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This paper presents an up-to-date Lagrangian particle method for the analysis of a coupled thermo-mechanical problem in the friction drilling simulation. The method is obtained by a modification of variational...
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The Dexing porphyry Cu–Mo–Au deposit in east China (1,168 Mt at 0.45 % Cu) is located in the interior of the South China Craton (SCC), made up of two lithospheric blocks, the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks. The ...
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Computational assessment of cracks under strain-gradient plasticity
With introducing the strain gradient into plasticity theory, the crack field singularity at the crack tip changes. Characterization of the crack in strain-gradient dependent materials has not found a common co...
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