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Rethinking Ductility -- A Study Into the Size-Affected Fracture of Polymers
Zainab S. Patel, Abdulaziz O. Alrashed, Kush Dwivedi +2
Ductility quantifies a material's capacity for plastic deformation, and it is a key property for preventing fracture driven failure in engineering parts. While some brittle materia…
Effects of Thermal Modification on the Flexure Properties, Fracture Energy, and Hardness of Western Hemlock
Troy Nakagawa, Erik Poulin, Talbot Rueppel +9
This study investigates the effect of thermal modification on the flexural properties, transverse fracture energy, and hardness of western hemlock, a material which is finding incr…
Effects of Average Number of Platelets Through the Thickness and Platelet Width on the Mechanical Properties of Discontinuous Fiber Composites
Seunghyun Ko, Troy Nakagawa, Zhisong Chen +7
In this study, we experimentally and numerically investigate the evolution of the tensile material properties of Discontinuous Fiber Composites (DFCs) with an increasing average nu…
Molecular dynamics simulation for cross-linking processes and material properties of epoxy resins with the first principle calculation combined with global reaction route mapping algorithms
Yutaka Oya, Masahiro Nakazawa, Keiichi Shirasu +13
Herein, epoxy resin is cured by coupling quantum chemical (QC) calculations with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations that enable parameter-free prediction of material characteristi…
Strength and Cohesive Behavior of Thermoset Polymers at the Microscale: A Size-Effect Study
Yao Qiao, Marco Salviato
This study investigated, experimentally and numerically, the fracturing behavior of thermoset polymer structures featuring cracks and sharp u-notches. It is shown that, even for ca…