Gecko-inspired microfibre arrays with 42 million polypropylene fibres cm(-2) (each fibre with elastic modulus 1 GPa, length 20 microm and diameter 0.6 microm) were fabricated and tested under pure shear loading conditions, after removing a preload of less than 0.1 N cm(-2). After sliding to engage fibres, 2 cm2 patches developed up to 4N of shear force with an estimated contact region of 0.44 c...

Inhomogeneous deformation in amorphous alloys is characterized by local regions of intense shear. Experiments on VITROVAC 0040 (Fe40Ni40B20) supplied by Vacuumschmelze (Hanau, Germany) show a direct correlation between the number density of the shear bands and the coercive field after inhomogeneous deformation by cold rolling. The deformation process is also shown to induce an off axis magnetic...

A pulsed Nd:YAG laser with a fiber optic delivery system was used to accomplish dissimilar joining of 316 stainless steel (SUS316) polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Laser Conduction Welding (LCW) applied as welding technique achieve lap metal/polymer joint by applying the from metal side. The heat transferred layer polymer layer, which caused melting and then solidifying at interface. effect th...

The shear and bulk viscosities of gluon plasma are calculated by accumulating a large amount of data for the Matsubara Green function (Gβ (tm)) on isotropic 24 3 ×8 and 163 ×8 lattices. In the case of Iwasaki’s improved action, the calculations of Gβ (tm) are carried out on roughly 6 million configurations, while for the standard action the calculations are done on more than 16 million configur...

this study was carried out to determine some mechanical properties of barley seed including deformation, rapture force, rapture energy and toughness as a function of moisture content (10.5%, 12.5%, 14.5% , 16.5%, db), loading rate (5, 15, 25, 35 mm.min-1) and grain size (small, medium, large). tests were performed at 7 replications by the means of a factorial base plot experiment. the results s...

unlike the classical deformation analysis of the earth crust, which derives the planar and vertical strains separately, in this study, we have offered a method for 3-d deformation study based on intrinsic geometry of the manifolds on the topographic surface of the earth. in this way, our method would be based on the 2-d metric tensor of horizontal deformation and 2-d curvature tensor of vertica...

This study makes use of the Tsallis entropy to predict the shear stress distribution. Given a definition of the Tsallis entropy, it is maximized by using the probability density function, which then is used to attain a novel shear stress equation. This is then employed for calculating the shear stress distribution in rectangular channels in different aspect ratios and finally, for viability, th...

Abstract In this paper interparticle potential model of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is used to simulate deformation and breakup of a falling droplet under gravity force. First this model is applied to ensure that the surface tension effect is properly implemented in this model. Two tests have been considered. First, it has been checked an initial square drop in a 2D domain can freely def...

We conduct a two-dimensional numerical experiment on the lower crust under an intraplate strike-slip fault based on laboratory-derived power-law rheologies considering the effects of grain size and water. To understand the effects of far-field loading and material properties on the deformation of the lower crust on a geological time scale, we assume steady fault sliding on the fault in the uppe...