A loading frame for fiber reinforced polymer (FRP)-concrete bond tests includes a standing guide tower, a base section, and a loading beam. The standing guide tower is perpendicularly mounted to the base section. A testing load is applied to the loading beam when performing a series of FRP-concrete bond tests. A sliding end of the loading beam is positioned into a channel within the standing guide tower allowing the loading beam to be positioned at a preferred height. The engagement between the loading beam and the standing guide tower reduces secondary forces. The loading frame is mobile and may also be used with existing testing devices and systems used to perform the series of FRP-concrete bond tests.

A method to determine a fatigue limit for a material. Form a test component including the material. Identify a resonant frequency of the component and an excitation frequency which causes the component to vibrate. Measure a response parameter of the component when excited at the excitation frequency. Test the component to determine its fatigue limit by sub-steps to: apply an excitation force to the component at the excitation frequency to cause vibration of the component; alter the applied excitation force at constant excitation frequency to maintain the response parameter constant; measure at least one of an input parameter and an output parameter; iterate the sub-steps to alter and measure until the first order, second order, or first and second order derivatives of the input parameter and/or output parameter exhibit a discontinuity. Repeat the steps for a different excitation frequency. The fatigue limit for the material includes all the identified discontinuities.

The present disclosure relates to a material testing system for use in testing material strength of various gas turbine engine components. The material testing system provides a load force onto portions of gas turbine engine components.

Disclosed herein is a concrete material comprising between 0.5% and 10% ferromagnetic fibres. Also disclosed herein is a method for measuring the strain state of a concrete material, the method comprising forming solid concrete containing between 0.5% and 10% ferromagnetic fibres in a random distribution throughout the concrete, applying an oscillating EM current to the concrete, and detecting the associated EM fields within the concrete. Also disclosed herein is the use of an oscillating EM current field to measure the strain state within a concrete material comprising between 0.5% and 10% ferromagnetic fibres.

The disclosed technology relates to a method of selecting a material composition and/or designing an alloy. In one aspect, a method of selecting a composition of a material having a target property comprises receiving an input comprising thermodynamic phase data for a plurality of materials. The method additionally includes extracting from the thermodynamic phase data a plurality of thermodynamic quantities corresponding to each of the materials by a computing device. The extracted thermodynamic quantities are predetermined to have correlations to microstructures associated with physical properties of the material. The method additionally includes storing the extracted thermodynamic quantities in a computer-readable medium. The method further includes electronically mining the stored thermodynamic quantities using the computing device to rank at least a subset of the materials based on a comparison of at least a subset of the thermodynamic quantities that are correlated to the target property.

To provide a thermal diffusion factor measurement device, a thermal diffusion factor measurement method and a program capable of measuring thermal diffusion with high accuracy, even when an object to be measured has anisotropy in which thermal diffusion factors differ greatly between the in-plane direction and the thickness direction and a thick thickness. In a thermal diffusion factor measurement method, a heating location H on a tabular sample is made to generate periodically varying thermal waves and the thermal waves at a detection location S on the sample are detected by a non-contact temperature sensor. In addition, the phase delay of the thermal waves at the detection location S is detected in consideration of a detection sensitivity distribution DS of the non-contact temperature sensor and the thermal diffusion factor in the in-plane direction of the sample is measured using the phase delay.

Provided is a method for determining the adhesive penetration into at least one porous coating material which is pressed with at least one carrier plate and at least one adhesive layer arranged on the carrier plate. The adhesive penetrates or rises into the at least one porous coating material during the pressing process.

A coupon suitable for peeling tests, derived from a vane and including: (i) a portion of blade that comprises an intrados surface, an extrados surface and a leading edge and/or trailing edge and (ii) a vane reinforcement that covers and is glued to at least a part of the intrados surface, a part of the extrados surface and which extends beyond the leading and/or trailing edge. The reinforcement is split over the entire length of the leading edge and/or trailing edge such that the reinforcement is separated into two plates separate from one another and facing each other on either side of the slit beyond the leading and/or trailing edge. Furthermore, at least one of the plates furthermore comprises, beyond the leading and/or trailing edge, notches configured to provide a hold to this same plate.

Provided is a flow analysis method capable of predicting a flow state of a composite resin material by taking into account a change in filler dispersion degree of the composite resin material. In a flow analysis method for a composite resin material having a filler and a resin, in a certain process of identifying a region in which the composite resin material flows and analyzing a flow, an exothermic reaction speed of the composite resin material in the region is computed using a filler dispersion degree Vwf in the composite resin material, a temperature and the filler dispersion degree Vwf of the composite resin material in the region is computed using the computed exothermic reaction speed, and an exothermic reaction speed in a process subsequent to a process to is computed using the computed filler dispersion degree Vwf.

A loading frame for fiber reinforced polymer (FRP)-concrete bond tests includes a standing guide tower, a base section, and a loading beam. The standing guide tower is perpendicularly mounted to the base section. A testing load is applied to the loading beam when performing a series of FRP-concrete bond tests. A sliding end of the loading beam is positioned into a channel within the standing guide tower allowing the loading beam to be positioned at a preferred height. The engagement between the loading beam and the standing guide tower reduces secondary forces. The loading frame is mobile and may also be used with existing testing devices and systems used to perform the series of FRP-concrete bond tests.