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Early efforts in soil dynamics have shown that the analysis of soil behavior under cyclic or random loading conditions is highly dependent on some representative material properties, the dynamic shear modulus, the Poisson’s ratio, and the damping ratio. Of particular interest is the value of dynamic shear modulus for strains less than 10-6 defined as the maximum or small strain shear modulus Gmax. Improvements in experimental unsaturated soil mechanics have led to the definition of trends between Gmax with different parameters most notably unsaturated stress state, degree of saturation and void ratio. However, the tests in these studies were mostly conducted on specimens experiencing... 

In this study, HSS and double angle braces subjected to cyclic loading in order to study the buckling and post buckling behavior have been investigated by Finite Element method. The results of FE analysis are fairly in good agreement with experiments. Analysis demonstrate that when local buckling occurs in middle span, subsequently, strain rises severely. Accordingly, this strain jumping causes early fracture in braces. Therefore, local buckling can be one of the primary reasons of fracture in braces. As a result, local buckling must be considered one of the primary limit state of Performance-Based design of steel braces. In addition, finding a way to predict local buckling can help us to... 

In the present study, multistage strain aging phenomenon using rolling pre-strain and solution treatment at 680℃ for 40 min was used to study the effect of temperature and inter-pass time (IPT) on the static strain aging behavior of a low carbon steel sheet. The increase in hardness and strength caused by work hardening and the aging at each pass were separately calculated.The samples were rolled and subjected to aging process both in a single pass of 20% rolling reduction in thickness and in four stages consisted of 5% reduction at each stage. The mechanical properties of the samples aged at different time and temperature, were compared. In order to evaluate the effects of pre-strain type,... 

In this Thesis, the behaviour of stell brace was studied in finite element models. In this section, a comparison between the results of these models and the results of experimental models which were done in past years, was carried out. It shows that these result is in good agreement with each other, Moreover it has been found that the primary cause of failure in the sample is local bucking and then change in the geometry of sample which will be followed by strain jumping in next cycles which shows the importance of local buckling due to the proximity of this event to strain jumps and can be accepted as braces limit state design.Finally, we try to predict the time of failure of samples with... 

In this study the behavior of steel bracings under cyclic loading, is modeled with finite element method. Analysis have shown that after local buckling in plastic mid-span position, due to the severe geometry change, the strain grows rapidly, The sharp growth of plastic strains is entitled as strain rises. Geometry change created will cause the collapse brace speeding up. In fact, the main local buckling can be used as a determinative factor in performance base design for steel braces. So the thesis has been investigated, using the parameters fracture life to quantify local buckling and fracture. Also with using the CVGM model, the fracture of the brace could be predicted. The analytical... 

In sliding wear, the process of making debris takes place with different mechanisms. Previous works estimating the wear rate have been carried out based on contact mechanics and material failure mechanisms. In present work, the possibility of existence of low-cycle fatigue as the dominant mechanism in the wear of an as-cast eutectoid steel is investigated. Moreover, wear coefficient and the the volume loss per distance of that steel was predicted. At first, wear tests were done in order to obtain the wear trend of the steel in different loads. Then, regarding the roughness of the disk surface, a finite element model was built to simulate the sliding of the pin surface over the asperities... 

Asphalt concrete exhibits viscoelastic and viscoplastic behavior which is dependent on rate and temperature. To model this behavior, various mechanical modelshave been presented in which total strain, as the response of the applied stress, is decomposed by various researchers to recoverable and permanent strains.Accumulation and expansion of permanent response result in rutting which is a dominant and prevalent distress in hot mixed asphalt (HMA) in hot climates. The available models are not capable of accurately calculate the viscoplastic strain under cyclic loading.
To close this gap, recovered viscoelastic strain at rest (unloading) period was introduced. This parameter accounted for... 

Khorjini connection is a type of connection in steel frames, in which the beam remains continuous at the intersection with column. In its ordinary form, this beam is connected to the face of column section using upper and lower angles. This type of connection is frequently used in construction of steel frames in Iran due to economic advantages and ease of fabrication. However since it is rarely used in other countries, its behavior and method of design is not described in international references and standards. The failure of the connections is a dominant type of seismic fraction in a building (The main reason of structural failures in Manjil and Roudbar earthquake – 1990). Contrary to the... 

In this research, based on the strain gradient theory, mechanical behavior of functionally graded microbeams is analyzed and the results are used to investigate the static and dynamic responses of electrostatically actuated microswitches and microresonators.
The nonlinear governing equations of motion of functionally graded microbeams are derived using Hamilton’s principle. Afterward, the nonlinear model is implemented to analyze the mechanical response of electrostatically actuated microswitches and microresonators. Pull-in instability and nonlinear vibration of these components are investigated considering the effects of squeeze film damping, mid-plane stretching and initial curvature... 

The purpose of this study is to develop the reduced order nonlinear modeling of single cell closed section thin walled composite beams. In this way, global behavior of one dimensional beam under axial load, bending and torsional moment is produced. This model is based on the classical lamination theory, and the nonlinear model is developedby usingthe von-karman strains. In this process the effects of material anisotropy and axial warping are considered. Numerical results are obtained for thin-walledcomposites box beams, addressing the effects of fiber angle and laminate stacking sequence. The nonlinear model is compared with theoretical results of homogeneous beams and the natural... 

