Many industrial products—from car bumpers to aerospace panels and medical implants—owe their performance to lightweight, cellular materials. These hard-working synthetics are engineered to meet ...

Fatigue failure is a failure mechanism which results from the formation and growth of cracks under repeated cyclic stress ...

Solder materials in electronic packages are often subjected to thermal cycling, either during their application in products or during accelerated life qualification testing. Cyclic temperatures cause ...

Abstract Materials subjected to moderate/large strains that exhibit similar tension and compression trends on the stress-strain diagram have several applications. Inspired by this aspect of this ...

Understanding how soft materials fail under stress is critical for solving engineering challenges as disparate as pharmaceutical technology and landslide prevention. A new study linking a spectrum ...

The entire stress-strain curve can now be determined using nanoindentation with a flat-ended cylindrical punch and novel analysis of the resulting force-displacement data 1. Unlike pyramidal indenters ...

Strong, ductile materials will have a lot of area under this curve, but weak or brittle materials will not. Tough materials can be plastically deformed before failing catastrophically, making them a ...

Stress-strain curves are important representations of a given material's mechanical properties, which depend primarily on the orientation of the individual crystals in the microstructure. Generating ...

The Duncan-Chang model can describe the characteristics of the hardening-type deviatoric stress-strain curve, but it cannot describe the characteristics of the softening-type de-viatoric stress-strain ...