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I would like to call your attention to a special Issue on "Polymer Nanocomposite Processing, Characterization, and Applications" scheduled to be published in the Journal of Nanomaterials in May 2010. The Call for Papers can also be viewed at the journal website at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jnm/si/pnca.htm. The deadline for manuscript submission is November 1.

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The physical basis of material
properties like Young's modulus can be understood by examining
materials on the atomic scale. There are two main things that influence
the value of the modulus:



1.)     The atomic microstructure

2.)     The interatomic bonds.

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Dear all,

It is well known that the wall-to-wall interactions play a great part in the deformation of MWCNTs. At the first glance, I thought the pressures, duing to van der Waal interaction, on the inner tube and out tube should be proportional to their radii inversely, because this interaction is a kind of action and reaction. BUT actually it is not the case, as illuminated in our paper published in APL, although this two pressures are both functions of the radii, they are not inversely proportional to the radii. 

As we know, lattice boltzmann method is one method to solve the fluid problems. and the primary work to use this method is give the corrected "boundary conditon"__pressure conditions and velocity conditions.

To general problems, the PC and VC for 2D/3D problems has been obtained by some scientists(eg.D3Q19,D2q9 ...model).

But to the lowest scale problems, the "force" fields is complexed and the traditional PC/VC is not suit for this kind of problems.

My opinion:

I have a question regarding the experimental determination of rate independent phenomenological elaso plastic constitutive model.

Since the models are rate independent, does the strain rate in the experiments used to calibrate the model parametes have any influence on the model. I am talking about this in context to the Cap plasticity model used in Abaqus. One has to run a certain number of powder compaction experiments to calibrate the model.

I have a fundamental question regarding flow rules of finite plasticity models especially those used in soil mechanics. In most of the papers and books, I have seen the usage of an associated flow rule with the plastic potential similar to the yield surface. However, I am unable to understand the means of obtaining a non-associative flow rule. I am using Abaqus with cap plasticity model (modified Drucker Prager Cap model) to simulate powder compaction process.