The behaviour of viscoplastic drops during formation and detachment from a capillary nozzle, free-fall, impact on a solid substrate and subsequent spreading are investigated experimentally by high-speed imaging. Drop dynamic behaviour is an integral component of many contemporary industrial processes ranging from fuelinjection systems in combustion engines to spray coating, agrochemical and pha...

Available online 12 September 2016 The thermostructural response of the cooling channel of a regeneratively cooled thrust chamber employed for rocket applications can be evaluated by means of analytical and numerical methods. The heat fluxes produced by the combustion inside the thrust chamber cause elevated temperatures in the copper structure composed of ligaments separating the coolant flow ...

To conserve ecological connectivity (the ability to support animal movement, gene flow, range shifts, and other ecological and evolutionary processes that require large areas), conservation professionals need coarse-grained maps to serve as decision-support tools or vision statements and fine-grained maps to prescribe site-specific interventions. To date, research has focused primarily on fine-...

This paper provides a short Matlab implementation with documentation of the P1 finite element method for the numerical solution of viscoplastic and elastoplastic evolution problems in 2D and 3D for von-Mises yield functions and Prandtl-Reuß flow rules. The material behaviour includes perfect plasticity as well as isotropic and kinematic hardening with or without a viscoplastic penalisation in a...

Recent studies of excessive multidecade deflections of prestressed segmentally erected box girders revealed that more accurate predictions of the prestress loss due to steel relaxation are needed for the design of large-span creep-sensitive structures. In particular, the loss needs to be calculated as part of creep structural analysis, during which the strain of concrete to which the prestressi...