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Mécanique (science)

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Propagation of fluid driven fractures in transversely isotropic material

Fatima-Ezzahra Moukhtari

The propagation of fluid driven fractures is used in a number of industrial applications (well stimulation of unconventional reservoirs, development of deep geothermal systems) but also occurs naturally (magmatic dyke intrusion). While the mechanics of hyd ...

EPFL2020

On the definition of an effective stress for shales

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Angelica Tuttolomondo

Energy-related engineering applications involving shales pose ever-increasing challenges for the constitutive modelling of these geomaterials. The present work proposes a new definition of effective stress developed by using a thermodynamic approach associ ...

2019

Cellular advective-diffusion drives the emergence of bacterial surface colonization patterns and heterogeneity

Alexandre Louis André Persat, Tamara Rossy

Microorganisms navigate and divide on surfaces to form multicellular structures called biofilms, the most widespread survival strategy found in the bacterial world. One common assumption is that cellular components guide the spatial architecture and arrang ...

Nature Research2019

Model order reduction for large-scale structures with local nonlinearities

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven, Zhenying Zhang, Mengwu Guo

In solid mechanics, linear structures often exhibit (local) nonlinear behavior when close to failure. For instance, the elastic deformation of a structure becomes plastic after being deformed beyond recovery. To properly assess such problems in a real-life ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Mechanics of very slow human walking

Auke Ijspeert, Amy Roning Wu

Human walking speeds can be influenced by multiple factors, from energetic considerations to the time to reach a destination. Neurological deficits or lower-limb injuries can lead to slower walking speeds, and the recovery of able-bodied gait speed and beh ...

Springer Nature2019

The mechanics of crack-tip dislocation emission and twinning

Predrag Andric

Dislocation emission from a crack tip is a necessary mechanism for crack tip blunting and toughening. A material is intrinsically ductile under Mode I loading when the critical stress intensity

K_{Ie}

for dislocation emission is lower than the critical s ...

EPFL2019

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K_{Ie}

for dislocation emission is lower than the critical s ...

EPFL2019