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Symplectic Analysis of Wrinkles in Elastic Layers with Graded Stiffnesses

Submitted by Teng zhang on

Wrinkles in layered neo-Hookean structures were recently formulated as a Hamiltonian system by taking the thickness direction as a pseudo-time variable. This enabled an efficient and accurate numerical method to solve the eigenvalue problem for onset wrinkles. Here, we show that wrinkles in graded elastic layers can also be described as a time-varying Hamiltonian system. The connection between wrinkles and the Hamiltonian system is established through an energy method.

Elaborating the controversy on the contribution of the surface stress in silicon nanowires

Submitted by MNasr on

A link between the local surface stress at the atomic scale to the overall behavior of the continuum system indicates a twist deformation at the free end of silicon nano-cantilever. The importance of size and crystal orientation is demonstrated (for more details of the project see:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327768951_Surface_Stress_Effec…).

Nanoindentation and nanoscratching at finite temperatures: Three reviews

Submitted by Shuozhi Xu on

Dear Colleague,

Dr. Saeed Zare Chavoshi and I have co-authored three review articles, concerning nanoindentation and nanoscratching at finite temperatures from the computational and experimental perspectives:

On mixed-mode fracture mechanics models for contact area reduction under shear load in soft materials

Submitted by Antonio Papangelo on

The fundamental problem of friction in the presence of macroscopic adhesion, as in soft bodies, is receiving interest from many experimentalists. Since the first fracture mechanics 'purely brittle' model of Savkoor and Briggs, models have been proposed where the mixed mode toughness is interpreted with phenomenological fitting coefficients introducing weaker coupling between modes than expected by the "purely brittle" model.

A phase field formulation for hydrogen assisted cracking [code included]

Submitted by Emilio Martíne… on

I hope some of you may find this work interesting, the finite element code developed (Abaqus UEL subroutine) can be downloaded from www.empaneda.com/codes

 

A phase field formulation for hydrogen assisted cracking

 

Emilio Martínez-Pañeda, Alireza Golahmar, Christian F. Niordson

 

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 342, pp. 742-761 (2018)