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The fracture toughness of thin metal films confined between elastic layers is studied using a two-dimensional discrete dislocation (DD) method. Fracture along the metal/substrate interface is permitted through the use of a cohesive zone model. The predicte ...
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The current research extends our previous work on brittle fragmentation of a one-dimensional bar [F. Zhou, J.-F. Molinari, K.T. Ramesh, A cohesive-model based fragmentation analysis: effects of strain rate and initial defects distribution, International Jo ...
Steroid receptor coactivator 3 (SRC-3/ACTR/AIB-1/pCIP/RAC3/TRAM-1) is a member of the p160 family of nuclear receptor coactivators that plays an important role in mammary gland growth, development, and tumorigenesis. We show that deletion of SRC-3 gene dec ...
Simulations of nanoindentation in single crystals are performed using a finite temperature coupled atomistic/continuum discrete dislocation (CADD) method. This computational method for multiscale modeling of plasticity has the ability of treating dislocati ...
In this paper some effects of dynamical coupling between two interaction-carrying vectors on the internal auto- and cross-correlation functions are investigated in the limit of small amplitude motions. A linearized Langevin approach allows the derivation o ...
A methodology has been developed for the accurate assessment of localised reactivity perturbations in a BWR lattice embedded in a larger multiplying system, based on a full-system, unperturbed calculation, and on perturbed calculations on reduced-geometry ...
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