Browsing by Subject "micromechanics"
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(2009-05-15)Textile composites have a wide variety of applications in the aerospace, sports, automobile, marine and medical industries. Due to the availability of a variety of textile architectures and numerous parameters associated ...
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(2011-02-22)The deleterious effect of moisture on the structural integrity of asphalt mixtures has been recognized as one of the main causes of early deterioration of asphalt pavements. This phenomenon, usually referred to as moisture ...
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(2022-07-28)Woven composite tows can be approximated by creating surfaces using the Virtual Textile Morphology Suite (VTMS) developed at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL). These surfaces have interpenetrations between tow surface ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Thermally induced interfacial stress states between fiber and matrix at cryogenic temperature were studied using three-dimensional finite element based micromechanics. Mismatch of the coefficient of thermal expansion between ...
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(2016-08-02)Functionally graded porous materials (FGPMs) are porous materials with porosity gradient distributed over the volume. They have many applications in aerospace, biomedical, and other engineering fields. Despite a lot of ...
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(2015-07-22)In recent years, great strides have been taken in the advancement of Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) modeling capabilities. The accompaniment of advanced constitutive models with standardized solution techniques have meant that ...
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(2011-02-22)This study introduces a time-dependent micromechanical model for a viscoelastic-viscoplastic analysis of particle-reinforced composite and hybrid composite. The studied particle-reinforced composite consists of solid ...
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(2022-05-03)Aging heat treatments in high temperature NiTiHf shape memory alloys (SMAs) create nano-sized precipitates and modify their phase transformation behavior. Depending upon specific ap-plication requirements, the phase ...
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(2014-04-18)Nonlinear electromechanical and polarization switching behaviors of piezoelectric materials and viscoelastic nature of polymers result in the overall nonlinear and hysteretic responses of active polymeric composites. ...
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(2009-06-02)The present work provides a micromechanics approach based on the generalized self-consistent composite cylinders method as a non-Eshelby approach towards for assessing the impact of carbon nanotubes on the multi-functional ...
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(2012-02-14)Material failure plays an important role in human life. By investigating the failure mechanisms, people can more precisely predict the failure conditions to develop new products, to enhance product performances, and most ...
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(2018-07-30)This study presents a transient analysis of fluid diffusion behavior in polymers, fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites, and polymeric sandwich composites. The studied polymers and polymer composites consist of pure ...
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(2009-05-15)The overall goal of the present research is to provide a computationally based methodology to realize the projected extraordinary properties of Carbon Nanotube (CNT)- reinforced composites and polymeric nanofibers for ...
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(2016-11-28)The focus of this study is to understand the influences of blending silver (Ag) phase into barium titanate (BaTiO3) ceramic on its thermal, mechanical and dielectric properties. Silver-barium titanate (Ag/BaTiO3) active ...