... thermodynamic properties determinist-probabilistic model mesodamage fatigue life ratcheting phenomenon Fatigue performance represents a key issue for many engineering applications of polycrystal materials and their structures. Fatigue studies initially focused on obtaining cyclic life data...

... flow thermodynamic properties polycarbonate equilibrium stress back stress shear glassy polymer plastic strain rate thermodynamics Many models that are developed to characterize the behavior of glassy polymers at large deformations are based on a modeling structure similar...

... received December 11, 2001. Guest Editors: Tariq A. Khraishi and Hussein M. Zbib. 11 April 2001 11 December 2001 10 06 2002 slip torsion hardness indentation plasticity grain boundaries thermodynamic properties yield stress molecular dynamics method kinematics yield...

... the expansion of dislocation loops is ignored; therefore interactions between elementary mechanisms of plastic deformation cannot be reached. nanostructured materials composite material interfaces dislocation loops work hardening crystal microstructure plastic deformation thermodynamic properties...