TY - JOUR N2 - This paper presents a numerical investigation of the effects of lamination orientation on the fracture behaviour of rectangular steel wires for civil engineering applications using finite element (FE) analysis. The presence of mid-thickness across-the-width lamination changes the cup and cone fracture shape exhibited by the lamination-free wire to a V-shaped fracture with an opening at the bottom/pointed end of the V-shape at the mid-thickness across-the-width lamination location. The presence of mid-width across-the-thickness lamination changes the cup and cone fracture shape of the lamination-free wire without an opening to a cup and cone fracture shape with an opening at the lamination location. The FE fracture behaviour prediction approach adopted in this work provides an understanding of the effects of lamination orientation on the fracture behaviour of wires for civil engineering applications which cannot be understood through experimental investigations because it is impossible to machine laminations in different orientations into wire specimens. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/83972/mainfile.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/83972 PY - 2014 IS - No 4 EP - 408 KW - Finite element KW - Fracture behaviour KW - Lamination orientation KW - Wire 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 - 31.12.2014 T1 - Numerical prediction of the effect of lamination orientationon fracture behaviour of wires for civil engineeringapplications SP - 397 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/83972 T2 - Archives of Civil Engineering ER -