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  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,724 Views
18 Pages

15 January 2021

The aim of the present work is to contribute to the characterization of the biaxial tensile behavior of commercially pure titanium, under various in-plane loading conditions at room temperature, by a non-contact digital image correlation system. Seve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,055 Views
17 Pages

Fracture Behavior of a Unidirectional Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Plastic under Biaxial Tensile Loads

  • Kosuke Sanai,
  • Sho Nakasaki,
  • Mikiyasu Hashimoto,
  • Arnaud Macadre and
  • Koichi Goda

18 March 2024

In order to clarify the fracture behavior of a unidirectional CFRP under proportional loading along the fiber (0°) and fiber vertical (90°) directions, a biaxial tensile test was carried out using a cruciform specimen with two symmetric flat...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,645 Views
8 Pages

For industrial applications of innovative metal forming techniques, advanced experimental methods have been developed to characterize the mechanical properties of materials under the corresponding forming conditions. This paper focuses on uniaxial te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,054 Views
15 Pages

Biaxial Testing Machine: Development and Evaluation

  • António B. Pereira,
  • Fábio A.O. Fernandes,
  • Alfredo B. de Morais and
  • João Maio

Biaxial mechanical testing gained increased importance for characterization of materials that present anisotropic behavior and/or different responses when subjected to tensile and compression loadings. In this work, a new biaxial testing machine was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,874 Views
17 Pages

Strain Dependence of Energetics and Kinetics of Vacancy in Tungsten

  • Zhong-Zhu Li,
  • Yu-Hao Li,
  • Qing-Yuan Ren,
  • Fang-Fei Ma,
  • Fang-Ya Yue,
  • Hong-Bo Zhou and
  • Guang-Hong Lu

30 July 2020

We investigate the influence of hydrostatic/biaxial strain on the formation, migration, and clustering of vacancy in tungsten (W) using a first-principles method, and show that the vacancy behaviors are strongly dependent on the strain. Both a monova...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,589 Views
15 Pages

10 December 2018

The identification of the post-necking strain hardening behavior of metal sheet is important for finite element analysis procedures of sheet metal forming process. The inverse modeling method is a practical way to determine the hardening curve to lar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,944 Views
12 Pages

22 August 2019

The stratospheric airship envelope material is operated in biaxial stress, so it is necessary to study the in-plane biaxial tensile strength. In this paper, a theoretical model is developed to evaluate the mechanical properties of in-plane biaxial sp...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,241 Views
6 Pages

Inverse Yield Locus Identification of Sheet Metal Using a Complex Cruciform in Biaxial Tension and Digital Image Correlation

  • Sam Coppieters,
  • Tomoyuki Hakoyama,
  • Dimitri Debruyne,
  • Susumu Takahashi and
  • Toshihiko Kuwabara

Finite Element Model Updating (FEMU) is an intuitive inverse technique enabling to efficiently characterize plastic material behavior. Although, conclusive proof of concept for this method can be found in literature, a thorough understanding of the k...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,168 Views
14 Pages

Tensile Behavior and Formability of Pre-Painted Steel Sheets

  • Archimede Forcellese,
  • Tommaso Mancia and
  • Michela Simoncini

27 December 2019

The present work aims at studying the tensile behavior and formability of pre-painted steel sheets. To this purpose, uniaxial tensile and hemispherical punch tests were performed in order to analyze the deformation behavior of pre-painted sheets unde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,343 Views
13 Pages

4 March 2021

Structural topology and loading condition have important influences on the mechanical behaviors of porous soft solids. The porous solids are usually set to be under uniaxial tension or compression. Only a few studies have considered the biaxial loads...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,565 Views
14 Pages

19 September 2018

This paper reports the biaxial tensile mechanical properties of the envelope material through experimental and constitutive models. First, the biaxial tensile failure tests of the envelope material with different stress ratio in warp and weft directi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,624 Views
13 Pages

