Chloé Arson, Ph.D.
Professor, Cornell University School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Amit Acharya
A methodology for defining variational principles for a class of PDE models from continuum mechanics is demonstrated, and some of its features explored. The scheme is applied to quasi-static and dynamic models of rate-independent and rate-dependent, single crystal plasticity at finite deformation.
This article will appear in Soft Matter (https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SM00664F)
A Dimensionally-Reduced Nonlinear Elasticity Model for Liquid Crystal Elastomer Strips with Transverse Curvature
Kevin LoGrande (1, 2), M. Ravi Shankar (3) and Kaushik Dayal (1, 4, 5)
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2Computation and Information Sciences Directorate, CCDC Army Research Lab
Greetings from Lexington, Kentucky! We are an interdisciplinary research group in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Kentucky. We specialize in the modeling, computation and simulation of materials across multiple length- and time-scales. Our missions include advancing fundamental understanding of materials under different operating environments and making contributions to material design and discovery for diverse applications.
On Tuesday 24th October at 3:00 pm (Italian time) Samuel Forest will offer the seminar “Strain gradient plasticity based on saturating internal variables” at the Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics of the University of Brescia (Italy). Here attached please find the abstract of the seminar.
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Title: Structural self-sensing based on measuring the resistance, capacitance or inductance of the structural material, without sensor incorporation
Speaker: Dr. D. D. L. Chung, University at Buffalo
Time: 10/26, 11AM-12PM EST.
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The problem of the detachment of a sufficiently large flat indenter from a plane adhesive viscoelastic strip of thickness “b” is studied. For any given retraction speed, three different detachment regimes are found: (i) for very small “b” the detachment stress is constant and equal to the theoretical strength of the interface, (ii) for intermediate values of “b” the detachment stress decays approximately as b−1/2, (iii) for thick layers a constant detachment stress is obtained corresponding to case the punch is detaching from a halfplane.
This study presents a computational approach to obtain nonlinearly elastic constitutive relations of strip/ribbon-like structures modeled as a special Cosserat rod. Starting with the description of strips as a general Cosserat plate, the strip is first subjected to a strain field which is uniform along its length. The Helical Cauchy-Born rule is used to impose this uniform strain field which deforms the strip into a six-parameter family of helical configurations-the six parameters here correspond to the six strain measures of rod theory.
