Response surface function for detecting crack parameters in thin walled beams

Abstract

Damage or crack can be expressed as changes arising in a structure that may affect its ongoing or future performance concerning its safety and serviceability It needs to be mentioned that damage forming cracks rapidly propagate under repeated and reversal loading Therefore early prediction of this damage can help in increasing their life span and avert unexpected modes of failure In the present work a generalized finite element FE model for arbitrary cross sectional thin walled uncracked