A method is proposed to identify the mechanical properties of the skin and core materials of honeycomb sandwich. All the elastic coefficients and loss-factors that matter in the dynamics of a panel in the thick-plate approximation are identified. To this end, experimental natural modes (i.e. eigenmodes of the damped system) are compared to the numerical modes of a large sandwich panel (lx,y/h ≃...

Soft tissues exhibit a nonlinear, essentially incompressible (visco-) elastic response; a key issue is the active nature of muscle fibres, in other words their ability to contract and relax in response to biochemical signals. Here we present a continuum model able to describe an active elastic medium.

It has been known for over a century that the lungs retain some of their elastic properties after death. Carson (1820) was the first to investigate the elastic recoil of the lungs by measuring the force required to inflate them, and this type of experiment has been repeated by numerous investigators with confusing results. The only conclusion that can be drawn from the literature is that the el...

Motywacją do badań nad równaniami opisującymi odkształcenia termo-lepko-sprężyste jest potrzeba lepszego opisu procesów zachodzących w różnych materiałach oraz zbudowania lepszych modeli ich zachowania pod wpływem działania sił zewnętrznych. Wraz z rozwojem techniki zdobywamy głębszą wiedzę na temat różnych tworzyw. Pozwala nam to na tworzenie coraz bardziej poprawnych modeli opisujących zachow...

| In this paper, we describe models and algorithms designed to produce eecient and physically consistent dynamic simulations. These models and algorithms have been implemented in a unique framework, modeling both deformations and contacts through visco-elastic relations. Since this model of interaction (known as \penalty based") is much debated, we present it in detail. Indeed, the \penalty" ba...

An analysis of radiation and soret effect on visco-elastic mhd oscillatory flow with heat and mass transfer through a porous medium bounded by two infinite horizontal parallel porous plates in presence of chemical reaction and a heat source has been presented when one plate is kept at rest while the other is oscillating in its own plane. The fluid is considered to be non-Newtonian characterized...

in the present research, nonlinear vibration in a coupled system of boron-nitride nano-tube reinforced composite (bnntrc) oil pipes is studied. single-walled boron-nitride nano-tubes (swbnnts) are arranged in a longitudinal direction inside poly-vinylidene fluoride (pvdf) matrix. damping and shearing effects of surrounded medium are taken into account by visco-pasternak model. based on piezoele...

It is well known that the Poiseuille flow of a visco-elastic polymer fluid between plates or through a tube is linearly stable in the zero Reynolds number limit, although the stability is weak for large Weissenberg numbers (Wi). In this paper, we argue that recent experimental and theoretical work on the instability of visco-elastic fluids in Taylor–Couette cells and numerical work on channel f...