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Volume 225, Issue 4-5

April 2014

Special Issue in honor of Professor George Weng, the 2013 Prager Medalist

Issue Editors:

Jackie Li,
Dimitris C. Lagoudas,
Abhijit Bhattacharyya

37 articles in this issue

Preface to the Special Issue in Honor of Professor George J. Weng, the 2013 Prager Medalist
Jackie Li
Dimitris Lagoudas
Abhijit Bhattacharyya
Editorial 29 January 2014 Pages: 965 - 966
Biography of the Prager Medalist: Professor George Weng
Jackie Li
Dimitris Lagoudas
Abhijit Bhattacharyya
Editorial 14 February 2014 Pages: 967 - 977
The Prager Medal Lecture: micromechanics and some aspects of phase fields in ferroelectric crystals
George J. Weng
OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 979 - 998
Gradient material mechanics: Perspectives and Prospects
Elias C. Aifantis
OriginalPaper 12 February 2014 Pages: 999 - 1012
Engineering science aspects of the Hall–Petch relation
Ronald W. Armstrong
OriginalPaper 04 February 2014 Pages: 1013 - 1028
Heat transfer in shape memory alloy thin films
M. Mete Ozturk
A. Bhattacharyya
OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 1029 - 1042
A mathematical framework of high-order surface stresses in three-dimensional configurations
Tungyang Chen
Min-Sen Chiu
OriginalPaper 14 February 2014 Pages: 1043 - 1060
Morphology and performance of graphene layers on as-grown and transferred substrates
Mario Lanza
Yan Wang
Huiling Duan
OriginalPaper 10 January 2014 Pages: 1061 - 1073
A new homogenization method based on a simplified strain gradient elasticity theory
H. M. Ma
X. -L. Gao
OriginalPaper 14 January 2014 Pages: 1075 - 1091
Numerical investigation of fracture behavior of nanostructured Cu with bimodal grain size distribution
X. Guo
X. Y. Dai
J. Lu
OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 1093 - 1106
Effect of residual interface stresses on effective specific heats of multiphase thermoelastic nanocomposites
Y. Q. Chen
R. C. Huang
Z. P. Huang
OriginalPaper 14 January 2014 Pages: 1107 - 1119
Effect of the microstructure of a filled rubber on its overall mechanical properties
Bing Jiang
OriginalPaper 14 January 2014 Pages: 1121 - 1140
Numerical predictions of mechanical behavior of innovative pothole patching materials featuring high toughness, low-viscosity nano-molecular resins
K. Y. Yuan
J. W. Ju
J. M. Yang
OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 1141 - 1151
An applied electro-magneto-elastic thin plate theory
Zhen-Bang Kuang
OriginalPaper 29 January 2014 Pages: 1153 - 1166
Micromechanics of precipitated near-equiatomic Ni-rich NiTi shape memory alloys
T. Baxevanis
A. Cox
D. C. Lagoudas
OriginalPaper 11 January 2014 Pages: 1167 - 1185
Material property prediction of thermoset polymers by molecular dynamics simulations
Chunyu Li
Eric Coons
Alejandro Strachan
OriginalPaper 18 February 2014 Pages: 1187 - 1196
Modeling of high-k dielectric nanocomposites
M. E. Hossain
S. Y. Liu
J. Li
OriginalPaper 18 January 2014 Pages: 1197 - 1209
The effective thermoelectric properties of core–shell composites
Yang Yang
Cunfa Gao
Jiangyu Li
OriginalPaper 09 January 2014 Pages: 1211 - 1222
Reformulation of the Nosé–Hoover thermostat for heat conduction simulation at nanoscale
Jiaoyan Li
James D. Lee
OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 1223 - 1233
On higher-order quantum stress
Shaofan Li
Qi Tong
OriginalPaper 19 January 2014 Pages: 1235 - 1243
A differential approach to microstructure-dependent bounds for multiphase heterogeneous media
Liping Liu
OriginalPaper 14 February 2014 Pages: 1245 - 1266
Modeling the pullout test of nanoreinforced metallic matrices using molecular dynamics
S. A. Meguid
F. Al Jahwari
OriginalPaper 10 January 2014 Pages: 1267 - 1275
Viscothermoelasticity with finite wave speeds: thermomechanical laws
Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
OriginalPaper 23 January 2014 Pages: 1277 - 1285
Effect of aged binder on piezoelectric properties of cement-based piezoelectric composites
Huang Hsing Pan
Chang-Keng Chiang
OriginalPaper 11 January 2014 Pages: 1287 - 1299
Fiberwalk: a random walk approach to fiber representative volume element creation
Stephen Recchia
James Zheng
Assimina A. Pelegri
OriginalPaper 19 January 2014 Pages: 1301 - 1312
Cryogenic fracture of cracked piezoelectric ceramics in three-point bending under electric fields
Yasuhide Shindo
Fumio Narita
OriginalPaper 10 January 2014 Pages: 1313 - 1321
Phase field modeling of flexoelectric effects in ferroelectric epitaxial thin films
H. T. Chen
A. K. Soh
Y. Ni
OriginalPaper 09 January 2014 Pages: 1323 - 1333
The grain-size-dependent behaviors of nano-grained ferroelectric polycrystals: a phase-field study
Ning Liu
Yu Su
OriginalPaper 12 February 2014 Pages: 1335 - 1345
Dynamic viscoelastic modeling of magnetorheological elastomers
R. Li
L. Z. Sun
OriginalPaper 08 January 2014 Pages: 1347 - 1359
Effects of statistics of cell’s size and shape irregularity on mechanical properties of 2D and 3D Voronoi foams
Liqun Tang
Xuepeng Shi
Yiping Liu
OriginalPaper 01 February 2014 Pages: 1361 - 1372
Influence of particle size and debonding damage on an elastic–plastic singular field around a crack-tip in particulate-reinforced composites
Keiichiro Tohgo
Tomoyuki Fujii
Yoshinobu Shimamura
OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 1373 - 1389
A micromechanics based multiscale model for nonlinear composites
Dianyun Zhang
Anthony M. Waas
OriginalPaper 01 February 2014 Pages: 1391 - 1417
On the assumptions of the generalized plane stress problem and the Filon average
Min-Zhong Wang
Bai-Xiang Xu
Yang Gao
OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 1419 - 1427
Equivalent inclusion method-based simulation of particle sedimentation toward functionally graded material manufacturing
Y. J. Liu
H. M. Yin
OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 1429 - 1445
On cause hypotheses of earthquakes with external tectonic plate and/or internal dense gas loadings
Zhong-qi Quentin Yue
OriginalPaper 15 February 2014 Pages: 1447 - 1469
Dynamics of the dragonfly wings raised by blood circulation
Lihua Wang
Zheng Zhong
OriginalPaper 09 January 2014 Pages: 1471 - 1485
Multiple cracks in a half-space under contact loading
Kun Zhou
Rongbing Wei
OriginalPaper 30 January 2014 Pages: 1487 - 1502