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selected papers on fracture in layered materials

Submitted by kilading on

Dear All,

 Currently I am working on the fracture property in layered material and I am focusing on the situation when crack is perpendicular to 

interface. I have read the paper by Dr. Hutchinson and Dr. Suo. If you know any paper that is focusing on the crack perpendicular to the 

interface, please tell me.

 

Thanks and Regards,

 Ding 

Weyl Geometry and the Nonlinear Mechanics of Distributed Point Defects

Submitted by arash_yavari on

In this paper we obtain the residual stress field of a nonlinear elastic solid with a spherically-symmetric distribution of point defects. To our best knowledge, this is the first nonlinear solution for point defects since the linear solution of Love in the 1920s.

A new postdoctoral position in the mechanics of glassy/amorphous materials

Submitted by Eran Bouchbinder on

A new postdoctoral position in the mechanics of glassy/amorphous materials is
available at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The project will focus on
strongly non-linear phenomena such as cavitation, shear-banding and fracture,
with applications to Bulk Metallic Glasses, and will involve advanced

Problems of J-values

Submitted by Young Wook Kim on

hi, recently i modeled inner part-through crack of a cylinder using ANSYS. 

crack line is modeled by SPLIN so this shape is elliptical.

the purpose of this model is calculating a J-values using cint command.

but, i faced a problem that is i don't know how i define the NORM.

in help, NORM is the part of normal direction of crack surface. so, i defined it as NORM,1,3 since

i used cylindrical coordinate system and normal diretion is z-direction.

but, J-vales are divergenced not convergenced. what can i do anymore?

Hypoelastic materials: constitutive equations in rate form

Submitted by brunda on

Hi,

I want to derive the rate form of the consitutive relation for hypoelastic material:

Jaumann stress rate=L:D

where L is a fourth order modulus tensor and D is the rate of deformation. 

Most papers that I have seen begin with this expression. But I would like to know how to arrive at this equation.

 

Any suggestion?

 

Thanks

Brunda

Free Computation Cycling Time

Submitted by Parameshwaran … on

National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Computation (NNIN/C)
Project at Michigan provides free computation cycling time for a limited
time (July 25, 2012 to Dec. 20, 2012) to support researchers in
Nanotechnology (Nano/Microsystems, Nanomaterials, Multiscale modeling,
etc). To get a free computation account, please go to:

 www.lnf.umich.edu/NNIN/Computation/Registration/index.aspx