Specimens of the patellogastropod limpet Patella caerulea were collected within (pHlow-shells) and outside (pHn-shells) a CO2 vent site at Ischia, Italy. Four pHlowshells and four pHn-shells were sectioned transversally and scanned for polymorph distribution by means of confocal Raman microscopy. The pHlow-shells displayed a twofold increase in aragonite area fraction and size-normalised aragon...

Acoustic manipulation of porous spherical shells, widely used as drug delivery carriers and magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents, is investigated analytically. The technique used for this purpose is based on the application of high-order Bessel beams as a single-beam acoustic manipulation device, by which particles lying on the axis of the beam can be pulled toward the beam source. The ex...

The present paper deals with the experimental and computational study of axial collapse of the aluminum metallic shells having combined tube-frusta geometry between two parallel plates. Shells were having bottom two third lengths as frusta and remaining top one third lengths as tube. Shells were compressed to recognize their modes of collapse and associated energy absorption capability. An axis...

Basic properties of Davis-Wielandt shells are presented. Conditions on two operators A and B with the same Davis-Wielandt shells are analyzed. Special attention is given to the case when B is a compression of A, and when B = A∗, A, or (A∗)t, where A is the transpose of A with respect to an orthonormal basis. The results are used to study the point spectrum, approximate spectrum, and residual sp...

We present a theoretical and experimental study of the fragmentation of closed thin shells made of a disordered brittle material. Experiments were performed on brown and white hen egg shells under two different loading conditions: impact with a hard wall and explosion by a combustible mixture. Both give rise to power law fragment size distributions. A three-dimensional discrete element model of...

We demonstrate and discuss acoustic vibrations in spherical shell particles. The particles consist of 38-nm-thick gold shells, sandwiched between an inner silica core of 456 nm in diameter and an outer silica shell of 10 nm in thickness. Employing standard and asynchronous optical sampling (ASOPS) ultrafast pump-probe experiments, we excite acoustic vibrations of the shells and detect the oscil...

We study the formation of localized structures formed by the point loading of an internally pressurized elastic shell. While unpressurized shells (such as a ping-pong ball) buckle into polygonal structures, we show that pressurized shells are subject to a wrinkling instability. We study wrinkling in depth, presenting scaling laws for the critical indentation at which wrinkling occurs and the nu...

We present Hα direct imaging and shell spectroscopic observations of two classical novae: FH Ser 1970 and QU Vul 1984. The distances, reddenings, luminosities at maximum, and the mass of the shell ejected by FH Ser are derived and discussed.

The spherically symmetric thin shells of the macroscopically stable quark-gluon matter are considered within the frameworks of the bag model and theory of discontinuities in general relativity. The equation of state for the two-dimensional matter is suggested, and its features are discussed. The exact equations of motion of such shells are obtained. Distinguishing the two cases, circumstellar a...