Abstract The European reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steel Eurofer97 in irradiated states displays significant nonlinear material behavior involving irradiation hardening, loss of strain and uniform elongation, as well irradiation-induced embrittlement. Nonlinear modeled on the continuum scale will help to estimate maximum operating range components beyond onset localized plastic flow....

The theory of fluid surfaces with elastic resistance to bending is applied to coexistent phase equilibria in biomembranes composed of lipid bilayers. A simplified version of the model is used to simulate the necking and budding of closed vesicles.

Motivated by a model that qualitatively captured the response of vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) pillars in uniaxial compression, we consider the uniaxial tensile response of a class of compressible elastic-viscoplastic solids. In Hutchens et al. [“Analysis of Uniaxial Compression of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes,” J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 59, pp. 2227–2237 (2011), Erratum 60, 17...

Abstract Tensile deformation of superelastic NiTi shape memory alloy wires at temperatures above austenite finish temperature proceeds via stress-induced martensitic transformation followed by plastic oriented martensite. While tends to proceed in localized manner, martensite is considered be homogeneous. In this work, we have investigated strain localization patterns tensile tests on deformed ...

Elastomers and gels can be formed by interpenetrating two polymer networks on a molecular scale. This paper develops a theory to characterize the large deformation and damage of interpenetrating polymer networks. The theory integrates an interpenetrating network model with the network alteration theory. The interpenetration of one network stretches polymer chains in the other network and reduce...

A missing cornerstone in the development of tough micro/nano fibre systems is an understanding of the fibre failure mechanisms, which stems from the limitation in observing the fracture of objects with dimensions one hundredth of the width of a hair strand. Tensile testing in the electron microscope is herein adopted to reveal the fracture behaviour of a novel type of toughened electrospun poly...

Abstract Accurately predicting the fractures that occur in materials during forming not only improves quality, but also reduces amount of material is discarded. Therefore, as a key technology for digital transformation to achieve carbon neutrality, it necessary improve accuracy analysis and establish an efficient method limits. Formability assessment typically performed using ductile fracture c...

Notched metallic glasses (MGs) have received much attention recently due to their intriguing mechanical properties compared to their unnotched counterparts, but so far no fundamental understanding of the correlation between failure behavior and notch depth/sharpness exists. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we report necking and large notch strengthening in MGs with symmetric sharp-and-deep...