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A family of constitutive models for mine cemented backfill is presented. Four formulas for the density- and pressure-dependency of elastic moduli, five formulas for the density- and pressure-dependency of friction angle and four formulas…
An adaptive finite element method is presented for the elastic scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a periodic surface. First, the unbounded physical domain is truncated into a bounded computational domain by introducing the…
We determine the effective behavior of a class of composites in finite-strain crystal plasticity, based on a variational model for materials made of fine parallel layers of two types. While one component is completely rigid in the sense…
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