In most of the engineering applications, the mechanical behavior of materials in high strain rate deformations differs from their behavior in quasi-static deformations. In some engineering problems like impact loading on structures, metal forming and explosive forming, the range of strain rate is about . Taylor impact test is one of the experiments used for characterizing the dynamic behavior of materials in high strain rate deformations. In the Taylor impact test a rigid cylindrical projectile is impacted normally onto a hard and massive surface (anvil), the projectile deforms by mushrooming at the impact end. With plastic wave propagation analysis, the plastic deformation of projectile is... 

Split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) test is one of the tests used for characterizing the mechanical behavior of materials at high strain rates between and s -1. A SHPB test consists of a gas gun, a striker bar, an incident bar, a transmission bar and a specimen which is sandwiched between the incident and transmission bars. In order to achieve constant strain rate during the test which is necessary in SHPB test, the incident pulse should obey the stress-strain curve of the specimen. For shaping the incident pulse usually a thin deformable disk -called pulse shaper- is placed between the striker and incident bars. In this thesis, first we designed, implemented and calibrated the measuring... 

Increasing the application of elastomeric structures in industries has caused an interest in the researchers for nonlinear elasticity and viscoelasticity of solids. Such materials which show large deformation and rate dependent behavior are treated by visco-hyperelastic constitutive equations. Based on visco-hyperelastic constitutive equations, total stress is divided into two parts: quasi-static and viscous stress. The method for determining the visco-hyperelastic constitutive equation is strictly dependent on the chosen rheological model. In this project, a new visco-hyperelasic constitutive equation in the integral form was introduced based on the Zener model. Also, based on the internal... 

The unique properties of graphene due to the presence of massless Dirac fermions, high surface to volume ratio, high crystal quality in 2D, and high mechanical strength, recommend it as a promising material for technologies such as nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) and nanosensors. Use of graphene in nanodevices is accompanied by induced strains and stresses. Therefore it is important to study the mechanical properties of graphene. In present thesis, we synthesized graphene using both mechanical cleavage of graphite and chemical method. In the chemical method graphene oxide is prepared by oxidation and exfoliation of graphite. The graphene oxide sheets were reduced to prepare graphene... 

In this project, in order to model the flat rolling problems, an analytical method based on Bezier functions has been presented. To this goal, using the Bezier functions, the velocity field of the flat rolling has been stablished and the volume constancy condition and velocity boundary conditions have been considered in calculations. Using the achieved velocity field, the strain rate and strain fields has been determined. Then, with derived fields, power, pressure, and force of the deformation in flat-rolled billets from different materials such as copper, aluminium and steel have been calculated. To verify the accuracy of the results, the rolling process has been carried out on the... 

Al-6wt%Mg alloy has been enormously exploited in aerospace industry. Since for production of this alloy in the form of sheets of different thickness, the cold rolling process is used, thus to understand the final mechanical properties of the rolled alloy products, their work hardening should be examined. Also, one of the important phenomena that occurs in cold state of the alloy is dynamic strain-aging (DSA), which can cause serrations in realistic stress-strain curve. The aforementioned issue is discussed in the current study. Therefore, the work-hardening values for the mentioned alloy during and after rolling is determined, and then compared with the experimental studies. The results of... 

The present study deals with the analysis of Atomic Microscope with crack by making use of Strain Gradient Elasticity theory. Empirical observations represent that in micro dimensions, materials show behaviors, which the classic continuum mechanics theories are not able to explain. Thus, taking advantage of non-classic theories, which are capable of explaining such phenomena or behaviors in analyzing materials in micro dimensions seems necessary and of much significance. In this direction, by applying an Euler-Bernoulli beam assumption and neglecting the shear effects, governing equations and boundary conditions of the problem were obtained via taking advantage of variations in Hamilton... 

In the present work, the beginning and progressive growth of delamination in laminated composites plates has been studied. Interlaminar stresses at free edge of laminate may give rise to edge delamination and result in failure of laminate. So we need to determine the exact interlaminar stresses to predict the failure of laminated composites. A computer code based on layerwise theory that can obtain the exact interlaminar stresses been developed. Comparison between the present study and finite element software result showed the good agreement.A fracture mechanics approach is used to analysis delamination propagation between layers of composites laminate. In this approach damage propagation... 

In this thesis, static and dynamic analysis of nano beams based on second strain gradient theory is presented. Due to their small sizes, nano electro mechanical devices (NEMS) hold tremendous promise for novel, versatile and very sensitive devices for different applications ranging from actuators, transducers and also mass, force, light and frequency detectors. Therefore accurate modeling and analysis of such devices has an important role in their design and performance improvement. Neglecting the size effect, traditional theory of elasticity can not be suitable to predict mechanical behavior of these systems and so, it should be used non-classical theories which include size dependency... 

In this project, by using the image processing method, the strain rate in the deformed sheets is measured, and then compared with experimental results. Scratches are first drawn on the surface of the sheet. After the deformation, photographs of the surface are taken, by using image processing method as well as the use of special techniques, the strain is obtained fast with accurately. By determining the strain, tension will also be achieved through Levy Mises relations. In this project, by using this method, the strain is calculated on surfaces with simple geometry, such as sphere (spherical surface of the sheet in the FLD test), as well as surfaces whose surface geometry is unknown and...