An elasto-plastic self-consistent model for damaged polycrystalline materials: Theoretical formulation and numerical implementation

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...

A Numerical Solution Method for an Infinitesimal Elasto-Plastic Cosserat Model

An elasto-visco-plastic model of cell aggregates.

Concentrated cell suspensions exhibit different mechanical behavior depending on the mechanical stress or deformation they undergo. They have a mixed rheological nature: cells behave elastically or viscoelastically, they can adhere to each other whereas the carrying fluid is usually Newtonian. We report here on a new elasto-visco-plastic model which is able to describe the mechanical properties...

Numerical micromechanical modelling of brittle polycrystalline materials

A generally applicable framework for generating a nite element mesh that is based on the actual micro-structure of a material is developed. The procedure is applied to a microscopic image of a ceramic material. Special attention is paid to the modelling of the interfaces between adjoining grains. Plane strain and plane stress nite element calculations are performed. The observed e ective consta...

Nonlinear elasto-plastic model for dense granular flow

This work proposes a model for granular deformation that predicts the stress and velocity profiles in well-developed dense granular flows. Recent models for granular elasticity (Jiang and Liu 2003) and rate-sensitive plastic flow (Jop et al. 2006) are combined into one universal granular continuum law, capable of predicting flowing regions and stagnant zones simultaneously in any arbitrary 3D f...