# positions[].organizations[].label
Center for Intelligent Multifunctional Materials and Structures

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# overview
Amine Benzerga's research focuses on the deformation and fracture of advanced materials used in transportation and power generation systems; nanomechanics; and computational mechanics of materials.

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Shear Transformation Zone (stz) Plasticity

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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Visco Plastic Self-consistent (vpsc) Model

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Paul Sabatier University - (Toulouse, France)

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William O. and Montine P. Head Faculty Fellow

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Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

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Edward 'Pete' Aldridge '60 Professorship

# publications[].label
Void growth and coalescence in a magnesium alloy studied by synchrotron radiation laminography

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An analysis of exhaustion hardening in micron-scale plasticity

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Synergistic effects of plastic anisotropy and void coalescence on fracture mode in plane strain (vol 10, pg 73, 2002)

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Finite-strain elasto-viscoplastic behavior of an epoxy resin: Experiments and modeling in the glassy regime

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Localized necking predictions for an imperfect sheet using a porous plastic constitutive relation with two porosity parameters

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An analysis of Lode effects in ductile failure

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Simulation of Non-Planar Spall Under Hypervelocity Impact

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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A Computational Methodology for Modeling Ductile Fracture

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Constitutive relations and their time integration for anisotropic elasto-plastic porous materials

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Shear Transformation Zone (STZ) plasticity analysis of constrained shear

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Ductile failure modeling (vol 201, pg 29, 2016)

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ON TWINNING-MEDIATED VOID GROWTH IN HEXAGONAL CRYSTALS

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Micromechanical models of ductile damage and fracture

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Microstructural Design of Mg Alloys for Lightweight Structural Applications

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Ductile failure as a constitutive instability in porous plastic solids

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Effects of manufacturing-induced voids on local failure in polymer-based composites

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Numerical assessment of an anisotropic porous metal plasticity model

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A discrete dislocation analysis of strengthening in bilayer thin films

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An analysis of failure in shear versus tension

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A discrete dislocation analysis of size-dependent plasticity in torsion

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Anisotropic ductile fracture Part I: experiments

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Scale dependence of mechanical properties of single crystals under uniform deformation

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Fracture Strains, Damage Mechanisms and Anisotropy in a Magnesium Alloy Across a Range of Stress Triaxialities

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Analysis of void coalescence accounting for nonuniform void distributions

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An analysis of geometrically necessary dislocation evolution and plasticity size effects in micro-crystals

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Finite-element analyses of combined void shape and plastic anisotropy effects in ductile fracture

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Theoretical and numerical analysis of void coalescence in porous ductile solids under arbitrary loadings

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Representative Volume Size in Micromechanical Modeling of Precipitated SMAs

# publications[].publisher
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics

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Effect of UV-aging on the mechanical and fracture behavior of low density polyethylene

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Work hardening in micropillar compression: In situ experiments and modeling

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Plastic flow anisotropy drives shear fracture.

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The stored energy of cold work: Predictions from discrete dislocation plasticity

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Effective Yield Criterion Accounting for Microvoid Coalescence

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Modeling the 3D Plastic Anisotropy of a Magnesium Alloy Processed Using Severe Plastic Deformation

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Special Issue: Alan Needleman Symposium: New Frontiers in the Mechanics of Materials Biographical Sketch of Alan Needleman (2015)

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Smaller is softer: An inverse size effect in a cast aluminum alloy

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Discrete Dislocation Simulations of Taper Effects in Micropillar Compression

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An experimental investigation of lode effects on ductile fracture

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An analysis of deformation and failure in rectangular tensile bars accounting for void shape changes

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Strain Localization in Determining the Constitutive Response of Polymers

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Void growth and coalescence in hexagonal close packed crystals

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Finite element implementation of a macromolecular viscoplastic polymer model

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Microstructural Origin of Residual Stress Relief in Aluminum

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Discrete Dislocation Simulations of Taper Effects in Micropillar Compression

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Void nucleation during ductile rupture of metals: A review

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On the effects of dislocation density on micropillar strength

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Modeling the viscoplastic behavior of a semicrystalline polymer

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A unified criterion for the growth and coalescence of microvoids

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Damage Mechanisms at Various Strain Rates and Temperatures in AZ31B Magnesium Alloy

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STRAIN LOCALIZATION IN DETERMINING THE CONSTITUTIVE RESPONSE OF POLYMERS

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A criterion for the coalescence of three-dimensional voids

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An analysis of impact-induced deformation and fracture modes in amorphous glassy polymers

# publications[].label
On the path-dependence of the fracture locus in ductile materials: Experiments

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Environmentally enhanced creep crack growth by grain boundary cavitation under cyclic loading

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A micromechanical model for the dynamic behavior of porous media in the void coalescence stage

