The present investigation deals with the propagation of waves in a micropolar transversely isotropic layer. Secular equations for symmetric and skew-symmetric modes of wave propagation in completely separate terms are derived. The amplitudes of displacements and microrotation were also obtained. Finally, the numerical solution was carried out for aluminium epoxy material and the dispersion curv...

An attempt is made to summarize the different ways of modelling the anisotropy of a polycrystalline material. At the single crystal level, the formulation based on Schmid law or viscoplasticity shows clearly the microscopic anisotropy due to the hardening and the orientation changes. It is also shown how viscoplasticity leads to a unique slip system activity irrespectively of the rate sensitivi...

Introduction: Human cortical bone has been demonstrated as an anisotropic material. It has been shown that nanoindentation can be used to quantitatively reveal the anisotropy of cortical bone with the fact that different indentation modulus could be obtained at different indentation directions [1]. However, since nanoindentation analysis is developed based on isotropic material properties, test...

Strain-engineering of materials encompasses significant elastic deformation and leads to breaking the lattice symmetry as a consequence emergence optical anisotropy. However, capability image map local strain fields by microscopy is currently limited specific materials. Here, broadband scanning reflectance anisotropy microscope phase-sensitive multi-material platform for mapping introduced. The...

We study the effect of the anisotropy induced by loading on the elastoplastic response of a two dimensional discrete element model granular material. The anisotropy of the contact network leads to a breakdown of the linear isotropic elasticity. We report on a linear dependence of the Young moduli and Poisson ratios on the fabric coefficients, measuring the anisotropy of the contact network. The...

We show that the strain-induced resistivity anisotropy in the tetragonal state of the representative underdoped Fe arsenides BaFe_{2}As_{2}, Ba(Fe_{1-x}Co_{x})_{2}As_{2} and Ba(Fe_{1-x}Ni_{x})_{2}As_{2} is independent of disorder over a wide range of defect and impurity concentrations. This result demonstrates that the anisotropy in the in-plane resistivity in the paramagnetic orthorhombic stat...

An experimental and numerical investigation of the effect of material anisotropy on the self-positioning of epitaxial nanostructures has been performed. The self-positioning occurs due to a lattice mismatch between two epitaxial material layers (GaAs and In(0.2)Ga(0.8)As) of a hinge. Both materials have cubic crystal symmetry and possess anisotropic mechanical properties. The dependence of the ...

Structural hierarchy, porosity, and isotropy/anisotropy are highly relevant factors for mechanical properties and thereby the functionality of porous materials. However, even though anisotropic and hierarchically organized, porous materials are well known in nature, such as bone or wood, producing the synthetic counterparts in the laboratory is difficult. We report for the first time a straight...