Qiang Zhang, Qing-Sheng Yang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 123-134, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2013.037.123

Abstract In nanoindentation testing of materials, the analytical/numerical models to connect the indentation load, indentation depth and material properties are crucial for the extraction of mechanical properties. This paper studied the methods of extracting the mechanical properties of nonlinear elastic materials and built general relationships of the indentation load and depth of hyperelastic materials combined with the dimensional analysis and finite element method (FEM). Compared with the elastic contact models and other nonlinear elastic contact models, the proposed models can extract the mechanical properties of nonlinear elastic materials under large deformation simply and effectively. More >

Chyanbin Hwu¹, Tai-Liang Kuo²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.36, No.2, pp. 135-153, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2013.036.135

Abstract The problems of the interface corners between two dissimilar anisotropic viscoelastic materials are studied in this paper. Through the use of the well-known correspondence principle between linear elasticity and linear viscoelasticity, fracture parameters in the Laplace domain can be obtained from the path-independent H-integral for the corresponding problems of anisotropic linear elastic materials. Further application of the correspondence relations for fracture parameters proposed in our recent study then leads us the solutions of fracture parameters in the time domain. To show the applicability and accuracy of the proposed method, several different kinds of numerical examples More >

Chandra Veer Singh^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.34, No.3, pp. 227-249, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2013.034.227

Abstract A non-linear damage model is developed for the prediction of stiffness degradation in composite laminates due to transverse matrix cracking. The model follows the framework of a recently developed synergistic damage mechanics (SDM) approach which combines the strengths of micro-damage mechanics and continuum damage mechanics (CDM) through the so-called constraint parameters. A common limitation of the current CDM and SDM models has been the tendency to over-predict stiffness changes at high crack densities due to linearity inherent in their stiffness-damage relationships. The present paper extends this SDM approach by including higher order damage terms in More >

Yi Xiao¹, Qing H. Qin¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.34, No.2, pp. 95-115, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2013.034.095

Abstract In this paper, we propose a new approach of optical full-field measurement for displacement calculation on the surface of a cellular solid. Cell boundary points are sampled as nodes in the analysis. To find the nodal values of displacements the nodes are to be mapped onto their corresponding points in the deformed cell boundary by shape based point matching. A thin plate spline based robust point matching (TPS-RPM) approach is used instead of correlation of intensity pattern between two regions in traditional displacement measurement methods. The proposed approach involves multiple-step image processing including cell region More >

Bingfei Liu¹, Guansuo Dui^2,3, Benming Xie¹, Libiao Xin³, Lijun Xue³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.34, No.1, pp. 83-94, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2013.034.083

Abstract Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs) are being used in an everexpanding set of applications. For better applications, an analytical methodology using averaging technique of composites is developed to describe the thermo-elastic and thermo-elastoplastic behaviors of a three-layered FGM system subjected to thermal loading Solutions using averaging technique of composites for the stress distributions in a generic FGM system subjected to arbitrary temperature loading conditions are presented. The power-law strain hardening behaviour is assumed for the FGM metallic phase and the stress of the metallic phase are calculated to judge the plastic in this work The stress More >

Chih-Ping Wu^1,2, Hao-Yuan Li¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.34, No.1, pp. 27-62, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2013.034.027

Abstract A Reissner's mixed variational theorem (RMVT)-based finite rectangular prism method (FRPM) is developed for the three-dimensional (3D) analysis of sandwich functionally graded material (FGM) plates subjected to mechanical loads, in which the edge conditions of the plates are such that one pair of opposite edges is simply supported and the other pair may be combinations of free, clamped or simply supported edges. The sandwich FGM plate considered consists of two thin and stiff homogeneous material face sheets combined with an embedded thick and soft FGM core, the material properties of which are assumed to obey… More >

BIOCELL, Vol.36, Suppl.S, pp. 1-14, 2012

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F. De Angelis¹

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.8, No.4, pp. 341-358, 2012, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2012.008.341

Abstract The influence of different loading rates on the structural response of elasto/viscoplastic materials is illustrated with specific numerical examples. An associated formulation of the evolutive laws in elasto/viscoplasticity is presented within the framework of the generalized standard material model with internal variables. An appropriate solution scheme is applied which is capable to be adopted for different constitutive models. Different loading programs are analyzed by considering different values of the loading rate and of the intrinsic properties of the material. Computational applications and examples are illustrated which describe the rate-dependency of the elasto/viscoplastic material behavior. The More >

P.H. Wen¹, M.H. Aliabadi²

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.8, No.3, pp. 223-248, 2012, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2012.008.223

Abstract A mesh-free method for modelling crack growth in functionally graded materials is presented. Based on the variational principle of the potential energy, mesh-free method has been implemented with enriched radial bases interpolation functions to evaluate mixed-mode stress intensity factors, which are introduced to capture the singularity of stress at the crack tip. Paris law and the maximum principle stress criterion are adopted for defining the growth rate and direction of the fatigue crack growth respectively. The accuracy of the proposed method is assessed by comparison to other available solutions. More >

Cherl-Hee Lee¹, Jonghun Lee¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.31, No.2, pp. 147-156, 2012, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2012.031.147

Abstract The guided modes are investigated in a five-layered slab waveguide with double claddings of metamaterials using a new graphical method. The dispersion equations in the symmetric and asymmetric five-layered slab waveguide are derived from the presented graphical method, and corresponding field distributions are plotted for the oscillating guided and surface guided modes. The energy flux distribution along the axis is plotted for the surface TE₁ mode. More >