Gorazd Fajdiga

Prof. Dr. Gorazd Fajdiga

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Academic Career Length

27Years (2000-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 June 2009 in Engineering Fracture Mechanics
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GFGorazd Fajdiga
Gorazd Fajdiga
MSM. Sraml
M. Sraml

1 April 2007 in Wear
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Gorazd Fajdiga
SGS. Glodež
S. Glodež
JKJ. Kramar
J. Kramar

1 August 2001 in International Journal of Fatigue
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JFJ. Flašker
J. Flašker
GFGorazd Fajdiga
Gorazd Fajdiga
SGS. Glodež
S. Glodež
THT.K. Hellen
T.K. Hellen

19 October 2023 in Journal of Materials Research and Technology
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JKJure Kajbič
Jure Kajbič
GFGorazd Fajdiga
Gorazd Fajdiga
Jernej KlemencJernej Klemenc
Jernej Klemenc

1 September 2002 in Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics
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ZRZ. Ren
Z. Ren
SGS. Glodez
S. Glodez
GFGorazd Fajdiga
Gorazd Fajdiga
MUM. Ulbin
M. Ulbin

13 December 2019 in Forests
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Gorazd Fajdiga
DRDenis Rajh
Denis Rajh
BNBranko Nečemer
Branko Nečemer
SGSrečko Glodež
Srečko Glodež
Matjaz SramlMatjaz Sraml
Matjaz Sraml
The objective of this paper is the computational and experimental study of the fracture behavior of spruce wood under quasi-static loading conditions during a three-point bending test. The experimental tests were performed on the electronic testing machine Zwick Z100 (Zwick-Roell GmbH & Co. KG, Ulm, Germany) with displacement control, according to the standard International Standard Organisation (ISO) 13061-4: 2014. The specimens were made of Norway spruce (Picea abies) wood, with dimensions of 25 mm × 25 mm in cross-section and 549 mm in length. Six tests were performed for each orientation (radial and tangential) of the wood fibres. Based on the experimental results, the computational model was created and validated by considering the mechanical responses in two different directions due to the orientation of the wood fibres. An orthotropic material model with damage evolution was selected as the computational model. The computational model was validated using the inverse procedure for the determination of the constitutive material parameters, including the damage parameters of three-point bending test specimens. A finite element method (FEM) in the framework of program package ABAQUS was used for the computational simulation, while the open code Optimax was used for the optimization procedure. Comparison between the experimental and computational force vs. the displacement response showed a very good correlation in the results for the spruce wood specimens under three-point bending tests, with Pearson′s correlation coefficient of r = 0.994 for the tangential and r = 0.988 for the radial orientation. Therefore, validation of the proposed computational model was confirmed, and can be used further in numerical simulations of the fatigue behavior of wood specimens.