Jun Li

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

This paper builds on the recently begun extension of continuum thermomechanics to fractal porous media that are specified by a mass (or spatial) fractal dimension D, a surface fractal dimension d and a resolution length scale R. The focus is on pre-fractal media (i.e. those with lower and upper cut-offs) through a theory based on a dimensional regu...

Elastic–plastic transitions were investigated in three-dimensional (3D) macroscopically homogeneous materials, with microscale randomness in constitutive properties, subjected to monotonically increasing, macroscopically uniform loadings. The materials are cubic-shaped domains (of up to 100 × 100 × 100 grains), each grain being cubic-shaped, homoge...

A theoretical experimentally based multi-scale model of the elastic response of cortical bone is presented. It portrays the hierarchical structure of bone as a composite with interpenetrating biopolymers (collagen and non-collagenous proteins) and minerals (hydroxyapatite), together with void spaces (porosity). The model involves a bottom-up approa...

This paper presents a constitutive thermoviscoelastic model for thin films of linear low-density polyethylene subject to strains up to yielding. The model is based on the free volume theory of nonlinear thermoviscoelasticity, extended to orthotropic membranes. An ingredient of the present approach is that the experimentally inaccessible out-of-plan...

A combination of computational and experimental investigation is performed to study additively manufactured (AM) polymers for enhanced fracture properties. Single edge notch tension specimens made of acrylonitrile-butadienestyrene (ABS) materials through fused deposition modeling with various build/raster orientations are studied, namely, horizonta...

Ceramic materials, known for their exceptional resistance to wear, heat, and corrosion, are crucial in sectors like aerospace, electronics, medical devices, and automotive industries. Despite their brittleness and complex processing requirements, binder jet additive manufacturing (BJAM) presents a novel approach that addresses these challenges. Thi...

Developing patient-specific implants has an increasing interest in the application of emerging additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. On the other hand, despite advances in total knee replacement (TKR), studies suggest that up to 20% of patients with elective TKR are dissatisfied with the outcome. By creating 3D objects from digital models, AM e...

Predicting full-field stress responses is of fundamental importance to assessing materials failure and has various engineering applications in design optimization, manufacturing process control, and structural health monitoring. This article develops and evaluates different data-driven methods for efficient and accurate predictions of full stress f...

The proper generalized decomposition (PGD) method is developed for parametric solutions of full stress fields in heterogeneous materials. PGD decouples the multi-dimensional problem into a product of low-dimensional expansion with an enrichment process to approximate the field solutions. The configurations of inclusions (size, location, and materia...

Advanced Manufacturing - is sponsored by the Manufacturing Engineering Division of the ASME. The Track contains a collection of Topics in the manufacturing ranging from nanomanufacturing, to fastening and joining, to material removal and forming, as well as additive manufacturing. The topics are organized by leading researchers in the field. The To...

Motivated by the abundance of fractals in the natural world, this paper further develops continuum-type models for product-like fractals. The theory is based on a version of the non-integer dimensional space approach, in which global balance laws written for fractal media are expressed in terms of conventional (integer-order) integrals. Key relatio...

The underlying complicated spatiotemporal thermo-mechanical processes in additive manufacturing (AM) technology pose challenges in predicting and optimizing the as-built part quality for production use. Physics-based simulations are being developed to provide reliable predictions such as part distortions, residual stresses/strains, microstructure c...

Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, has been transiting from demonstrative prototypes to functional products that are impacting a wide variety of sectors, from biomedical, electronic, and automotive to aerospace industries. However, the high thermal gradients, non-negligible part distortions, and residual stresses could adversely affect th...

This article advances continuum-type mechanics of porous media having a generally anisotropic, product-like fractal geometry. Relying on a fractal derivative, the approach leads to global balance laws in terms of fractal integrals based on product measures and, then, converting them to integer-order integrals in conventional (Euclidean) space. Prop...

Additively manufactured functional parts with high precision are broadly adopted by the multi-layer manufacturing strategy. The spatially different thermal cycles result in residual stresses within the additively manufactured which leads to the part distortion that could impact product precision and properties. The inherited multi-physics system ca...

