In numerous metals and alloys, ductile fracture involves void nucleation, growth, and coalescence. In this contribution, void growth has been quantitatively characterized in an extruded 6061-wrought Al-alloy as a function of stress state in notch tensile test specimens. Digital image analysis and Stereology have been used to estimate the volume fraction and three-dimensional number density of v...

A one-dimensional numerical model and simulation results are presented for a capacitively-coupled radio frequency parallel-plate argon–silane dusty plasma. The model includes self-consistently coupled numerical modules, including a plasma fluid model, a sectional aerosol model, and a simple chemistry model to predict rates of particle nucleation and surface growth. Operating conditions consider...

Motivated by a recently developed technique for measuring soft materials properties at the tip of an embedded needle [Zimberlin, et al., Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 763], the mechanics of elasticity- and surface tension-governed void growth within a neo-Hookean material is explored. Previous efforts to describe this technique relied on a hybrid spherical void/spherical cap approximation, thus assumin...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 K.-T. Chau and J. Zhao (eds.), Bifurcation and Degradation of Geomaterials in the New Millennium, Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13506-9_38 Abstract Micromechanical change in packing structures can provide significant insights to better understand the cyclic mobility and post-liquefaction behaviors o...

By employing the in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) technique, tensile deformation behaviors of a silver nanowire (NW) with a single twin structure were studied. Our observations revealed that the initial stage of plastic deformation was dominated by surface-mediated partial dislocation activities. Strikingly, the void formation and growth were shown to govern the later stage of pla...

Recent discovery that nanoscale twin boundaries can be introduced in ultrafine-grained metals to improve strength and ductility has renewed interest in the mechanical behavior and deformation mechanisms of these nanostructured materials. By controlling twin boundary spacing, the effect of twin boundaries on void growth is investigated by using atomistic simulation method. The strength is signif...

Hydrodynamics has a strong influence on substrate elimination capacity in trickle-bed bioreactors (TBB). The present study reports the influence of liquid mass flow rate and bed void fraction on the TBB liquid residence time distribution (RTD), gas-liquid pressure drop, liquid hold-up, and biofilm wetting efficiency. Most RTD are well represented by a dispersion model. It is also shown that the...

in a large scale cyclic storage system ,as the number of rule parameters and/or number of operating period increase, general purpose gradient-based nlp solvers and/or genetic algorithms may loose their merits in finding optimally feasible solution to the problem. in these cases hybrid ga which decomposes the main problem into two manageable sub-problems with an iterative scheme between ga and l...