A stochastic approach, the Ising model combined with Monte Carlo simulation, is employed to study the process of a fiber debonding and being pulled out from a fiber reinforced composite. The complicated mechanisms involved can be realistically simulated more than ever with a simple algorithm that is applicable to such phenomena as partial debonding, fiber breaking and matrix yielding, all of wh...

this paper analyses and compares the performances of business-to-business e-commerce data quality and service quality among the use of the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ models. rosettanet’s original partner interface processes use the ‘push’ model which suffers from data redundancy when the volume of business-to-business transaction increases. however, when the ‘pull’ model is used, although it reduces dat...

The introduction of a 1,3-diacetylpyridine moiety, as an additional binding niche in a macrocyclic receptor ligand containing a conjugated, push–pull malonate functionality, leads to, in addition to the 1:1 binding stoichiometry, the equilibrium formation of multiple complexes, specifically 1:2, 2:1, and 3:1 ligand:metal complexes with lanthanide trications. Various binding modes elicit distinc...

In a fully dynamic web services implementation, business processes are supported by allocating the underlying information processing tasks to many inter-operating service modules, each of which would be procured over the Internet from an on-line market for web services. In this research we propose to investigate the web services adoption phenomena from three different perspectives viz. business...

The load transfer mechanisms of cable bolts differ from those for normal rebar bolts. The cable bolts used in mines are basically steel strands with different constructions depending on the number of wires or elements and the way they are laid. Tendon bolts (rebar and cable) are normally evaluated for their strength and load transfer properties. The tendon strength can be evaluated by the tensi...

To shed light on intramolecular charge-transfer phenomena in 1,2,3-triazole-linked materials, a series of 1,2,3-triazole-linked push-pull chromophores were prepared and studied experimentally and computationally. Investigated modifications include variation of donor and/or acceptor strength and linker moiety as well as regioisomers. Photophysical characterization of intramolecular charge-transf...

Abstract This paper distinguishes in Maxwell’s thought between “atomic molecules” and “ultimate atoms,” arrives at a set of properties that characterize each type atom. It concludes Maxwell is mathematical atomist, an approach entails the notion although it impossible to observe ultimate atoms as free particles, we can nevertheless study them observables, on caveat formalism remains tied phenom...

Rate-independent energy dissipation associated with high-strain high-stress behavior of the material is considered. This rate-independent energy dissipation is associated with damage and relative motion inside the fiber-matrix material system. Simple mechanical models for energy dissipation were presented to facilitate the understanding of the phenomena. Three mechanisms for internal energy dis...

The Push, the Pull and the Push&Pull algorithms are well-known rumor spreading protocols. In all three, in the beginning one node of a graph is informed. In the Push setting, every round every informed node chooses a neighbor uniformly at random and, if it is not already informed anyway, informs it. In the Pull setting, each round each uninformed node chooses a neighbor uniformly at random and ...