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Revisiting pyramid compression to quantify flexoelectricity: A three-dimensional simulation study

Submitted by Amir Abdollahi on
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Flexoelectricity
Piezoelectric effect
meshfree methods

Flexoelectricity is a universal property of all dielectrics by which they generate a voltage in response to an inhomogeneous deformation. One of the controversial issues in this field concerns the magnitude of flexoelectric coefficients measured experimentally, which greatly exceed theoretical estimates. Furthermore, there is a broad scatter amongst experimental measurements. The truncated pyramid compression method is one of the common setups to quantify flexoelectricity, the interpretation of which relies on simplified analytical equations to estimate strain gradients.

3D FEA of stress concentration

Submitted by setareh on
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stress concentration
FEA

Dear all,

 

I am simulating tensile specimens with an elliptical pore(representing a flaw in the material) in the mid-cross section of the specimen. What I am looking for is the stress concentration caused by this pore.

I am simulating this as a 3D specimen under tensile loading only, with 3D, 8-node linear brick elements(1st order). Now my questions are:

1- Is there any analytical solution for such problems(3D with elliptical pore) with which I can compare my FEA results?

A single theory for some quasi-static, supersonic, atomic, and tectonic scale applications of dislocations

Submitted by Xiaohan Zhang on
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field dislocation mechanics
Peierls stress
supersonic dislocation
dynamic rupture

Xiaohan Zhang             Amit Acharya                Noel J. Walkington              Jacobo Bielak

We describe a model based in continuum mechanics that reduces the study of a significant class of problems of discrete dislocation dynamics to questions of the modern theory of continuum plasticity. As applications, we explore the questions of the existence of a Peierls stress in a continuum theory, dislocation annihilation, dislocation dissociation, finite-speed-of-propagation effects of elastic waves vis-a-vis dynamic dislocation fields, supersonic dislocation motion, and short-slip duration in rupture dynamics.

Nanodurotaxis: a fundamental law of nanoscale directional motion

Submitted by Tienchong Chang on
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nanomechanics

Hi all,

One of our recent works on nanoscale directional motion induced by stiffness gradient.

I hope you will find it interesting.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.015504

This work has been presented in 2014 MRS Spring Meeting by Prof. Huajian Gao (the PPT file he used is attached): https://mrsspring14.zerista.com/event/member/109225

Best,

Tienchong

Mechanical responses and deformation mechanisms of an AZ31 Mg alloy- Part 2

Submitted by Amit Pandey on
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Plasticity
magnesium alloys
texture

Recent paper is Part-2 of the paper mentioned below

 http://imechanica.org/node/10104 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749641910001142 

Mechanical responses and deformation mechanisms of an AZ31 Mg alloy sheet under dynamic and simple shear deformations

 

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