This technical note presents a coupled thermo-hydromechanical model for unsaturated soil, which can be applied in the context of high temperature. A new pore gas or bulk air transfer equation is introduced. Additionally the effect of temperature on the latent heat of vapourisation and specific heat capacities is incorporated. Adsorbed water is also included. The performance of the model is demo...

The effects of synchronous photo (16 h daylength) and thermo (2 degrees C daily fluctuation) cycles on flowering time were compared with constant light and temperature treatments using two barley mapping populations derived from the facultative cultivar 'Dicktoo'. The 'Dicktoo'x'Morex' (spring) population (DM) segregates for functional differences in alleles of candidate genes for VRN-H1, VRN-H...

We investigate transmission problems between a (thermo-)viscoelastic system with Kelvin-Voigt damping, and a purely elastic system. It is shown that neither the elastic damping by Kelvin-Voigt mechanisms nor the dissipative effect of the temperature in one material can assure the exponential stability of the total system when it is coupled through transmission to a purely elastic system. The ap...

A computational framework is presented to evaluate the shape as well as non-shape (parameter) sensitivity of nite thermo-inelastic deformations using the continuum sensitivity method (CSM). Weak sensitivity equations are developed for the large thermo-mechanical deformation of hyperelastic thermoviscoplastic materials that are consistent with the kinematic, constitutive, contact and thermal ana...

Abstract We experimentally examine the thermo-resistive and thermo-piezoresistive sensitivity of multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT)/polypropylene random copolymer (PPR) nanocomposites processed via fused filament fabrication (FFF) process. The feedstocks were fabricated by melt blending neat PPR with a predetermined amount MWCNTs (either 4, 6 or 8 wt%) using twin-screw extruder. Thermo-resistive...