Plane-Stress Deformation Behavior of CoCrFeMnNi High-Entropy Alloy Sheet under Low Temperatures

  • Haitao Qu,
  • Yujie Han,
  • Jiaai Shi,
  • Mengmeng Li,
  • Jiayu Liang and
  • Jinghua Zheng

10 May 2024

High-entropy alloys are promising candidates expected to be applied in transportation equipment serving in extreme environments due to their excellent properties. CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy is a typical representative of them, and its low temperat...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Experimental and Numerical Assessment of Fiber Orientation Effects in Biaxial Glass/Vinyl Ester Laminates

  • Sultan Ullah,
  • Arvydas Palevicius,
  • Almontas Vilutis,
  • Raul Fangueiro and
  • Giedrius Janusas

19 January 2026

This study analyzes the mechanical behavior of a quasi-isotropic biaxial glass fiber–vinyl ester composite in a multiaxial stress condition and the effect of the orientation of the fibers. A ply structure was created through the process of vacu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,233 Views
17 Pages

Layer-Specific Damage Modeling of Porcine Large Intestine under Biaxial Tension

  • Aroj Bhattarai,
  • Charlotte Anabell May,
  • Manfred Staat,
  • Wojciech Kowalczyk and
  • Thanh Ngoc Tran

The mechanical behavior of the large intestine beyond the ultimate stress has never been investigated. Stretching beyond the ultimate stress may drastically impair the tissue microstructure, which consequently weakens its healthy state functions of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,097 Views
16 Pages

17 October 2019

This study investigates the effect of strain rates and temperatures on the mechanical behavior of ultrasonically consolidated Titanium–Aluminum thin foils to understand and characterize their formability. To this goal, laminated composite sampl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,596 Views
15 Pages

27 October 2023

In order to improve predictive capabilities of numerical simulations, Yld2000-2D yield criterion is used to model the plastic anisotropic behaviors of AA5086 sheets. The parameters of Yld2000-2D yield criterion are identified based on the traditional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,312 Views
18 Pages

Optimal Design of a Miniaturized Cruciform Specimen for Biaxial Testing of TA2 Alloys

  • Zhikang Zhu,
  • Zheng Lu,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Wei Fu,
  • Changyu Zhou and
  • Xiaohua He

25 July 2019

The biaxial tensile testing of cruciform specimens is an effective way to create complex loading, and is a feasible experimental method for studying the subsequent yield behavior. However, relevant knowledge gaps still exist in the geometric design o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,791 Views
13 Pages

The Interventricular Septum Is Biomechanically Distinct from the Ventricular Free Walls

  • Michael Nguyen-Truong,
  • Wenqiang Liu,
  • Courtney Doherty,
  • Kristen LeBar,
  • Kevin M. Labus,
  • Christian M. Puttlitz,
  • Jeremiah Easley,
  • Eric Monnet,
  • Adam Chicco and
  • Zhijie Wang

The interventricular septum contributes to the pumping function of both ventricles. However, unlike the ventricular wall, its mechanical behavior remains largely unknown. To fill the knowledge gap, this study aims to characterize the biaxial and tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,190 Views
22 Pages

8 October 2023

When subjected to impact loading, aircraft composite structures are usually in a specific preloading condition (such as tension and compression). In this study, ballistic tests were conducted using a high-speed gas gun system to investigate the effec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,387 Views
27 Pages

12 August 2023

Uniaxial and biaxial cyclic tensile tests and stress relaxation tests were performed on the ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) material to investigate its stress-softening effect. The experimental results reveal that the EPDM material presents a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,682 Views
17 Pages

3 April 2025

Constructing van der Waals heterojunctions with excellent properties has attracted considerable attention in the field of photocatalytic water splitting. In this study, four patterns, coined A, B, C, and D of Janus Ga2SSe/Bi2O3 van der Waals (vdW) he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,918 Views
34 Pages

