In this paper, the thermal buckling analysis of a circular plate made of FGM materials with actuator/actuator piezoelectric layers based on neutral plane, classical plate theory and first order shear deformation plate theory is investigated. Reddy's model is assumed for material properties of FGM plate. Plate under the thermal loading, nonlinear temperature rise through the thickness and clampe...

The shape memory effect (SME) response of a deformation-processed NiTiNb shape memory alloy is benchmarked against the response of a cast alloy. The insoluble Nb element ternary addition is known to widen the hysteresis with respect to the binary NiTi alloy. Cast microstructures naturally consist of a cellular arrangement of characteristic eutectic microconstituents surrounding primary matrix r...

Thermal stress can induce birefringence in a laser medium, which can cause depolarization of the laser. The depolarization effect will be very severe in a high-average-power laser. Because the depolarization will make the frequency doubling efficiency decline, it should be compensated. In this paper, the thermal characteristics of two kinds of materials are analyzed in respect of temperature, t...

In two-phase TiAl-based alloys, the coexisting 2 and phases exhibit a thermal expansion mismatch, so that increased creep rates during thermal cycling may be expected. Creep deformation of two g-TiAl-based alloys was investigated during thermal cycles between 900 and 300 or 350 C with applied tensile stresses of 32.5 or 37.0 MPa. Measured thermal cycling creep rates were compared with isotherma...

Laboratory studies on deformation of olivine in response to applied stress suggest two distinct deformation mechanisms in the earth’s upper mantle: diffusion creep through diffusion of atoms along grain boundaries and dislocation creep by slipping along crystallographic glide planes. Each mechanism has very different and important consequences on the dynamical evolution of the mantle and the de...

We report a combined experimental and simulation study of deformation-induced diffusion in compacted quasi-two-dimensional amorphous granular pillars, in which thermal fluctuations play a negligible role. The pillars, consisting of bidisperse cylindrical acetal plastic particles standing upright on a substrate, are deformed uniaxially and quasistatically by a rigid bar moving at a constant spee...

Using a small number of ERS InSAR images from 1996-2003 we have shown that deformation is occurring in Rotorua in a region located on the margin of the active thermal area. Subsidence in the area south of Kuirau Park at rates of up to 13mm/year during 1996 to 2000 are indicated, although the linearity of the deformation has not yet been confirmed. The Envisat data, available from 2003 onwards, ...