Nickel‐titanium (NiTi) shape‐memory alloys (SMAs) have been used in the manufacture of
orthodontic wires due to their shape memory properties, super‐elasticity, high ductility, and …

In mechanical engineering and structural analysis there is a significant gap between the
material models currently used by engineers for industry applications and those already …

A survey of recent contributions on three-dimensional grain-scale mechanical modelling of
polycrystalline materials is given in this work. The analysis of material micro-structures …

This book presents a broad exposition of analytical and numerical methods for modeling
composite materials, laminates, polycrystals and other heterogeneous solids, with emphasis …

In the present report some basic issues of and some of the modeling strategies used for
studying static and quasistatic problems in continuum micromechanics of materials are …

In this paper a method for the generation of three-dimensional periodic meshes for the
numerical simulation of polycrystalline aggregates is presented. The mesh construction is …

Cutting-Edge Techniques to Better Analyze and Predict Complex Physical Phenomena
Geometric Modeling and Mesh Generation from Scanned Images shows how to integrate …

In this study, effects of typical texture components observed in rolled aluminum alloy sheets
on shear band formation in plane strain tension/compression and bending are …

A three-dimensional grain boundary formulation is presented for the analysis of
polycrystalline microstructures. The formulation is based on a boundary integral …

Engineering materials continue to encounter challenges for new property combinations, and
these challenges are leading to many hybrid materials known as composites. Particulate …