Incorporating interface affected zones into crystal plasticity

Incorporating quantitative variables into linkage analysis using affected sib pairs

Rheumatoid arthritis is a complex disease in which environmental factors interact with genetic factors that influence susceptibility. Incorporating information about related quantitative traits or environmental factors into linkage mapping could therefore greatly improve the efficiency and precision of identifying the disease locus. Using a multipoint linkage approach that allows the incorporat...

Discrete Crystal Plasticity

This article is concerned with the development of a discrete theory of crystal elasticity and dislocations in crystals. The theory is founded upon suitable adaptations to crystal lattices of elements of algebraic topology and differential calculus such as chain complexes and homology groups, differential forms and operators, and a theory of integration of forms. In particular, we define the lat...

Rate Independent Crystal Plasticity

The problem of non-uniqueness in the selection and determination of the amount of shear on the active slip systems has plagued the rate-independent crystal plasticity theories for several years. A new large deformation rate-independent crystal plasticity theory is fromulated which overcomes this long standing problem. The model has been implemented in a commerical finite element program ABAQUS/...

Radionuclide transport in fractured granite interface zones

In situ radionuclide migration experiments, followed by excavation and sample characterization, were conducted in a water-conducting shear zone at the Grimsel Test Site (GTS) in Switzerland to study migration paths of radionuclides in fractured granite. In this work, a micro-scale mapping technique was applied by interfacing laser ablation sampling with inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrome...

Incorporating phosphaalkenes into oligoacetylenes.