6 July 2020

The objective of the current study is to develop a practical, deterministic approach to the prediction of the in-plane formability of two third generation advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) of 980 and 1180 MPa ultimate tensile strength using only q...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,422 Views
16 Pages

20 February 2024

The deformation behavior and microstructure of 6061 aluminum alloy processed by severe plastic deformation (SPD) using biaxial alternate forging that can evaluate the forming limit and mechanical properties of alloys, simultaneously, were investigate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,099 Views
18 Pages

Strength and Toughness of Waste Fishing Net Fiber-Reinforced Concrete

  • Tri N. M. Nguyen,
  • Taek Hee Han,
  • Jun Kil Park and
  • Jung J. Kim

2 December 2021

In this study, we estimate the potential efficiency of waste fishing net (WFN) fibers as concrete reinforcements. Three WFN fiber concentrations (1, 2, and 3% by volume) were mixed with concrete. Compressive strength, toughness, splitting tensile str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,050 Views
40 Pages

8 August 2024

This study uses a sigmoidal function to describe the plastic strain hardening of metallic materials, considering temperature and strain rate effects. The effectiveness of this approach is evaluated and systematically compared with other hardening law...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,216 Views
15 Pages

The Magnetic Proximity Effect Induced Large Valley Splitting in 2D InSe/FeI2 Heterostructures

  • Yifeng Lin,
  • Changcheng Zhang,
  • Lixiu Guan,
  • Zhipeng Sun and
  • Junguang Tao

21 August 2020

The manipulation of valley splitting has potential applications in valleytronics, which lacks in pristine two-dimensional (2D) InSe. Here, we demonstrate that valley physics in InSe can be activated via the magnetic proximity effect exerted by ferrom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,269 Views
16 Pages

Numerical Study of the Plastic Zone at the Crack Front in Cylindrical Aluminum Specimens Subjected to Tensile Loads

  • Lenin Abatta-Jacome,
  • Antonia Lima-Rodriguez,
  • Antonio Gonzalez-Herrera and
  • Jose Manuel Garcia-Manrique

19 October 2023

Cylindrical specimens are of great interest in analyzing mechanical elements’ behavior and investigating phenomena with biaxial loads. It is necessary to identify the behavior of the crack front along the thickness to interpret these results, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,792 Views
13 Pages

Experimental Study on Bi-Axial Mechanical Properties of Warp-knitted Meshes with and without Initial Notches

  • Huiqi Shao,
  • Jianna Li,
  • Nanliang Chen,
  • Guangwei Shao,
  • Jinhua Jiang and
  • Youhong Yang

16 October 2018

Warp-knitted meshes have been widely used for structural reinforcement of rigid, semi-rigid, and flexible composite materials. In order to meet the performance requirements of different engineering applications, four typical warp-knitted meshes (rect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,473 Views
20 Pages

5 September 2023

The purpose of this study was to develop a numerical material testing method applicable to hexagonal close-packed (hcp) materials that can predict complex material behavior such as biaxial test results from relatively easy-to-perform uniaxial tests....

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,239 Views
22 Pages

24 February 2021

Internal short circuits and thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are mainly caused by deformation-induced failures in their internal components. Understanding the mechanisms of mechanical failure in the internal materials is of much import...

  • Article
  • Open Access
846 Views
13 Pages

29 August 2025

The electronic and magnetic properties of lanthanide-doped GaN monolayers (Ln = La, Pr, Nd, Pm, Eu, and Gd) have been systematically investigated using density functional theory within the GGA-PBE approximation. Our results demonstrate that all Ln do...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,570 Views
24 Pages

Mechanical Characteristics Evaluation of a Single Ply and Multi-Ply Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Subjected to Tensile and Bending Loads

  • Anton Hadăr,
  • Florin Baciu,
  • Andrei-Daniel Voicu,
  • Daniel Vlăsceanu,
  • Daniela-Ioana Tudose and
  • Cătălin Adetu

