We calculate the cross sections of the elastic and inelastic breakup modes for the inclusive breakup reaction 28 Si(8 B, 7 Be) at beam energies between 10-40 MeV/nucleon within a direct fragmentation model formulated in the framework of the post form distorted-wave Born-approximation. In contrast to the case of the stable isotopes, the inelastic breakup mode is found to contribute only up to 30...

We calculate the cross sections of the elastic and inelastic breakup modes for the inclusive breakup reaction 28Si(8B,7Be) at beam energies between 10 40 MeV/nucleon within a direct fragmentation model formulated in the framework of the post form distorted-wave Born-approximation. In contrast to the case of the stable isotopes, the inelastic breakup mode is found to contribute only up to 30% to...

A critical analysis of the large number of papers about the seismic behaviour of asymmetric buildings shows some concordant results: the modal analysis correctly predicts their elastic dynamic response to seismic records, while it overestimates deck rotation in the inelastic range. On this basis, the authors propose to design asymmetric structures by twice repeating the modal analysis: the firs...

The microstructure of enamel like most biological tissues has a hierarchical structure which determines their mechanical behavior. However, current studies of the mechanical behavior of enamel lack a systematic investigation of these hierarchical length scales. In this study, we performed macroscopic uni-axial compression tests and the spherical indentation with different indenter radii to prob...

We estimate the contribution of inelastic nucleon excitations to the (e, e ′) inclusive cross section in the CEBAF kinematic range. Calculations are based upon parameter-izations of the nucleon structure functions measured at SLAC. Nuclear binding effects are included in a vector-scalar field theory, and are assumed have a minimal effect on the nucleon excitation spectrum. We find that for q < ...

Elastic-peak electron spectroscopy (EPES) has been one of the main tools for obtaining the inelastic mean free path of electrons in solids. Recently it has become clear that, if this type of experiment is done using an energetic electron beam (20–40 keV) and large scattering angles, then the recoil energies of the elastic scattering event for different elements can be resolved. This recoil ener...

We consider several aspects of high-order harmonic generation in solids: the effects of elastic and inelastic scattering, varying pulse characteristics and inclusion of material-specific parameters through a realistic band structure. We reproduce many observed characteristics of high harmonic generation experiments in solids including the formation of only odd harmonics in inversion-symmetric m...

General thermo-mechanical behavior of composites reinforced by shape memory alloy fibers is predicted using a three-dimensional analytical micromechanical method to consider the effect of fibers activation. Composite due to the micromechanical method can be exposed to general normal and shear mechanical and thermal loading which cause to activate the shape memory alloy fibers within polymeric m...

BACKGROUND Much of the experimental work in soft tissue mechanics has been focused on fitting approximate relations for specific tissue types from aggregate data on multiple samples of the tissue. Such relations are needed for modeling applications and have reasonable predictability - especially given the natural variance in specimens. There is, however, much theoretical and experimental work t...