The deformation behavior of bulk ZnO single crystals is studied by a combination of spherical nanoindentation and atomic force microscopy. Results show that ZnO exhibits plastic deformation for relatively low loads ~*4–13 mN with an ;4.2 mm radius spherical indenter!. Interestingly, the elastic–plastic deformation transition threshold depends on the loading rate, with faster loading resulting, ...

This paper provides a comprehensive review on the methodological development and technical applications of in situ microscopy, including transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM), developed in the last decade for investigating the structure-mechanical-property relationship of a single one-dimensional nanomaterial, such as nanotu...

In this paper, we consider hybrid models of mechanical systems undergoing impacts, i.e., Lagrangian hybrid systems, and study their periodic orbits in the presence of Zeno behavior. The main result of this paper is explicit conditions under which the existence of stable periodic orbits for a Lagrangian hybrid system with plastic impacts implies the existence of periodic orbits in the same Lagra...

the main objective of this study is to drive a simple solution for prediction of steel fiber reinforced concrete (sfrc) behavior under four point bending test (fpbt). in this model all the force components at the beam section (before and after cracking) are formulated by applying these assumptions: a bilinear elastic-perfectly plastic stress-strain response for concrete behavior in compression,...

This paper presents a unified approach to model the influence of fabric anisotropy 6 and its evolution on both the elastic and plastic responses of sand. A physically based fabric 7 tensor is employed to characterize the anisotropic internal structure of sand. It is incorporated 8 into the nonlinear elastic stiffness tensor to describe anisotropic elasticity, and is further 9 included explicitl...

The compressive plastic strength of nanometer-scale single-crystal metallic pillars is larger than that found in conventionally sized samples. This behavior is generally associated with a change in the length scale that determines plastic behavior and the consequent inability of nanoscale samples to store dislocations. Here, we show in the case of nanocrystalline nickel pillars, for which there...

in many cases, a torsional shaft may be a thick-walled radially inhomogeneous cylindrical object. the hollow shafts made of functionally graded materials (fgms) are such kind of compositions which were studied in this paper. cylindrical fg shafts are composed of ceramic and metallic parts with power function distribution across the radial direction. the ceramic phase is isotropic elastic and th...

the effect of welding residual stresses that was created in thin infill plate of steel plate shear wall system during constructional processes was studied in this research. residual stresses in a welded structure is the result of the non-uniform expansion and contraction and plastic deformation of the weld and surrounding base metal due to heating and cooling cycle, during welding process, this...

This document is the second deliverable produced within WP2 in the PLASTIC project. This deliverable describes the PLASTIC UML2 profile that concerns the starting point of the whole PLASTIC development process (described in PLASTIC Deliverable D2.1 – http://wwwc.inria.fr/plastic/deliverables/plastic-d2_1-finalpdf.pdf/download). It is a concrete implementation of the PLASTIC conceptual model (de...