Drexel researchers have shown that a recently discovered deformation phenomenon, called ripplocation, occurs in bulk materials when constrained during compression. Every material can bend and break.

Mechanics of Materials is an area focusing on quantitative description of the motion and deformation of solid materials subjected to forces, temperature changes, electrical voltage or other external ...

Hyderabad: While liquids are known to take the shape of the container, solids too can rearrange their atoms to conform to the shape, given enough time. “More interestingly, the smaller the change in ...

Rheometry is the method used to analyze the rheological behavior of a material; with rheology defined as the study of matter when it flows or is deformed. As a result rheology describes forces and ...

The discipline of fracture mechanics is required only because of the limitations of continuum mechanics. What if a theory for the deformation of solids included both continuous and cracking behavior ...

Introduction to the formulation and implementation of inelastic constitutive relations for solids. Viscoelasticity, rate-independent plasticity, viscoplasticity. State variable descriptions and ...

Research in mechanics of solids mainly includes fundamental theory (elasticity, plasticity, variational principles, fatigue and fracture of materials and structures,and inelastic constitutive ...

Substances can exist in three states of matter - solid, liquid and gas. All substances are made from particles, and the forces between the particles are different in solids, liquids and gases. The ...

The discipline of fracture mechanics is required only because of the limitations of continuum mechanics. What if a theory for the deformation of solids included both continuous and cracking behavior ...