scholarly journals Estimation of transversely isotropic material properties from magnetic resonance elastography using the optimised virtual fields method

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. e2979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renee Miller ◽  
Arunark Kolipaka ◽  
Martyn P. Nash ◽  
Alistair A. Young
2013 ◽  
Vol 778 ◽  
pp. 303-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahbube Subhani ◽  
Jian Chun Li ◽  
Hauke Gravenkamp ◽  
Bijan Samali

Timber poles are commonly used for telecommunication and power distribution networks, wharves or jetties, piling or as a substructure of short span bridges. Most of the available techniques currently used for non-destructive testing (NDT) of timber structures are based on one-dimensional wave theory. If it is essential to detect small sized damage, it becomes necessary to consider guided wave (GW) propagation as the behaviour of different propagating modes cannot be represented by one-dimensional approximations. However, due to the orthotropic material properties of timber, the modelling of guided waves can be complex. No analytical solution can be found for plotting dispersion curves for orthotropic thick cylindrical waveguides even though very few literatures can be found on the theory of GW for anisotropic cylindrical waveguide. In addition, purely numerical approaches are available for solving these curves. In this paper, dispersion curves for orthotropic cylinders are computed using the scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) and compared with an isotropic material model to indicate the importance of considering timber as an anisotropic material. Moreover, some simplification is made on orthotropic behaviour of timber to make it transversely isotropic due to the fact that, analytical approaches for transversely isotropic cylinder are widely available in the literature. Also, the applicability of considering timber as a transversely isotropic material is discussed. As an orthotropic material, most material testing results of timber found in the literature include 9 elastic constants (three elastic moduli and six Poisson's ratios), hence it is essential to select the appropriate material properties for transversely isotropic material which includes only 5 elastic constants. Therefore, comparison between orthotropic and transversely isotropic material model is also presented in this article to reveal the effect of elastic moduli and Poisson's ratios on dispersion curves. Based on this study, some suggestions are proposed on selecting the parameters from an orthotropic model to transversely isotropic condition.


1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. H. Vichnin ◽  
S. C. Batterman

An investigation was performed to determine the effects of the presence of two lengths of proximal Mu¨ller prosthesis on predicted failure loads, as compared to those for an intact femur. Three-dimensional stresses in a bone/cement/prosthesis system were determined using finite element methods, with both isotropic and transversely isotropic material properties used for the diaphyseal cortex. Significant increases in prosthesis stem stresses were found when the transversely isotropic material properties were employed in the diaphyseal cortex. This leads to the conclusion that accurate anisotropic material properties for bone are essential for precise stress determination and optimum design in prosthetic implants. Failure loads were also predicted for vertical compression and axial torque, similar to available experimental conditions, and were within the range of the experimental failure data found in the literature. The technique developed herein can be used to systematically assess existing as well as future implant designs, taking into account the complex three-dimensional interaction effects of the overall bone/cement/prosthesis system.


2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (09n11) ◽  
pp. 1443-1448
Author(s):  
YUE-XIU WU ◽  
QUAN-SHENG LIU

To understand the dynamic response of transversely isotropic material under explosion load, the analysis is done with the help of ABAQUS software and the constitutive equations of transversely isotropic material with different angle of isotropic section. The result is given: when the angle of isotropic section is settled, the velocity and acceleration of measure points decrease with the increasing distance from the explosion borehole. The velocity and acceleration in the loading direction are larger than those in the normal direction of the loading direction and their attenuation are much faster. When the angle of isotropic section is variable, the evolution curves of peak velocity and peak acceleration in the loading direction with the increasing angles are notching parabolic curves. They get their minimum values when the angle is equal to 45 degree. But the evolution curves of peak velocity and peak acceleration in the normal direction of the loading direction with the increasing angles are overhead parabolic curves. They get their maximum values when the angle is equal to 45 degree.


2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thakur Pankaj

Elastic-plastic transitional stresses in a transversely isotropic thick-walled cylinder subjected to internal pressure and steady-state temperature have been derived by using Seth's transition theory. The combined effects of pressure and temperature has been presented graphically and discussed. It has been observed that at room temperature, thick-walled cylinder made of isotropic material yields at a high pressure at the internal surface as compared to cylinder made of transversely isotropic material. With the introduction of thermal effects isotropic/transversely isotropic cylinder yields at a lower pressure whereas cylinder made of isotropic material requires less percentage increase in pressure to become fully-plastic from its initial yielding as compared to cylinder made of transversely isotropic material.


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