Multi-scale defect interactions in high-rate brittle material failure. Part I: Model formulation and application to ALON

AL Tonge, KT Ramesh - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2016 - Elsevier
Within this two part series we develop a new material model for ceramic protection materials
to provide an interface between microstructural parameters and bulk continuum behavior to …

[HTML][HTML] A nonlinear anisotropic elastic–inelastic constitutive model for polycrystalline ceramics and minerals with application to boron carbide

JD Clayton, AL Tonge - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2015 - Elsevier
A new continuum constitutive theory is developed and implemented for study of
polycrystalline brittle solids subjected to possibly large stress and finite deformation. The …

Two-dimensional dynamic damage accumulation in engineered brittle materials

BML Koch, C Lo, H Li, T Sano, J Ligda… - Engineering Fracture …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper details the dynamic materials testing of three advanced ceramics (CoorsTek
Engineered Ceramics AD85 and AD995 alumina and a silicon carbide) and a cermet …

Multi-scale defect interactions in high-rate failure of brittle materials, Part II: Application to design of protection materials

AL Tonge, KT Ramesh - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2016 - Elsevier
Micromechanics based damage models, such as the model presented in Part I of this 2 part
series (Tonge and Ramesh, 2015), have the potential to suggest promising directions for …

Damage accumulation mechanisms during dynamic compressive failure of boron carbide

BML Koch, H Li, C Lo, J Ligda, JD Hogan - Journal of the European …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper explores the compressive response of two grades of boron carbide across a
range of strain rates between 10 2 to 10 3 s− 1. Using ultra-high-speed photography to …

A Quantitative Approach to Comparing High Velocity Impact Experiments and Simulations Using XCT Data

AL Tonge, B Leavy, J LaSalvia, KT Ramesh… - Procedia …, 2015 - Elsevier
While computational models of impact events have the potential to accelerate the design
cycle, one's confidence in a material model should be related to the extent of validation work …

On Relating Physical Damage to Mechanical Response in Advanced Ceramics

BML Koch - 2021 - era.library.ualberta.ca
Brendan ML Koch Page 1 On Relating Physical Damage to Mechanical Response in Advanced
Ceramics by Brendan ML Koch A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for …

A Convected-Particle Tetrahedron Interpolation in the Material-Point Method for Mesoscale Modeling of Aluminum Oxynitride

RB Leavy - 2019 - search.proquest.com
By using mesoscale simulations of realistic synthetic microstructures combined with new
material-point-method (MPM) techniques, this work aims to improve the understanding of …

The phenomenological mechanochemistry of damage and radial cracking

M Grinfeld - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Traditional damage theory deals with distributed microcracks rather than with individual
cracks. In its simplest form, this theory adds just one additional parameter to the set of …