A review on the mechanics of graphene nanoplatelets reinforced structures

K Yee, MH Ghayesh - International Journal of Engineering Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Graphene nanoplatelets (GPL) are becoming an emerging nanofiller in the field of
nanocomposites due to the ease and low cost of manufacturing, which have made it a …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical effects of pore features on mechanical properties and fracture behaviors of heterogeneous random porous materials by phase-field modeling

Y Su, J Zhu, X Long, L Zhao, C Chen, C Liu - International Journal of Solids …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous materials with randomly distributed pores are ubiquitous, such as sintered
silver nanoparticles, concrete materials, 3D printed polymers, and natural bones. Recent …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into the viscohyperelastic response of soft magnetorheological elastomers: Competition of macrostructural versus microstructural players

S Lucarini, MA Moreno-Mateos, K Danas… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are multifunctional composites that consist of an
elastomeric matrix filled with magnetic particles. These materials respond to an external …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of porosity and pore size distribution on elastic modulus of foams

S De Carolis, C Putignano, L Soria… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigate the impact of pore distribution and size on the mechanical
response of elastic porous materials. Two-dimensional porous media with convex porosity …

Local–global decompositions for conditional microstructure generation

AE Robertson, C Kelly, M Buzzy, SR Kalidindi - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Conditional microstructure generation tools offer an important, inexpensive pathway to
constructing statistically diverse datasets for Integrated Computational Materials …

Numerical estimation via remeshing and analytical modeling of nonlinear elastic composites comprising a large volume fraction of randomly distributed spherical …

H Luo, Z Hooshmand-Ahoor, K Danas… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigate numerically via finite element (FE) simulations and analytically the nonlinear
behavior of a soft matrix comprising a large volume fraction (up to 55%) of monodisperse …

Mechanically-grown morphogenesis of Voronoi-type materials: Computer design, 3D-printing and experiments

Z Hooshmand-Ahoor, MG Tarantino, K Danas - Mechanics of Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work introduces a novel and versatile computer-design and experimental
strategy to obtain random Voronoi-type geometries, called M-Voronoi (from mechanically …

Uncovering microstructural heterogeneities in binder jet printed SS316L through ultrasonic testing and X-ray computed tomography

OJ Cook, N Huang, RLW Smithson, CM Kube… - Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Samples extracted from a binder jet printed stainless steel 316L block with variations in
grain and pore characteristics were studied using X-ray computed tomography (XCT) and …

[HTML][HTML] Crystal plasticity modeling of deformation behavior of Al–Al2Cu eutectics based on high-fidelity representative microstructures

M Jiang, Y Chen, Z Yang, X Hu, L Zhang, J Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
A comprehensive understanding of material deformation behavior holds importance in
enhancing the properties of materials, which can be achieved through modeling the …

Identification of 'replacement'microstructure for porous medium from thermal conductivity measurements: Problem formulation and numerical solution

A Różański, J Rainer, D Stefaniuk, I Sevostianov… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The problem of reconstruction and quantitative characterization of the microstructure of
random composites, as a fundamental problem of material sciences, has been a subject of a …