Cortical bone, as the principal structural component of the human body, functions in both a load-bearing and protective capacity. As a material, cortical bone has been the subject of mechanical investigation and characterization for well over a century, and the time dependent nature of this material’s mechanical response to loading is well documented. To model this time-dependent behavior, many...

We present an extensive experimental study of mode-I, steady, slow crack dynamics in gelatin gels. Taking advantage of the sensitivity of the elastic stiffness to gel composition and history we confirm and extend the model for fracture of physical hydrogels which we proposed in a previous paper (Nature Mater. 5, 552 (2006)), which attributes decohesion to the viscoplastic pull-out of the networ...

In this work we evaluate the performance of inexact Newton-type schemes to solve the nonlinear equations arising from the SUPG/PSPG finite element formulation of steady viscoplastic incompressible fluid flows. The flow through an abrupt contraction and the rotational flow in eccentric annulus with power law and Bingham rheologies are employed as benchmarks. Our results have shown that inexact s...

-A method of discretizing the die boundary conditions is considered for the analysis of metal forming processes by the rigid viscoplastic finite element method. The method is natural to the finite element method and general enough to treat the boundary conditions of arbitrarily shaped dies in a unified way. Solutions of the spike forging process are obtained by using the method. The deformation...

Abstract The European reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steel Eurofer97 in irradiated states displays significant nonlinear material behavior involving irradiation hardening, loss of strain and uniform elongation, as well irradiation-induced embrittlement. Nonlinear modeled on the continuum scale will help to estimate maximum operating range components beyond onset localized plastic flow....