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Laboratory of Mechanics  

and Materials (LMM)

FEM on NanoindentationFEM on Nanoindentation

 

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

 

The research activity of the Laboratory includes: Macro/Micro/Nano Mechanics of Materials and Processes, Diffusion and flow through deformable porous media, Fatigue and corrosion deterioration and environmental damage, Phase changes and interfaces, Material instabilities: Displacement morphology/Shear bands/Coupled continuum mechanics of physical materials: soils/rocks/wood/biomaterials, Thermo-electro-chemo-mechanics of technological materials: Metals/polymers/composites, Nanomaterials/Nanotubes/Nanowires, Nanofibers/Nanobeams/Nanoplates, MEMS/NEMS, Li-ion Batteries, Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), Medical implants, Nano-decorated tissues and cells.

A list of the Laboratory's Publications can be found here.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2018-19)

 

Konstantinidis A.A. and Aifantis K.E., Simulating the formation of localized slip zones in Ni3Al nanocubes under compression, Mater. Sci. Technol. 35, 571-576, 2019.

Petsos, G., Konstantinidis A. and Aifantis, E.C., On the role of higher order deformation gradients in necking, spinodal decomposition and neuron firing, Mater. Res. Comm. 93, 119-123, 2018.

Chattopadhyay A.K., He X., Tsambali A.-A., Konstantinidis A.A. and Aifantis E.C., On stochastic resonance in a model of double diffusion, Mater. Sci. Technol. 34, 1606-1613, 2018.

Tsambali A.-A., Konstantinidis A.A. and Aifantis E.C., Modeling double diffusion in soils and materials, J. Mechan. Behav. 27, DOI: 10.1515/jmbm-2018-2003, 2018.

I. Tsagrakis and E.C. Aifantis, Gradient and size effects on spinodal and miscibility gaps, Cont. Mech. Thermod., 30 1185-1199, 2018.

I. Tsagrakis and E.C. Aifantis, Gradient elasticity effects on the two-stage lithiation of LIB anodes, in: Generalized Models and Non-Classical Approaches in Complex Materials 2 (Advanced Structured Materials, vol. 90), pp. 221-235, H. Altenbach, J. Pouget, M. Rousseau, B. Collet and T. Michelitsch (eds.), Springer, Cham, 2018.

I. Tsagrakis, I.S. Yasnikov and E.C. Aifantis, Gradient elasticity for disclinated micro crystals, Mech. Res. Comm., 93, 159-162, 2018.