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Multi-scale modeling of plastic deformations in nano-scale materials; Transition to plastic limit

Submitted by M. Jahanshahi on

Despite the controversial debates concerning a unified theory, the continuum plasticity has evolved during the last few decades and an uncountable number of articles has been published on the subject. The proposal of Lee to decompose the deformation gradient, F, into elastic part Fe and plastic part Fp (i.e. F=FeFp) combined with the principle of maximum plastic dissipation is used in many publications to formulate the ensuing developments.

Structural mechanics models for renewable energy applications

Submitted by marco.paggi on

Dear Colleague,

the output of the FIRB Italian Project in the object (Politecnico di Torino, University of Salento and University of Trento, 2012-2016) has been published on the following permanent webpage:

http://musam.imtlucca.it/FIRB.html

Models and applications regard photovoltaic modules, solid oxide fuel cells, and piezoelectrical systems for energy harvesting.

Yours sincerely, 

Marco Paggi 

Principal Investigator 

 

 

 

Effect of material nonlinearity on spatial buckling of nanorods and nanotubes

Submitted by Ajeet Kumar on

You may be interested in reading our following article: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10659-016-9586-1. We show the importance of incorporating material nonlinearity for accurate simulation of nanorods and nanotubes. The linear material laws are shown to give completely erroneous results. The nonlinear material laws for nanorods were obtained using the recently proposed "Helical Cauchy-Born rule". We also discuss how surface stress affects buckling in such nanostructures.

XFEM crack under compression.

Submitted by Hidroxid on

Hi all,

 

I am doing crack modelling (XFEM) under moving compression and traction loading in Abaqus but I get warning regarding the crack under compression load as follows:

"THE LOADING CONDITION MIGHT MAKE MAIN CRACK UNDER COMPRESSION AT  NSET "X" THE CRACK PROPAGATION DIRECTION CANNOT BE PREDICTED. A VALUE OF ZERO IS PROVIDED FOR IT."

Anyone facing the same issue?

Kind regards,

Omid