The stress conjugate to logarithmic strain

A stress S is said to be conjugate to a strain measure E if the inner product S · E̊ is the power per unit volume. The logarithmic strain In U, with U the right stretch tensor, has been considered an interesting strain measure because of the relationship of its material time derivative (In U) with the stretching tensor D. In a previous article (Int. J. Solids Structures 22, 1019–1032 (1986)) a formula for (In U) was obtained in direct notation for the cases where the principal stretches are repeated, as well as for the case where they are all distinct. Here the formula for (In U) and the definition of conjugate stress are used to derive an explicit, properly invariant expression for the stress conjugate to the logarithmic strain.     

On the stability of integral equations of the first kind with logarithmic kernels

This paper discusses the stability of the Galerkin method for a class of boundary integral equations of the first kind. These integral equations arise in acoustics, elasticity, and hydrodynamics, and the kernels of the principal parts of the corresponding integral operators all have logarithmic singularities. It is shown that an optimal choice of the mesh size can be made in the numerical computation so that one will obtain an optimal rate of convergence of the approximate solutions. The results here are consistent with those obtained by the Tikhonov regularization procedure.     

Large-strain response of isotropic-hardening elastoplasticity with logarithmic rate: Swift effect in torsion

Summary  Recently, a new Eulerian rate-type isotropic-hardening elastoplasticity model has been established by utilizing the newly discovered logarithmic rate. It has been proved that this model is unique among all isotropic hardening elastoplastic models with all possible objective corotational stress rates and other known objective stress rates by virtue of the self-consistency criterion: the hypoelastic formulation intended for elastic behaviour must be exactly integrable to deliver a hyperelastic relation. The simple shear response of this model has been studied and shown to be reasonable for both the shear and normal stress components. The objective of this work is to further study the large deformation response of this model, in particular, the second-order effects, including the well-known Swift effect, in torsion of thin-walled cylindrical tubes with free ends. An analytical perturbation solution is derived, and numerical results are presented by means of the Runge–Kutta method. It is shown that the prediction of this model for the shear stress is in good accord with experimental data, but the predicted axial length change is negligibly small and much less than experimental data. This suggests that the strain-induced anisotropy may be the main cause of the Swift effect. Received 10 December 1999; accepted for publication 20 July 2000     

Measurement of logarithmic decrements through the measurement of time

The paper describes an arrangement which can be used to measure the period and logarithmic decrement of a damped harmonic torsional oscillation without the need to perform any length measurements. By means of suitably arranged electronic circuits, all measurements are reduced to those of time intervals. These consist of a measurement of the period and of two time intervals which a travelling laser beam requires to sweep past two stationary photoresistances. A suitable procedure for the location of a zero base line is indicated, and it is shown that the residual uncertainty of this operation is the source of the dominant error.The paper contains an analysis of systematic and random errors of the method and mentions that decrements of the order of 0.05 can be measured with a relative error of the order of 0.06%.     

Nonlocal dispersion in media with continuously evolving scales of heterogeneity

General nonlocal diffusive and dispersive transport theories are derived from molecular hydrodynamics and associated theories of statistical mechanical correlation functions, using the memory function formalism and the projection operator method. Expansion approximations of a spatially and temporally nonlocal convective-dispersive equation are introduced to derive linearized inverse solutions for transport coefficients. The development is focused on deriving relations between the frequency-and wave-vector-dependent dispersion tensor and measurable quantities. The resulting theory is applicable to porous media of fractal character.Nomenclature C _v (t) particle velocity correlation function - C _v ,(t) particle fluctuation velocity correlation function - C _j (x,t) current correlation function - D(x,t) dispersion tensor - D(x,t) fluctuation dispersion tensor - f ₀(x,p) equilibrium phase probability distribution function - f(x, p;t) nonequilibrium phase probability distribution function - G(x,t) conditional probability per unit volume of finding a particle at (x,t) given it was located elsewhere initially - (k,t) Fourier transform ofG(x,t) - G(x,t) fluctuation conditional probability per unit volume of finding a particle at (x,t) given it was located elsewhere initially - k wave vector - K(t) memory function - L Liouville operator - m mass - p(t) particle momentum coordinate - P = (0)( , (0)) projection operator - Q =I-P projection operator - s real Laplace space variable - S(k, ) time-Fourier transform of(k,t) - t time - v(t) particle velocity vector - v(t) particle fluctuation velocity vector - V phase space velocity - time-Fourier variable - ^(itn)(k) frequency moment of(k,t) - x(t) particle displacement coordinate - x(t) particle displacement fluctuation coordinate - friction coefficient - (t) normalized correlation function General Functions () Dirac delta function - () Gamma function Averages ₀ Equilibrium phase-space average - Nonequilibrium phase-space average - (,) L ² inner product with respect tof ₀     

A logarithmic complexity floating frame of reference formulation with interpolating splines for articulated multi-flexible-body dynamics

An interpolating spline-based approach is presented for modeling multi-flexible-body systems in the divide-and-conquer (DCA) scheme. This algorithm uses the floating frame of reference formulation and piecewise spline functions to construct and solve the non-linear equations of motion of the multi-flexible-body system undergoing large rotations and translations. The new approach is compared with the flexible DCA (FDCA) that uses the assumed modes method [1]. The FDCA, in many cases, must resort to sub-structuring to accurately model the deformation of the system. We demonstrate, through numerical examples, that the interpolating spline-based approach is comparable in accuracy and superior in efficiency to the FDCA. The present approach is appropriate for modeling flexible mechanisms with thin 1D bodies undergoing large rotations and translations, including those with irregular shapes. As such, the present approach extends the current capability of the DCA to model deformable systems. The algorithm retains the theoretical logarithmic complexity inherent in the DCA when implemented in parallel.     