7 August 2022

Carbon fiber-reinforced composites represent a broadly utilized class of materials in aeronautical applications, due to their high-performance capability. The studied CFRP is manufactured from a 3K carbon biaxial fabric 0°/90° with high tensile resis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,529 Views
13 Pages

Effect of Recycling on the Mechanical Properties of 6000 Series Aluminum-Alloy Sheet

  • Daniele De Caro,
  • Michele Maria Tedesco,
  • Jaume Pujante,
  • Andrea Bongiovanni,
  • Giovanni Sbrega,
  • Marcello Baricco and
  • Paola Rizzi

20 October 2023

Sustainability is one of the biggest values of today and for the future of our society; a responsible usage of material in every sector is fundamental to achieving sustainability goals. Aluminum alloys are some of the most promising materials in term...

  • Article
  • Open Access
963 Views
28 Pages

Non-Destructive Integrity Assessment of Austenitic Stainless-Steel Membranes via Magnetic Property Measurements

  • Haeng Sung Heo,
  • Jinheung Park,
  • Jehyun You,
  • Shin Hyung Rhee and
  • Myoung-Gyu Lee

19 June 2025

This study proposes a novel non-destructive methodology for assessing structural integrity in liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier cargo containment systems (CCSs), addressing limitations of conventional inspection techniques like visual inspection an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,268 Views
15 Pages

Dynamic Strain Response of Hot-Recycled Asphalt Pavement under Dual-Axle Accelerated Loading Conditions

  • Jin Li,
  • Yingyong Li,
  • Chongsheng Xin,
  • Haoyu Zuo,
  • Ping An,
  • Shen Zuo and
  • Peng Liu

16 June 2022

Accelerated pavement testing (APT) is an effective method to study the long-term performance of pavement. Therefore, the dynamic strain behavior analysis of asphalt pavement has important guiding significance in the study of pavement failure modes. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,727 Views
27 Pages

Mechanical Characterization and Computational Analysis of TPU 60A: Integrating Experimental Testing and Simulation for Performance Optimization

  • Luan Lang,
  • Rodrigo Antunes,
  • Thiago Assis Dutra,
  • Martim Lima de Aguiar,
  • Nuno Pereira and
  • Pedro Dinis Gaspar

8 January 2025

This study investigates the mechanical properties of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) 60A, which is a flexible material that can be used to produce soft robotic grippers using additive manufacturing. Tensile tests were conducted under ISO 37 and ISO...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,323 Views
19 Pages

1 April 2021

Multiroute yield experiments were carried out on extruded ZK60 magnesium alloy samples under 200 °C and strain rate of 10−2 s−1 by a thermomechanical simulator. A hypoelastoplastic large deformation constitutive relationship was employed to simulate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
702 Views
23 Pages

21 September 2025

In this work, the gas sensing properties and adsorption mechanisms of Ag- and Au-doped SnSe2 monolayers toward NO, NO2, SO2, H2S, and HCN were systematically investigated via first-principles calculations. The results demonstrate that NO2 exhibits th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,133 Views
16 Pages

Predictive Models for Elastic Bending Behavior of a Wood Composite Sandwich Panel

  • Mostafa Mohammadabadi,
  • James Jarvis,
  • Vikram Yadama and
  • William Cofer

1 June 2020

Strands produced from small-diameter timbers of lodgepole and ponderosa pine were used to fabricate a composite sandwich structure as a replacement for traditional building envelope materials, such as roofing. It is beneficial to develop models that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,990 Views
19 Pages

5 June 2024

The long-term periodicity and uncontrollable interface properties during the preparation process for silicon carbide fiber reinforced silicon carbide-based composites (SiCf/SiC CMC) make it difficult to thoroughly investigate their mechanical damage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,837 Views
15 Pages

