We have used the Mori–Tanaka method to study the effect of nonlinear interface debonding on the constitutive behavior of composite material with high particle volume fraction. The interface debonding is characterized by a nonlinear cohesive law determined from the fracture test of the high explosive PBX 9501. Using the example of the composite material with spherical particles subject to hydros...

foundations behavior is affected by soil behavior which can vary from dilative to contractive depending on the stress level, particularly in dense frictional soils. the zero extension lines (zel) method has been generally developed to predict the foundations behavior. knowledge of soil behavior enables the zel method to predict the general and local shear failure modes. in this paper, a relativ...

This paper presents the application of a life fraction hardening rule to the analytical calculation of creep in hot section components. Accurate prediction of creep is critical to assuring the mechanical integrity of heavy-duty, industrial gas turbine (IGT) hardware. The accuracy of such predictions depend upon both the creep models assumed and how those models are implemented in a finite eleme...

Time evolution of the probability density is investigated for initially quiescent dynamical systems exposed suddenly to random excitations. A variety of dynamical systems is considered, including the usual linear oscillator, and nonlinear oscillators of hardening spring, of softening spring, and of the van del Pol type. The random excitations are assumed to be stationary stochastic processes, s...

Recent failures of production systems have highlighted the importance of tolerating faults beyond crashes. The industry has so far addressed this problem by hardening crash-tolerant systems with ad hoc error detection checks, potentially overlooking critical fault scenarios. We propose a generic and principled hardening technique for Arbitrary State Corruption (ASC) faults, which specifically m...

In this paper, we propose an aspect-oriented language, called SHL (Security Hardening Language), for specifying systematically the security hardening solutions. This language constitutes our new achievement towards developing our security hardening framework. SHL allows the description and specification of security hardening plans and patterns that are used to harden systematically security int...

The linear and nonlinear oscillatory shear, extensional and combined rheology-dielectric spectroscopy of hybrid polymer nanocomposites for semiconductive applications were investigated in this study. The main focus was the influence of processing conditions on percolated poly(ethylene-butyl acrylate) (EBA) nanocomposite hybrids containing graphite nanoplatelets (GnP) and carbon black (CB). The ...

We present a mathematical model for the laser surface hardening of steel. It consists of a nonlinear heat equation coupled with a system of ve ordinary diierential equations to describe the volume fractions of the occuring phases. Existence, regularity and stability results are discussed. Since the resulting hardness can be estimated by the volume fraction of martens-ite, we formulate the probl...

Abstract Block braked railway wheels are subjected to thermal and rolling contact loading. The loading results in high temperatures stresses which cause slow time dependent processes such as creep, relaxation static recovery of the wheel material. At same time, implies a very fast mechanical load application. This paper is focused on material modeling pearlitic steel for wide range rates at ele...

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the integration of a MOF thin film on electrostatically actuated microstructures to realize a switch triggered by gas and a sensing algorithm based on amplitude tracking. The devices are based on the nonlinear response of micromachined clamped-clamped beams. The microbeams are coated with a metal-organic framework (MOF), namely HKUST-1, to achieve h...