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Orientation-dependent plasticity mechanisms control synergistic property improvement in dynamically deformed metals

Submitted by Ramathasan The… on

Dear Colleagues,

I invite you to read our recent paper on the orientation dependent plasticity mechanisms that control the dynamic creation of nanostructures and their  behavior under subsequent quasistatic microcompression published in the International Journal of Plasticityhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2023.103657

Synergistic strength and toughness through impact-induced nanostructural evolutions in metals

Submitted by Ramathasan The… on

Dear Colleagues,

I invite you to read our recent paper on the process-structure-property relations in heterogeneous nanostructured metals created through a laser induced projectile impact of single crystal microcubes published in the Extreme Mechanics Lettershttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2023.102037

Constitutive theory for gels by considering molecular frictions

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By directly considering molecular frictions induced on polymer chains, we have developed a nonaffine constitutive theory for large stretch behaviors of gels.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/sm/d2sm01340a#!#

 

Prof. Zdenek Bazant Plenary Lecture at ICDM 4 in Baton Rouge

Submitted by Cemal Basaran on

Prof. Zdenek Bazant (Northwestern University, USA) sent me a copy of the plenary lecture he delivered at Int. Conf. on Damage Mechanics 4 at LSU on May 15, 2023, to be posted. The lecture is about a critique of the theoretical inconsistencies in the Phase Field and Peridynamics techniques. Remarkably interesting talk that will create a significant discussion about the validity of these methods..

 

Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal

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The Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal was established in 2022 by the Applied Mechanics Division and recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of mechanics through research, practice, teaching and/or outstanding leadership. For details, please go to: Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal

Universal Displacements in Inextensible Fiber-Reinforced Linear Elastic Solids

Submitted by arash_yavari on

For a given class of materials, universal displacements are those displacements that can be maintained for any member of the class by applying only boundary tractions. In this paper we study universal displacements in compressible anisotropic linear elastic solids reinforced by a family of inextensible fibers. For each symmetry class and for a uniform distribution of straight fibers respecting the corresponding symmetry we characterize the respective universal displacements. A goal of this paper is to investigate how an internal constraint affects the set of universal displacements.

Article: Interaction of two cylinders immersed in a viscous fluid. On the effect of moderate Keulegan–Carpenter numbers on the fluid forces

Submitted by lagrangr on

This work deals with the hydrodynamic interaction of two parallel circular cylinders, with identical radii, immersed in a viscous fluid initially at rest. One cylinder is stationary while the other one is imposed a harmonic motion with a moderate amplitude of vibration. The direction of motion is parallel to the line joining the centers of the two cylinders. The two dimensional fluid–structure problem is numerically solved by the Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian method implemented in the open-source CFD code TrioCFD.

A new method of plastic limit analysis for rectangular plates

Submitted by Jiang Ke on

Based on a new element model of solid body, the plastic limit analysis of plate is carried out. The new element model is a truss composed of 24 bars. Taking the simply supported square plate and rectangular plate under uniform load as an example, by comparing the new element method with the classical plastic limit analysis theory, it can be found that the limit load and the distribution of plastic zone obtained by the two methods are in good agreement.

A new model for elasto-plastic analysis of steel

Submitted by Jiang Ke on

This is a beautiful, unparalleled elastoplastic model for plastic materials.

Based on the equivalent stress and deformation of regular hexahedron microelement and truss element, a new truss element model is presented. It can be used to solve the elasto-plastic plane stress problem and spatial problem of steel. Through a large number of examples, the new element model can be found to have good accuracy.