Continuum mechanical and computational aspects of material behavior
The focus of the work is the application of continuum mechanics to materials science, specifically to the macroscopic characterization of material behavior at small length scales. The long-term goals are a continuum-mechanical framework for the study of materials that provides a basis for general theories and leads to boundary-value problems of physical relevance, and computational methods appropriate to these problems supplemented by physically meaningful regularizations to aid in their solution. Specific studies include the following: the development of a theory of polycrystalline plasticity that incorporates free energy associated with lattice mismatch between grains; the development of a theory of geometrically necessary dislocations within the context of finite-strain plasticity; the development of a gradient theory for single-crystal plasticity with geometrically necessary dislocations; simulations of dynamical fracture using a theory that allows for the kinking and branching of cracks; computation of segregation and compaction in flowing granular materials.
- Research Organization:
- Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, USDOE Office of Science (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-97ER25317
- OSTI ID:
- 811358
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 10 Feb 2000
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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