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Modelling fracture of graphene using Griffith’s criterion and quantized fracture mechanics

Submitted by Nuwan Dewapriya on

In armchair graphene sheets, crack propagates perpendicular to the applied strain, whereas crack propagation in zigzag sheets occurs at an angle to the straining direction. This occurs due to different bond structure along armchair and zigzag directions as shown in Fig. 1. Videos 1 and 2 show the fracture of armchair and zigzag sheets, respectively.

 

Fig. 1: Armchair and zigzag directions of graohene

MWR for the first- and third-order differential equations

Submitted by Ajit R. Jadhav on

Hi all,

In engineering sciences, we usually end up using either the second- or the fourth-order differential equations, and the MWR (the method of weighted residuals) works pretty well for them.

The question is: how about the first- and the third-order differential equations? Why don't we see any applications of MWR for these odd-ordered differential equations? What gives?

Error in finding connector element result please help

Submitted by Vikash Mehta on

I am getting displacement and force both zero. I am attaching .cae file please have a look where i am making mistakes.


Thanks

Senior Researcher/Post-Doc Position in Solid Mechanics at AICT, Seoul National University, Korea

Submitted by genepak on

Applications are invited for the position of senior researcher/postdoctoral fellow in the following areas with special focus on multiscale defect mechanics of electronic materials and devices:

Reverse Engineering Ants for Robotics

Submitted by Simpleware on

New research is emerging out of a project where Ohio State University used our software to reconstruct the anatomy of an ant neck. In this project, micro-CT scans of an ant neck were reconstructed using Simpleware software and exported as a mesh for analysis in Abaqus.