Abstract: After introducing internal variables related to different mechanisms involved in the behavior of materials, two types of couplings are introduced in order to determine the state and dissipation ...

Abstract: Failure conditions are assessed when ceramics exhibit Subcritical Crack Growth from preexisting flaws. In the framework of the weakest link theory and independent events hypothesis, a reliability ...

Abstract: Many theoretical studies have been made to describe multiaxial ratchetting and most of them have been concentrated on the location of the yield domain, not on its shape. In this paper, we ...