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Interplay between the effects of deformation mechanisms and dynamic recrystallization on the failure of Mg-3Al-1Zn

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Assessment of a two-surface plasticity model for hexagonal materials

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On the mechanisms of ductile failure under dynamic loadings

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Determination of the intrinsic behavior of polymers using digital image correlation combined with video-monitored testing

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Mechanical behavior of polyamide-6 after combined photo-oxidative and hygrothermal aging

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Orientation-dependent plastic deformation in transformer steel: Experiments and dislocation dynamics simulations

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Ductility Enhancement in Mg Alloys by Anisotropy Engineering

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Failure of metals III: Fracture and fatigue of nanostructured metallic materials

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Size effects in aluminium alloy castings

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Void growth and coalescence in anisotropic plastic solids

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A multiscale modeling methodology for damage progression in polymer-based composites

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Void growth and coalescence in hexagonal close packed crystals (vol 125, pg 198, 2019)

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Towards designing anisotropy for ductility enhancement: A theory-driven investigation in Mg-alloys

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Inverse Optimization to Design Processing Paths to Tailor Formability of Mg Alloys

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How much input is needed from the microstructure to model ductile fracture?

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Effect of strain rate and temperature on fracture of magnesium alloy AZ31B

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Computational Homogenization of Precipitated Shape Memory Alloys: A Comparative Study of FFT Versus FEA

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Creep crack growth by grain boundary cavitation under monotonic and cyclic loading

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Criterion for unhomogeneous yielding of porous materials

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A variational fast Fourier transform method for phase-transforming materials

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On the localization of plastic flow in glassy polymers

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On the path-dependence of the fracture locus in ductile materials - Analysis

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Incorporating three-dimensional mechanisms into two-dimensional dislocation dynamics (vol 12, pg 159, 2004)

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A Theory for Designing Ductile Materials with Anisotropy

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Discrete shear-transformation-zone plasticity modeling of notched bars (vol 111, pg 18, 2018)

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A computational framework for analyzing the dynamic response of glassy polymers

# publications[].label
Micromechanical Models of Ductile Damage and Fracture

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On fracture loci of ductile materials under non-proportional loading

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A Line-Free Discrete Dislocation Dynamics Method for Finite Domains

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On the micromechanics of void mediated failure in HCP crystals

# publications[].label
A discrete dislocation analysis of size-dependent plasticity in torsion

# publications[].label
Discrete shear transformation zone plasticity

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Microstructural Design of Mg Alloys for Lightweight Structural Applications

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Photo-oxidation of semicrystalline polymers: Effect of stress triaxiality on ductility

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Approximate analysis of necklace coalescence

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Discrete dislocation simulations of taper effects in micropillar compression

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Micromechanics of coalescence in ductile fracture

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Effect of Stress Triaxiality on the Flow and Fracture of Mg Alloy AZ31

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A phenomenological model of size-dependent hardening in crystal plasticity

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A Predictive Multisurface Approach to Damage Modeling in Mg Alloys

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Durability of Polymer Films for Erosion Protection of Helicopter Rotor Blades Impacted by Sand Particles

# publications[].publisher
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

# publications[].label
On the structure of poroplastic constitutive relations

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Failure of metals I: Brittle and ductile fracture

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On the Effects of Dislocation Density on Micropillar Strength

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Size effects under homogeneous deformation of single crystals: A discrete dislocation analysis

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A micromechanics-based ductile damage model incorporating plastic anisotropy and void shape effects

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Discrete dislocation simulations of compression of tapered micropillars

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Effect of nonuniform porosity on the plastic flow and ductility of metals

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On distribution softening in the yielding of porous materials

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Recent advances in modelling ductile rupture

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DAMAGE MECHANISMS AT VARIOUS STRAIN RATES AND TEMPERATURES IN AZ31B MAGNESIUM ALLOY

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Ductile fracture of magnesium alloys: Shear banding versus void coalescence

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Plastic potentials for anisotropic porous solids

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An approximate yield criterion for anisotropic porous media

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On plastic flow in notched hexagonal close packed single crystals

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Discrete shear-transformation-zone plasticity modeling of notched bars

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Photo-oxidation of semicrystalline polymers: Damage nucleation versus growth

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Material inertia and size effects in the Charpy V-notch test

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Evolution of geometrically necessary dislocation density from computational dislocation dynamics

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Limits on Transformation Strains for Non-Negative Dissipation

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Finite Element Analysis of Ductile Failure Under Severe Shear

# publications[].publisher
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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On Void Coalescence Under Combined Tension and Shear

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Ductile Fracture by Void Growth to Coalescence

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Effect of non-uniform void distributions on the yielding of metals

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Modeling damage accumulation to fracture in a magnesium-rare earth alloy

