Bonded leather is a garbage leather material that shouldn't be considered real leather. It is a by-product made of leather dust and scraps that are shredded and bonded together with polyurethane or latex onto a fiber mesh. The mixture contains from 10% to 30% leather fibers and has a great impact on the end product's durability. While bonded leather has some stain resistance, it is almost guaranteed to crack and split with regular use. You can expect a cheap belt made of this material to only last about 6 months.
If the air in your area is especially dry, your wood desktop could be at increased risk of cracking and splitting. Wood naturally expands and contracts depending on the amount of moisture in the environment, and without enough humidity, the moisture in your desk can evaporate, leaving it vulnerable to warping.
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It's a completely natural process, but it's unfortunately something that could affect your new wood desktop. If your desktop does crack or split, we're happy to send you a repair kit to fill the affected areas. If potentially repairing your wood desktop isn't something you're comfortable with, we recommend that you take a look at our Bamboo, Eco, or Laminate desktops instead.
At 1.75\\\" thick, these desktops are beasts. Solid wood is a very durable surface and will harden with time. However, the surface may scratch or get dull if you don't maintain it. If you live in a very dry climate, you will need to keep your desk hydrated with lemon oil. Otherwise the wood may dry out and crack.
At 1.75" thick, these desktops are beasts. Solid wood is a very durable surface and will harden with time. However, the surface may scratch or get dull if you don't maintain it. If you live in a very dry climate, you will need to keep your desk hydrated with lemon oil. Otherwise the wood may dry out and crack.
The present model is simulating the slip-dissolution mechanism. The aggressive ions diffused to the crack tip where they act as a catalyst to slow down the repassivation rate of the oxide film. At the crack tip the localized anodic dissolution occurred until an oxide film was produced to repassivate the corrosion process. Due to the constant stresses applied, the oxide film ruptured, and new virgin material was exposed to be dissolved and finally repassivated. This process was consequently repeated, see Figure 1. The environment considered was in the boiling water reactor (BWR) under normal water chemistry (NWC), containing approximately 200 ppb oxidant (O2 + H2O2) in the studied recirculation piping [14]. Considering the high temperature and the low amount of aggressive ions, SCC was assumed to be intergranular and the material considered was austenitic stainless steel in the 304 and 316L series.
The surrounding material were describing with elastic-plastic finite element (FE) as a continuum, not considering grain structure or grain orientation. The crack was assumed to propagate between the grains as intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC). The cohesive model was pioneered by Barenblatt [18] and Dugdale [19]; later, it was put into a computational concept by Hillerborg [20]. The CZM describes the fracture process by introducing a traction separation law (TSL), which is the relationship between closing force and the separation. The TSL by Park et al. [21], called the PPR model, was implemented in the CZM in combination with the degradation feature implemented by Sedlak et al. [22]. The combination was used to change the fracture properties from that of the virgin bulk material to that of the oxide.
The parameter m was related to the passivity kinetic of the oxide film and dependent on the conductivity of the environment [4,31], which is deduced from the aggressive ions in the solutions diffused to the crack mouth.
In Figure 5 the adaptive growth is shown in four steps. In the first initial step (0) in Figure 5a, no current density is present, and in Figure 5b the cohesive elements are in their initial arrangement. In step (1) the maximum current density is present, but the film has not started to grow. The movement is for the boundary cohesive elements, representing only dissolution. In step (2) the film starts to grow, therefore the boundary element nodes are locked and the elements start to grow. The thickness of the element was controlled by Equation (8), which gave the horizontal position of the moving nodes. In the next step (3), the cohesive element containing the oxide film became fully damaged due to the applied loads and its decreasing fracture energy which would correspond to a ruptured oxide film. At this instant, the ruptured oxide film element changed into liquid diffusivity element Dl, making the concentration move forward to interact with the next element. The process repeats itself but with the next element, creating crack advancement.
The CZM parameters were divided in cohesive parameters, degradation parameter, diffusion parameters, and electrochemistry parameters. All the parameters were obtained at 288 C, starting with the cohesive parameters for the virgin material. These were obtained from experimental results [38] and simulations [10]: Tnini=T1ini=2500 MPa, λnini=λ1ini=0.1, αini=βini=1.4 and Φnini=Φ1ini=400 N/m. Iteration for the experimental SCC results by Ford et al. [4] gave the oxide parameters, Tnfull=T1full=250 MPa, λnfull=λ1full=0.1, αfull=βfull=10, and Φnfull=Φ1full=10 N/mm. The degradation parameter χ was set to χ=3, which kept the ductile material behavior until 90% degradation, se Appendix D for TSL shapes with degradation parameter shapes χ=3.
The adaptation was set to run at every iteration. This forced the oxide to grow at every step, showing the actual oxide size by the relative node displacement. Initially the mesh of the cohesive elements was distributed uniformly along the expected crack path. As soon as the routine detected an oxide growth over a certain length (0.01 µm) the upper and lower nodes of the cohesive element were translated to the location of the tip of the oxide film. The result of the initial movement created the oxide film. This movement was repeated after every film brakeage. Both Figure 5 and Figure A2 show the results of the movement. However, sometimes the film would not break before running into the neighboring cohesive element. If this happened the second element was pushed forward Figure A2b,c until the cohesive element with the oxide film breaks. The moved element was sacrificed, Figure A2d, and the neighboring cohesive element took over the oxide film forming process in Figure A2e. 2ff7e9595c
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