The application of porous bio-nanocomposites polymer has greatly increased in the treatment of boneabnormalities and bone fracture. Therefore, predicting the mechanical properties of these bio-nanocompositesare very important prior to their fabrication. Investigation of mechanical properties like (elasticmodulus and hardness) is very costly and time-consuming in experimental t...

<:ontinuous deformable models are generally represented using a grid of control points. The elastic properties are then modeled using the interactions between these points. The formulations based on elasticity theory express these interactions using stiffness matrices. These matrices store the elastic properties of the models and they should be evolved in time according to changing elastic prop...

The focus of the article is on the analysis of effective elastic properties of planar Solid Oxide Fuell Cell (SOFC) devices. An ideal periodic multi-layered composite (SOFC-like) reproducing the overall properties of multi-layer SOFC devices is defined. Adopting a non-local dynamic homogenization method, explicit expressions for overall elastic moduli and inertial terms of this material are der...

A large number of possible polymer chain conformations exist for a given volume of an amorphous polymer. The prediction of elastic properties of a polymer must therefore consider more than a single combination of chain conformations. A multiscale modeling approach is proposed to predict the bulk elastic properties of polymer materials using a series of molecular models of individual polymer mic...

In this study, the mechanical buckling response of refined hyperbolic shear deformable (FG) functionally graded nanobeams embedded in an elastic foundation is investigated based on the refined hyperbolic shear deformation theory. Material properties of the FG nanobeam change continuously in the thickness direction based on the power-law model. To capture small size effects, Eringen’s nonlocal e...

Layered assemblies of polymers and graphene derivatives employ nacre's tested strategy of intercalating soft organic layers with hard crystalline domains. These layered systems commonly display elastic properties that exceed simple mixture rule predictions, but the molecular origins of this phenomenon are not well understood. Here we address this issue by quantifying the elastic behavior of nan...

We present a simple, implicit-solvent model for fluid bilayer membranes. The model was designed to reproduce the elastic properties of real bilayer membranes. For this model, we observed the solid-fluid transition and studied the in-plane diffusivity of the fluid phase. As a test, we compute the elastic-bending and area-compressing moduli of fluid bilayer membranes. We find that the computed el...

We have investigated various silica zeolites using density functional theory with periodic supercells, plane waves, and pseudopotentials. These zeolitic phases include silica sodalite, chabazite, mordenite, silica LTA, and silicalite. Atom-level geometries, elastic properties, and cohesive energies are presented. Although the zeolites exhibit a wide range of Si-O-Si angles and densities, the co...

This paper describes a method for evaluating material properties of multi-layered system and functional gradient materials from data obtained from indentation testing. The measurement data collected from the penetration force-depth curves is employed for identifying elastic moduli of thin films and functional gradient materials. An axisymmetric indentation problem is first analyzed on the basis...

Understanding the mechanical properties of human liver is one of the most critical aspects of its numerical modeling for medical applications or impact biomechanics. Generally, model constitutive laws come from in vitro data. However, the elastic properties of liver may change significantly after death and with time. Furthermore, in vitro liver elastic properties reported in the literature have...