The present study aimed to characterize the effect of a nearby distractor on vertical, horizontal, and oblique saccade curvature under normal saccade preparation times. Consistent with previous findings, longer-latency vertical saccades showed greater curvature away from a distractor than did oblique or horizontal saccades. At short latencies, vertical saccades also showed greater curvature tow...

Engineers and researchers often use nonlinear beam-column elements to simulate the response of reinforced concrete structures. Namely, distributed plasticity elements are arguably the most attractive due to the good compromise between accuracy and computational time. Formulation wise, three types of distributed plasticity beam elements can be distinguished: displacement-based, force-based and m...

Strength and ductility are two of the most important mechanical properties of structural materials. However, they are often mutually exclusive, i.e., a material may be strong or ductile, but rarely both at the same time. This is also true for bulk nanostructured materials, which usually have high strength, but disappointingly low ductility. Bulk nanostructured materials are usually synthesized ...

Using ab initio alloy theory, we investigate the equilibrium bulk properties and elastic mechanics of the single bcc solid-solution AlxHf1−xNbTaTiZr (x = 0–0.7, 1.0) high entropy alloys. Ab initio predicted equilibrium volume is consistent with the available experiment. We make a detailed investigation of the alloying effect of Al and Hf on the equilibrium volume, elastic constants and polycrys...

This paper is concerned with the inelastic behavior of axially loaded concrete-filled thin-walled steel tubular columns subjected to local buckling. A nonlinear fiber element analysis program accounting for local buckling effects is developed for predicting the ultimate strength and ductility of concrete-filled thin-walled steel tubular columns. The effects of local buckling are taken into cons...

Materials with ultrafine grain sizes are attractive for use in micro-forming operations. High-pressure torsion (HPT) is an effective technique that allows disc materials subjected to torsional deformation to generate microstructures with significant grain refinement. Generally, ultrafine-grained materials exhibit high strength but their ductility is limited because they have both a low rate of ...

Involving the Ricci curvature and the squared mean curvature, we obtain basic inequalities for different kind of submaniforlds of a Sasakian space form tangent to the structure vector field of the ambient manifold. Contrary to already known results, we find a different necessary and sufficient condition for the equality for Ricci curvature of C-totally real submanifolds of a Sasakian space form...

In the current study moment - curvature behavior of basalt fibred concrete beams made with fibre reinforced polymer bars and normal steel rebars are evaluated. Basalt M30 grade were casted BFRP separately to flexural properties bars. From load –deflection plots, characteristics such as at first crack, ultimate strength, deflection centre crack width failure Deflections measured central point un...