INTRODUCTION Articular cartilage is known to exhibit strong transient mechanical behavior. When subjected to high strainrate loading, its apparent stiffness can be 10 times greater than its stiffness at equilibrium. However, the mechanism of this strain-rate dependent response is not completely understood. While some studies have shown evidence of a fluid-flow dominant mechanism of the strain-r...

7000 series aluminum alloys are widely used in the automotive industries for structural lightweight components due to their exceptional high strength to weight ratio. however, this class of aluminum alloy is difficult to join by conventional fusion welding techniques so friction stir welding (fsw) widely is used for welding this alloys. the process has been demonstrated to be effective and is c...

the phase transformation phenomenon due to the crystallographic change of shape memory alloys subjected to mechanical or thermal loading is very complicated. regarding the thermo-mechanical coupling effects in shape memory alloys, in case of high  loading rates, heat generation/absorption during the forward/reverse transformation, will lead in temperature-dependent variation and consequently af...

BACKGROUND Prior microrheologic assessments of selected, microlitre plugs of cystic fibrosis (CF) sputum suggest no intrinsic rheologic abnormality. However, such analyses may not be representative of CF sputum as a whole. We therefore reassessed this question using whole sputum macrorheology. Additionally, we wished to further explore the relationships between sputum rheology, inflammation and...

Injection of optimized chemistry water in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has gained much interest in the past few years. Crude oil-water interfaces can have a viscoelastic character affected by the adsorption of amphiphilic molecules. The brine concentration as well as surfactants may strongly affect the fluid-fluid interfacial viscoelasticity. In this work we investigate interfacial viscoelastici...

Geologic disposal is a promising solution for safe permanent isolation of accumulated high-level nuclear waste from powerplants. The behavior host rock highly coupled thermally, hydromechanically, and chemically. Numerical simulations such phenomena the extremely long term (>100,000 years) large length scale (>1 km) geologic remain to be computationally challenging. In this study, methodology h...

We present a computational study of the effects of viscoelasticity on the electromechanical behavior of dielectric elastomers. A dynamic, finite deformation finite element formulation for dielectric elastomers is developed that incorporates the effects of viscoelasticity using the nonlinear viscoelasticity theory previously proposed by Reese and Govindjee. The finite element model features a th...

In this paper, we define a mathematically consistent set of thermo-acoustic equations via asymptotic multiple scale methods in the low-Mach number limit. The final thermoacoustic equations consist of reacting low-Mach number (LMN) equations for hydrodynamic phenomena and acoustic (AC) equations. The two sets of equations are two-way coupled. The coupling terms depend on which multiple scales ar...