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Nowadays, the use of finite element Software applications in enigineering departments has become Inevitable and commonplace. Acceptance of the necessity of using such software applications for reducing the cost of research and development does not require any evidences of financial instruments to be presented. Reducing design and manufacture time together with pseudo-empirical approach has cuased the finite element science to become a conventional designing tools.
Since contact is the main method to apply a load on a ductile object,and stress concentration caused thereby is often a major cause of failure in mechanical parts, the issue of contact is a fundamental topic in mechanics of... 

The reliability of integrated circuits (IC) is related to material imperfections such as holes, cavities, cracks and etc. which occur in the manufacturing process. The operational conditions of IC create thermal stresses. These thermal stresses increase the chance of failure by making the imperfections critical in IC’s components such as VIA that is used as connection between interconnects in the multilevel integrated circuits. As a result, thermal fatigue needs to be investigated in VIA thoroughly.
The thermal stresses in VIA increase the possibility of hole forming due to hydrostatic stresses during manufacturing process and the amplitude of applied stresses under the operational... 

In this thesis failure analysis of a critical part in a landing gear of a commercial aircraft was conducted.Fatigue phenomenon was determined as the reason for the failure and fracture of the mentionedcomponent. Fractography investigation of the fracture surface and charasteristicswas conducted.Scanning Electron Microscope was utilized for the study of the fracture surface. In the fracture surface, fatigue striations were observed. An experimental model of the crack growth is presented by using the fracture surface characteristics. By counting the fatigue striations and measuring their distance betwwn them on the fracture surface, the rate of the crack growth and crack growth life were... 

Most of the current application and potential FGM included in the areas related to contact mechanic .These issues essentially are related to the transfer of force between two objects, that in general is with friction, so in this study the contact under the loading of horizontal and vertical with its different aspect such as the effect of contact region, the effect of round and also the effect of getting harden and soften of FGM.
The used method is a numerical method ¬(finite element method) that will resulted in contact equation discretisce by use of Penalty method. In this thesis is also presented the needed algorithms for solving the problem and the finite element code for solving the...