We have studied the impurity effect on the internal friction spectrum, with two different samples magnesium 4N and magnesium 6N containing zinc and iron : for the sample 4N we observe a broad peak depending on the oscillation strain amplitude : this peak shifts towards low temperature when the amplitude increases. for the sample 6N containing zinc and iron, the internal friction spectrum is dif...

The strength of granular material, specifically sand is of pivotal importance for understanding physical phenomena on other celestial bodies. However, relatively few experiments have been conducted to determine the dependence of strength properties on gravity. In this work, we experimentally investigated three measures of strength (peak, confined flow, and unconfined flow friction angle) in Ear...

-Theoretical constraints on the stress-dilation relation for a deforming Coulomb material require v -< 0 if C = 0 and v -< sin-l(Tm/e,n) always, where v is the dilation angle, 0 is the friction angle, C is cohesion, z,, is the maximum shear stress, and a,~ is the mean effective stress. Recent laboratory measurements of friction and dilatancy of simulated fault gouge show that small amplitude sh...

the effects of cementation and the physical properties of grains on the shear behavior of grouted sands are investigated in this paper. the consolidated-undrained triaxial shear behavior of three grouted carbonate sands with different physical properties, including particle size distribution, particle shape and void ratio, was studied. two sands were obtained from the north shores of the persia...

designing and optimization of the intake manifold is one of the important steps in the development of the internal combustion engines. in this paper, the flow inside the intake manifold of an internal combustion engine is investigated by numerical modeling. the convective flux models are adopted to simulate the unsteady compressible flow behavior. to solve the governing equations, for calculati...

The Savage-Hutter (SH) avalanche model is a depth-averaged dynamical model of a fluid-like continuum implementing the following simplifying assumptions: (i) density preserving, (ii) shallowness of the avalanche piles and small topographic curvatures, (iii) Coulomb-type sliding with bed friction angle delta and (iv) Mohr-Coulomb behaviour in the interior with internal angle of friction phi> or =...

The peak and critical state strengths of sands are linearly related to the stress level, just as the frictional resistance to sliding along an interface is related to the normal force. The analogy with frictional sliding has led to the use of a 'friction angle' to describe the relationship between strength and stress for soils. The term 'friction angle' implies that the underlying mechanism is ...