Abstract: A finite strain analysis is presented for the pressurized spherical cavity embedded in a Drucker-Prager medium. Material behavior is modeled by a nonassociated deformation theory which accounts ...

Abstract: Singular strain rate and stress fields are examined at the tip of a rigid conical indentor penetrating an incompressible viscous solid. Attention is focused on friction effects induced by wall ...

Abstract: The authors, Fleck and Deshpande (FD), are grateful for the interest shown in their work (1) by Tan et al. (2).

Abstract: Plastic collapse modes for clamped sandwich beams have been investigated experimentally and theoretically for the case of aluminium face sheets and a metal foam core. Three initial collapse ...

Abstract: A systematic design procedure has been developed for analyzing the blast resistance of clamped sandwich beams. The structural response of the sandwich beam is split into three sequential steps: ...

Abstract: The tensile fracture strength of a sandwich panel, with a center-cracked core made from an elastic-brittle diamond-celled honeycomb, is explored by analytical models and finite element simulations. ...

Abstract: Aluminum layers, 10–50 μm thick, have been diffusion bonded to alumina blocks and subjected to simple shear in order to determine the sensitivity of shear stress versus strain response to layer ...

Abstract: A theoretical study is given of viscoelastic microbuckling of fiber composites. The analysis is formulated in terms of general linear viscoelastic behavior within the kink band. Material outside ...

Abstract: Couple stress theory is used in the prediction of the size of the kink band width that occurs in the compressive failure of a fiber composite by microbuckling. The composite is assumed to ...