Living organisms have ingeniously evolved functional gradients and heterogeneities to
create high-performance biological materials from a fairly limited choice of elements and …

Eight structural elements in biological materials are identified as the most common amongst
a variety of animal taxa. These are proposed as a new paradigm in the field of biological …

The book is divided into two parts dealing with the fundamental issues of processing
(Chapter 2) and the thermomechanical response (Chapter 3) of a FGM. Chapter 1 provides …

A general methodology is proposed for the determination of surface residual stresses and
residual plastic strains using instrumented sharp indentation. The residual stresses and the …

The mechanical response of materials with spatial gradients in composition and structure is
of considerable interest in disciplines as diverse as tribology, geology, optoelectronics …

The frictionless double receding contact problem for two functionally graded (FG) layers
pressed by a uniformly distributed load is addressed in this paper. The gradation in the …

Contact problems are central to Solid Mechanics, because contact is the principal method of
applying loads to a deformable body and the resulting stress concentration is often the most …

The main interest of this study is in the fracture initiation in graded coatings under sliding
contact loading. The structural component under consideration is a metallic substrate …

Analytical and computational results are presented for the evolution of stresses and
deformation fields due to indentation from a rigid axisymmetric indentor on an elastic …

In this paper, a new measurement procedure based on inverse analysis and instrumented
micro-indentation is introduced. The inverse analysis is utilized to extract information from …