Experiments have shown that the ballistic performance of the steel plate improves
significantly after coating polyurea at the impact face. However, the strengthening …

Relations between porosity, damage, and bulk plasticity are examined in the context of
continuum damage and hyper-elastoplasticity of porous rocks. Attention is given to a …

We present an optimal scaling analysis based on (possibly fractional) strain-gradient
plasticity. The analysis yields optimal scaling laws, in the sense of upper and lower bounds …

Polymeric materials are advised to be used in the construction of operating devices for
energy-saving soil cultivation. Purpose of work is to develop the design of new operating …

A plasma-sprayed aluminum-silicon (AlSi)/polyester coating is applied in modern gas
turbine engines as an abradable sealcoating to maintain tight clearances between the …

The transient dynamic behavior of soft gels under a sudden impact is often associated with
the cavitation of bubbles. This phenomenon has gained rising attention, essentially due to …

Failure mechanisms in amorphous polymers are usually separated into two types, shear
yielding and crazing due to the differences in the yield surface. Experiments show that the …

We present a numerical implementation of a model for void coalescence and fracture in
nonlinear elasticity. The model is similar to the Ambrosio–Tortorelli regularization of the …

We develop a strain-gradient plasticity theory based on fractional derivatives of plastic strain
and assess its ability to reproduce the scaling laws and size effects uncovered by the recent …

The method of oncotripsy, first proposed in Heyden & Ortiz (Heyden & Ortiz 2016 J. Mech.
Phys. Solids 92, 164–175 (doi: 10.1016/j. jmps. 2016.04. 016)), exploits aberrations in the …