Resources (1-19 of 19)

1. Mechanical response of materials using Jupyter

   31 Jan 2023 | Contributor(s):: Alejandro Strachan

   This tool provides mathematical tools using python in Jupyter to explore and calculate mechanical properties of materials

2. Linear Regression Young's modulus

   Tools | 24 Sep 2020 | Contributor(s):: Michael N Sakano, Saaketh Desai, Alejandro Strachan

   Use linear regression to extract Young's modulus and yield stress from stress-strain data

3. MSE educational tool: visualization of stacking faults

   Tools | 28 Nov 2017 | Contributor(s):: Peilin Liao

   Visualize stacking faults in FCC and BCC crystals

4. MSE educational tool: elastic moduli calculations

   Tools | 22 Nov 2017 | Contributor(s):: Peilin Liao

   Illustrate how to calculate elastic constants for crystals

5. Phase Transforming Cellular Materials Simulator

   Tools | 07 Jun 2017 | Contributor(s):: Yunlan Zhang, Chidubem Nuela Enebechi, Kristiaan William Hector, Gavin Carter, ASHLEY MIN, Valeria Grillo, David Restrepo, Nilesh Mankame, Pablo Daniel Zavattieri

   The tool will predict mechanical behavior of PXCMs given the the response of the unit cell

6. Coarse Graining of Crystalline Cellulose

   Tools | 29 Jul 2016 | Contributor(s):: Kuo Tian, Mehdi Shishehbor, Pablo Daniel Zavattieri

   Bio-inspired Crystalline Nano-Cellulose coarse graining toolkit

7. [Illinois] Probing the Mechanical Properties of Materials at Small Scales with Nanoindentation

   Online Presentations | 18 Sep 2015 | Contributor(s):: George Pharr

8. Granular Crystals

   Tools | 22 Jul 2015 | Contributor(s):: Juan Camilo Lopez, Rohit Kaushal Tripathy, Ilias Bilionis, Marcial Gonzalez

   Allows the user to sample properties of granular chains under uncertainty propagation

9. Structure and Properties of Carbon and Boron Nitride Nanotubes

   Presentation Materials | 10 Jan 2014 | Contributor(s):: Brian Demczyk

   This presentation describes structure and mechanical property determinations on carbon and boron nitride (sp2-bonded) nanotubes , as deduced by transmission electron microscopy.

10. In-situ Carbon Nanotube Bending Tests

    Animations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s):: Brian Demczyk

    This video shows a series of in-situ TEM bending manipulations on carbon nanotubes, demonstrating the remarkable flexibility of these materials.

11. Illinois 2011: Dr. Shah Yunus - Future of Innovation

    Online Presentations | 04 Apr 2012 | Contributor(s):: Shah Yunus, Nadia Jassim

    Dr. Shah Yunus: Operational Vice President for Product Development, ESI-Group.

12. Illinois 2011 NanoBiophotonics Summer School: Poster Day: Gongting Wu

    Online Presentations | 29 Nov 2011 | Contributor(s):: Gongting Wu, Nadia Jassim

    Mechanical properties of blood clots.

13. In-situ carbon nanotube tensile test

    Animations | 07 Oct 2011 | Contributor(s):: Brian Demczyk

    This represents the first in-situ tensile test observed in a transmission electron microscope.

14. Direct mechanical measurement of the tensile strength and elastic modulus of multiwalled carbon nanotubes

    Papers | 07 Oct 2011 | Contributor(s):: Brian Demczyk, Y.M. Wang, J. Cumings, M. Hetman, W. Han, A. Zettl. R. O. Ritchie

    This work represents the first in-situ measurenment of the tensile strength of a carbon nanotuube.

15. Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 5: A Day of In-Class Simulation: MD of Carbon Nanostructures

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    Teaching Materials | 13 Feb 2008 | Contributor(s):: Jeffrey C Grossman, Elif Ertekin

    In this lecture we carry out simulations in-class, with guidance from the instructors. We use the LAMMPS tool (within the nanoHUB simulation toolkit for this course). Examples include calculating the energy per atom of different fullerenes and nantubes, computing the Young's modulus of a nanotube...

16. Micromechanics Simulation Tool

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    Tools | 17 Aug 2007 | Contributor(s):: priyum jyoti, Marisol Koslowski, Lei Lei

    Tool Description

17. Atomistic Modeling of the Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured Materials

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    Online Presentations | 16 Apr 2007 | Contributor(s):: SeongJun Heo, Susan Sinnott

    The mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes are studied by using classical molecular dynamics simulations. Especially, the effects of filling, temperature, and functionalization on CNT's tensional and twisting properties are considered in this study.

18. Orientational Dependence of Friction in Polyethylene

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    Online Presentations | 16 Apr 2007 | Contributor(s):: SeongJun Heo

    The frictional properties of polyethylene polymer are investigated by using classical molecular dynamics simulations. Especially, the sliding orientational effect is considered in this study. The results of polyethylene are also compared to those of polytetrafluoroethylene(PTFE).

19. Materials strength: does size matter? nanoMATERIALS simulation toolkit tutorial

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    Online Presentations | 01 Feb 2007 | Contributor(s):: Alejandro Strachan

    Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful technique to characterize the fundamental, atomic-level processes that govern materials behavior and is playing an important role in our understanding of the new phenomena that arises in nanoscale and nanostructured materials and result in their unique...