Measurement of Axial Strain of Geogrid by Optical Sensors

  • Marian Drusa,
  • Ladislav Kais,
  • Jozef Dubovan,
  • Miroslav Markovic,
  • Frantisek Bahleda and
  • Martin Mecar

25 September 2021

In recent years, the technology of optical fibers has rapidly gained ground in many areas of science and industry, including the construction industry. In this article, the technology of optical fibers based on a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) was used to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,521 Views
23 Pages

Advanced Crystal Plasticity Modeling of Multi-Phase Steels: Work-Hardening, Strain Rate Sensitivity and Formability

  • Jesús Galán-López,
  • Behnam Shakerifard,
  • Jhon Ochoa-Avendaño and
  • Leo A. I. Kestens

30 June 2021

This work presents an advanced crystal plasticity model for the simulation of the mechanical behavior of multiphase advanced high-strength steels. The model is based on the Visco-Plastic Self-Consistent (VPSC) model and uses information about the mat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,674 Views
14 Pages

Deteriorated Vascular Homeostasis in Hypertension: Experimental Evidence from Aorta, Brain, and Pancreatic Vasculature

  • Hadi Taghizadeh,
  • Ali Taghizadehghalehjoughi,
  • Serkan Yildirim,
  • Mustafa Ozkaraca,
  • Sidika Genc,
  • Yesim Yeni,
  • Muhammed Yasser Mokresh,
  • Ahmet Hacimuftuoglu,
  • Aristidis Tsatsakis and
  • Konstantinos Tsarouhas

28 September 2022

Hypertension, as a primary risk factor for many fatal disorders, is prevalent in the elderly. There is wide literature on hypertension dealing with its biological and/or biochemical aspects; however, limited research is available on the multifactoria...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,406 Views
7 Pages

21 December 2023

Rubber-based materials play an important role in various engineering and healthcare applications. Numerous hyperelastic models have been proposed in the long line of literature to model these nonlinear elastic materials. Due to the need to balance si...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,860 Views
37 Pages

A Comparative Evaluation of Third-Generation Advanced High-Strength Steels for Automotive Forming and Crash Applications

  • Jacqueline Noder,
  • Jon Edward Gutierrez,
  • Amir Zhumagulov,
  • James Dykeman,
  • Hesham Ezzat and
  • Clifford Butcher

31 August 2021

While the third generation of advanced high-strength steels (3rd Gen AHSS) have increasingly gained attention for automotive lightweighting, it remains unclear to what extent the developed methodologies for the conventional dual-phase (DP) steels are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,454 Views
17 Pages

Unsupervised Deep Learning for Advanced Forming Limit Analysis in Sheet Metal: A Tensile Test-Based Approach

  • Aleksandra Thamm,
  • Florian Thamm,
  • Annette Sawodny,
  • Sally Zeitler,
  • Marion Merklein and
  • Andreas Maier

1 November 2023

An accurate description of the formability and failure behavior of sheet metal materials is essential for an optimal forming process design. In this respect, the forming limit curve (FLC) based on the Nakajima test, which is determined in accordance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,212 Views
24 Pages

Numerical Modeling of Four-Pile Caps Using the Concrete Damaged Plasticity Model

  • Raphael Saverio Spozito,
  • Edson Fernando Castanheira Rodrigues,
  • Herisson Ferreira dos Santos,
  • Ivanildo Amorim de Oliveira,
  • André Luís Christoforo,
  • Fernando Menezes de Almeida Filho and
  • Rodrigo Gustavo Delalibera

Four-pile caps made from concrete are essential elements for the force transfer from the superstructure to piles or pipes. Due to the difficulties in carrying out full-scale tests and all the instrumentation involved, the use of numerical models as a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
570 Views
14 Pages

25 November 2025

The high incidence of cardiovascular disease and the early failure of bioprosthetic valves due to calcification have driven the development of anti-calcification technologies. As a new storage technology, drying treatment is expected to delay the cal...