This paper derives kinematic admissible bending moment – axial force (M-P) interaction relations for mild steel by considering strain hardening idealisations. Two models for strain hardening – Linear and parabolic have been considered, the parabolic model being closer to the experiments. The interaction relations can predict strains, which is not possible in a rigid, perfectly plastic idealizat...

the release rate of potassium (k) from micaceous minerals plays a significant role in supplying k to plants. the objective of this study was to determine the most appropriate kinetic equation to describe potassium release from micaceous minerals as influenced by organic acids. muscovite and phlogopite were made to react with 0, 500, 2000 and 4000 ?m solutions of oxalic, citric and malic acids f...

In order to increase the efficiency of the conveyance of the granular solids, a new experimental set-up is designed. The test rig has longitudinal trapezoidal slots in its conveying pipes. Through experimentation, a correlation for friction factor in terms of solid mass flow rate, fluid flow rate and Froude number is presented. It is shown that the mixture friction factor for pipes with inn...

Throughout this report, polling systems play a central role. Polling systems are queueing systems consisting of multiple queues, attended by a single server. The server can only serve one queue at a time. Whenever the server moves from one queue to another, a stochastic, non-zero switch-over time is incurred. The server never idles; even when there are no customers waiting in the system, the se...

This paper focuses on a hydraulic radius separation approach used to calculate the boundary shear stress in terms of bed and wall shear stress proposed in a trapezoidal channel. The average bed and sidewall shear stress in smooth trapezoidal open channels are derived after using Guo & Julien (2005) early equations taking a part of an investigation to cover both rectangular and trapezoidal chann...

The diffraction efficiency behavior of reflection gratings with an asymmetrical trapezoidal groove profile has been studied. Theoretical calculations predict that at certain grating parameters superior efficiency compared to the conventional ruled gratings can be achieved.

We prove a Murnaghan–Nakayama rule for k-Schur functions of Lapointe and Morse. That is, we give an explicit formula for the expansion of the product of a power sum symmetric function and a k-Schur function in terms of k-Schur functions. This is proved using the noncommutative k-Schur functions in terms of the nilCoxeter algebra introduced by Lam and the affine analogue of noncommutative symmet...

We study a division problem which allocates resources to agents with single-peaked preferences, who have a right to decide for the participation. We introduce the generalized uniform rule which assigns resources to agent as equally as possible subject to the participation constraints. We present various characterizations of the generalized uniform rule on the basis of separability principle.

Using Hayashi's inequality, an Iyengar type inequality for functions with bounded second derivative is obtained. This result improves a similar result from [N. Elezovi´c, J. Pečari´c, Steffensen's inequality and estimates of error in trapezoidal rule, Appl. In 1938 Iyengar proved the following inequality in [1]: Theorem 1. Let function f be differentiable on [a, b] and | f (x)| ≤ M. Then 1 b − ...