Electrical Mechanical Systems for Command, Control, Communications. Essentially the area under the curve defined by the PDF of the PDF from t.The reduction of system reliability due to accumulated damage is quantitatively. THE reliability of a mechanical system may be defined as the.The estimation of reliability of mechanical systems under variable constraints. The probability density function ...

vibration generated by vehicles during road transport has an important impact on agricultural products' damage process, particularly in the case of fruits and vegetables. modulus of elasticity is one of the most conspicuous mechanical properties of fruits, the variation in which can be described as one of the most affecting damage criteria during transportation. this research was conducted...

The purpose of the present study is the damage detection in the thin plates in terms of the wide application of such structures in various branches of engineering such as structural, mechanical, aerospace, shipbuilding, etc. using gradient-based second-order numerical optimization techniques. The technique used for optimization in this study is the second-order Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm (SO...

Our bodies are in constant motion and so are the neurons that invade each tissue. Motion-induced neuron deformation and damage are associated with several neurodegenerative conditions. Here, we investigated the question of how the neuronal cytoskeleton protects axons and dendrites from mechanical stress, exploiting mutations in UNC-70 β-spectrin, PTL-1 tau/MAP2-like and MEC-7 β-tubulin proteins...

In this paper results of tests to assess the effect of mechanical damage (generally associated with installation processes) and abrasion are presented. Laboratory tests were carried out. The material tested is a composite consisting of two overlapped geosynthetics: a nonwoven geotextile and a woven geogrid. The composite was submitted to each referred agent (mechanical damage and abrasion damag...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Curcumin, a kind of plant polyphenolic compound, has been recently discovered to have renoprotective effects on diabetic nephropathy (DN). Podocyte can respond to various injuries including mechanical stress secondary to DN. Our previous study showed that podocyte miR-124 expression was up-regulated accompanied with podocytic adhesive capacity damage in vitro and in vivo. We hyp...

In the present paper the damage of fiber-reinforced polymeric matrix laminates is considered with the aim to examine their mechanical properties. The damage mode in the form of intralaminar cracks (“primary matrix cracking”) is described in terms of second order, symmetrical damage tensor by Vakulenko and Kachanov. It allows for considering the orientation of the defects, which is determined by...

Martensitic steels form a material class with a versatile range of properties that can be selected by varying the processing chain. In order to study and design the desired processing with the minimal experimental effort, modeling tools are required. In this work, a full processing cycle from quenching over tempering to mechanical testing is simulated with a single modeling framework that combi...

In the present work, the mechanical behavior of stress corrosion cracking phenomenon is described. Such phenomenon presents strong complexity due to metallurgic and electrochemical aspects. A methodology for modeling both SSR (Slow Strain Rate) and CL (Constant Load) tests based upon thermodynamics of continuum solids and elastoplastic damage is proposed. In this macroscopic approach, besides t...