... DISCRETE MODELINGOFSHAPEMEMORY ALLOYS S MOHANRAJ (M.Sc Materials Science and Engineering, NUS, 2003) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ... understanding ofmaterials from atomic scale to macroscopic scale 1.2 ShapeMemoryAlloy behaviour Phase transitions occur in Shapememory alloys (SMA) through a diffusionless rearrangement of atoms ... understand, predict and control the properties ofmaterials The scientific investigation ofmaterials with microstructure greatly depends on the mathematical models and simulations ofmaterials at different...
... research focuses on ShapeMemoryAlloy (SMA) materialsand provides a technique to prestress a simply supported concrete beam using the shapememory effect of nitinol (NiTi, ShapeMemory Alloy) to control ... Some materials also undergo a shape change upon cooling These materials are called ShapeMemory Alloys having two-way shape memory* ShapeMemory Alloys are novel materials that have the ability ... 1.1.4 Nitinol (NiTi ShapeMemory Alloy) : The most common shapememory material is an alloyof nickel and titanium called Nitinol This particular alloy has very good electrical and mechanical properties,...
... mechanical and shape- memory properties of SMPs is examined The characterization of polymers structure, thermal, and mechanical properties, and the investigation of shapememory behavior of star polymers ... tensile strength (σm) of 14-20 MPa and Young’s modulus (E) of 70-91 MPa) and exhibited excellent shape- memory property at 40 oC, with Rf of over 95%, Rr of over 97%, andshape recovery within ... network.89-91 Similarly, Mn of PCL precursor and content of crosslinkes strongly influenced the thermal, mechanical and shape- memory properties of the networks Tm and mechanical properties of the network...
... response to NH and NO compared with pure WO The materialsof WO loaded with wt.% Cr, La, Pr, Sm, Gd, Er, Tm and Yb showed good responses to NH , and hardly responded to NO, and the materialsof WO loaded ... sensitivity and responding properties of WO decayed with loading of alkali metals The responding and recovery properties were obviously improved by loading with alkali earth metals The materialsof WO ... wt.% Ba, Te, and Pb showed good responses to NO and hardly responded to NH These two kinds ofmaterials can be used as NH and NO selective gas sensors, respectively The characteristics of WO 3-based...
... Roeser, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Per Sandin, Martin Peterson (Eds.) Handbook of Risk Theory Epistemology, Decision Theory, Ethics, and Social Implicationsof Risk With 85 Figures and 62 Tables Editors ... Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology Delft The Netherlands and Philosophy Department University of Twente Enschede The Netherlands Rafaela Hillerbrand Human ... Hillerbrand, Per Sandin, and Martin Peterson Acknowledgments Sabine Roeser’s work for the Handbook of Risk Theory has been conducted at the philosophy departments of TU Delft and Twente University and...
... a year of college This assumption implies a linear relationship between the log of earnings and the number of years of education.15 Second, we assume that the cost of an additional year of education ... a function of years of education, years of work experience, and ability Interpretation and Empirical Evidence: The slope, r, in equation (11) represents the rate of return to a year of education ... (1993), Butcher and Case (1994), Ashenfelter and Krueger (1994), and Ashenfelter and Zimmerman (1993) Variations of the IV technique are applied, the conclusions of which support Harmon and Walker’s...
... Indirect evidence of this is found in Figs 2a and 2b Among those 75 years and over, regardless of sex, the proportion of people who explained that their health problems were the result of aging was ... to many other sources of data, the NPHS shows that with increasing age, utilization by elderly people of hospital and home-care services andof medications (prescription and over-the-counter drugs) ... than 40% of women and 30% of men were living in institutions.22 Moore and associates23 estimated lower bounds on the proportions of the elderly population entering institutions between 1986 and 1991...