Using the logarithmic strain measure for solving torsion problems

The problems of free and constrained torsion of a rod of solid circular cross-section are solved numerically using a tensor linear constitutive relation written in terms of the energy compatible Cauchy stress and Hencky logarithmic strain tensors. The only function used to determine the properties of the isotropic incompressible material of the rod is a power-law function that approximates the shear diagram and corresponds to an elastoplastic material with power-law hardening. The solution obtained shows that, despite the tensorial linearity of the state law, the use of the logarithmic strain measure allows one to describe qualitatively the effect of significant elongation of the rod in free torsion (the Poynting effect) as well as the arising normal longitudinal, radial, and circumferential stresses, whose values are commensurable, at large deformations, with the maximum tangential stresses in the cross-section. Computational dependences of the torsional moment on the angle of twist in free and constrained torsion are obtained. These dependences are found to be significantly different from each other; the limitmoment and the correspondingmaximum angle of twist for free torsion are found to be considerably lower than those for constrained torsion. It follows that the shear strength, which is traditionally calculated from the maximum torsional moment, becomes indeterminate. For constrained torsion, the dependence of the longitudinal compressive force on the angle of twist is obtained.     

Separating viscoelasticity and poroelasticity of gels with diferent length and time scales

Viscoelasticity and poroelasticity commonly coexist as time-dependent behaviors in polymer gels.Engineering applications often require knowledge of both behaviors separated;however,few methods exist to decouple viscoelastic and poroelastic properties of gels.We propose a method capable of separating viscoelasticity and poroelasticity of gels in various mechanical tests.The viscoelastic characteristic time and the poroelastic difusivity of a gel define an intrinsic material length scale of the gel.The experimental setup gives a sample length scale,over which the solvent migrates in the gel.By setting the sample length to be much larger or smaller than the material length,the viscoelasticity and poroelasticity of the gel will dominate at diferent time scales in a test.Therefore,the viscoelastic and poroelastic properties of the gel can be probed separately at diferent time scales of the test.We further validate the method by finite-element models and stress-relaxation experiments.     

Separating viscoelasticity and poroelasticity of gels with diferent length and time scales简

Viscoelasticity and poroelasticity commonly coexist as time-dependent behaviors in polymer gels. Engineering applications often require knowledge of both behaviors separated; however, few methods exist to decouple viscoelastic and poroelastic properties of gels. We propose a method capable of separating viscoelasticity and poroelasticity of gels in various mechanical tests. The viscoelastic char- acteristic time and the poroelastic diffusivity of a gel define an intrinsic material length scale of the gel. The experimen- tal setup gives a sample length scale, over which the solvent migrates in the gel. By setting the sample length to be much larger or smaller than the material length, the viscoelasticity and poroelasticity of the gel will dominate at different time scales in a test. Therefore, the viscoelastic and poroelastic properties of the gel can be probed separately at different time scales of the test. We further validate the method by finite-element models and stress-relaxation experiments.     

Finite viscoplasticity of amorphous glassy polymers in the logarithmic strain space

The paper outlines a new constitutive model and experimental results of rate-dependent finite elastic–plastic behavior of amorphous glassy polymers. In contrast to existing kinematical approaches to finite viscoplasticity of glassy polymers, the formulation proposed is constructed in the logarithmic strain space and related to a six-dimensional plastic metric. Therefore, it a priori avoids difficulties concerning with the uniqueness of a plastic rotation. The constitutive framework consists of three major steps: (i) A geometric pre-processing defines a total and a plastic logarithmic strain measures determined from the current and plastic metrics, respectively. (ii) The constitutive model describes the stresses and the consistent moduli work-conjugate to the logarithmic strain measures in an analogous structure to the geometrically linear theory. (iii) A geometric post-processing maps the stresses and the algorithmic tangent moduli computed in the logarithmic strain space to their nominal, material or spatial counterparts in the finite deformation space. The analogy between the formulation of finite plasticity in the logarithmic strain space and the geometrically linear theory of plasticity makes this framework very attractive, in particular regarding the algorithmic implementation. The flow rule for viscoplastic strains in the logarithmic strain space is adopted from the celebrated double-kink theory. The post-yield kinematic hardening is modeled by different network models. Here, we compare the response of the eight chain model with the newly proposed non-affine micro-sphere model. Apart from the constitutive model, experimental results obtained from both the homogeneous compression and inhomogeneous tension tests on polycarbonate are presented. Besides the load–displacement data acquired from inhomogeneous experiments, quantitative three-dimensional optical measurements of the surface strain fields are carried out. With regard to these experimental data, the excellent predictive quality of the theory proposed is demonstrated by means of representative numerical simulations.     

Cluster synchronization of coupled delayed competitive neural networks with two time scales

Nonlinear Dynamics - This paper investigates the cluster synchronization problem of coupled delayed competitive neural networks (CNNs) with two time scales. Each CNN contains short- and long-term...     

A generalization of the method of averaging for systems with two time scales

In this paper we shall consider systems of the form x = ? f(t, ?t, x, y, ?), y = g(t,?t, x, y,?), where x and y are vectors of finite dimensions, f and g are assumed to be bounded for all t, and ? is a real parameter. Sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of certain solutions which are bounded for all t. These solutions are shown to approach special solutions of a derived simpler averaged system of equations as ? → 0. Moreover, it is shown that there exists only one such bounded solution in the neighborhood of each special solution. In the special case when y is not present, it is shown that if a special solution is stable, solutions starting in nonlocal neighborhoods of this special solution approach the bounded solutions adjacent to it as t → ∞. These results generalize most of the existing work for systems of the type discussed here. Finally, we employ our results to study some problems of physical importance.