Synthesis of N‐Alkylated Indolines and Indoles from Indoline and Aliphatic Ketones

A survey of redox aminations of indoline with aliphatic ketones using bismuth nitrate as catalyst is described. A reaction of an equivalent amount of indoline and aliphatic cyclic and acyclic ketones provides a mixture of excessive alkylated indole derivatives over typically redox isomerization and reductive alkylation pathways while using of the five equivalent of indoline provides N‐alkylated indolines as a reductive alkylation product. The desired N‐alkyl indoles from the oxidation of N‐alkyl indolines were obtained in excellent yields.     

Redox Amination Scope of Benzylic Ketones with Indoline: Synthetic and Mechanistic Insights

Bi(NO₃)₃·5H₂O‐Catalyzed redox amination scope and mechanistic insights of benzylic ketones with indoline are discussed. The experimental results demonstrate that the formation of N‐alkyl‐substituted indole/indoline derivatives over typically competitive redox and reductive amination processes is depending upon the reaction condition for the benzylic ketones.     

Displacement field around a circular hole in a viscoelastic plate

Moiré experimental techniques are used to measure displacement fields in viscoelastic plates undergoing large deformations at elevated temperatures. These experimental procedures are applicable to determining displacement fields in nonlinear materials. As preliminary information, the material properties are determined from creep studies. The moiré method is used to determine the strains under constant load and isothermal conditions. Tests are conducted for several combinations of load and temperature for 2.5 decades of time. Assuming thermorheologically simple behavior, the data are shifted to establish the creep extensional compliance over ten decades in time. The constitutive equations are formulated as integral equations, the kernels of which are the functions that were measured in this work. These equations are solved exactly for the infinitesimal case. The finite case is then approximated by an incremental superposition of a series of successiye infinitesimal solutions. The results are applied to a plate initially containing a circular hole, and are shown to agree closely with the experimental measurements.     

A class of similarity solutions for radial motions of compressible hyperelastic spheres and cylinders

A class of similarity solutions is obtained for radial motions of spherical and cylindrical bodies made of a certain type of compressible hyperelastic materials. The equations satisfied by the infinitesimal generators of the symmetry group of the unified governing first order field equations for spheres and cylinders are found. It is shown that these equations admit a special class of solutions which generate a five-parameter group of transformations. The form of the strain energy function corresponding to the resulting symmetry group is evaluated. The similarity variable is determined and ordinary differential equations satisfied by similarity solutions are obtained. Numerical solutions are given for a Ko material which falls into the class of admissible materials.     

A clamped rectangular plate containing a crack

In this paper the general problem of a rectangular plate clamped along two parallel sides and containing a crack parallel to the clamps is considered. The problem is formulated in terms of a system of singular integral equations and the asymptotic behaviour of the stress state near the corners is investigated. Numerical examples are considered for a clamped plate without a crack and with a centrally located crack, and the stress intensity factors and the stresses along the clamps are calculated.     

Review of peridynamics for multi-physics coupling modeling

广义来说, 近场动力学(peri-dynamics,PD)是假设每个物质点在承受一定范围内的非接触相互作用下,研究整个物理系统演化过程的理论,为涉及非连续和非局部相互作用的问题提供了一个统一的数学框架,具有广泛的适用性.在简要介绍诸多工程对于多物理场模型和数值计算软件的迫切需求后,针对现有商用软件在处理结构非连续演化问题时遇到的瓶颈,引入近场动力学理论和方法. 概述近场动力学固体力学模型,系统阐述近场动力学扩散模型和近场动力学多物理场耦合建模的研究现状和进展,主要涉及电子元器件、电子封装和岩土工程领域的多物理场耦合建模,包括热--力、湿--热--力、热--氧、热--力--氧、力--电、热--电、力--热--电、多孔介质的水--力流固相互作用等非耦合、半耦合与完全耦合模型,强调发展耦合方程数值解法的重要性.最后对扩散问题和多物理场耦合问题的近场动力学理论模型、数值算法和工程应用做进一步展望.     

A cracked beam or plate transversely loaded by a stamp

In this paper the problem of an infinite elastic beam or a plate containing a crack is considered. The medium is loaded transversely through a stamp which may be rigid or elastic. The problem is a coupled crack-contact problem which cannot be solved by treating the crack and contact problems separately and by using a superposition technique. First the Green's functions for the general case are obtained. Then the integral equations for a cracked infinite strip loaded by a frictionless stamp are obtained. With the question of fracture in mind, the primary interest in the paper has been in calculating the stress intensity factors. The results are given for a rigid flat stamp with sharp edges and for an elastic curved stamp. The effect of friction at the supports on the stress intensity factors is also studied and a numerical example is given.     

Structural and Dielectric Properties of Polythiophene/Chrom(III) Acetylacetonate Composites

The dielectric and morphological properties of polythiophene (PT) filled with various mass fractions of chrom(III) acetylacetonate (Cr(acac)₃), synthesized via chemical oxidative polymerization, are described. Significant shifts of the absorption peak of the C-S bond in the Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectra indicated that the metal cations mostly interacted with sulfur atoms. Thermal analyses performed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) indicated that the cold crystallization temperature (T_cc) of PT decreased with increasing doping level. Microstructural differences were observed between PT and its composites in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images. Dielectric measurements showed that the conductivity of the PT significantly increased with increasing doping level, from ?10^?7 S/m to ?10^?4 S/m at 10 kHz and 300 K.     

Fabrication and characterization of calix[4]arene Langmuir–Blodgett thin film for gas sensing applications

Microwave irradiation has been found to be a highly efficient method for etherification of p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene with alkyl bromides or ditosylate. The corresponding products were obtained as a pure form in modest yield within short reaction time when the reactions were performed under microwave irradiation.