The mechanical strength and toughness of engineering materials are often mutually exclusive, posing challenges for material design and selection. To address this, a research team from The Hong Kong ...

Fatigue failure is one of the most common causes of mechanical breakdowns and accounts for the majority of engineering failures worldwide. From everyday items like office chair bolts to critical ...

Yanzhi Hu, Xiao Li, Zhaobin Zhang, Jianming He, Guanfang Li, Numerical modeling of complex hydraulic fracture networks based on the discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) method, Energy Exploration ...

In this course, students will develop a comprehensive understanding of the fracture of soft materials and experimental approaches to measure the fracture properties of soft materials. Prerequisites ...