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Continuum mechanical and computational aspects of material behavior

Description: The focus of the work is the application of continuum mechanics to materials science, specifically to the macroscopic characterization of material behavior at small length scales. The long-term goals are a continuum-mechanical framework for the study of materials that provides a basis for general theories and leads to boundary-value problems of physical relevance, and computational methods appropriate to these problems supplemented by physically meaningful regularizations to aid in their soluti… more
Date: February 10, 2000
Creator: Fried, Eliot & Gurtin, Morton E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gradient Effects on the Fracture of Inhomogeneous Materials

Description: Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs) have a spatial variation in physical properties that can be tailored to meet the needs of a specific application and/or to minimize internal stresses arising from thermal and elastic mismatch. Modeling these materials as inhomogeneous continua allows assessment of the role of the gradient without requiring detailed knowledge of the microstructure. Motivated by the relative difficulty of obtaining analytical solutions to boundary value problems for FGMs, an a… more
Date: May 1, 2000
Creator: Becker, Terrence Lee
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