A thin metal film vapor deposited on thick elastomer substrate develops an equi-biaxial compressive stress state when the system is cooled due to the large thermal expansion mismatch between the elastomer and the metal. At a critical stress, the film undergoes buckling into a family of modes with short wavelengths characteristic of a thin plate on a compliant elastic foundation. As the system i...

TCAD tools have been used to study the influence of both the uniaxial (process-induced) and biaxial (substrate-induced) strain on nanoscale MOSFETs down to 45 nm gate length. Processinduced stress has been introduced using SiGe, SiGeC, and SiC in the source/drain regions. Scalability of strained-Si MOSFETs and SPICE parameter extraction by combining TCAD and BSIM3 model are presented for the fi...

In this paper, the conformal mapping method was adopted to solve the problem of an infinite plate containing a central lip-shaped crack subjected to remote biaxial loading. A kind of leaf-shaped configuration was also constructed in order to solve the problem. The analytical result showed that the singularity order of the stress field at the tip of a lip-shaped crack remains −1/2, despite the d...

We previously reported that when the stress relaxation response of urinary bladder wall (UBW) tissue was analyzed using a single continuous reduced relaxation function (RRF), we observed non-uniformly distributed, time-dependent residuals (Ann Biomed Eng 32(10):1409-1419, 2004). We concluded that the single relaxation spectrum was inadequate and that a new viscoelastic model for bladder wall wa...

Abstract The planar-biaxial thermo-mechanical fatigue behavior of nickel-base superalloy Inconel 718 was studied for selected proportional loading conditions, in particular biaxial strain ratios 1.0, 0.6, and − 1.0. cyclic temperature with minimum maximum temperatures 400 °C 630 a duration 250 seconds either In-Phase or Out-of-Phase to the mechanical axes. Besides multiaxial tests, uniaxial tes...

in the traditional hole drilling method the in-plane stresses are studied in detail and the interlaminar stresses are not taken seriously. the interlaminar stresses on the free edge of composite materials are important and can cause matrix cracking and delamination. inserting holes in composite laminates causes free edges and it can induce interlaminar shear and normal stresses. in this researc...

Prominent deflections are shown to occur in freestanding silicon nitride thin membranes when exposed to a 50 keV gallium focused ion beam for ion doses between 10(14) and 10(17) ions/cm(2). Atomic force microscope topographs were used to quantify elevations on the irradiated side and corresponding depressions of comparable magnitude on the back side, thus indicating that what at first appeared ...

by Nathaniel T. Hollingsworth Annulus fibrosus damage has been shown to come from combinations of bending, lifting, and twisting. Although the these motions can induce annulus fibrosus damage, the stress-strain state of the annulus during these motions is not known. The objective of this project was to develop more complete constitutive models and to investigate annulus fibrosus damage mechanic...