TY - JOUR N2 - The effects of the miniature channel-shaped scratches not detectable by the present inline electromagnetic defect detection system employed for wires’ surface defect detection on the fracture behaviour of the wires for civil engineering applications were investigated numerically. Finite element analysis revealed that both miniature channel-shaped across-the-thickness and across-the-width scratches change the fracture behaviour of the wires in terms of the fracture initiation locations and fracture process sequence. However, miniature across-the-thickness scratches does not affect the fracture shape of the wire while miniature across-the-width scratches changed the wires’ cup and cone fracture to a fracture shape with a predominantly flat fracture. These results provide an understanding of the fracture behaviour of wires with miniature scratches and serve as an alternative or a complimentary tools to experimental or fractographic failure analysis of wires with miniatures scratches which are difficult to carry out in the laboratory due to the sizes of the scratches. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/83942/mainfile.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/83942 PY - 2014 IS - No 2 EP - 194 KW - wires KW - Failure analysis KW - finite element KW - Fracture behaviour KW - Scratches A1 - Adewole, K.K. A1 - Bull, S.J. PB - WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING and COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES DA - 30.06.2014 T1 - Numerical prediction of the effects of miniature channelshaped scratches on the fracture behaviour of wiresfor civil engineering applications using finite elementanalysis SP - 181 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/83942 T2 - Archives of Civil Engineering ER -