

Application of Acoustic emission technique for the quality contral of epoxy coating on steel substrate (with H. Wu), ANTEC 2004, Proceeding of 62 st Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, vol., Chicago , IL , May 16-20, Society of Plastics Engineering, pp..

Fracture initiation associated with chemical degradation: observation and modeling (with Byoung-Ho Choi, Zhenwen Zhou, Salvatore S. Stivala, Kalyan Sehanobish and Clive P. Bosnyak), International Journal of Solids and Structures 42 (2005) 681-695.

STRESS CORROSION CRACK GROWTH IN ENGINEERING PLASTICS (with Byoung-Ho Choi, Zhenwen Zhou and Kalyan Sehanobish ), 11 th International Conference on Fracture, Turin,Italy, March 20 th – 25 th , 2005, pp 4706-4711.

Modeling of Dynamic Fragmentation in Brittle Solids (with B. Gommerstadt ), 11 th International Conference on Fracture, Turin,Italy, March 20 th – 25 th , 2005, pp 5410-5416.

OBSERVATION AND MODELING OF STRESS CORROSION CRACKING IN PLASTIC PIPES (with Byoung-Ho Choi and Kalyan Sehanobish), ANTEC 2005, Proceeding of the 63rd Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, vol. L, Boston, MA, May 2-8, Society of Plastics Engineering..

Evaluation of Time to Ductile Failure in Creep of PEs from Short-term Testing (with Zhenwen Zhou and Kalyan Sehanobish), ANTEC 2005, Proceeding of the 63rd Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, vol. L, Boston, MA, May 2-8, Society of Plastics Engineering.

Comparison of Creep and Fatigue Crack Growth in HD-PE pipe materials (with Markus Haager, wen Zhou and Gerald Pinter), ANTEC 2005, Proceeding of the 63rd Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, vol. L, Boston, MA, May 2-8, Society of Plastics Engineering.

Service Life of HDPE Drain Pipe: the Recently Proposed Specification and an Alternative Approach (with O. Manuel Uy and Paul D. Wienhold), Pipelines 2005, Proceedings of the Pipeline Division Specialty Conference, Houston, Texas, August 21-24, 2005, American society of Civil Engineering, pp. 1117-1130.

Modeling of Dynamic Fragmentation in Brittle Solids (with B.Y. Gommerstadt), Strength, Fracture and Complexity, 3 (2005) 117-126.

4D Geometrical Modeling of Material Aging (with S.Preston), International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, vol.3, No. 8 (2006) 1529-1558.

Crack Initiation in Pipe Grade Polyethylene (with Wen Zhou and B.H. Choi) ANTEC 2006 ---- Proceedings of the 64th Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition , Charlotte, NC May 7---11. Society of Plastics Engineers, pp. 2485 - 2489

Understanding of the failure mechanism of stress corrosion cracking by SEM analysis (with B.H. Choi and Wen Zhou) ANTEC 2006 ---- Proceedings of the 64th Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition , Charlotte, NC May 7---11. Society of Plastics Engineers, pp. 627 - 631

Mechanical characteristics and fractographic analysis of nanocomosites (with B.H. Choi, Hoang Pham and Richard Fibiger) ANTEC 2006 ---- Proceedings of the 64th Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition , Charlotte, NC May 7---11. Society of Plastics Engineers, pp. 521 - 525

A closed-form solution for a crack approaching an interface (with boris Nuller, Michael Ryvkin), J. of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, vol. 1, No. 8, pp 1405 – 1423, 2006.

Micro/Meso scale fatigue damage accumulation monitoring using nonlinear acoustic Vibro-modulation measurements (with Andrei Zagrai, Dimitri Donskoy, Edward Golovin, Vinod S. Agarwala), SPIE 13 th symposium on Smart Structures and Materials and SPIE 11 th Symposium on Nondestructive Evaluation for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, 26 feb. – 2 Mar., 2006, San Diego , CA., Paper # 6175-8.

Field Failure Analysis: Pinhole Mode of Failure of Polyolefin Pipes (with A. Caratus, Zhenwen Zhou, A. Masud ) ANTEC 2007 ---- Proceedings of the 65th Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition , Cincinnati , OH May 6---11. Society of Plastics Engineers, pp. 1-5

Effect of Inclusion Size and Location on PE Pipe Lifetime (with Byoung-Ho Choi and Kalyan Sehanobish ) ANTEC 2007 ---- Proceedings of the 65th Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition , Cincinnati, OH May 6---11. Society of Plastics Engineers, pp. 1-5

Designing with plastics for durable applications ANTEC 2007 ---- Proceedings of the 65th Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition , Cincinnati, OH May 6---11. Society of Plastics Engineers, pp. 1-5

Smarter materials systems designs for the future (with Clive Bosnyak ) ANTEC 2007 ---- Proceedings of the 65th Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition , Cincinnati, OH May 6---11. Society of Plastics Engineers, pp. 1-5

Stress Corrosion cracking in Plastic Pipes: Observation and Modeling (with Byoung-Ho Choi, Kalyan Sehnobish), Int J. Fract., 2007, 145: pp 81-88.

Micro- and Macroscale damage detection using the nonlinear acoustic vibro-modulation technique, (with Andrei Zagrai, Dimitri Donskoy, Edward Golovin), Research in Nondestructive Evaluation, 19: 104-128, 2008.

Characterization of slow crack growth in HDPE under creep condition (with Zhenwen Zhou, A. Caratus, W. Michie) ANTEC 2008 ---- Proceedings of the 66th Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition , Milwaukee, WI, May 4-8, 2008. Society of Plastics Engineers, pp. 746-751.

SEM and FTIR analysis of PE pipe fracture in accelerated test conditions (with Byoung-Ho Choi, Rajesh Paradkar, Pak-Meng Cham, William Michie, Zhenwen Zhou) ANTEC 2008 ---- Proceedings of the 66th Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition , Milwaukee, WI, May 4-8, 2008. Society of Plastics Engineers, pp. 2444-2449.

Modeling of Stress Corrosion cracking in Plastic Pipes (with Byoung-Ho Choi, Zhenwen Zhou) 2008 ASCE, Proceedings of Pipelines 2008, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A., September (2008).

Experimental and theoretical investigation of stress corrosion crack (SCC) growth of polyethylene pipes (with Byoung-Ho Choi, Alexander Chudnovsky, Rajesh Paradkar, William Michie, Zhenwen Zhou and Pak-Meng Cham, "", Polymer Degradation and Stability , 94, pp. 859-867 (2009)

Observation and Modeling of Brittle Fracture Initiation in a Micro-heterogeneous Material (with H. Jasarevic, J.W. Dudley, G.K.Wong) Int. J. Fract. (2009) 158: 73-80.