Showing papers in "International Journal of Solids and Structures in 2016"
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TL;DR: In this paper, an efficient algorithm for particle generation and packing is proposed to represent 3D meso-structures as collections of discrete features distributed randomly in a continuous phase, where the continuous phase represents mortar, while the features are aggregates and voids.
151 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the Edge Notched Disc Bend (ENDB) is used for fracture testing of asphalt composites under mixed mode I/III deformation, which is a disc containing an edge crack created through one side of specimen along the diameter and is loaded by a threepoint bend fixture.
133 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a finite element based numerical model is developed to simulate the thermal cracking behavior of brittle solids subjected to thermal shock, including the initiation and propagation of microcracks, and the formation of approximately equally spaced surface cracks.
105 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the in-plane uniaxial collapse response of a second order hierarchical honeycomb (i.e., a regular hexagonal honeycomb with its cell walls consisting of an equilateral triangular honeycomb) is investigated by finite element simulations.
104 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a nonlinear, in-plane, shear modulus of reentrant hexagonal honeycombs under large deformation is analyzed by studying the mechanical behavior of cell structures, which is later verified by numerical simulations.
98 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a simplified model of periodic chiral beam-lattices containing local resonators has been formulated to obtain a better understanding of the influence of the chirality and of the dynamic characteristics of the local Resonators on the acoustic behaviour.
97 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a robust cyclic viscoplasticity model is developed for simulating a broad set of isothermal, low-cycle fatigue and fatigue-creep responses of Haynes 230 (HA 230) under uniaxial loading.
93 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a system constituted by two families of nearly inextensible fibers is studied, and the main result consists in the determination of the nonlinear integral equations describing fibers directions for a specific class of deformation energies.
92 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the general isotropic strain gradient elasticity theory with five higher-order elastic constants is reformulated by introducing two different orthogonal decompositions of the strain gradient tensor.
86 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) are converted into three-dimensional solid-sheet networks and used as reinforcements within a matrix material creating interpenetrating phase composites (IPC).
84 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the wave propagation in undulated square structural lattices is investigated and it is shown that wave motion is inhibited within specified frequency ranges owing to the generation of band gaps, and in specific directions as a result of the undulation-induced anisotropy.
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TL;DR: An analytic model of serpentine interconnects is developed starting from the finite deformation theory of planar, curved beams to predict the performance of stretchability and a simplified analytic solution of the stretchability is obtained by using an approximate model to characterize the nonlinear effect.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a 2D mesoscale model in which the concrete is modeled as a heterogeneous three-phase material composed of coarse aggregates, mortar matrix and Interfacial Transition Zone (ITZ).
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TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of plasticity on fretting wear was investigated using a finite-element model, and it was shown that wear scar can extend continuously into the contact region and extensive damage or catastrophic failure is to be anticipated, given a sufficient number of fretting cycles.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an analytical framework for predicting equivalent in-plane elastic moduli of irregular honeycombs using a representative unit cell element (RUCE) approach was proposed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the fundamental solutions for a line crack under uniformly distributed extended displacement discontinuities on the crack surface are derived, in which the Extended Displacement Discrepancy boundary element method is developed to calculate the stress, electric displacement and electric current intensity factors at crack tip.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of different mushroom shapes on adhesion to a rigid substrate were analyzed numerically and the results support the rational optimisation of synthetic micropatterned adhesives.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an implementation of a (mesh-free) smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) algorithm, intended for the application to solid bodies, and use it to simulate scratch-induced surface damage on an elasto-viscoplastic material.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used stereo digital image correlation (DIC) to monitor the deformation inside these localization zones up to failure and found that the measured failure strains at failure are significantly larger than previously reported values, approaching measurements based on statistical grain level measurements.
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TL;DR: In this article, the tensor cross product is used to model the elasticity of polyconvex elasticity and the area and volume maps between reference and final configurations, together with the fiber map, which make up the fundamental kinematic variables in elasticity, leading to new formulas for the spatial and material stress and their corresponding elasticity tensors.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a large strain hyperelastic phenomenological constitutive model is proposed to model the highly nonlinear, rate-dependent mechanical behavior of amorphous glassy polymers under isothermal conditions.
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TL;DR: In this article, a simple beam model based on standard Timoshenko kinematics is derived, describing accurately the effects of non-prismatic geometry on the beam behavior and motivating equation's terms with both physical and mathematical arguments.
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TL;DR: In this article, the state of combined bending and tension in a Ti-7Al alloy under room temperature creep was analyzed using high energy diffraction microscopy (HEDM) experiments.
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TL;DR: In this article, the virtual fields method was employed to identify the constitutive parameters of anisotropic plasticity models using the finite deformation theory in order to account for large strains.
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TL;DR: In this article, a numerical study on the deformation dependent behavior of magnetorheological elastomers with structured and unstructured particle distributions is presented, where finite element simulations are performed to calculate the effective magnetization and macroscopic actuation stresses for different specimens with realistic microstructures and varying mechanical preloads.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the sinusoidally-patterned and flat interfaces in AA7075-T6 double cantilever beam (DCB) adhesive joints were investigated with an experimental/theoretical approach.
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TL;DR: In this article, a bi-modulus constitutive relation was proposed to simulate tension-compression asymmetric behavior of thin plane membranes and explain some unusual cell mechanosensing phenomena.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a stochastic homogenization method that combines the state-of-the-art computational multi-scale homogenisation method with the Stochastic finite element method is proposed to predict the statistics of the effective elastic properties of textile composite materials.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a structural theory for large-scale analyses of three-dimensional cable structures undergoing, in general, large displacements and rotations, and a refined mechanical description of metallic strands, fully accounting for their composite nature and hysteretic bending behavior is presented.
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TL;DR: In this article, coupled analysis methods for a simulation to accurately predict the long-term deformations of concrete structures are considered. But coupled analysis is not the only method that can be used to simulate the longterm deformation of a concrete structure.