Abstract: Trabecular bone fracture is closely related to the trabecular architecture, microdamage accumulation, and bone tissue properties. Micro-finite-element models have been used to investigate the elastic ...

Abstract: Atomistic simulations have a unique capability to reveal the material deformation mechanisms and the corresponding deformation-based constitutive behavior. However, atomistic simulations are limited by the accessible length ...

Abstract: This work presents an understanding of strain-thermal conductivity correlation in a metal (Au), in a semiconductor (Si), and in a ceramic (SiC) using ab initio density functional theory and utilizing a modified nonequilibrium ...

Abstract: Polycrystalline tungsten is considered as an important material in aerospace, automobile, and energy industries due to its excellent thermal and mechanical properties. While grain boundaries (GBs) ...

Abstract: New developments in high temperature ceramic materials technology have focused on obtaining nanocomposite materials with nanoscale features for an optimal control of thermal and mechanical properties. ...

Abstract: Silicon carbide (SiC) is an important ceramic material usually found in polycrystalline form with grain boundary thickness ranging from a few nanometers to a few hundred nanometers and grains ...

Abstract: The functioning and performance of today’s integrated circuits and sensors are highly affected by the thermal properties of microscale silicon structures. Due to the well known size effect, the ...

Abstract: Dynamic fracture in two-phase Al2O3/TiB2 ceramic composite microstructures is analyzed explicitly using a cohesive finite element method (CFEM). This framework allows the effects of microstructural ...

Abstract: Research applications involving design tool development for multi phase material design are at an early stage of development. The computational requirements of advanced numerical tools for simulating ...