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Empirical and analytical analyses of laboratory granular flows to investigate rock avalanche propagation

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Tsunamis, landslide-generated waves, and dam failures are rare, but highly destructive phenomena, associated with extreme loading on infrastructure. Recent events showed that specific measures must be taken to guarantee safety of both people and the built ...

2018

Thermal activation parameters of plastic flow reveal deformation mechanisms in the CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy

Joël Bonneville, William Curtin, Céline Varvenne

To reveal the operating mechanisms of plastic deformation in an FCC high-entropy alloy, the activation volumes in CrMnFeCoNi have been measured as a function of plastic strain and temperature between 77 K and 423 K using repeated load relaxation experiment ...

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On the debris-level origins of adhesive wear

Jean-François Molinari, Ramin Aghababaei, Derek Warner

Every contacting surface inevitably experiences wear. Predicting the exact amount of material loss due to wear relies on empirical data and cannot be obtained from any physical model. Here, we analyze and quantify wear at the most fundamental level, i.e., ...

Natl Acad Sciences2017

Method and Device for Implementing Laser Shock Peening or Warm Laser Shock Peening During Selective Laser Melting

Eric Boillat, Roland Logé, Nikola Kalentics

A method for manufacturing an object including the steps of forming layers by adding successive layers of material to form the object by selective laser melting (SLM), and inducing plastic deformation and residual stress into solidified material of at leas ...

2017

Two-dimensional analytical stress distribution model for unbalanced FRP composite single-lap joints

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Zhengwen Jiang

A two-dimensional analytical stress distribution model taking into account the effects of large deformation, bending-tension coupling and interfacial compliance on the quasi-static behavior of unbalanced FRP composite single-lap joints (SLJs) under tension ...

Elsevier2017

The dam-break problem for eroding viscoplastic fluids

Christophe Ancey, Belinda Margaret Bates

Natural gravity-driven flows can increase in volume by eroding the bed on which they descend. This process is called basal entrainment and is thought to play a key role in the bulk dynamics of geophysical flows. Although its study is difficult using field ...

Elsevier2017

Protrusion-retraction switches and traction forces in spontaneous cell polarization

Alicia Carine Bornert

Cell migration is a fundamental property of all animal cells which is involved in processes such as embryogenesis, immune response, tissue regeneration and cancer metastasis. Directional migration requires cell polarization which could happen in response t ...

EPFL2016

Nanocrystalline metals: transient testing during in situ X-ray diffraction and molecular dynamics

Zhen Sun

Nanocrystalline (NC) metals have attracted widespread interest in materials science due to their high strength compared to coarse-grained counterparts. It is well know that during uniaxial deformation, the stress-strain behaviour exhibits an extraordinary ...

EPFL2016

Monte Carlo simulations of the static friction between two grafted polymer brushes

Dominic John Tildesley

A configurational bias Monte Carlo method has been developed to study the static friction between grafted polymers immersed in a good solvent. Simple models using the soft quadratic potential from a dissipative particle dynamics study have been used to mod ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Motion of an elastic capsule in a constricted microchannel

Lailai Zhu, Cecilia Rorai

We study the motion of an elastic capsule through a microchannel characterized by a localized constriction. We consider a capsule with a stress-free spherical shape and impose its steady-state configuration in an infinitely long straight channel as the ini ...

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