Current-driven tearing instabilities dominate magnetic relaxation in self-organized high temperature plasmas such as the reversed field pinch (RFP) and spheromak. In the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) RFP experiments, they are observed in the form of magnetic field, flow velocity, and current density fluctuations that follow a temporally cyclic sawtooth behavior. During a sawtooth crash, a surge...

This paper was to verify the STAGS (general shell, geometric and material nonlinear) code and the critical crack-tip-opening angle (CTOA) fracture criterion for predicting stable tearing in cracked panels that fail with severe out-of-plane buckling. Materials considered ranged from brittle to ductile behavior. Test data used in this study are reported elsewhere. The STAGS code was used to model...

The physical rules governing the tearing of a packaging or piece paper are not completely elucidated despite being common phenomena in daily life. Here, we investigate how presence straight rigid object, ruler, guides fracture thin sheet within wide range pulling directions. In case isotropic brittle sheets, simple geometrical analysis shows that follows direction vector, which differs signific...

Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting (FETI) methods are a powerful approach to designing solvers for large-scale problems in computational mechanics. The numerical simulation problem is subdivided into a number of independent sub-problems, which are then coupled in appropriate ways. NURBS- (Non-Uniform Rational B-spline) based isogeometric analysis (IGA) applied to complex geometries requ...

This work concerns a new criterion for hot-tearing evaluation in castings. Algorithm describing the conduction of computer simulations of phenomena accompanying the casting formation, which performing is the preparation stage for using of this criterion, is also described. According to the low recurrence of phenomena occurring during solidification (e.g. grained structure parameters, stresses d...

We have recently introduced the Boundary Element Tearing and Interconnecting (BETI) methods as boundary element counterparts of the wellestablished Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting (FETI) methods. Since Finite Element Methods (FEM) and Boundary Element Methods (BEM) have certain complementary properties, it is sometimes very useful to couple these discretization techniques and to bene...

UNLABELLED PROBLEM/AIMS: Thin sections of impression materials are susceptible to tearing in gingival crevices and interproximal spaces. This study measures the tear strength of six fast and regular set impression materials after different setting times and at different tearing rates. MATERIALS/METHODS Tear strength specimens were prepared of four addition silicone materials: Aquasil (Dentspl...