The mechanical property of 3D-printed components often exhibits anisotropic behaviors and a strong dependence on printing orientations and process parameters. In this study, computational models based on microstructures of 3D-printed ABS polymers are developed using micromechanics of a representative volume element (RVE) to investigate the orthotro...

The mechanical properties and fracturing mechanism of shale containing beddings are critically important in shale gas exploitation and wellbore stability. To investigate the effects of shale bedding on crack behavior and fracturing mechanism, scanning electron microscope (SEM) with a loading system was employed to carry out three-point bending test...

Polymer additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, has been transiting from demonstrative prototypes to functional products that are impacting a wide variety of sectors, from biomedical, electronic, and automotive to aerospace industries. However, the reduced fracture performance often observed in 3D printed parts limits their applications to end...

This paper proposes a novel data-driven approach for predicting and optimizing the additive manufacturing process parameters. The integrated scheme consists of three popular algorithms: (1) group method for data handling (GMDH) as the engine of neural networks, (2) autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) for characterizing spatial collinea...

The use of robust multiresponse constrained optimization techniques in which multiple-objective responses are involved is becoming a crucial part in additive manufacturing (AM) processes. Common and popular techniques, in most cases, rely on the assumption of independent responses. In practice, however, many of the desired quality characteristics c...

The fracture of additively manufactured polymer materials with various layer orientations is studied using the extended finite element method (XFEM) in an anisotropic cohesive zone model (CZM). The single edge notched bending (SENB) specimens made of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) materials through fused filament fabrications with various cr...

This chapter is a survey of continuum-type mechanics of porous media having a generally anisotropic fractal geometry. The approach relies on expressing the global balance laws in terms of fractional integrals based on product measures and, then, converting them to integer-order integrals in conventional (Euclidean) space. Via localization, this all...

Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is a 3D printing process where thermoplastic materials are deposited layer by layer through an extrusion nozzle. One of the main advantages of an FDM process is that any complex shape geometry can be printed directly from a CAD model. However, the process also shows disadvantages such as air-gap, porosity, weak inter...

Additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) is being increasingly used in a wide range of areas including civil, aerospace and biomedical engineering where it offers significant advantages over conventional methods for model prototyping. However, the reduced fracture resistance typically observed in 3D printed materials limits its application to functi...

XFEM combined with different isotropic and anisotropic damage criteria is able to model distinct fracture behaviors in 3D printing materials with various layer directions: brittle, ductile or kinked fractures.

This chapter reviews the modeling of fractal materials by homogenized continuum mechanics using calculus in non-integer dimensional spaces. The approach relies on expressing the global balance laws in terms of fractional integrals and, then, converting them to integer-order integrals in conventional (Euclidean) space. Via localization, this allows...

Composition-structure-property relations of bone provide fundamental understanding of bone quality. The objective of this paper was to investigate age dependent changes in the composition, structure and mechanical properties of porcine femoral cortical bone at mid-diaphysis region from six age groups (1, 3.5, 6, 12, 30, 48 months). This study was m...

The elastic moduli of trabecular bone were modeled using an analytical multiscale approach. Trabecular bone was represented as a porous nanocomposite material with a hierarchical structure spanning from the collagen-mineral level to the trabecular architecture level. In parallel, compression testing was done on bovine femoral trabecular bone sample...

This paper presents a constitutive model capable of predicting the thermoviscoelastic behavior of the balloon thin film StratoFilm subject to large strains up to yielding. The model is based on the free volume theory of nonlinear thermoviscoelasticity and extended to orthotropic membranes. An ingredient of the present approach is that the experimen...

This paper presents a constitutive model capable of predicting the thermoviscoelastic behavior of the balloon thin film StratoFilm subject to large strains up to yielding. The model is based on the free volume theory of nonlinear thermoviscoelasticity and extended to orthotropic membranes. An ingredient of the present approach is that the experimen...

This paper studies fractal patterns forming at elastic-plastic transitions in soil-and rock-like materials. Taking either friction or cohesion as nonfractal vector random fields with weak noise-to-signal ratios, it is found that the evolving set of plastic grains (i.e., a shear-band system) is always a monotonically growing fractal under increasing...

This paper presents an overview of modeling fractal media by continuum mechanics using the method of dimensional regularization. The basis of this method is to express the balance laws for fractal media in terms of fractional integrals and, then, convert them to integer-order integrals in conventional (Euclidean) space. Following an account of this...

