• Influence of plastic material properties on fracture resistance parameter is analyzed. Mechanism-based strain-gradient plasticity theory, Taylor dislocation model are used. Amplitude and stress intensity factors for strain gradient formulated. Behavior SIFs differs significantly from HRR solution. The crack tip mechanics solids investigated analytically numerically. A first-order mechanism-ba...

In purely bent ZnO microwires, the excitons can be effectively driven and concentrated by the elastic strain-gradient towards the tensile outer side of the purely bent wire. Experimental and theoretical approaches are combined to investigate the dynamics of excitons in an inhomogeneous strain field with a uniform elastic strain-gradient. Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy analysis on purely bent ...

We report a design strategy to combine the benefits from both gradient structure and transformationinduced plasticity (TRIP). The resultant TRIP-gradient steel takes advantage of both mechanisms, allowing strain hardening to last to a larger plastic strain. 304 stainless steel sheets were treated by surface mechanical attrition to synthesize gradient structure with a central coarse-grained laye...

Some fundamental issues in the formulation of constitutive theories of material response based on the multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient are reviewed, with focus on finite deformation thermoelasticity, elastoplasticity, and biomechanics. The constitutive theory of isotropic thermoelasticity is first considered. The stress response and the entropy expression are derived in ...

Thin films of copper, with thickness between 0.1 and 3 mm, were vapor-deposited on 12.7 or 7.6-mm-thick polyimide ~Kapton! substrates. They were tested in a microtensile tester in which the strain is measured by optical diffraction from a microlithographically applied grid. The Young modulus is independent of film thickness and is about 20% below the value calculated from single-crystal elastic...

Concepts from Finsler differential geometry are applied towards a theory of deformable continua with internal structure. The general theory accounts for finite deformation, nonlinear elasticity, and various kinds of structural features in a solid body. The general kinematic structure of the theory includes macroscopic and microscopic displacement fields – i.e., a multiscale representation – whe...

Infill density used in additive manufacturing incorporates a structural response change the structure. pattern creates microstructure that affects mechanical performance as well. Whenever length ratio of to geometry converges one, metamaterials emerge and strain-gradient theory is an adequate model predict response. All metamaterial parameters are determined by asymptotic homogenization, we inv...