Hello All. This is my first blog entry in iMechanica!. This post is about my new paper with Prof. Amine Benzerga entitled "A constitutive model for plastically anisotropic solids with non-spherical voids", accepted for publication in JMPS (URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2010.03.007 ). In case you are not able to view the online version, a preprint of the paper is attached. This paper should be of interest to anyone working in the ductile fracture area. Your comments and feedback are welcome.

I'm doing a research on anisotropic yield criteria for a FCC alloy and I have to do biaxial tensile experiments to get the yield locus in the biaxial stress space.I have two kinds of samples: 

         1. metal sheet with dimensions of 150mm x 70mm x 15mm(thickness); 

         2. rod with diameter of 20mm and length of 150mm.