The aim of this paper is to numerically investigate the development, thickness and orientation of shear bands, in biaxial test with two approaches towards solving problems of continuum mechanics, namely the meshless "Soft PARticle" method and the mesh based Finite Element method. Soft PArticle Code (SPARC) is a straightforward collocation numerical method based on strong formulation, in which a...

The identification of damage variables and their growth with loading in two dimensions by using only full-field displacement measurements has been proposed in this study. The equilibrium gap method is used to estimate the damage field during a biaxial experiment on a sample made of a composite material. From the analysis of a sequence of measurements, a proposed form of constitutive law is test...

The aim of the present work is to contribute characterization biaxial tensile behavior commercially pure titanium, under various in-plane loading conditions at room temperature, by a non-contact digital image correlation system. Several conditions, with load ratio ranging from 4:0 0:4 and displacement rate 0.001 0.1 mm/s, are examined. It found that yield strength ultimate sample greater than u...

On the basis of the pseudopotential plane-wave(PP-PW) method and the local-density-functional theory(LDFT), this paper studies energetics, stressstrain relation, stability and ideal strength of β-SiC under various loading modes, where uniform uniaxial extension and tension, biaxial proportional extension are considered along directions [001] and [111]. The lattice constant, elastic constants an...

Collagen content and organization in developing collagenous tissues can be influenced by local tissue strains and tissue constraint. Tissue engineers aim to use these principles to create tissues with predefined collagen architectures. A full understanding of the exact underlying processes of collagen remodeling to control the final tissue architecture, however, is lacking. In particular, littl...

We present a mean field theory to describe biaxial nematic phases of side-chain liquid crystalline polymers, in which rigid side-chains (mesogens) and rigid-backbone chains favor mutually perpendicular orientations. Taking into account both excluded volume and attractive interactions between rigid rods, novel biaxial nematic phases are theoretically predicted. We calculate uniaxial and biaxial ...

In this paper, mechanical buckling analysis of composite annular sector plates with bean shape cut out is studied. Composite material sector plate made of Glass-Epoxy and Graphite-Epoxy with eight layers with same thickness but different fiber angles for each layer. Mechanical loading to form of uniform pressure loading in radial, environmental and biaxial directions is assumed. The method used...

Order parameters and phenomenological theory for both high- and low-symmetry biaxial nematic phases are presented and it is predicted that the chiral low-symmetry biaxial phase must be ferroelectric. This conclusion is based on general symmetry arguments and on the results of the Landau-de Gennes theory. The microscopic mechanism of the ferroelectric ordering in this chiral biaxial phase is ill...

The Lüders plateau behaviour is a phenomenon of stress discontinuity associated with strain localisation which can affect the fracture mild steel subjected to plastic strains. Together experimental studies biaxial loading tests digital image correlation (DIC), this work considers effect on mechanical L450 loading, using so-called “up-down-up” (UDU) constitutive model in finite element analyses ...