THIS PAPER is concerned with an analysis of strain localization in ductile crystals deforming by single slip. The plastic flow is modelled as rate-insensitive, and localization, viewed as a bifurcation from a homogeneous deformation mode to one which is concentrated in a narrow ‘shear band’, is found to be. possible only when the plastic hardening modulus for the slip system has fallen to a cer...

– Various experiments have found a boundary slip in hydrophobic microchannel flows, but a consistent understanding of the results is still lacking. While Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations cannot reach the low shear rates and large system sizes of the experiments, it is often impossible to resolve the needed details with macroscopic approaches. We model the interaction between hydrophobic chan...

Piezoelectric-driven stick slip actuators have been drawn more and more attention in the nanopositioning application due to the high accuracy and theoretical unlimited displacement. However, the hysteresis of piezoelectric actuator (PEA) and the nonlinear friction force between the endeffector and the stage make control of piezoelectric-driven stick slip actuator challenge. This paper presents ...

[1] The space‐time fault displacement history of the 11 March 2011 Tohoku (Mw 9.1) megathrust earthquake is obtained by least‐squares inversion of high‐rate (1 sample per second) GPS ground motions recorded in Japan. Complete near‐source time‐varying and static ground motions for periods ≥25 s are fit in the inversion using a normal mode formalism to compute the Green functions. The basic ruptu...

In the present study, plate impact pressure±shear friction experiments are conducted to provide insight into timeresolved dry sliding characteristics of metal on metal at normal pressures of approximately 1.5 GPa, slip speeds up to 60 m/s and interfacial temperatures as high as 8008C. The plate impact friction experiments represent a signi®cant improvement over conventional dynamic friction exp...

This paper presents the study of convective heat and mass transfer characteristics of an incompressible MHD viscoelastic fluid past an infinite vertical plate immersed in a porous medium with chemical reaction and ion slip effects. Highly nondimensional governing equations are solved analytically by perturbation scheme. The analytical expressions for velocity, shearing stress, temperature, conc...