... glutamate and cationic zinc [4-8] The receptors are also the targets of plant toxins such as nicotine and strychnine, conotoxins of snails, lophotoxins of corals, and many of the neurotoxins of elapid ... members of the ART-LGIC superfamily and discuss the general implicationsof these proteins for the mechanisms and origin of the Cys-loop receptors of the animal nervous system Results and discussion ... constituents of the ligand-binding box (Figure 2) Of these, the dyad of two consecutive cysteines, which are amino-terminal to the final strand of the LBD is observed only in a subset of the animal...
... the field of mathematical andnumericalmodelingof mechanical behavior of granular materialsandmaterials with different strengths Zones of the strains localization are defined by means of proposed ... theory of granular materials is among the most interesting and intensively developing fields ofmechanics because the area of its application is very wide It involves problems ofmechanicsof geomaterials ... Golovanov, Y.V., Shirko, I.V.: Review of current state of the mechanicsof fast motions of granular materials In: Shirko, I.V (ed.) Mechanicsof Granular Media: Theory of Fast Motions, Ser New in Foreign...
... ADVANCED MECHANICSOF COMPOSITE MATERIALS ADVANCED MECHANICSOF COMPOSITE MATERIALS Valery V Vasiliev Distinguished Professor Department ofMechanicsand Optimization of Processes and Structures ... elasticity, mechanicsof composite materials, design, analysis, fabrication, and application of composite structures According to the list of books on composites presented in Mechanicsof Fibrous ... published ones which usually cover not only mechanicsofmaterials but also include analysis of composite beams, plates and shells, joints, and elements of design of composite structures that, being...
... ADVANCED MECHANICSOF COMPOSITE MATERIALS ADVANCED MECHANICSOF COMPOSITE MATERIALS Valery V Vasiliev Distinguished Professor Department ofMechanicsand Optimization of Processes and Structures ... elasticity, mechanicsof composite materials, design, analysis, fabrication, and application of composite structures According to the list of books on composites presented in Mechanicsof Fibrous ... published ones which usually cover not only mechanicsofmaterials but also include analysis of composite beams, plates and shells, joints, and elements of design of composite structures that, being...
... tool, its proper (and correct) usage in the context of non-linear analysis requires a solid and thorough understanding of the fundamentals ofMechanics Unfortunately, this is often forgotten as ... MechanicsofMaterials II Draft CONTENTS Victor Saouma MechanicsofMaterials II viii Draft List of Figures 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Direction ... the number of components of a tensor is 3n where n is the order of the tensor 42 43 A force and a stress are tensors of order and respectively 1.3.2 44 Tensor Operations Sum: The sum of two (second...
... derivations and proofs of various basic equations in the study of the mechanicsof composite materials The derivations of the remaining equations are left to some of the problems Solutions to most of ... namely, homogenization of composite materials, and damage mechanicsof composite materials The authors have deliberately left out the two topics of laminated plates and stability of composites as they ... a number of examples is solved demonstrating both the theory andnumerical computations The examples are of two types: the first type is theoretical and involves derivations and proofs of various...
... subsided, and they both taught sections of these courses as they kept revising their texts and began writing together the manuscript of the first edition ofMechanicsofMaterials Ferd and Russ’s ... helped them in statics and dynamics GENERAL APPROACH In this text the study of the mechanicsofmaterials is based on the understanding of a few basic concepts and on the use of simplified models ... objective of the study of the mechanicsofmaterials is to provide the future engineer with the means of analyzing and designing various machines and load-bearing structures Both the analysis and the...
... Mechanicsofmaterials - 3rd ed An introduction to the mechanicsof elastic and plastic deformation of solids and structural materials Strength ofmaterials Strains and stress Deformations (Mechanics) ... Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Heam, E J (Edwin John) Mechanicsofmaterials 1: an introduction to the mechanicsof elastic and plastic deformation of solids and structural materialsE ... second moments of area 1.4 Land’s circle of second moments of area f 1.5 Rotation of axes: determination of moments o area in terms of the principal values I The ellipse of second moments of area 1.7...