Selected Papers from the First Conference of the American Academy of Mechanics, June 2008; Guest Editor: George Zino Voyiadjis
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First American Academy of Mechanics Conference New Orleans, Louisiana, June of 2008
George Zino Voyiadjis
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Modeling of strengthening and softening in inelastic nanocrystalline materials with reference to the triple junction and grain boundaries using strain gradient plasticity
George Z. Voyiadjis and Babur Deliktas
27-38
A thermodynamic framework for a gradient theory of continuum damage
Kiran N. Solanki and D. J. Bammann
39-52
Friction coefficient evaluation using physically based viscoplasticity model at the contact region during high velocity sliding
George Z. Voyiadjis, Babur Deliktas, Danial Faghihi and Adam Lodygowski
53-69
Dynamic fracture with meshfree enriched XFEM
Thomas Menouillard and Ted Belytschko
71-96
A general inelastic internal state variable model for amorphous glassy polymers
J. L. Bouvard, D. K. Ward, D. Hossain, E. B. Marin and D. J. Bammann, et al.
97-109
Optimal lower bounds on the local stress inside random thermoelastic composites
Yue Chen and Robert Lipton
111-129
Equations of motion for general constrained systems in Lagrangian mechanics
Firdaus E. Udwadia and Aaron D. Schutte
131-154
Multiscale modeling of elastic properties of cortical bone
Elham Hamed, Yikhan Lee and Iwona Jasiuk
155-167
MRI-based finite element modeling of head trauma: spherically focusing shear waves
Ying Chen and Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
169-188
A maximum dissipation thermodynamic multi-scale model for the dynamic response of the arterial elastin–water system
Henry W. Haslach
189-204
Hypoelastic soft tissues. Part I: Theory
Alan David Freed
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Hypoelastic soft tissues
Part II: In-plane biaxial experiments
Alan D. Freed, Daniel R. Einstein and Michael S. Sacks