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Thermal expansion coefficients play an important role in the design and analysis of composite structures. A detailed analysis of thermo-mechanical distortion can be performed on microscopic level of a structure. However, for a design and... more
The evolution of the microstructure of an assembly of cohesionless granular materials with associated pores, which carry the overall applied stresses through frictional contacts is a complex phenomenon. The macroscopic flow of such... more
The microstructure of dual phase steels can be compared with a composite composed of a matrix of ferrite reinforced by small islands of martensite. This assumption has been used in several attempts to model the mechanical properties of... more
An overview of the micromechanical theoretical and numerical models of wood is presented. Different methods of analysis of the effects of wood microstructures at different scale levels on the mechanical behaviour, deformation and strength... more
Ferritic–martensitic dual phase (DP) steels deform spatially in a highly heterogeneous manner, i.e. with strong strain and stress partitioning at the micro-scale. Such heterogeneity in local strain evolution leads in turn to a spatially... more
A micromechanics framework for the development of continuum-level constitutive models for the large-strain deformation of porous hyperelastic materials is presented. A kinematically admissible deformation field is assumed which enables... more
The Voynich manuscript is the book dated as fifteen century, written using specific and smart coding methods. This article describes the methods how it was analyzed and how coding keys were found. The last manuscript page decoding.... more
Fracture toughness of polycrystalline Fe, Fe–3%Cr and Fe–9%Cr was measured by four-point bending of pre-cracked specimens at temperatures between 77 K and 150 K and strain rates between 4.46 × 10^−4 and 2.23 × 10^−2 s−1. For all... more
Abstract This is a study on grain-scale micromechanics of polycrystal surfaces during plastic straining. We use Al-Mg-Si sheets (alloy AA6022) as model material. The work aims at understanding the relationship between microstrain... more
The micromechanisms of deformation and fracture in tension were analyzed in a commercial polypropylene nonwoven geotextile material in a wide range of strain rates. Two different loading scenarios (smooth and notched specimens) were... more
The paper presents an assessment of the effect of fiber orientation on the strength properties of products made from wood-polymer composites by the injection molding process based on micromechanical analysis. For this purpose numerical... more
This is a study on grain-scale micromechanics of polycrystal surfaces during plastic straining. We use Al–Mg–Si sheets (alloy AA6022) as model material. The work aims at understanding the relationship between microstrain heterogeneity and... more
"A new work-hardening model for homogeneous and heterogeneous cell-forming alloys is introduced. It distinguishes three internal state variables in terms of three categories of dislocations: mobile dislocations, immobile dislocations in... more
In this paper a novel way of a digital analysis of fibers orientation with a five-step algorithm was presented. In the study, a molded piece with a dumbbell shape prepared from wood-polymer composite was used. The injection molding... more
In order to reduce costs of experimental research, new methods of forecasting material properties are being developed. The current intensive increase in computing power motivates to develop the computer simulations for material properties... more
En primer lugar se estudian los diferentes modelos micromecánicos (Método de Eshelby, Mori-Tanaka y autoconsistentes), los cuales se utilizan para analizar el comportamiento de las propiedades efectivas de un material compuesto. Se... more
In the aim to study of the effects of process-induced stresses upon some mechanical properties of simple stacking sequence composite laminates, three different cure cycles were designed. This was achieved on the basis of a cure kinetics... more
We present size-dependent crystal plasticity finite element simulations of the deformation micro-structure, plastic flow and texture evolution in multilayered Cu-Nb composites during cold rolling. The model is based on a constitutive... more
Resumen — Charles Babbage planteó el diseño [1] de sus máquinas diferencial [2] y analítica [3], las que no pudo llevar a cabo completamente por diversas razones. La arquitectura de esta última máquina, analizada a la luz del desarrollo... more
Stress–strain modeling of sand–silt mixtures is important in the analysis and design of earth structures. In this paper, we develop a stress–strain model that can predict the behavior of sand–silt mixtures with any amount of fines... more