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Diffraction-based stress analysis of textured materials depends on understanding their elastic heterogeneity and its influence on microscopic strain distributions, which is generally done by using simplifying assumptions for crystallite…
An analysis is presented of the applicability of the Kolsky technique for studying the high-rate deformation processes of structural materials under compression. Errors in the method caused by inertia and friction are estimated.…
The influence on macroscopic work hardening of small, spherical, elastic particles dispersed within a matrix is studied using an isotropic strain gradient plasticity framework. An analytical solution, based on a recently developed yield…
Theoretical models of compaction processes, such as for example intergranular pressure-solution (IPS), focus on deformation occurring at the contacts between spherical grains that constitute an aggregate. In order to investigate the…
Decreasing the time required for accurate thermodynamic property measurements is extremely desirable for model development that can respond to the needs of science and industry within a short time frame. Here, we demonstrate the application…
In this paper we investigate the yield condition in the mobilization of yield-stress materials in distensible tubes. We discuss the two possibilities for modeling the yield-stress materials prior to yield: solid-like materials and…
Elastomers are viscoelastic materials and their properties significantly depend on the loading rate. The actual stress experienced by these materials is the sum of equilibrium and dissipative (inelastic) terms. At very low loading rates we…
A simple phenomenological approach to metal plasticity, including the description of the strain-induced plastic anisotropy, is considered. The advocated approach is exemplified by a two-dimensional rheological analogy. This analogy provides…
In this work, a higher-order irrotational strain gradient plasticity theory is studied in the small strain regime. A detailed numerical study is based on the problem of simple shear of a non-homogeneous block comprising an elastic-plastic…
An adjoint-based procedure to determine weaknesses, or, more generally the material properties of structures is developed and tested. Given a series of force and deformation/strain measurements, the material properties are obtained by…
Ultra-precision machining of metals, the breaking of nanowires under tensile stress and fracture of nanoscale materials are examples of technologically important processes which are both extremely difficult and costly to investigate…
Voids can be observed at various scales in ductile materials, frequently of sizes lower than the grain size, leading to porous single crystals materials. Two local deformation modes of porous ductile (single crystals) materials have been…
We describe a method to determine whether a material has isomorphs in its thermodynamic phase diagram. Isomorphs are state points for which various properties are invariant in reduced units. Such materials are commonly identified from…
Manufactured metallic components often contain non-uniformly distributed pores of complex morphologies. Since such porosity defects have significant influence on material behaviors and affect the usage in high-performance applications, it…
We present a material (strength) model for describing the deformation of PBX under quasistatic mechanical and thermal loadings. It is a viscoelastic-viscoplastic model incorporating the effects of pressure and temperature on the strength of…
Selective laser melting is receiving increasing interest as an additive manufacturing technique. Residual stresses induced by the large temperature gradients and inhomogeneous cooling process can favour the generation of cracks. In this…
Modeling deformation at elevated temperatures using discrete dislocation dynamics (DDD) is a recent area of high interest. However, the literature dedicated to this subject fails to address the variations of DDD parameters with temperature.…
A new method, with an application program in Matlab code, is proposed for testing item performance models on empirical databases. This method uses data intraclass correlation statistics as expected correlations to which one compares simple…
In the present paper, experimental and numerical studies of interaction between different liquid droplets with different hot metal surfaces had been carried out and the obtained results were interpreted using graphs and pictures. Droplet…