The objective of the paper is modeling of material softening after the deformation. The main problem of almost every model with digital material representation is consideration of recrystallization as the only mechanism of material softening. Static recovery is introduced into the model based on frontal cellular automata. An influence of static recovery on softening process is twofold. Static r...

Modeling of the evolution of distributed damage such as microcracking, void formation, and softening frictional slip necessitates strain-softening constitutive models. The nonlocal continuum concept has emerged as an effective means for regularizing the boundary value problems with strain softening, capturing the size effects and avoiding spurious localization that gives rise to pathological me...

This paper describes a new framework for relational graph matching. The starting point is a recently reported Bayesian consistency measure which gauges structural differences using Hamming distance. The main contributions of the work are threefold. Firstly, we demonstrate how the discrete components of the cost function can be softened. The second contribution is to show how the softened cost f...

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to softening or breaking down of the brain-substance. In some of the cases I recorded and which terminated favourably, it is, of course, to be assumed that the congestions or other changes were of a transient and curable character. In the present paper I propose to consider the cases which may be regarded as inflammatory in their nature, but which, though exceedingly dangerous, are amenable to ...

This paper is concerned with nonlinear analysis of frames composed of softening materials. The previously proposed dissipated energy maximization approach is extended to determine non-holonomic solution of such frames. The adopted assumptions are: linear kinematics, lumped plasticity with softening behavior, piecewise-linear yield functions, associate flow rule and isotropic evolution with a th...

Kiwifruit is an excellent model in which to study events in the cell wall that lead to fruit becoming soft. In kiwifruit, softening can be separated into distinct phases, with the phase associated with the most extensive and rapid loss of firmness being well-separated temporally from that associated with the respiratory climacteric and ethylene production. This contrasts with tomato, avocado, a...