PURPOSE Manufacturers of uncoupled cycling cranks claim that their use will increase economy of motion and gross efficiency. Purportedly, this occurs by altering the muscle-recruitment patterns contributing to the resistive forces occurring during the recovery phase of the pedal stroke. Uncoupled cranks use an independent-clutch design by which each leg cycles independently of the other (ie, th...

Based on Green–Lindsay generalized thermoelasticity theory, this paper presents a new refined higher-order time-derivative model. Thinner one-dimensional skin tissue is considered when its inner surface free of traction and does not show any temperature increase. The tissue’s bounding has been heated by ramp-type heating. classical thermoelastic theories are obtained from the present general fo...

A general model of the equations of generalized thermoelasticity   for an infinite space weakened by a finite linear opening Mode-I crack is solving. The material is   homogeneous and has isotropic properties of elastic half space. The crack is subjected to prescribed temperature and stress distribution. The formulation is applied to generalized thermoelasticity theories, the Lord-Şhulman...

a dynamic two dimensional problem of thermoelasticity with double porous structure has been considered to investigate the disturbance due to normal force and thermal source. laplace and fourier transform technique is applied to the governing equations to solve the problem. the transformed components of stress and temperature distribution are obtained .the resulting expressions are obtained in t...

Disk brakes or sawing processes represent complicated thermo-mechanical systems where the dynamic interaction of the different components involved including heat effects establish a physical problem very interesting for theory and practical applications. In both cases the main structural element is a rotating disk where heat and mechanical loads are induced via frictional or cutting force conta...

A unified treatment is presented of thermoelasticity by application and further developments of the methods of irreversible thermodynamics. The concept of generalized free energy introduced in a previous publication plays the role of a " thermoelastic potential " and is used along with a new definition of the dissipation function in terms of the time derivative of an entropy displacement. The g...