The mechanical constitutive behavior of geomaterials is quite complex, involving pressure-sensitive yielding, differences in strength in triaxial extension vs. compression, the Bauschinger effect, dependence on porosity, and other factors. Capturing these behaviors necessitates the use of fairly complicated and expensive non-linear material models. For elastically isotropic materials, such mode...

Nonlinear behavior of a functionally graded cantilever beam is analyzed under non-uniform hygro-thermal effect. To solve this problem, finite element method is applied within plane solid continua. Total Lagrangian approach is utilized in the nonlinear kinematic relations. Newton-Raphson method with incremental displacement is used in nonlinear solution. Comparison study is performed. Effects of...

A fully modularized framework was established to combine isotropic, kinematic, and cross hardening behaviors under non-monotonic loading conditions. Three sets of state variables were defined and applied to consider the effects of, a) loading history, b) twinning and de-twinning and c) different pre-strain. Experiments under two types of nonproportional loading conditions were conducted along d...

Optimal control problems for the variational inequality of static elastoplasticity with linear kinematic hardening are considered. The controlto-state map is shown to be weakly directionally differentiable, and local optimal controls are proved to verify an optimality system of B-stationary type. For a modified problem, local minimizers are shown to even satisfy an optimality system of strongly...

Aseismic design of gravity wall still is a more difficult issue. The reason stems from the complexity of the problem which requires skills in soil mechanics, foundation engineering, soil-structure interaction along with knowledge of structure dynamics. Designing seismic gravity retaining structures deals with both kinematic interaction and inertial interaction but almost seismic building code n...

The contribution of kinematic hardening to the overall strain a high entropy alloy (HEA) was investigated for first time ever. It assessed single-phase equiatomic CoCrFeMnNi based on study Bauschinger effect. observed occurrence back stresses signifies substantial hardening. We attribute it low probability cross-slip in this HEA which, however, rises process straining. A model that captures men...

Kinematic synergies in human hand movements have shown promising applications in dexterous control of robotic and prosthetic hands. We and others have previously derived kinematic synergies from human hand grasping movements using a widely used linear dimensionality reduction method, Principal Component Analysis (PCA). As the human biomechanical system is inherently nonlinear, using nonlinear d...