Response to "Care continuum in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation".

Comments on the original article "Care continuum in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation," by J. M. Uomoto and A. McLean (see record 1990-02670-001). As someone working within the insurance industry with the responsibility for purchasing services for TBI patients, I think that the TBI care continuum, as presented by Uomoto and McLean, represents a sensible response to a critical need. It does not offer, however, any specific information on what is effective and simply restates what has already been recognized by many in the insurance industry: head trauma rehabilitation is long, complex, multidisciplinary, intensely individualistic, and enormously expensive. The insurance industry is aware that a continuum care approach is necessary. Clearly, no one can dispute that treatment has to be ongoing and multifaceted to address a disability that has such a colossal medical, social, vocational, and psychological impact. In addition, the need for acute hospitalization, acute rehabilitation, and a protective environment to provide care and address basic needs is readily accepted. The problem for the insurance industry is what constitutes effective treatment beyond the acute phase of trauma stabilization and maintenance. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Initial response of a micro-polar hypoplastic material under plane shearing

The behavior of an infinite strip of a micro-polar hypoplastic material located between two parallel plates under plane shearing is investigated. The evolution equation of the stress tensor and the couple-stress tensor is described using tensor-valued functions, which are nonlinear and positively homogeneous of first order in the rate of deformation and the rate of curvature. For the initial response of the sheared layer an analytical solution is derived and discussed for different micro-polar boundary conditions at the bottom and top surfaces of the layer. It is shown that polar quantities appear within the shear layer from the beginning of shearing with the exception of zero couple stresses prescribed at the boundaries.     

基于连续介质模型的颗粒材料孔隙度及孔隙水压力计算公式

孔隙度是能够部分反映颗粒材料微观结构的一个宏观量,其数值及其演化对颗粒材料的宏观力学行为有重要影响。基于连续介质模型,在颗粒体积应变均匀的前提下推导了颗粒材料的孔隙度随颗粒集合局部平均体积应变的演化公式,并应用该关系式结合孔隙水状态方程给出了饱和颗粒材料的孔隙水压力与孔隙度、固体颗粒体积模量、固体颗粒变形之间的关系。所得公式可用于饱和含液颗粒材料流–固耦合计算或饱和多孔介质宏观–细观多尺度流–固耦合渗流分析。     

一类非线性算子特征元的全局结构

本文利用不动点指数理论研究了一类非线性算子特征元的全局结构,证明了解集存在无界连通分支并给出了多个正解的存在性结果.     

Stress-Induced Grain Boundary Migration in Polycrystalline Copper

We use three-dimensional (3D) grain-continuum models to study grain boundary migration, treating each grain with anisotropic elastic properties. Grain boundary speeds are computed using a finite element method to calculate differences in strain energy density across grain boundaries. Body-fitted finite element meshes are used. An interface tracking program, PLENTE, is used to develop starting structures and move the grain boundaries based on these speeds. We demonstrate this procedure on textured films consisting of 〈100〉 and 〈111〉 fiber textured film. We also apply the model to a short section of a Cu line embedded in oxide. We conclude with a discussion on the relative impact of different driving forces for grain boundary motion.     

一种立方对称晶体结构的唯象连续非线性本构模型及其分析

基于立方对称结构的晶体特点，本文建立一种唯象连续非线性本构模型，推导出一些主要方向如（００１）、（０１１）和（１１１）受单向载荷时的表达式。并对所建模型的适用性进行了分析，指出在较高温度状态时所建模型能较准确地描述Ｎｉ基单晶的非线性变形。     

An anisotropic damage model for tensile fatigue

Fatigue damage in materials is considered to be the effect of material degradation, and the dispersion in fatigue life is attributed to variability in microstructure. This paper presents a numerical model to simulate fatigue damage evolution using continuum damage mechanics to characterize material degradation. An explicit microstructure topology representation is achieved using Voronoi tessellations. Unlike conventional models which use a scalar approximation for damage, this model treats the damage variable as an anisotropic tensor. The model is used to simulate tensile fatigue failure in thin steel specimen. The fatigue life estimations from the model compares well with published experimental results. The results predict a high variability in fatigue life that is characteristic of metals and alloys, as compared with the existing isotropic damage models available in the literature. The model was also used to study the influence of material inhomogeneity on fatigue life dispersion.     

Goal‐oriented adaptivity for linear elastic micromorphic continua based on primal and adjoint consistency analysis

Microscopic considerations are drawing increasing attention for modern simulation techniques. Micromorphic continuum theories, considering micro degrees of freedom, are usually adopted for simulation of localization effects like shear bands. The increased number of degrees of freedom clearly motivates an application of adaptive methods. In this work, the adaptive FEM is tailored for micromorphic elasticity. The proposed adaptive procedure is driven by a goal‐oriented a posteriori error estimator based on duality techniques. For efficient computation of the dual solution, a patch‐based recovery technique is proposed and compared to a reference approach. In order to theoretically ensure optimal convergence order of the proposed adaptive procedure, adjoint consistency of the FE‐discretized solution for the linear elastic micromorphic continua is shown. For illustration, numerical examples are provided. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A boundary density evolutionary topology optimization of continuum structures with smooth boundaries

Based on the variable density method, this article proposes a boundary density evolutionary topology optimization method. The method uses a material interpolation model without penalization. Combined with the density grading filtering method, an optimal topology with only 0/1 cells can be obtained. Compared with the solid isotropic microstructures with penalization method (SIMP), no penalty factor is required in the material interpolation model; compared with the evolutionary structural optimization method (ESO), intermediate-density elements are allowed in the optimization process, but the concept of gradually removing the low-utilization materials near the boundary in the ESO method is retained. After the optimal result is obtained, the structural boundary element is processed by the level set of nodal strain energy, and the optimization result with smooth boundaries similar to the level set method (LSM) can be obtained. The proposed method has the superiority of the variable density method, and it also combines the advantages of the evolutionary method and the level set method, so which is named as boundary density evolution (BDE) method. The four static and one dynamic optimization examples illustrate the stability and efficiency of the proposed method.     

A stress-influence-function with adaptive strength feature approach for stress constrained continuum topology optimization via small-loop sequential strategy

Recently, the stress-influence-function (SIF) approach is presented for stress constrained continuum topology optimization. The SIF approach provides an alternative for continuum topology optimization with stress constraints. However, the SIF approach is not good at controlling the maximum stress of the elements compared to the conventional approach. In the study, the stress-influence-function with adaptive strength feature (SIF-ASF) approach via small-loop sequential strategy is proposed to achieve better control on the maximum elemental stress. First, the stress constrained continuum topology optimization formulation is given and the SIF approach is briefly introduced. Then the SIF-ASF approach is proposed for stress constrained continuum topology optimization, in which the strength feature in the stress influence function is adjusted in each iterative step of the optimization process. The adjoint-vector based sensitivity analysis to the design variables is further discussed. Three numerical examples are given to illustrate the applicability and validity of the proposed SIF-ASF approach. It is shown that the proposed SIF-ASF approach can achieve better control on the maximum elemental stress than the SIF approach. Moreover, the proposed SIF-ASF approach may obtain a lighter structure than the conventional approach.