One main feature of metamaterials is the occurrence of a negative dynamic mass density that is produced when an inner local resonance is present. The inner resonance can be obtained in composite materials containing composite inclusions. For suitable ratios of the physical properties of the constituting materials, the composite inclusions act as spring-mass systems. The scaling of physical prop...

An analytical investigation for the creeping motion of a spherically symmetric fluid-permeable composite sphere composed by a uniform porous core and a uniformly surrounded porous shell located at the center of a spherical cavity filled with an incompressible Newtonian fluid is presented here. In the limit of small Reynolds number, the Stokes and Brinkman equations are solved for the flow field...

Macroscopic constitutive relations based on the mean-field theory and the Mori–Tanaka method are derived for a 3-phase composite consisting of a polymer matrix and shape memory alloy (SMA) and piezoceramic (PZT) inclusions. Effective moduli are computed for likewise oriented spherical and cylindrical inclusions. Results are also computed for cylindrical PZT and ellipsoidal SMA inclusions. Even ...

We study the behavior of the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev SU(2) invariants of an arbitrary link in L(p, q) as a function of the level r− 2. They are given by

The Ni-based coatings with different content of spherical tungsten carbide were deposited by plasma transfer arc welding (PTAW) method on 304 austenitic stainless steel sheets in this study. The microstructure and wear property of spherical tungsten carbide particle reinforced composite coatings were investigated by means of optical microscope, scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffract...

We present a new method of tailoring the density of a sphere for use as a probe in high pressure-temperature physical property experiments on liquids. The method consists of a composite sphere made of an inner, high density, metallic, spherical core and an exterior, low density, refractory, spherical shell or mantle. Micromechanical techniques are used to fabricate the composite sphere. We desc...

Pressure vessels are used for various industrial applications. To ensure safe operation of pressure vessels, it is important to know its burst pressure. Burst pressure is the pressure at which vessel burst/crack and internal fluid leaks. For light weight application pressure vessel are made of composite material. Payload performance /speed /operating range depends up on weight. Use of composite...

Porous spherical carbons (PSCs) with tunable pore structure (pore volume, pore size, and surface area) were prepared by an aerosol-assisted process. PSC/sulfur composites (PSC/S, S: ca.59 wt %) were then made and characterized as cathodes in lithium/sulfur batteries. The relationships between the electrochemical performance of PSC/S composites and their pore structure and particle morphology we...

A modified hydrothermal method was developed to synthesize ZnO-CuO composite nanostructures. A free-standing film made of ZnO-CuO nanostructures was assembled on the surface of the hydrothermal solution with a smooth surface on one side and a spherical surface on the other side. The structure, growth mechanism and the optical properties of the composite nanostructures were studied. Structural c...

In recent studies, the exact solutions of the Eshelby tensors for a spherical inclusion in a finite, spherical domain have been obtained for both the Dirichletand Neumann boundary value problems, and they have been further applied to the homogenization of composite materials [15], [16]. The present work is an extension to a more general boundary condition, which allows for the continuity of bot...