The Heart Mountain allochthon is among the largest landslide masses in the rock record. The basal fault, the Heart Mountain detachment, is an archetype for the mechanical enigma of brittle fracture and subsequent frictional slip on low-angle faults, both of which appear to occur at ratios of shear stress to normal stress far below those predicted by laboratory experiments. The location of the d...

A study is presented of the axially symmetric deformation of a non-homogeneous elastic halfspace subjected to torsional shear tractions that are linearly distributed over a circular portion of the otherwise free surface. The problem is formulated in terms of Hankel integral transforms and an inverse procedure is implemented in which the determination of the type of non-homogeneity constitutes p...

Using the infinitesimal theory of elasticity and analytical formulation, displacements and stresses based on the high-order shear deformation theory (HSDT) is presented for axisymmetric thick-walled cylinders made of functionally graded materials under internal and/or external uniform pressure. The material is assumed to be isotropic heterogeneous with constant Poisson’s ratio and radially varyi...

Modeling of elastic thin-walled beams, plates and shells as 1D and 2D boundary value problems is valid in undisturbed subdomains. Disturbances near supports and free edges, in the vicinity of concentrated loads and at thickness jumps cannot be described by 1D and 2D BVP’s. In these disturbed subdomains dimensional (d)-adaptivity and possibly model (m)-adaptivity have to be performed and coupled...

ÐThe bridging tractions developed behind a crack tip are considered for a stationary crack under cyclic loading conditions at elevated temperatures in high-toughness, monolithic ceramics. Assuming a temperature range where the grain-boundary phases are suciently soft such that bridging can occur due to a viscous layer in the boundary, a viscoelastic model is developed in which bridging forces ...

We discuss pressure-driven channel flow for a model of shear-thinning glass-forming fluids, employing a modified lattice-Boltzmann (LB) simulation scheme. The model is motivated by a recent microscopic approach to the nonlinear rheology of colloidal suspensions and captures a nonvanishing dynamical yield stress and the appearance of normal-stress differences and a flow-induced pressure contribu...