Modal signals of transverse sensing of truncated conical shells with simply supported boundary condition at both ends are investigated. The embedded piezoelectric layer on the surface of conical shell is used as sensors and output voltages of them in considered modes are calculated. The Governing sensing signal displacement equations are derived based on the Kirchhoff theory, thin-shell assumpt...

Freshly-felled Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolate), Masson Pine (Pinus massoniana) and Camphor Tree (Cinnamomum camphora) logs were reconstituted to form laminated lumber with moisture content above fiber saturation point by slicing, finger-jointing, gluing, and cold-pressing processes. The laminated lumber was then sliced into wood veneers, which were air-dried to about 15% moisture content....

3-D nonlinear electrostatic plasma wave is periodic along its longitudinal direction. By strictly analyzing a universal equation set of charged particles system, we find that such a longitudinal periodicity has a severe constraint on the transverse shape of a 3-D electrostatic structure. Only few allowed transverse shapes could warrant the longitudinal periodicity. This longitudinal periodicity...

Chapter 7 presents a study of molecular dynamics as a function of molecular composition in novel binary liquid crystalline mixtures of nematic liquid crystals 8CN and 7BCB, which exhibit Induced Smectic Phase (ISP). Frequency and temperature dependent spin-lattice relaxation time measurements were carried out in pure systems and mixtures at specific compositions. This work is done in collaborat...