Abstract: The bending bilayer technique is commonly employed to provide an empirical assessment of the often significant thermal stresses that develop in thin polymer films used in microelectronic packaging. ...

Abstract: The present paper concerns the description of uniaxial deformation and failure of ice in uniaxial compression in terms of a nonlinear viscoelastic constitutive theory. The constitutive model ...

Abstract: This paper concerns the optimal cooling of thin viscoelastic plates so as to minimize the residual thermal stresses upon completion of the cool-down process. The thermorheological behavior of ...

Abstract: This study explores several possibilities for a correspondence in the behavior of ice at failure during uniaxial creep (constant stress) and strength (constant strain rate) experiments. The usual ...

Abstract: This paper concerns the optimal cooling of symmetric, balanced, cross-ply composite laminates and adhesive joints so as to minimize the residual thermal stresses upon termination of the cool-down ...

Abstract: Absorbed moisture is generally thought to have a plasticizing effect upon the mechanical behavior of polymers. This paper presents some experimental results illustrating the effects of water ...

Abstract: Several workers have demonstrated the presence of singular stress fields near the edge of a bimaterial interface subject to thermal gradients. Many of the analyses in the literature are limited ...