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Understanding the bending mechanics of uncured carbon fibre prepreg is vital for modelling forming processes and the formation of out-of-plane wrinkling defects. This paper presents a modification of standard Dynamic Mechanical Analysis…
Shear bands are narrow zones of intense shear observed during plastic deformations of metals at high strain rates. Because they often precede rupture, their study attracted attention as a mechanism of material failure. Here, we aim to…
Open cellular solids usually possess random microstructures that may contain a characteristic length scale, such as the cell size. This gives rise to size dependent mechanical properties where large systems behave differently from small…
The subject of this paper is to study the decay of solutions for two systems of laminated Timoshenko beams with interfacial slip in the whole space R subject to a thermal effect of type III acting only on one component. When the thermal…
In this paper, we investigate the rapid stabilization of N-layer Timoshenko composite beams with anti-damping and anti-stiffness at the uncontrolled boundaries. The problem of stabilization for a two-layer composite beam has been previously…
In part I of the rebuttal (see [2] to the article [1] entitled "Uniform stabilization for the Timoshenko beam by a locally distributed damping" published in 2003, in the journal Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, we prove that…
A multilayered plate theory which uses transverse shear warping functions issued from three-dimensional elasticity is presented. Two methods to obtain these transverse shear warping functions are detailed. The warping functions are issued…
The thermodynamic dislocation theory presented in preceding papers is used here to describe shear-banding instabilities. Central ingredients of the theory are a thermodynamically defined effective configurational temperature, and a formula…
Recent molecular dynamics simulations show that thermal gradients can induce electric fields in water that are comparable in magnitude to electric fields seen in ionic thin films and biomembranes. This surprising non-equilibrium phenomenon…
Core-satellite structures are known to exhibit magnetic modes at optical frequencies and their characterization is important for the development of metamaterials and metafluids. We develop a finite-difference time-domain electrodynamics…
In this paper, a force-based beam finite element model based on a modified higher-order shear deformation theory is proposed for the accurate analysis of functionally graded beams. In the modified higher-order shear deformation theory, the…
Timoshenko's theory for bending vibrations of a beam has been extensively studied since its development nearly one hundred years ago. Unfortunately there are not many analytical results. The results above the critical frequency inclusive…
Diffusion of particles in complex fluids and gels is difficult to describe and often lies beyond the scope of the classical Stokes-Einstein relation. One of the main lines of research over the past few decades has sought to relate…
Designing materials or structures that can achieve asymmetric shape-shifting in response to symmetrically switching stimuli is a promising approach to enhance the locomotion performance of soft actuators/robots. Inspired by the geometry of…
Recently, it was shown that vector beams can be utilized for fast kinematic sensing via measurements of their global polarization state [Optica 2(10), 864 (2015)]. The method relies on correlations between the spatial and polarization…
The shear-transformation-zone (STZ) theory of plastic deformation predicts that sufficiently soft, non-crystalline solids are linearly unstable against forming periodic arrays of microstructural shear bands. A limited nonlinear analysis…
The objective of the present paper is to investigate the decay of solutions for a laminated Timoshenko beam with interfacial slip in the whole space R subject to a thermal effect acting only on one component modelled by either Fourier or…
The vibrational properties of a face-centered cubic granular crystal of monodisperse particles are predicted using a discrete model as well as two micropolar models, first the classical Cosserat and second an enhanced Cosserat-type model,…
We consider the cylindrical bending problem for an infinite plate as modelled with a family of generalized continuum models, including the micromorphic approach. The models allow to describe length scale effects in the sense that thinner…
The modelling of heterogeneous and architected materials poses a significant challenge, demanding advanced homogenisation techniques. However, the complexity of this task can be considerably simplified through the application of micropolar…