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Assess the performance of the finite element method in analyzing the bifurcations of compressible materials. The specific objective is to understand the significance of the eigenvectors of the tangential stiffness matrix by comparing them with the analytical bifurcation modes which were obtained independently in the case of the plane strain compression of compressible hypoelastic materials. Although tested for a particular example, the finite element method can be applied to analyze the instability of more complicated boundary value problems encountered in the fields of Solids Mechanics, Structural Geology, and Geomechanics.

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The dynamic buckling of a thin or thotropic thermoviscoplastic plate is studied by analyzing the stability of a stressed/deformed plate under superimposed infinitesimal perturbations. Elastic deformations are neglected. The wavelength of the perturbation that has the maximum initial growth rate is assumed to determine the buckled shape of the plate. The buckled shape of a rectangular plate loaded axially on two opposite edges thus ascertained is found to match well with the experimental findings.

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A discontinuous Galerkin framework for large deformations of solids is established. The method is based on a general Hu-Washizu-de Veubeke functional allowing for displacement and stress discontinuities in the domain interior. The focus of this paper is on the treat- mentoflargeelasto-plastic deformations. The method is shown to possess the required numerical properties: consistency in the non-linear range and linearized stability.

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This paper attempts to explain some of the salient piping activities (along with their sequence) and interaction with other disciplines during detail engineering. Piping Engineers and Designers may find some of it too rudimentary. This is deliberate. The constraints have not been touched upon. Moreover, any single write-up based on a typical job cannot do justice to vast number of activities that a piping team performs.

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The general behavior of self-healing materials is modeled including both irreversible and healing processes. A constitutive model, based on a continuum thermodynamic framework, is proposed to predict the general response of self-healing materials. The self-healing materials response produces a reduction in size of micro cracks and voids, opposite to damage. The constitutive model, developed in the mesoscale, is based on the proposed Continuum Damage-Healing Mechanics (CDHM) casted in a consistent thermodynamic framework that automatically satisfies the thermodynamic restrictions.

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