Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures: Volume 1 Issue 3

A Unified Approach to Analytical and Numerical Modelling of Sintering

Jingzhe Pan, H.N. Ch’ng

This paper presents a unified framework to model the sintering process of fine powders. The framework is based on classical virtual power principle and its corresponding…

A General Procedure for Modeling Physicochemical Coupling Behaviour of Advanced Materials ‐ Part I: Theory

Qing‐Sheng Yang, Cai‐Qin Cui, Xu‐Zhi Lu

The advanced synthetic and natural materials, such as piezoelectric ceramics, electroactive polymers and biological soft tissues, exhibit the multi‐physical or physicochemical…

Generalized Electromagneto‐Thermoelastic Plane Waves by Thermal Shock Problem in a Finite Conductivity Half‐Space with One Relaxation Time

Mohamed I. A. Othman

A two‐dimensional coupled problem in electromagneto‐thermoelasticity for a thermally and electrically conducting half‐space solid whose surface is subjected to a thermal shock is…

Homogenization‐Based FEM Study of Transient Heat Transfer in Some Composite Materials

Marcin Kaminski, Marcin Pawlik

Effectiveness of the homogenization method for various heat transfer problems of engineering composites is the main aim of the paper. This comparative study is done for layered…

The Stress Field in the Vicinity of Two Parallel Symmetric Cracks Subjected to Anti‐plane Shear Loading in Functionally Graded Piezoelectric/Piezomagnetic Materials

Li Lin, Zhou Zhen‐Gong, Wu Lin‐Zhi

In this paper, the problem of two parallel symmetry permeable cracks in functionally graded piezoelectric/piezomagnetic materials subjected to an anti‐plane shear loading is…