Publications

The implementation of additive manufacturing techniques in the production of mission critical structural components is challenged by …

Since the discovery of the M7C3-type carbide in 1935, it has been the subject of many experimental and theoretical studies. Initially, …

Dynamic fracture tests are carried out for four groups of hole-containing edge impacted specimens. The crack growth velocity, crack …

Modern computer vision and machine learning techniques, when applied in Fractogra- phy bare the potential to automate much of the …

The science of fractography revolves around the correlation between topographic characteristics of the fracture surface and the …

The alloy system Al-(Co)-Cr-Fe-Ni contains compositional ranges where a solid state BCC-FCC phase transformation leads to dual-phase …

The AlCrFe 2 Ni 2 high entropy alloy exhibits an interesting microstructure, which changes considerably when various thermal treatments …

The methodology used to measure transient temperature changes in impacted solids, using high-speed infrared detectors, is presented and …

Magnesium alloys are primarily associated with complex forming mechanisms, which yield ductility at high temperatures. In sheet metal …

Damage evolution in two types of shear-dominant quasi-statically loaded specimens, with a single spherical pore embedded at their …

Metallic structures, produced by high pressure die-cast or powder bed fusion additive manufacturing techniques often contain gas pores. …

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have excellent intrinsic mechanical properties and would not suffer from inter-layer sliding as …

Graphene is considered to be an ideal reinforcement in metals, and its strengthening to the metal matrix is found to be the combined …

Heat dissipation still remains an unsolved problem in dynamic plasticity, where nearly adiabatic conditions prevail during high-rate …

The objective is to identify the micromechanisms of ductile crack advance, and isolate the key microstructural and material parameters …

A model based on discrete unit events coupled with a graph search algorithm is developed to predict intergranular fracture. The model …

Uniaxial tensile tests were carried on graphene (reduced graphene oxide, RGO)–Al laminated composites with Al lamella thicknesses …

The onset of macroscopic strain localization limits the ductility of many ductile materials. For porous ductile materials, two distinct …

The influence of grain size distribution on ductile intergranular crack growth resistance is investigated using full field …

Materials and construction methods of nests vary between bird species and at present, very little is known about the relationships …

Damage evolution in two types of shear-dominant quasi-statically loaded specimens, with a single spherical pore embedded at their …

Fracture toughness of a material depends on its microstructure and the imposed loading conditions. Intuitively, the resultant fracture …

This paper investigates the thermo-mechanical response and failure behaviour of near $β$ Ti-5Al-5Mo-5V-1Cr-1Fe (Ti-55511) and near $α$ …

Despite major advances made in modeling vascular tissue biomechanics, the predictive power of constitutive models is still limited by …

© 2018 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. At high strain rates, the fragmentation of expanding …

We conducted in situ microtension experiments in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to study the orientation-dependent mechanical …

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd. Dislocation-based constitutive models are widely used to predict the plastic behavior of metallic materials, in …

The goal of this paper is to predict how the properties of the constituent phases and microstructure of dual phase steels (consisting …

Stress wave loaded specimens are extensively used to study the dynamic fracture of a variety of materials. Various geometries can be …

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The efficiency of the thermomechanical conversion, expressed as the Taylor–Quinney coefficient (TQC) is seldom …

© 2017 American Physical Society. Dynamic failure of impact-loaded structures is often caused by dynamic shear localization, that is …

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd We explore the possibility of engineering the crack path by controlling a material’s microstructure in order …

Adiabatic shear banding (ASB) is a unique dynamic failure mechanism that results in an unpredicted catastrophic failure due to a …

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Recent experimental work has revealed that notched tensile specimens, subjected to dynamic …

The variation of ductile crack growth resistance and fracture surface roughness with loading rate is modeled under mode I plane strain, …

Ductile crack growth in a grain boundary layer is modeled under mode I plane-strain, small-scale yielding conditions. The calculations …

Three dimensional calculations of ductile fracture under mode I plane strain, small scale yielding conditions are carried out using an …

It has recently been shown that dynamic shear failure of crystalline solids can be initiated by local microstructural changes (dynamic …

The paper presents a finite element study of the dynamic necking formation and energy absorption in AISI 304 steel sheets. The analysis …

This paper examines the effects of sample size and boundary conditions on the necking inception and development in dynamically …

The dynamic stored energy of cold work (SECW) has recently been identified as the trigger for adiabatic shear failure. However, the …

Dynamic shear localization attracted interest as both experimental and theoretical evidence suggested that its origins are not only …

Dynamic recrystallization (DRX), driven by the dynamic stored energy of cold work, promotes shear localization. However, the influence …

Abstract This paper addresses adiabatic shear localization from a different point of view. New results are reviewed which …

The recent pioneering experiments of the [Nature 412, 52 (2001)] and [Science, 293, 274 (2001)] groups have demonstrated the dynamical …

Two recent experiments have demonstrated the phenomenon of dynamical tunneling of cold atoms interacting with standing electromagnetic …