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Power-Law Creep from Discrete Dislocation Dynamics

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Discrete dislocation predictions for single crystal hardening: Tension vs bending

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Micromechanical Models of Ductile Damage and Fracture

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Materials Mechanics Beyond the Horizon  Alan Needleman at 80

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Nanoindentation of CNT reinforced epoxy nanocomposites

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A discrete dislocation dynamics framework for modeling polycrystal plasticity with hardening

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A constitutive model for plastically anisotropic solids with non-spherical voids

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Coalescence of voids by internal necking: Theoretical estimates and numerical results

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Energy dissipation rate and kinetic relations for Eshelby transformations

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Assessment of iterated variational homogenization for microstructure evolution in porous materials

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Effects of Texture and Triaxiality on the Plasticity of Magnesium Alloys

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Anisotropic ductile fracture Part II: theory

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A shear modified enhanced Gurson constitutive relation and implications for localization

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On the notch ductility of a magnesium-rare earth alloy

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Computational Methodology for Modeling Fracture in Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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A constitutive model of cavitation-induced damage in Ti alloys

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Three dimensional simulations of texture and triaxiality effects on the plasticity of magnesium alloys

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A Mechanism-Based Constitutive Model of Failure under Combined Tension and Shear

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A Computational Framework for Analyzing the Dynamic Behavior and Failure of Amorphous Polymers

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Synergistic effects of plastic anisotropy and void coalescence on fracture mode in plane strain

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On the modeling of asymmetric yield functions

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A discrete dislocation analysis of the Bauschinger effect in microcrystals

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Power-law creep from discrete dislocation dynamics.

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Evolution of the 3D plastic anisotropy of HCP metals: Experiments and modeling

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Unhomogeneous yielding of porous materials  Evolution equations

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Directorate for Engineering - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Cyber Training :  CIC: The Texas A&M University Computational Materials Science Summer School (CMS3)

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Engineering the Anisotropy of Magnesium Alloys for Enhanced Performance

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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DMREF: Accelerating the Development of High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Proposal: Multiscale Modeling of Damage Tolerance in Hexagonal Materials

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Durability of Semicrystalline Polymers under Extreme Environments: Characterization and Modeling

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Qatar National Research Fund - (Doha, Qatar)

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Stress State, Strain History and Microstructural Effects in Ductile Fracture

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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International Institute on Multifunctional Materials for Energy Conversion (IIMEC)

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M U. Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Metal Deformation Processes (iuFOCUS)

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Aerospace Engineering; 3141 TAMU

# organizations[]
Center for Intelligent Multifunctional Materials and Structures

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# schools[]
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# etdChairOf[].label
Rodriguez Atencio, Ana Karina (2015-05). Effect of Strain Rate and Temperature on Fracture and Damage of Magnesium Alloy AZ31B. Master's Thesis.

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Keralavarma, Shyam Mohan (2008-05). A micromechanics based ductile damage model for anisotropic titanium alloys. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Chowdhury, Khairul Alam (2003-05). Damage initiation, progression and failure of  polymer matrix composites due to manufacturing induced defects. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Keralavarma, Shyam Mohan (2011-12). A Contribution to the Modeling of Metal Plasticity and Fracture: From Continuum to Discrete Descriptions. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Basu, Shamik (2016-08). On the Effects of Texture and Strain-Path Changes on the Ductile Fracture of Mg Alloys. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Kondori, Babak (2015-05). Ductile Fracture of Magnesium Alloys: Characterization and Modeling. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
De Castro, Anthony (2010-12). Contribution to the Study of Fracture in Amorphous Polymers: Experiments and Modeling. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Padubidri Janardhanachar, Guruprasad (2010-05). Scale Effects in Crystal Plasticity. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Torki Harchegani, Mohammad Ebrahim (2019-05). Ductile Fracture under Combined Tension and Shear: Theory and Applications. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Banerjee, Sourav (2010-12). Modeling and Simulation of Solid Particle Erosion of Protective Films. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Abdel Al, Nisrin Rizek (2009-12). An Experimental Study of Deformation and Fracture of a Nanostructured Metallic Material. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Poulain, Xavier Marc Nicolas (2010-12). On the Thermomechanical Behavior of Epoxy Polymers: Experiments and Modeling. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Greer, Christopher Alden (2016-05). Simulation of Creep in Micron Scale Crystalline Materials for High Temperature Thermal Protection Systems. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Bielefeldt, Brent Ryan (2016-08). Computational Analysis of Shape Memory Alloy Sensory Particles for Structural Health Monitoring Applications. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Thomas, Nithin (2016-12). On the Effects of Stress State and Microstructure Induced Anisotropies on Ductile Fracture. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Computational Materials Science Summer School