[1] Pelagic marine carbonates provide important records of past environmental change. We carried out detailed low-temperature magnetic measurements on biogenic magnetite-bearing sediments from the Southern Ocean (Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Holes 738B, 738C, 689D, and 690C) and on samples containing whole magnetotactic bacteria cells. We document a range of low-temperature magnetic properties,...

As emerging advanced construction materials, strain hardening cementitious composites (SHCCs) have seen increasing field applications recently to take advantage of its unique tensile strain hardening behavior, yet existing uniaxial tensile tests are relatively complicated and sometime difficult to implement, particularly for quality control purpose in field applications. This paper presents a n...

In many rock engineering projects, accurate identification of rock strength properties is very important. Uniaxial compressive strength is one of the most important features to describe the resistive behavior of rocks which is used as an important parameter in the design of structures especially underground openings. Determination of this parameter using direct methods, including uniaxial compr...

In this article, surface stress and nonlocal effects on the biaxial and uniaxial buckling of rectangular silver nanoplates embedded in elastic media are investigated using finite difference method (FDM). The uniform temperature change is utilized to study thermal effect. The surface energy effects are taken into account using the Gurtin-Murdoch’s theory. Using the principle of virtual work, the...

This paper describes a new approach which can be used to interpret the experimental creep deformation data obtained from miniaturized thin plate bending specimen test to the corresponding uniaxial data based on an inversed application of the reference stress method. The geometry of the thin plate is fully defined by the span of the support, l, the width, b, and the thickness, d. Firstly, analyt...

Abstract This article reports the effects of friction on flow stress-strain curve obtained from uniaxial compression test. Uniaxial test was done at deformation temperature range 575 °C–650 °C and strain rates 0.001 s −1 , 0.01 0.1 0.5 to a 0.6 using Gleeble ® 3500 thermo-mechanical simulator. The parameter calculated by analytical equation literature. study results. results showed variation be...

Internal stress associated with an oriented microstructure of defects are taken into ac count in the thermoelastic balance of martensitic phase transition. From this analysis a macros copic flow rule is determined for the TWME by using a phenomenological approach based on a yield criterion derived from Gibb's free energy expression. Experiments perfor med on a Cu-Zn-A1 polycrystalline alloy tra...

AbstructA high pressure, high temperature cell has been constructed and used to determine the temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity of various geological materials at a frequency of 60 Hz. Test conditions in the cell approximate an in situ environment by means of a variable uniaxial confining pressure and a separately variable pore pressure. A wide array of constituents of typic...

Granite is a typical crystalline material, often used as a building material, but also a candidate host rock for the repository of high-level radioactive waste. The petrographic texture-including mineral constituents, grain shape, size, and distribution-controls the fracture initiation, propagation, and coalescence within granitic rocks. In this paper, experimental laboratory tests and numerica...

Dynamic light scattering from orientational order fluctuations in a liquid crystalline tetrapode reveals successive, weakly first-order isotropic to uniaxial and uniaxial to biaxial nematic phase transitions. The order parameter relaxation rates exhibit temperature dependences consistent with Landau-de Gennes mean field theory. Combined with previous evidence of a second-order uniaxial-biaxial ...