Viscoelasticity acts as a marker for tumor extracellular matrix characteristics

CT Mierke - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biological materials such as extracellular matrix scaffolds, cancer cells, and tissues are often
assumed to respond elastically for simplicity; the viscoelastic response is quite commonly …

Criticality of the self-heating effect in polymers and polymer matrix composites during fatigue, and their application in non-destructive testing

A Katunin - Polymers, 2018 - mdpi.com
The self-heating effect is a dangerous phenomenon that occurs in polymers and polymer
matrix composites during their cyclic loading, and may significantly influence structural …

Interaction of cyclic softening and stress relaxation of 9–12% Cr steel under strain-controlled fatigue-creep condition: Experimental and modeling

SL Zhang, FZ Xuan - International Journal of Plasticity, 2017 - Elsevier
Strain controlled fatigue of P92 steel with various strain hold dwells introduced at the peak
loading point were conducted at 625° C. Two features which depend on the cycle and strain …

Thermo-poromechanics-based viscoplastic damage constitutive model for saturated frozen soil

E Liu, Y Lai - International Journal of Plasticity, 2020 - Elsevier
This study is primarily intended to present a viscoplastic damage theory for saturated frozen
soil based on thermo-poromechanics. On the basis of the irreversible process of …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature and strain rate dependences on hardening and softening behaviours in semi-crystalline polymers: Application to PEEK

D Barba, A Arias, D Garcia-Gonzalez - International Journal of Solids and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Semi-crystalline polymers often present a complex non-linear behaviour that combines
thermo-viscoelastic and thermo-viscoplastic contributions associated to different deformation …

An elastoplastic model for saturated freezing soils based on thermo-poromechanics

E Liu, Y Lai, H Wong, J Feng - International Journal of Plasticity, 2018 - Elsevier
An elastoplastic theory for saturated freezing soils is presented on the basis of
thermoporomechanics. A saturated freezing soil considered as an open system and both …

[HTML][HTML] A constitutive model for amorphous thermoplastics from low to high strain rates: Formulation and computational aspects

AFC Alves, BP Ferreira, FMA Pires - International Journal of Plasticity, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a recently proposed finite strain visco-elastic visco-plastic (three-dimensional)
constitutive model is extended to predict the nonlinear response of amorphous polymers …

[HTML][HTML] Micromechanics-based surrogate models for the response of composites: A critical comparison between a classical mesoscale constitutive model, hyper …

IBCM Rocha, P Kerfriden, FP van der Meer - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Although being a popular approach for the modeling of laminated composites, mesoscale
constitutive models often struggle to represent material response for arbitrary load cases. A …

An anisotropic damage visco-hyperelastic model for multiaxial stress-strain response and energy dissipation in filled rubber

L Ogouari, Q Guo, F Zaïri, TT Mai, K Urayama - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this article, we introduce a novel physically-based anisotropic damage visco-hyperelastic
model designed to predict the history-dependent inelastic behavior of multiaxially stretched …

A hyperelastic-thermoviscoplastic constitutive model for semi-crystalline polymers: application to PEEK under dynamic loading conditions

D Garcia-Gonzalez, R Zaera, A Arias - International Journal of Plasticity, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, a hyperelastic-thermoviscoplastic constitutive model including
thermomechanical coupling is presented to predict the mechanical behavior of semi …