Carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) is widely used for structural members of transportation vehicles such as automobile, aircraft, or spacecraft, utilizing its excellent specific strength and specific rigidity in contrast with the metal. Short carbon fiber composite materials are receiving a lot of attentions because of their excellent moldability and productivity, however they show complica...

The thermoelastic stress analysis for linear thermoelastic bodies is developed as a mathematical support to the infra-red radiometric method (SPATE) applied to structures under cyclic loading conditions.

The paper presents preliminary results of a study about the possibility to determine the thermoelastic properties of diamond-like carbon films by means of a photothermal deflection technique. The technique allows to perform measurements as a function of temperature in the range 10-300 K The results are in qualitative agreement with theoretical predicitons.

An implantable MEMS piezoelectric transducer for middle ear hearing aids was developed. The physical vibration properties are simulated using finite element method. A study of thermoelastic damping effect of four designed MEMS mirrors is presented. An optical measurement system based on Mach-Zehnder interferometer is developed, and the accuracy of this system is tested.

Measurements of the optical mirror coating properties. Abstract The results of measurement of optical mirror coating are presented. These results indicate that Standard Quantum Limit of sensitivity can be reached in the second stage of LIGO project if it is limited by thermoelastic noise in the coating only.

The work deals with the modeling of thermoelastic composites with regular and irregular structures. The approaches to the modeling of the effective properties include the construction of the representative volumes with account for microstructure, the effective moduli method for the mechanics of composites, and the finite element technologies for solving the problems for the representative volumes.

This paper provides a comprehensive derivation for thermoelastic damping (TED) in flexural-mode ring gyroscopes, in light of recent efforts to design high rateresolution gyroscopes. Imposing an upper limit on the attainable mechanical noise floor of a vibratory gyroscope, thermoelastic damping in a ring gyroscope is extracted from the equations of linear thermoelasticity. By assuming that it is...

Previous experimental measurements and linear stability analyses of curvilinear shearing flows of viscoelastic fluids have shown that the combination of streamwise curvature and elastic normal stresses can lead to flow destabilization. Torsional shear flows of highly elastic fluids with closed streamlines can also accumulate heat from viscous dissipation resulting in nonuniformity in the temper...

This paper presents a thermoelastic bending analysis of functionally graded sandwich plates by using a new quasi-3D hybrid type higher order shear deformation theory (HSDT). The mathematical model contains only 5 unknowns as the first order shear deformation theory (FSDT). The nonlinear term of the temperature field is modeled in such way that can be different from the shape functions of the di...

We examine thermoelastic equations of state for silicate perovskite based on data from recent static compressiori studies. We analyze trade-offs among the fitting parameters arid examine data sets for possible effects of metastability and of Mg-Fe solid solution. Significant differences are found between equations of' state based on low pressure measurements obtained for perovskite outside of i...