Elementarerweichungen in Amorphen Polymeren

Thermally stimulated recovery behaviour of amorphous polymers is described in terms of a continuous distribution of sharply defined elementary softening processes in the polymer. It is proposed that each of these elementary processes is the result of a co-operative site-change mechanism. On exceeding the activation temperature for the process, the viscoelastic time constants fall abruptly by many orders of magnitude, as opposed to following an Arrhenius-type law. The implications of this type of behaviour are discussed.

Prof. Schwarzl zum 60. Geburtstag gewidmet.     

Distributions of maximum likelihood estimators of Lorenz curve and Gini index of exponential distribution

Summary This paper presents the maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) of the Lorenz curve and Gini index of the exponential distribution, their exact distributions and moments. All these MLEs are shown to converge almost surely and in therth mean. Further their asymptotic distributions are obtained. Here we use only very simple arguments to derive certain results that are very useful in statistical study of ‘inequality’.     

Residual stress determination in aluminium using electromagnetic acoustic transducers

The residual stresses in a shrink-fit specimen were measured ultrasonically, using shear-horizonal (SH) waves transmitted and received by noncontacting electromagnetic acoustic transducers. The presence of stress induces a small change in the velocity of the SH-waves. The difference in velocities of orthogonally polarized SH-waves (acoustic birefringence) was measured with a simple time-interval averaging system; this velocity difference can be related to the difference of principal stresses. The presence of material anisotropy (texture) in the specimen also causes relative velocity changes comparable to stress-induced changes. A simple method was used to remove the anisotropy-dependent component of the total relative velocity change, thereby allowing a determination of residual stress. This method consisted of measuring the birefringence in unstressed reference specimens and subtracting it from the birefringence measured at stressed locations. For the specimen used here, good agreement between theoretical and experimental values of stress was obtained.     

The mechanism of fatigue failure in a polyethylene copolymer

The fatigue behavior of an ethylene-hexene copolymer was investigated. The effects of R, frequency, relative times under the maximum and minimum stress, and waveform were measured. The phenomenological aspects were related to the microscopic aspects of the failure process. The maximum stress produces damage by disentangling the molecules in the fibrils of the craze and the minimum stress produces damage by bending the fibrils. The net damage, which is a product of these two damage processes, has been represented by a simple equation which accounts for the phenomenological observations.     

国产航空有机玻璃(PMMA)的非线性应力松弛行为研究

实验测定了国产航空有机玻璃PMMA在室温(20℃)、3—20.45％应变量范围内的应力松驰曲线。将用于表述中低应变率下加卸载循环的应力—应变行为的非线性本构理论,也即以考虑弹性和粘弹性变形的标准线性体和考虑塑性变形的活化粘壶作串联耦合的本构模型扩展应用到应力松弛状态,给出了相应的本构理论方程。对实验测得的应力松弛曲线进行数值拟合计算,吻合结果良好。表明所提出的本构模型也适用于描述PMMA的非线性应力松弛行为。得到了平衡态的应力一应变曲线,曲线的单调变化,表明不存在屈服极大值及以后的应变软化效应。     

利用边界单元法求平面问题应力强度因子K_I的应力-位移杂交法

本文提出用裂尖附近2点或3点的应力和位移计算应力强度因子K_I的杂交方法.这种方法充分利用了边界单元法的计算结果,考虑了裂尖应力场和位移场渐近展开式的高阶项,使用远离裂尖的点算出的K_I也有较好的精度,拟合线十分平坦.用算例的结果将杂交法与一般的位移法和应力法进行了比较,同时,对常量单元和线性单元也进行了比较.     

Design of axisymmetric sandwich plates for alternative loads

The minimal-weight design of sandwich plates whose rigidplastic face sheets obey the Tresca yield condition and which are subjected to two alternative loads is systematically determined by the method of stress variation. It is shown that, when the loads are unidirectional, the general solution for a certain class of edge conditions consists of five fundamentally different designs. The totality of optimal design solutions is depicted in the form of a design chart. A comprehensive example is presented to illustrate the method.This paper is based in part upon a dissertation submitted by the first author to The University of Iowa in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD Degree.     

增长曲线模型中最小二乘估计的几种相对效率

对于一般的增长曲线模型Yn×m=Xn×pBp×qZq×m＋ε,ε~（0,δV∑）本文定义了B的最小二乘估计（相对于B的最佳线性无偏估计）的四种相对效率，并得到了它们的下界．     

40钢非比例循环塑性行为研究

对４０钢在拉扭循环复杂应变路径下的硬化特性和流动特性进行了实验研究。研究表明：４０钢材料的循环硬／软化不但依赖于应变路径形状，而且依赖于等效应变幅值，还具有路径历史效应；材料的塑性流动几乎不受先前路径历史的影响，仅依赖于当前应变路径形状和等效奕变幅值。