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Journal of Nanomaterials special issue on

"In Situ Mechanical Characterization of Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials"

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Now receiving new submissions for the special issue on mechanics in energy materials.

Journal Tittle: Acta Mechanica Sinica

Article Tittle: Some recent advances in 3D crack and contact analysis of elastic solids with transverse isotropy and multifield coupling

Author: Wei-Qiu Chen

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are intermetallic alloys displaying recoverable strains that can be an order of magnitude greater than in traditional alloys due to their capacity to undergo a thermal and/or stress-induced martensitic phase transformation. Since their discovery, the SMA industry has been dominated by products for biomedical applications with geometrically small feature sizes, especially endovascular stents.

Any fracture process ultimately involves the rupture of atomic bonds. Processes at the atomic scale therefore critically influence the toughness and overall fracture behavior of materials. Atomistic simulation methods including large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with classical potentials, density functional theory calculations and advanced concurrent multiscale methods have led to new insights e.g. on the role of bond trapping, dynamic effects, crack-microstructure interactions and chemical aspects on the fracture toughness and crack propagation patterns in metals and ceramics.