Abstract: The anisotropic effective thermal conductivity of a random packing of spheres is derived. The conductivity is closely related to the fabric tensor of the theory of granular materials. The ...

Abstract: The problem of magnetically induced eddy current flow in a thin cracked plate is posed and solved for a few special cases. The current density is singular at the tip of a nonconducting ...

Abstract: In Part I of this work, a systematic method based on a nonanalytic complex calculus is developed for two-dimensional internal stress problems. The method is employed to derive the internal ...

Abstract: In Part I of this work the internal stress due to a field of nonelastic strain in an infinite uncracked or cracked elastic body is derived for the case of antiplane shear, plane strain and ...

Abstract: The asymptotic stress field near the tip of a crack subjected to antiplane shear loading is analysed. The crack is growing quasi-statically along an elastic/elastic power-law creeping bimaterial ...

Abstract: The residual stresses in thin films are explained using elementary mechanics. In particular, the range of validity of the well-known Stoney’s formula is examined using a strength of materials ...

Abstract: Nonlinear unloading behavior has been observed in thin metal films on substrates. In the present work, the effects of this nonlinear unloading behavior on the strain energy release rate in ...

Abstract: Chemically driven deformation of polymer glasses is important in a variety of electronic packaging applications ranging from stripping of photoresists to diffusion of processing liquids into printed ...

Abstract: We have developed a new technique that uses a noncontact fiber optic displacement sensor to investigate the crack growth along polymer interfaces under thermal fatigue conditions. This technique ...