In two recent papers [Phys. Rev. E 85, 025302(R) (2012) and Phys. Rev. E 85, 056314 (2012)], the authors proposed fractal continuum hydrodynamics and its application to model fluid flows in fractally permeable reservoirs. While in general providing a certain advancement of continuum mechanics modeling of fractal media to fluid flows, some results a...

The failure of balloons made of Linear Low Density PolyEthylene (LLDPE) is investigated. The chosen film is 38 µm thick StratoFilm 420, currently used for the NASA Super-Pressure balloons [1]. The visco-elastic behaviour of the film has been extensively studied and is already accounted for in the balloon design [2, 3, 5]. The next step in the devel...

Cortical and trabecular bones were modeled as nanocomposite materials with hierarchical structures spanning from collagen-mineral level to cortical and trabecular bone levels. In order to verify theoretical models, compression testing was done on cortical and trabecular bovine femur bone samples and the experimental data were compared with the theo...

Trabecular bone is a porous nanocomposite material with a hierarchical structure. In this study, a multi-scale modeling approach, addressing scales spanning from the nanometer (collagen-mineral) to mesoscale (trabecular bone) levels, was developed to determine the elastic moduli of trabecular bone. Then, the predicted modeling results were compared...

Over the past few decades, various conjectures were advanced that Saturn's rings are Cantor-like sets, although no convincing fractal analysis of actual images has ever appeared. We focus on the images sent by the Cassini spacecraft mission: slide #42 "Mapping Clumps in Saturn's Rings" and slide #54 "Scattered Sunshine". Using the box-counting meth...

In this paper the amount and morphology of cortical and trabecular bone porosities were estimated using optical microscopy and micro-computed tomography technique. The hierarchical structure of porosity at different structural scales spanning from a single lacuna (sub-microscale) to trabecular or cortical bone levels (mesoscale) was characterized a...

a b s t r a c t This paper builds on the recently begun extension of continuum thermomechanics to frac-tal media which are specified by a fractional mass scaling law of the resolution length scale R. The focus is on pre-fractal media (i.e., those with lower and upper cut-offs) through a technique based on a dimensional regularization, in which the...

Fractal patterns are observed in computer simulations of elastic-plastic transitions in linear, locally isotropic thermoelastic-hardening plastic heterogeneous materials. The models involve 2D aggregates of homogeneous grains with weak random fluctuations in thermal expansion coefficients, equivalent to modeling the effects of random residual strai...

In this review, recent advances on the measurement and modeling of elastic properties of cortical and trabecular bone are presented. Bone is a multifunctional material which among its other functions serves as a support for other tissues in the body. As a structural material it is stiff, strong, tough, lightweight and is adaptable. Its excellent me...

This paper builds on the recently begun extension of continuum thermomechanics to fractal porous media that are specified by a mass (or spatial) fractal dimension D, a surface fractal dimension d and a resolution length scale R. The focus is on pre-fractal media (i.e. those with lower and upper cut-offs) through a theory based on a dimensional regu...

This paper builds on the recently begun extension of continuum thermomechanics to fractal porous media which are specified by a mass (or spatial) fractal dimension D, a surface fractal dimension d, and a resolution length scale R. The focus is on pre-fractal media (i.e., those with lower and upper cut-offs) through a theory based on a dimensional r...

Plastic grains are found to form fractal patterns in elastic-hardening plastic materials in two dimensions, made of locally isotropic grains with random fluctuations in plastic limits or elastic/plastic moduli. The spatial assignment of randomness follows a strict-white-noise random field on a square lattice aggregate of square-shaped grains, where...

Continuing in the vein of a recently developed generalization of continuum thermomechanics, in this paper we extend fracture mechanics and beam mechanics to materials described by fractional integrals involving D, d and R. By introducing a product measure instead of a Riesz measure, so as to ensure that the mechanical approach to continuum mechanic...

Fractal patterns are observed in computational mechanics of elastic-plastic transitions in two models of linear elastic/perfectly-plastic random heterogeneous materials: (1) a composite made of locally isotropic grains with weak random fluctuations in elastic moduli and/or yield limits; and (2) a polycrystal made of randomly oriented anisotropic gr...