Transverse isotropic flow in biphasic materials

Biological and artificial tissues like muscles, brain material, saturated paper or other functionally graded porous materials often show a transverse isotropic permeability caused by their inner structure. The transverse isotropic permeability influences the motion of the saturating fluid and with this the overall deformation state of the mixture body. Starting with the multi-phase Theory of Porous Media, a model is presented to describe this deformation affected by the anisotropic inner permeability. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A hyperelastic biphasic fiber reinforced model for articular cartilage considering the distribution and orientation of collagen fibers

Articular cartilage is a multiphase material consisting of fluids and electrolytes, which is described with the Theory of Porous Media. The mechanical characteristics of articular cartilage are porosity, incompressible material behavior combined with transversely isotropic behavior for solid and fluid phases. There are two central points to model articular cartilage: the poro-viscosity of the porous matrix and the visco elasticity, and orientation of the collagen fibers. A numerical example is presented. (© 2013 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A viscoelastic-diffusion model for cartilage replacement material

In order to predict deformations and internal stresses of articular cartilage replacement material, two viscoelastic diffusion models are proposed in the present study. Also, the remodeling effect of the material seeded with human cells is verified experimentally. (© 2009 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A transversely isotropic elastic model of geomaterials

Under consideration is the choice of parameters of a transversely isotropic elastic model for describing the linear deformation of geomaterials. We also discuss some analytical and numerical methods of solving the corresponding dynamic equations.     

Numerical simulation of transversely isotropic material using adaptive FEM

Lightweight construction plays an important role in the global task to save energy. A common approach to reduce the weight of structures is the use of composite materials like fibre reinforced polymers (FRP). FRP can be characterised by transversely isotropic material behaviour, a special case of anisotropy. In our arcticle we present the necessary efforts to include such material behaviour into an existing adaptive FEM code. (© 2011 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Mesoscopic model for ferromagnets with isotropic hardening

The proposed model combines tendency for minimization of Gibbs magnetic energy with the rate-independent maximum-dissipation mechanism that reflects the macroscopic quantity of energy required to change one pole of a magnet to another. This energy can increase within the evolution which is the effect like hardening in plasticity. The microstructure is described on a mesoscopic level in terms of Young measures. Such a mesoscopic, distributed-parameter model is formulated (and, after a suitable regularization), analyzed, discretized, implemented, and eventually tested computationally on a uni-axial magnet. The desired hysteretic macroscopic response, including effects as virgin curves and minor loops, is demonstrated.Received: December 3, 2002; revised: March 25, 2003     

Mesoscopic model for ferromagnets with isotropic hardening

The proposed model combines tendency for minimization of Gibbs magnetic energy with the rate-independent maximum-dissipation mechanism that reflects the macroscopic quantity of energy required to change one pole of a magnet to another. This energy can increase within the evolution which is the effect like hardening in plasticity. The microstructure is described on a mesoscopic level in terms of Young measures. Such a mesoscopic, distributed-parameter model is formulated (and, after a suitable regularization), analyzed, discretized, implemented, and eventually tested computationally on a uni-axial magnet. The desired hysteretic macroscopic response, including effects as virgin curves and minor loops, is demonstrated.     

A lattice model for the fermionic projector in a static and isotropic spacetime

We introduce a lattice model for a static and isotropic system of relativistic fermions. An action principle is formulated, which describes a particle‐particle interaction of all fermions. The model is designed specifically for a numerical analysis of the nonlinear interaction, which is expected to lead to the formation of a Dirac sea structure. We discuss basic properties of the system. It is proved that the minimum of the variational principle is attained. First numerical results reveal an effect of spontaneous symmetry breaking. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Flexure of transversely isotropic plates with a low resistance to transverse deformation

This study is concerned with the stress field around holes in plates of a transversely isotropic material, such as a reinforced plastic, with a low resistance to transverse, normal, and tangential deformation. The problem is solved on the basis of the general theory according to I. N. Vekua. It is shown that in the case of a strongly anisotropic material disregarding the transverse deformation will lead to a large error in the determination of the stress field.Institute of Metallurgy, Dnepropetrovsk. Institute of Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 1, pp. 89–92, January–February, 1974.     

