When skeletal muscle fibres shorten, they must increase in their transverse dimensions in order to maintain a constant volume. In pennate muscle, this transverse expansion results in the fibres rotating to greater pennation angle, with a consequent reduction in their contractile velocity in a process known as gearing. Understanding the nature and extent of this transverse expansion is necessary...

We study the quasistatic behavior of the lamellar phase of diblock copolymers under uniaxial compression and tension along the normal direction of the layers, in both the weak segregation limit (WSL) and the strong segregation limit (SSL). In the SSL, we derive a (nonlinear) continuum free energy description of the system in terms of local displacement of the lamellar layers, and use this free ...

In-plane uniaxial tension of AZ31 magnesium alloy sheet with non-basal texture has been conducted in order to demonstrate the effects loading direction on microstructure evolution and mechanical properties at ambient temperature. Loading axes are chosen be along five directions distributed between rolling (RD) transverse (TD), allowing various activities involved slip twinning modes take place....

The deformation behavior of Zr-based cladding forms a basis for fuel behavior codes and affects failure criteria; as such, it is critical to reactor safety. The present study examines the influence of hydrogen on the uniaxial deformation behavior of hydrided cold worked and stressrelieved Zircaloy-4 plate material. Specimens of various orientations (i.e., stress axis aligned with the rolling di...

This paper presents an application of a Higher Order Shear Deformation Theory (HOST 12) to problemof free vibration simply supported symmetric and antisymmetric angle-ply composite laminated plates.The theoretical model HOST12 presented incorporates laminate deformations which account for the effectsof transverse shear deformation, normal strain/stress nonlinear variation in-planedisplacements ...

PURPOSE In this work we present a dual-phase diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) technique that incorporates a correction scheme for the cardiac material strain, based on 3D myocardial tagging. METHODS In vivo dual-phase cardiac DTI with a stimulated echo approach and 3D tagging was performed in 10 healthy volunteers. The time course of material strain was estimated from the tagging data and used ...

Many shape memory alloy (SMA) applications, such as biomedical devices, electromechanical actuators, and elastocaloric cooling are based on thin-walled flat or shell-like structures. An advanced design of structures requires the development an efficient accurate numerical tool for simulations very thin curved SMA that may experience large deformations even buckling upon thermo-mechanical loadin...

Herein paper compares the analytical model with the FEM based numerical model of the axisymmetric bending of circular sandwich plates. Also, the paper describes equations of the circular symmetrical sandwich plates bending with isotropic face sheets and the nonlinear elastic core material. The method of constructing an analytical solution of nonlinear differential equations has been described. ...