This paper presents the results of thermo-mechanical characterization of Glass/Epoxy composite specimens using Infrared Thermography technique. The specimens used for the study were fabricated in-house with three different lay-up sequences and tested on a servo hydraulic machine under uni-axial loading. Infrared Camera was used for on-line monitoring surface temperature changes of composite spe...

Model of Non-homogeneous Problem (3.2) This is given explicitly in [E-L-T.2]. 4. CONSEQUENCE OF THE STRUCTURAL DECOMPOSITION: A STRATEGY FOR THE CONTROLLABILITY PROBLEM 4.0. Preliminaries [L-T.7 Sect. 6] presents a strategy, essentially already used in [LT.3, pp. 119–120], to obtain an exact controllability (surjectivity) result. In the present case of thermo-elastic plates, its applicability i...

Present paper is devoted to stress and deformation analyses of heated variable thickness functionally graded (FG) circular plate with clamped supported, embedded on a gradient elastic foundation and subjected to non-uniform transverse load. The plate is coupled by an elastic medium which is simulated as a Winkler- Pasternak foundation with gradient coefficients in the radial and circumferential...

The starting material used in this study was a cake generated during thermo-mechanical fractionation of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) whole plant in a twin-screw extruder. It was slightly deoiled (16.7% of oil in dry matter). Composed mainly of fibers and proteins, it could be considered as a natural composite and was processed successfully into fiberboards by thermo-pressing. This study aim...

The elastic properties of dentin, a biological composite consisting of stiff hydroxyapatite (HAP) nano-platelets within a compliant collagen matrix, are determined by the volume fraction of these two phases and the load transfer between them. We have measured the elastic strains in situ within the HAP phase of bovine dentine by high energy X-ray diffraction for a series of static compressive st...

A linear system of differential equations describing a joint motion of thermoelastic porous body and incompressible thermofluid occupying porous space is considered. Although the problem is linear, it is very hard to tackle due to the fact that its main differential equations involve non-smooth oscillatory coefficients, both big and small, under the differentiation operators. The rigorous justi...

We calculated thermo-elastic properties of pyrope (Mg3Al2Si3O12) at mantle pressures and temperatures using Ab initio molecular dynamic simulation. A third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation at a reference temperature of 2 000 K fits the calculations with bulk modulus, K0=159.5 GPa, K0’=4.3, V0=785.89 Å, Grüneisen parameter, γ0=1.15, q=0.80, Anderson Grüneisen parameter δT=3.76 and thermal expansio...

We consider a thermo-elastic plate system where the elastic equation does not account for rotational forces. We select the case of hinged mechanical B.C. and Neumann thermal B.C., which are coupled on the boundary. We show that the corresponding s.c. contraction semigroup (on a natural energy space) is analytic and, hence, uniformly stable. Because of the boundary (high) coupling, this case of ...