Last updated: September 9, 2025

NEWS AND DISCUSSION

With regard to Chapter 6 of my DSc thesis, I reported at the INNO-2012 Conference and published:

Stefanov S. H. Development of a Model for the Variable Tensile Stress in Band-Saw Blade. Innovations in Forest Industry and Engineering Design, 2/2013, Vol. II, 113 - 122

This is a statically indeterminate problem posed and solved for the tensile stress in the sections of a band-saw blade – something that has not been done in the research on band saws.

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An "echo" from IDD:

Stefanov S. H. A Theory in Finite Differences for Computation of Interchanging Principal Stresses and Principal Axes Rotation. ASME J. Applied Mechanics, 2012

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Based on the Summary of the thesis, I published a book in English:

Stefan Stefanov. Integration of Damage Differentials (IDD) for Fatigue Life Assessment. LAMBERT Academic Publishing (ISBN 978-3-659-14606-0), 2012, 86 p.

This book can be viewed and ordered through the following website of the publishing house: https://www.morebooks.de/shop-ui/shop/product/9783659146060

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My latest publication on IDD (outside the thesis):

Stefanov S. H. Integration of Damage Differentials (IDD): General Presentation and Verification Results. Int. J. Fatigue, 33 (2011), 8 (Special Issue on Multiaxial Fatigue Models), 977 - 984