A comprehensive experimental study that quantifies the influence of coupled compression and shear wave loading on liquefaction susceptibility sands is presented. Such typical in situ, leads to complex principal stress rotation, which turn impacts potential for soils even if cyclic intensity remains constant. The nature degree rotation caused by this are significantly influenced initial consolid...

While the rule of mixture is applicable for addressing the overall Poisson's ratio of a concentrically aligned bi-layered rod under longitudinal loading, the same cannot be said for this rod under torsional loading due to the higher extent of deformation in the rod material further away from the torsional axis. In addition, the use of adhesives for attaching the solid inner rod to the hollow ou...

satisfies it. This indicates that in the limit, as the wall thickness of the hollow tube approaches zero, the only possible mode of torsional wave propagation is the zeroth mode, as would be expected. For completeness, Fig. 1 shows the values of the characteristic numbers k'a plotted agsinst the ratio of the tube inner radii to tube outer radii for the cases calculated. This shows that torsiona...

Torsion is an important testing modality commonly used to calculate structural properties of long bones. However, the effects of size and geometry must be excluded from the overall structural response in order to compare material properties of bones of different size, age and species. We have developed a new method to analyze torsional properties of bones using actual cross-sectional informatio...

With the aim of simulating the behavior of saturated sand with initial static shear (i.e., sloped ground) undergoing undrained cyclic loading, which leads to liquefaction and large cyclic shear strain development, an elastoplastic constitutive model which can describe both monotonic and cyclic torsional shear behaviors of saturated sand under drained and/or undrained conditions is presented. It...

Uncapped, hollow polymeric microstructures were fabricated on a silicon substrate using electric field induced stretching and detachment. Initially, square or cylinder microposts were generated using a solvent-assisted capillary molding technique, and a featureless electrode mask was positioned on the top of the microstructure with spacers maintaining an air gap (∼20 μm). Upon exposure to an ex...

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in problems of diffraction and radiation of ocean waves around structures, in relation to “green” power generation by Oscillating Water Column (OWC) devices. In this paper we present a first-order analytical solution for the diffraction of ocean waves around a hollow cylindrical shell structure suspended in an ocean of finite depth. By revisiting...

Abstract The object of this paper is the Saint-Venant torsion a solid elliptical cylinder made orthotropic homogeneous piezoelectric material. We find shape cross section which does not warp under applied torque. sizes section, has maximum value torsional rigidity for given cross-sectional area, are also determined.

We investigate theoretically the properties of phononic crystal plates with hollow pillars. Such crystals can exhibit confined whispering gallery modes around the hollow parts of the pillars whose localization can be increased by separating the pillar from the plate by a full cylinder. We discuss the behaviors of these modes and their potential applications in guiding and filtering. Filling the...

In this study, the thermoelastic behavior of a thick-walled homogeneous cylinder based on Lord-Shulman theory is investigated. It assumed that inner and outer surfaces are traction-free, surface insulated while subjected to time-dependent internal temperature load. The governing equations in coupled form solved with pseudospectral Chebyshev method. numerical approach validated benchmark results...