Advances in Materials

Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2017

  • Multiple Length and Time-scale Approaches in Materials Modeling

    Likun Tan

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 1-1, January 2017
    Pages: 1-9
    Received: 4 August 2016
    Accepted: 21 August 2016
    Published: 3 September 2016
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multiscale Modeling Approach
    Abstract: Multiscale modeling has become an essential tool in understanding and designing materials and physical systems with characteristics at multiple length and time scales. Although modern computational techniques are able to track the material behaviors from the nano-scale atomic vibrations at femtoseconds to the macroscopic plastic deformations of met... Show More
  • Contact around a Sharp Corner with Small Scale Plasticity

    Zupan Hu

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 1-1, January 2017
    Pages: 10-17
    Received: 31 October 2016
    Accepted: 8 November 2016
    Published: 8 December 2016
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multiscale Modeling Approach
    Abstract: Owing to elastic singularity, the contact stress around a sharp corner is highly sensitive to the boundary conditions and local geometrical details. Determination of such stress is critical in predicting failures such as wear, fretting fatigue and crack initiation. In this paper, the stress around such corner is analyzed based on linear elasticity ... Show More