Classical concepts of mechanics applied to continuous materials cannot be used directly for associations of soil clods occurring in ploughed and harrowed topsoils. Therefore, we are proposing a new simpli®ed method for analysing the clod : clod mechanics, for a wide range of clay content. We pressed together axially two adherent remoulded soil balls and recorded a dimensionless strain ̄attening...

Constitutive stress-strain relations for transformational deformation are discussed. A crystal which can be in two possible phase states is considered. A phase transformation begins during the deformation after a certain amount of elastic strain. For each fixed level of strain an equilibrium polydomain microstructure is established which corresponds to a minimum in the free energy of the crysta...

Flexible Polyurethane (PU) foam samples with different densities and chemical formulations were tested in quasi-static stress-strain compression tests. The compression tests were performed using the Lloyd LR5K Plus instrument at fixed compression strain rate of 0.033 s-1 and samples were compressed up to 70% compression strains. All foam samples were tested in the foam rise direction and their ...

In order to study the dynamic meshing characteristics of the elliptic cylinder gear and obtain the meshing error of the gear transmission system, the two-dimensional static contact analysis of the gear tooth surface is carried out by using ANSYS software, and the key parts of the contact area of the tooth surface are determined. Then, the dynamic meshing model of the elliptic cylinder gear is e...

In this paper, a strain-intensity-factor-based method is proposed to calculate the fatigue crack growth under the fully reversed loading condition. A theoretical analysis is conducted in detail to demonstrate that the strain intensity factor is likely to be a better driving parameter correlated with the fatigue crack growth rate than the stress intensity factor (SIF), especially for some metall...

abstract introduction: heat stress risk assessment, as a harmful agent at workplace, is essential for controlling heat strain and heat stress effectively. this study is concerned with the relationship between physiological strain index (psi) and wet bulb globe temperature index (wbgt) in women in the climate chamber . methods: this experimental study was carried out on 36 healthy females in sit...

In order to realize a better description of plastic flow behavior in the warm deformation process GH4149, GH4169 superalloy was compressed by Gleeble-3800 at temperature 700–900 °C and strain rate 0.01–10 s?1. The constitutive model established using artificial neural network (ANN) Arrhenius equation, accuracy compared. results show that average absolute relative error (AARE) ANN is 4.34%. AARE...

A semi-empirical elasto-plastic constitutive model with a hyperbolic stress-strain curve was developed the goal of predicting seismic compression unsaturated sands in funicular regime soil-water retention (SWRC) during undrained cyclic shearing. Using flow rule derived from energy considerations, evolution plastic volumetric strain (seismic compression) predicted shear strains hysteretic curve....

Ligaments, tendons and other soft tissues are nonlinearly viscoelastic. To discriminate among various constitutive equations which may be used to describe the tissue, appropriate experimental modalities are requisite. Ideally, testing should span physiologic ranges for load (or strain), load history (recovery and reloading), and load onset and duration, and a robust model will fit all data. Met...