A composite material comprising randomly distributed spherical particles of two different isotropic dielectric–magnetic materials is homogenized using the second–order strong– property–fluctuation theory in the long–wavelength approximation. Whereas neither of the two constituent materials by itself supports planewave propagation with negative phase velocity (NPV), the homogenized composite mat...

Ligaments and tendons undergo volume loss when stretched along the primary fiber axis, which is evident by the large, strain-dependent Poisson's ratios measured during quasi-static tensile tests. Continuum constitutive models that have been used to describe ligament material behavior generally assume incompressibility, which does not reflect the volumetric material behavior seen experimentally....

In this work, we use the rule of mixtures to develop an equivalent material model in which the total strain energy density is split into the isotropic part related to the matrix component and the anisotropic energy contribution related to the fiber effects. For the isotropic energy part, we select the amended non-Gaussian strain energy density model, while the energy fiber effects are added by ...

Insight into a material’s high temperature mechanical and microstructural properties can be gained from knowledge of its elastic moduli. For a single-crystal material, the elastic modulus, Cijkl, provides information on the strain (εkl) stress (σij) relationship given by σij = Cijkl•εkl. This relationship shows that, for a given strain, a large elastic modulus will induce a large stress in the ...

In this paper, a combined experimental-numerical based work was undertaken to investigate the Bragg wavelength shift response of an embedded FBG sensor when subjected to different conditions of multi-axial loading (deformation). The following cases are examined: (a) when an isotropic host material with no constrains on planes normal to the embedded sensor's axis is biaxially loaded, (b) when th...

Buckling of a simply supported three-layer circular cylindrical shell under axial compressive load is studied. The inner and outer layers of the shell are comprised of the same homogeneous and isotropic material, and the middle layer is made of an isotropic functionally graded (FG) material whose Young’s modulus varies either affinely or parabolically in the thickness direction from its value f...

The dispersion analysis in a fluid filled and immersed thermo–electro elastic hollow cylinder composed of homogeneous, transversely isotropic material is studied within the frame work of linear theory of elasticity. The motions of the cylinder are formulated using the constitutive equations of a transversely isotropic piezo–thermo elastic material with a preferred material direction collinear w...

This study presents critical buckling of functionally graded soft ferromagnetic porous (FGFP) rectangular plates, under magnetic field with simply supported boundary condition. Equilibrium and stability equations of a porous rectangular plate in transverse magnetic field are derived. The geometrical nonlinearities are considered in the Love-Kirchhoff hypothesis sense. The formulations are compa...