A thermodynamic consistent model for an assumed transversely isotropic piezoceramic with nonlinear ferroelectric hysteresis

A characteristic feature of ferroelectric crystals is the appearance of a spontaneous polarisation, where its direction can be reversed by an applied electric field. This quantity, that has a maximum value at high electric‐fields, depends on the loading history of the material. In this paper we discuss a thermodynamic consistent phenomenological model for an assumed transversely isotropic ferroelectric crystal, where the history dependency is modelled by internal variables. The anisotropic behaviour is governed by isotropic tensor functions, depending on a finite set of invariants, that satisfy automatically the symmetry relationships of the considered body. The main goal of this investigation is to capture some characteristics of nonlinear ferroelectrica, such as the polarisation‐electric‐field and the strain‐electric‐field (butterfly) hysteresis loops. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Interference transverse sh waves in a transversally,isotropic, inhomogeneous half space

In the paper Love waves in a transversally, Isotropic, inhomogeneous half space are investigated in the case where the plane of isotropy does not coincide with the boundary plane. The dependence on the angle between them is established to the solution obtained.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 104, pp. 228–234, 1981.     

A FEM model for lifetime prediction of Ancorsteel1000C in rolling contact fatigue

Ancorsteel1000C is commonly used for important components including bearing rollers, gears, connecting rods, wheels and rails; most failures of these components are caused by rolling contact fatigue (RCF). In this study the fatigue damage indicator based on Fatemi-Socie critical plane were determined in a local hot spot area in finite element (FE) model in case of Hertzian stress with zero slip condition. The simulation results compared with respect to experimental data, which is in good agreement. Therefore, this approach can be implemented as a useful tool for lifetime calculations in RCF in the process of structure fatigue design. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A Plancherel formula for the isotropic cone

In this short note we propose a definition of the isotropic cone related to a semisimple symmetric space and derive a Plancherel formula for this cone.     

A Central Limit Theorem for isotropic flows

We establish that the image of a measure, which satisfies a certain energy condition, moving under a standard isotropic Brownian flow will, when properly scaled, have an asymptotically normal distribution under almost every realization of the flow. We derive the same result for an initial point mass moved by an isotropic Kraichnan flow.     

A simple model for the fast transverse discharges used in pumping high-pressure gas lasers

Zusammenfassung Für die Anregung von Hochdruck-Gaslasern werden schnelle transversale Entladungen benutzt, die eine Art quasi-stabiler Glimmentladungen darstellen. Wir schlagen ein sehr vereinfachtes Modell vor, das solche Entladungen auf Grund einer Leistungsbilanz erklärt. Die durch das angelegte elektrische Feld an das Elektronengas gelieferte Leistung muß der durch Stöße mit den Gasmolekülen verlorenen Leistung der Elektronen gleich sein. An Hand einer numerischen Berechnung zeigen wir, daß dieses Modell eine akzeptable erste Näherung darstellt, daß es aber nicht zulässig ist, eine Maxwell-Boltzmann-Verteilung für die Elektronenenergie anzunehmen. Der wahrscheinliche Grund dieser Glimmphase wird auch kurz besprochen, und wir können damit zeigen, warum es äußerst wichtig ist, daß die Anstiegszeit der angelegten Spannung auf einem Minimum gehalten wird.

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This work is part of a joint program between Brown, Boveri & Cie. AG and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.     

A Pieri-type formula for isotropic flag manifolds

We give the formula for multiplying a Schubert class on an odd orthogonal or symplectic flag manifold by a special Schubert class pulled back from the Grassmannian of maximal isotropic subspaces. This is also the formula for multiplying a type (respectively, type ) Schubert polynomial by the Schur -polynomial (respectively, the Schur -polynomial ). Geometric constructions and intermediate results allow us to ultimately deduce this formula from formulas for the classical flag manifold. These intermediate results are concerned with the Bruhat order of the infinite Coxeter group , identities of the structure constants for the Schubert basis of cohomology, and intersections of Schubert varieties. We show that most of these identities follow from the Pieri-type formula, and our analysis leads to a new partial order on the Coxeter group and formulas for many of these structure constants.

     

A new model for the analysis of reinforced concrete members with a coupled HdBNM/FEM

As a truly boundary-type meshless method, the hybrid boundary node method (HdBNM) does not require ‘boundary element mesh’, either for the purpose of interpolation of the solution variables or for the integration of ‘energy’. In this paper, the HdBNM is coupled with the finite element method (FEM) for predicting the mechanical behaviors of reinforced concrete. The steel bars are considered as body forces in the concrete. A bond model is presented to simulate the bond-slip between the concrete and steels using fictitious spring elements. The computational scale and cost for meshing can be further reduced. Numerical examples, in 2D and 3D cases, demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.