We describe the fabrication and preliminary optical characterization of rugged, Si-micromachined optofluidic ring resonator (μOFRR) structures consisting of thin-walled SiO(x) cylinders with expanded midsections designed to enhance the three-dimensional confinement of whispering gallery modes (WGMs). These μOFRR structures were grown thermally at wafer scale on the interior of Si molds defined ...

Abstract—The present study focused on carrying out the creep analysis in an isotropic thick-walled composite cylindrical pressure vessel composed of aluminum matrix reinforced with silicon-carbide in particulate form. The creep behavior of the composite material has been described by the threshold stress based creep law. The values of stress exponent appearing in the creep law were selected as ...

Article history: Received 8 April 2007 Received in revised form 19 April 2008 Accepted 22 April 2008 Available online 9 June 2008

Submitted for the DFD15 Meeting of The American Physical Society Generalized “thick” strip modelling for vortex-induced vibration of long flexible cylinders1 YAN BAO, RAFAEL PALOCIOS, SPENCER SHERWIN, Imperial College London, NEKTAR++ COLLABORATION — We propose a generalized strip modelling method that is computationally efficient for the VIV prediction of long flexible cylinders in three-dimen...

A new closed form formulation of three-dimensional (3-D) refined higher-order shell theory (RHOST) to analyze the free vibration of composite circular cylindrical shells has been presented in this article. The shell is considered to be laminated with orthotropic layers and simply supported boundary conditions. The proposed theory is used to investigate the effects of the in-plane and rotary ine...