support by Concordia University Seed start-up grant(NO.VS1233)is acknowledged.Origin Geomechanics Inc.is acknowledged for providing petrophysical data of the studying rock formation.We also appreciate the helpful comments from two anonymous reviewers。
Geological formations containing laumontite-rich rock are usually treated as problematic for geo-energy production projects because the presence of laumontite mineral can promote complex mechanical behaviors.Previous ...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21574004);the National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar (21725401);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities;the National ‘Young Thousand Talents Program’;the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M620012)
Stimuli-responsive hydrogels have become one of the most popular artificial soft materials due to their excellent adaption to complex environments. Thermoresponsive hydrogels triggered by temperature change can be eff...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 11372243, 11522219, 11532009, and 11402192);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grants 2016qngz03, 2015qngz09);the Openning Project of Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research,College of Stomatology, Xi’an Jiaotong University (Grant 2016LHM-KFKT007)
The sensing of hot and cold stimuli by dental neurons differs in several fundamental ways. These sensations have been characterized quantitatively through the measured time course of neural discharge signals that resu...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11272044 and 11023001)
Following deformation, thermally induced shape memory polymers(SMPs) have the ability to recover their original shape with a change in temperature. In this work, the thermomechanical properties and shape memory behavi...
Project(10672191) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China;Project(06JJ2059)supported by the Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Hunan,China;Project(KF0607) supported by the Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Materials and Application Technology (Xiangtan University),Ministry of Education,China
Thermomechanical coupling of PVC sheet with defects under uniaxial loading at different rates and different sizes of microbores was studied.The local temperature field of the dynamic damage-rupture process zone at cra...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 10472041 and 10072024)the Science Research Foundation of Liaoning Province (No.990111001)
The existing fundamental laws of thermodynamics for micropolar continuum field theories are restudied and their incompleteness is pointed out. New first and second fundamental laws for thermostatics and thermodynamics...