Bolus materials are occasionally used during the high energy photon and electron radiation treatments of head, neck, breast, and chest wall areas in order to deliver the full prescribed dose to the skin surface and underlining tissue. Where skin surface curvatures make uniform contact between the bolus material and skin surface difficult, we have studied a new bolus material called Elasto-gel. ...

Determination of stress strain state components of butt welded joint with a mild interlayer at elasto-plastic tension is presented in this paper. Function of normal transverse stresses distribution on the thickness of mild interlayer and equations for determination of the stress intensity maximum value in hard metal at elasto-plastic deforming are proposed. The longitudinal stresses of mild and...

Researchers have developedmanymodels to simulate the elasto-plastic contact of spheres. However, there does not appear to exist a closed-form analytical model for elasto-plastic three-dimensional sinusoidal contact. This work uses a finite element model (FEM) to characterize elasto-plastic sinusoidal contact. Although at initial contact the sphere and sinusoidal case are very similar and can bo...

An integrated approach for all necessary variations within direct analysis, variational design sensitivity analysis and shakedown analysis based on Melan’s static shakedown theorem for linear unlimited kinematic hardening material behavior is formulated. Remarks on the computer implementation and numerical examples show the efficiency of the proposed formulation. Important effects of shakedown ...

This paper aims to develop a numerical multiscale homogenization method for prediction of elasto-viscoplastic properties of a high performance concrete (HPC). The homogenization procedure is separated into two-levels according to the microstructure of the HPC: the mortar or matrix level and the concrete level. The elasto-viscoplastic behavior of individual microstructural phases of the matrix a...

In a previous companion paper (Part I: A Plastic Hinge Approach), adaptive elasto-plastic analysis of space frames was discussed in the context of a plastic hinge approach. The present paper extends the concept of automatic mesh refinement to deal with accurate elasto-plastic large displacement analysis accounting for the spread of yield within structural members. This is achieved through the u...

We propose, ElastO, a distributed system for constructing and maintaining scalable churn-resistant overlay networks for topic-based publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems. ElastO is designed to dynamically tread the balance among several key dimensions: (a) topic-connected overlay (TCO), i.e., the sub-overlay induced by nodes interested in any topic is connected, (b) low maximum and average node f...

Elasto-inertial focusing in viscoelastic fluids has attracted increasing interest in recent years due to its potential applications in particle counting and sorting. However, current investigations of the elasto-inertial focusing mechanisms have mainly been focused on simple straight channels with little attention being paid to curved channels. Herein, we experimentally explore the elasto-inert...

1.Abstract A continuum-based design sensitivity analysis (DSA) applied to the thickness design of the anisotropic elasto-plastic shell structures is developed. Since main interest lies in developing path-following algorithms for solving sensitivity problems of elasto-plasticity, such an incremental or a step-by-step formalism will be employed to implementation into the structural analysis progr...

Non-associative elasto-plasticity is the working model of plasticity for soil and rock mechanics. Yet, it is usually viewed as non-variational. In this work, we prove a contrario the existence of a variational evolution for such a model under a natural capping assumption on the hydrostatic stresses and a less natural mollification of the stress admissibility constraint. The obtained elasto-plas...