in this study, an intelligent system for sorting closed shell and open shell pistachio nuts, was designed and developed based on combined acoustic and artificial neural network (ann) techniques. the system included a microphone, pc, material handling equipment and an air reject pneumatic mechanism. the microphone, placed under the steel plate, received sound signals generated by the pistachio n...

Abstract In this article, the nonlinear dynamic responses of sandwich functionally graded (FG) porous cylindrical shell embedded in elastic media are investigated. The studied here consists three layers, which outer and inner skins made solid metal, while core is FG metal foam. Partial differential equations derived by utilizing improved Donnell’s theory Hamilton’s principle. Afterwards, Galerk...

SM1. Introduction. This supplement contains details that were omitted from the main paper [SM2] because of page limitations. SM2. The Model for the Shell Structure Acoustic Interaction. To avoid switching between the main paper and this supplement, we have included the entire expanded version of Section 2, not only the details and proofs missing from Section 2 of the main paper. SM2.1. Naghdi S...

Origami structures enrich the field of mechanical metamaterials with the ability to convert morphologically and systematically between two-dimensional (2D) thin sheets and three-dimensional (3D) spatial structures. In this study, an in-plane design method is proposed to approximate curved surfaces of interest with generalized Miura-ori units. Using this method, two combination types of crease l...

A two-dimensional, transient, finite-element model has been developed to simulate temperature, shape, and stress development in the steel shell, during the initial stages of solidification in the mold. The model is applied to predict the distorted shape of a vertical section through the shell, during a sudden fluctuation in liquid level at the meniscus. The calculation includes the effects of t...

Indentation experiments on thin films are analyzed by using a rigorous solution to model elastic substrate effects. Two cases are discussed: elastic indentations where film and substrate are anisotropic and elastoplastic indentations where significant material pileup occurs. We demonstrate that the elastic modulus of a thin film can be accurately measured in both cases, even if there is signifi...

Isogeometric analysis, as a special field of the finite element method (FEM) which integrates geometric and finite element mesh modelling, is one of the promising directions of FEM development. The paper presents a concept of isogeometric FEM analysis of thin-walled structures based on the Kirchhoff-Love shell formulation and NURBS as basis functions. The basic properties of isogeometric shell ...

Thin solid shell contrast agents bubbles are expected to undergo different volume oscillating behaviors when the acoustic power is increased: small oscillations when the shell remains spherical, and large oscillations when the shell buckles. Contrary to bubbles covered with thin lipidic monolayers that buckle as soon as compressed: the solid shell bubbles resist compression, making the buckling...

We study the asymptotic behavior of one-dimensional functionals associated to the energy of a thin nonlinear elastic spherical shell in the limit of vanishing thickness (proportional to a small parameter) ε and under the assumption of radial deformations. The functionals are characterized by the presence of a nonlocal potential term and defined on suitable weighted functional spaces. The transi...