This study presents the effect of porosity on mechanical behaviors of a power distribution functionally graded beam. The Euler-Bernoulli beam is assumed to describe the kinematic relations and constitutive equations. Because of technical problems, particle size shapes and micro-voids are created during the fabrication which should be taken into consideration. Two porosity models are proposed. T...

In this study, a technique is presented for developing constitutive models for polymer composite systems reinforced with single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT). Because the polymer molecules are on the same size scale as the nanotubes, the interaction at the polymer/nanotube interface is highly dependent on the local molecular structure and bonding. At these small length scales, the lattice stru...

The microstructure can have an important impact on the hydraulic and mechanical behaviors of unsaturated soil; therefore, it must be considered in constitutive models to enable accurate predictions soil behavior. This paper focused modeling soils that exhibited a dual porosity structure. Based assumption macro micropores contained double structure had different influences behaviors, effective d...

The rocks are formed through very complex processes and the complex behaviour of rock masses is dominated by the planes of weaknesses . Rock mass consists of intact rock and discontinuities. Many rocks show strain softening behaviour under loads. In this paper, the constitutive models for intact rocks and rock joints are presented. These form the basis for the development of constitutive models...

a molecular imprinted polymer (mip) was computationally designed and synthesized for the selective extraction of metaproterenol (mtp), from human plasma. in this regards semi empirical mp3 and mechanical quantum (dft) calculations were used to find a suitable functional monomers. on the basis of computational and experimental results, acrylic acid (aa) and dmso:meoh (90:10 %v/v) were found to b...

the critical properties of a solute are required for modeling of the solubility by the equation of state. for many compounds, the critical properties are not available. so, group contribution method is utilized as a common method to estimate these properties. but, it leads to the consecutive errors in calculations of the solubility modeling. in this study, soave-redlish-kowang (srk) and peng-ro...

We present and compare three elastoplastic models currently used for deformation of metallic glasses, namely, a von Mises model, a modified von Mises model with hydrostatic stress effect included, and a Drucker-Prager model. The constitutive models are formulated in conjunction with the free volume theory for plastic deformation and are implemented numerically with finite element method. We sho...

Many researchers try to explain consumer’s acceptance and opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) using social factors like “trust” in “direct causal” or “joint causal” (also referred to as “associationist”) models. The latter approach considers attitudes to Genetically Modified foods (GM foods) to be jointly determined by trust and risk perception. With data from a European Survey ...