Mediaspace scheduled maintenance: Aug 25, 2026 07:00 - 12:00 AM. During this time, videos will be temporarily unavailable. Check status updates.

Concept

Relaxation (psychology)

Publications associées (15)

Psychosomatic response to acute emotional stress in healthy students

Adriana Arza Valdes

The multidimensionality of the stress response has shown the complexity of this phenomenon and therefore the impossibility of finding a unique biomarker among the physiological variables related to stress. An experimental study was designed and performed t ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

The thermally activated deformation behaviour of single-crystalline microcast aluminium wires

Andreas Mortensen, Léa Deillon, Suzanne Godelieve Alphonsine Verheyden

A microcasting process is used to produce high aspect ratio ( > 30) monocrystalline pure aluminium wires with a diameter between 14 and 115 mu m. The role of thermal activation in the plastic deformation of these microwires is measured by means of (single) ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Stress relaxation in the presence of sudden strain bursts: Methodology and stress relaxation data of microcast aluminium microwires

Andreas Mortensen, Léa Deillon

This data article presents a methodology and the corresponding code developed to perform and process stress relaxation tests where samples display superimposed (i) classical, continuous logarithmic relaxation together with (ii) sudden displacements manifes ...

2018

Non-contact femtosecond laser-based methods for investigating glass mechanics at small scales

Christos Edouardos Athanasiou

With the progress made in miniaturizing systems over the last decades, understanding materialsâ behavior at small scales has become a necessity. In this context, glass behavior has remained largely unknown, partly for technological reasons and partly due ...

EPFL2018

The investigation of stress in freestanding GaN crystals grown from Si substrates by HVPE

Dmitry Mikulik

We investigate the stress evolution of 400 mu m-thick freestanding GaN crystals grown from Si substrates by hydride vapour phase epitaxy (HVPE) and the in situ removal of Si substrates. The stress generated in growing GaN can be tuned by varying the thickn ...

Nature Research2017

ACMEG-TVP: A thermoviscoplastic constitutive model for geomaterials

Yafei Qiao

In this paper, a thermoviscoplastic constitutive model for geomaterials is presented. The model is formulated based on two aspects: (i) the nonstationary flow surface theory, which is used to describe the viscous behaviour of geomaterials, and (ii) the the ...

Elsevier2017

Nonstationary flow surface theory for modeling the viscoplastic behaviors of soils

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Yafei Qiao

This paper presents a three-dimensional elastic viscoplastic model that can describe the time-dependent behaviors of soft clays. The constitutive model is formulated based on the nonstationary flow surface theory and incorporates new developments, includin ...

Elsevier2016

Creep and stress relaxation of a FeMnSi-based shape memory alloy at low temperatures

Cyril Cayron, Christian Leinenbach

The creep and stress relaxation behavior of a Fe-17Mn-5Si-10Cr-4Ni-1(V,C) (wt%) shape memory alloy at low homologous temperatures (-45 degrees C < T < 50 degrees C) was systematically studied in stress and strain controlled tensile tests. At constant stres ...

Elsevier2016

Influence of visco-elasticity on the stress development induced by alkali-silica reaction

Karen Scrivener, Cyrille Dunant, Alain Benjamin Giorla

The alkali-silica reaction causes long-term degradation in the microstructure of affected concrete as well as macroscopic expansion. In this paper, a micro-mechanical model based upon an explicit representation of the microstructure has been used to simula ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Viscoelastic phase diagram of fluorinated and grafted polymer films and proton-exchange membranes for fuel cell applications

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, Yves Leterrier, Fabiane Costa Oliveira Moffat

The influence of temperature and moisture activity on the viscoelastic behavior of fluorinated membranes for fuel cell applications was investigated. Uncrosslinked and crosslinked ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE)-based proton-conducting membranes were p ...

2013

Modelling the time-dependent rheological behaviour of heterogeneous brittle rocks

Jian Zhao, Tao Xu, Michael Heap

A 2-D numerical model for brittle creep and stress relaxation is proposed for the time-dependent brittle deformation of heterogeneous brittle rock under uniaxial loading conditions. The model accounts for material heterogeneity through a stochastic local f ...

Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford2012

About the determination of the thermal and athermal stress components from stress-relaxation experiments

The determination of the thermal and athermal stress components using relaxation experiments along a stress-strain curve is critically evaluated. Short-term stress-relaxations are performed along the stress-strain curve of single crystals of Ge at 850 K, C ...

2008

Size and microstructure effects on the mechanical behavior of FCC bicrystals by quasicontinuum method

Jean-François Molinari

The effects of structure and size on the deformation of < 110 > tilt bicrystals in copper are investigated by concurrent multiscale simulations at zero temperature. In the simulation of eleven grain boundary (GB) structures, a direct relation is shown betw ...

2007

Zur Berechnung von Holzschalen in Brettrippenbauweise mit elastischem Verbundquerschnitt

Claudio Pirazzi

The design of timber rip shells confronts the engineer with major uncertainties during the planning process. The consideration of the elastic compound cross section during structural analysis of curved members by means of conventional calculation methods i ...

EPFL2005

Dislocation multiplication rate in the early stage of germanium plasticity

Corinne Dupas

A set of constitutive equations describing the plasticity of semiconductors is compared with the results of mechanical tests. Constant strain-rate compression tests are interrupted before the peak of the initial multiplication yield point, i.e. at the mome ...

2005