Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics: Recent submissions
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Poroelastic Properties of a Nanoporous Granular Material with Interface Effects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Many research activities have contributed to extend the homogenization schemes and variational bounds to account for surface stresses, in the case of matrix-inclusion composite materials. The nanostructure of clay-based ... -
Special Issue on Nanomechanics of Solids and Interfaces with Molecular Dynamic Simulations
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Fire Protection Performance of Nanocoating on a LPG Tank under Fire Based on the Wavelet Finite-Element Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)To study the fire protection effect of the nanocoating on the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank under fire, the wavelet finite-element method is applied in analyzing the thermal stress, temperature, and pressures distribution ... -
Numerical Simulations of Dynamic Fracture Growth Based on a Cohesive Zone Model with Microcracks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)A cohesive finite element model is employed to study the dynamic crack growth mechanisms in different materials. Dynamic crack propagation is analyzed numerically for a 2D square specimen with prescribed initial microcracks ... -
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Size Effect on Functionally Graded Material Fabrication by Sedimentation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)A simple, economic, and scalable material manufacturing method of sedimentation has been used to fabricate functionally graded materials for solar roofing panels. This paper investigates the size effect of aluminum powder ... -
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Special Issue on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Physical Phenomena of Material Systems
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Molecular Dynamics Study of Programmable Nanoporous Graphene
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Nanoporous graphene has emerged as a powerful alternative to conventional membrane filters and gained an appreciable popularity in a variety of applications because of its many remarkable and unique properties. Careful ... -
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Quantifying Cooperativity via Geometric Gyration-Based Metrics of Coupled Macromolecules
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)One of the issues introducing a concept of cooperativity between coupled macromolecules is the lack of a quantitative measure. Motivated by the descriptive parameters of the gyration tensor ( -
Effects of Interphase Regions of Particulate-Reinforced Metal Matrix Nanocomposites Using a Discrete Dislocation Plasticity Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Metal matrix nanocomposites (MMNCs) show significant promise for use as structural and/or functional materials. In recent years, discrete dislocation simulations have been used to perform a numerical analysis on MMNCs. ... -
Special Section on Mechanics of Nanocomposites and Nanostructures
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Axially Moving Microscale Panel Model Based on Modified Couple Stress Theory
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The problem of the axially moving microscale panel based on the modified couple stress theory and the principle of minimum total potential energy is analyzed. The mathematical model of the considered system contains the ... -
Modeling Random Short Nanofiber- and Microfiber-Reinforced Composites Using the Extended Finite-Element Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)This manuscript presents the formulation and implementation of an extended finite-element method (XFEM) for random short fiber-reinforced composite materials. A new enrichment function is proposed to incorporate the effect ... -
Nanoscale Structure and Mechanical Properties of Cross-Linked Hydrogels
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Recently, hydrogels have been employed in a variety of engineering applications as promising materials, since their porous structure and hydrophilicity enables them to absorb a large amount of water. Atomistic simulations ... -
Stiffness-Based Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)This paper presents a novel technique for the simulation of a nano/micro-material system known as stiffness-based coarse-grained molecular dynamics (SB-CG-MD), which aims to extend the arena of conventional all-atom molecular ... -
Generalized Matching Boundary Conditions Based on Fourier Transform Technique
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)This paper presents a class of generalized matching boundary conditions (GMBCs) for the coupled atomistic/continuum simulation of lattice dynamics. This work is an extension of the MBCs originally proposed by Tang et al. ...