Comparison of rheological properties of cross-linked and thermal-mechanically degraded HDPE

Rheological properties of a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) subjected to thermal-mechanical degradation were compared with those of the HDPE degraded by the addition of small quantities of peroxides as free radical initiator. The high molecular weight fraction of HDPE changes quantitatively during processing, which has a remarkable effect on the rheological properties of the material, when the MWD narrows and the HMW tail decreases. The molecular weight distribution, especially the highest molecular weight fraction, is concluded to be more important than the long chain for HDPE rheology. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Buckling of stepped composite columns

The stability of elastic columns subjected to axial pressure is studied. An elastic multistepped column with rectangular cross sections are considered assuming that at the re-entrant corners of the column stable cracks are located. The influence of a crack on the loss of stability of the column is described by means of local flexibility and the function of compliance coupled with the stress intensity factor, which is known from the linear elastic fracture mechanics. A column with a single step is studied in more detail. The influence of crack location and length on the buckling load is assessed numerically. Russian translation published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 87–100, January–February, 2006.     

Elastic buckling of honeycomb structure under out-of-plane pressure

A theoretical model and an analytical method, which are suitable for initial elastic buckling analysis of two-dimensional honeycomb structures including hexagonal honeycombs with walls of equal or unequal thickness, rectangular and triangular honeycombs etc., are developed in this paper. The results given in present paper agree well with the experimental data of hexagonal honeycombs with walls of unequal thickness.The project was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

Elastic buckling of isotropic triangular flat plates by finite elements

Although most of the plates in steel structures are rectangular, some triangular ones do occur. The number of available solutions for triangular plate buckling coefficients is small, and restricted to special triangle geometries and loading ratios. In this paper the range of available solutions is extended by the use of a plate bending finite element devised by Irons. A range of plate parameters is considered and results are tabulated and plotted. The program is available for the use of designers who wish to consider other values of parameters. The use of the procedures described in the Merrison report can extend these results to deal with the influence of initial imperfections and weld effects.     

IMPERFECTION SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF A RECTANGULAR COLUMN COMPRESSED INTO THE PLASTIC RANGE

I.IntroductionSinceelasticunloadingoccursinthedeformationprocess,theimperfectionsensitivityanalysisofstructuresloadedintotheplasticrangeismuchcomplicated.TheproblemisfirststudiedintheorybyHutchinson(1973,1974)l"ZI.HeusedKoiter'stheorytoanalysethebehaviorpriortotheonsetofelasticunloadingandtoobtaintheloadandthedisplacementatwhichelasticunloadingbegins.NeedlemanandTvergaard(1982)l'jpresentedananalysisofimperfeCtionsensitivityintheplasticrangethatignoreselasticunloading,thatis,substituteshypo-…     

圆柱壳在径向冲击载荷作用下的弹性脉冲屈曲

当圆柱壳承受径向脉冲载荷时，如果其径厚比大于一特定值，圆柱壳将产生弹性动力屈曲．本文根据有关实验结果，假定变形模态，采用Ｌａｇｒａｎｇｅ方法分析了有限长薄圆柱壳（ａ／ｈ＝４８０）在余弦冲击载荷作用下的弹性脉冲动力屈曲．导出了动力屈曲方程组，借助数值方法求解方程，并与有关计算结果进行了比较．     

A theoretical model of magnetoelastic bucking for soft ferromagnetic thin plates

As an essential model of magnetoelastic interaction between magnetic field and mechanical deformation, the study on magnetoelastic buckling phenomenon of soft ferromagnetic plates in a magnetic environment has been conducted. One of the key steps for the theoretical prediction of the critical magnetic field is how to formulate magnetic force exerted on the magnetized medium. Till today, the theoretical predictions, from theoretical models in publications, of the magnetoelastic buckling of ferromagnetic cantilevered beam-plate in transverse magnetic field are all higher than their experimental data. Sometimes, the discrepancy between them is as high as 100%. In this paper, the macroscope formulation of the magnetic forces is strictly obtained from the microscope Amperion current model. After that, a new theoretical model is established to describe the magnetoelastic buckling phenomenon of ferromagnetic thin plates with geometrically nonlinear deformation in a nonuniform transverse magnetic field. The numerical method for quantitative analysis is employed by combining the finite elemental method for magnetic fields and the finite difference method for deformation of plates. The numerical results obtained from this new theoretical model show that the theoretical predictions of critical values of the buckling magnetic field for the ferromagnetic cantilevered beam-plate are in excellent agreement with their experimental data. By the way, the region of applicability to the Moon-Pao's model, or the couple model, is checked by quantitative results. This project was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Foundation of the SEdC of China for Returned Chinese Scholars from Abroad.     

Schiffer’s Problem and an Isoperimetric Inequality for the First Buckling Eigenvalue of Domains on $$\mathbb{S}^{2}$$

We consider the overdetermined eigenvalue problem on a sufficiently regular connected open domain Ω on the 2-sphere :