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Strain gradient plasticity: the flow rule of Fleck and Hutchinson violates thermodynamics ?

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on

A recent paper on JMPS has seriously questioned the foundation of the SGP theory of Fleck and Hutchinson.  The matter is not simple, but is it a good bench test for imechanica to discuss?

doi:10.1016/j.jmps.2008.12.002    

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Call for Abstracts - Symposium on Advanced Computational Methods for Fracture (IMECE 2009)

Submitted by Liang Xue on

This is topic 12-21 Advanced Computational Methods for Fracture in the upcoming ASME Congress 2009 (November 13-19, Lake Buena Vista, FL., USA.) Deadline for abstract submissio: March 2, 2009.

Strain-induced self-assembly

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

Semiconductor particles in the size rage 1-100 nm have special optoelectronic properties dictated by the quantum mechanics of the potential well. These particles are known as quantum dots. Fabricating structures in this size range has been a great challenge of our time. Self-assembly has become an attractive method to fabricate quantum dots. By 1990, it was known that when Ge was deposited on Si substrate, cube on cube, the Ge film is flat up to a few monolayers, and then forms three-dimensional islands.