Post-wrinkle bifurcations in elastic bilayers with modest contrast in modulus

Anesia Auguste, Lihua Jin, Zhigang Suo, Ryan C. Hayward

Extreme Mechanics Letters

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One proposes a new background of micromechanics (NBM) of composites. NBM offers opportunities for a fundamental jump in multi-scale and multi-physics modeling of random heterogeneous media with drastically improved accuracy of local field estimations. In so doing, a difference of linear effective properties estimated by the use of either the new background or the classical one (proposed in 1830-1880) is not significant. See the abstract attached describing a list of 40 papers and conference presentations dedicated to the NBM.

Abstract:

It is shown that a slip wave solution exists for anti-plane sliding of an elastic layer on an elastic half-space. It is a companion solution to the well-known Love wave solution.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw464

https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.01662

In Press, Geophysical Journal International, 2016

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Oscar Lopez-Pamies (University of Illinois) for “Seminal contributions to the understanding of cavitation phenomena in rubber and the elastic dielectric behavior of filled elastomers by means of novel iterative homogenization techniques as well development of effective constitutive model for hyperelastic materials.

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Applied Mechanics Division Banquet, Phoenix, Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Thank you Arun for the very kind introduction.  However, I think the citation is rather too generous and more than a little exaggerated!

Introduction

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I hope some of you may find this work interesting:

Damage modeling in Small Punch Test specimens

E. Martínez-Pañeda, I.I. Cuesta, I. Peñuelas, A. Díaz, J.M. Alegre

Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 86A, pp. 51-60

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167844216301616

A pre-print is available at www.empaneda.com