Mécanique de la rupture fragile en présence de plasticité : définition d'un taux de restitution d'énergie

This study aims at defining an energetic parameter which characterises progressive crack growth in a brittle elastoplastic medium. First, Francfort and Marigo's elastic fracture theory, based on a minimum energy principle, is recalled. Then, a link with the framework of generalised standard materials is exhibited and allows to introduce the new energetic contributions due to plasticity.     

Structure et Comportement Rhéologique des Plastisols de Chlorure de Polyvinyle

Résumé La viscosité de différents plastisols de chlorure de polyvinyle a été déterminée en fonction du gradient de vitesse et de la température. Le comportement rhéologique est interprété sur la base de la théorie de la stabilité des systèmes colloïdaux dispersés en milieu non-aqueux.

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Zusammenfassung Die Viskosität der verschiedensten Plastisole von Polyvinylchlorid wurde in Abhängigkeit von Geschwindigkeitsgradient und Temperatur gemessen. Das rheologische Verhalten wird auf der Basis der Theorie der Stabilität kolloider Dispersionen im nichtwäßrigen Lösungsmittel interpretiert.

     

Convection mixte en régime transitoire de couche limite laminaire sur une plaque verticale

This work deals with transient laminar boundary layer along a vertical surface and system of equations is solved using finite difference implicite scheme. We show that the nature of the plate influence thermal and dynamical boundary layer thicknesses as well as the flow velocity. Moreover, we observe that a small perturbation of the velocity implies to flow laminar instabilities.     

Calcul numérique des ondes de surface par une méthode de projection avec un maillage eulérien adaptatif

A non hydrostatic vertical two-dimensional numerical model is proposed to calculate free-surface flows. This model is based on resolving the full Navier–Stokes equations by a finite-difference method coupled with Chorin's projection method. An adaptative-Eulerian grid in the sigma-coordinate system is used. The model permits the calculation of surface-waves in estuarine and coastal zones. A benchmark test relative to the soliton propagation is realised to validate the model.     

Impact non-pénétrant sur le thorax : une contribution à l'étude de la propagation des ondes

The stress wave generated by a nonpenetrating impact on the thorax is likely to cause severe injury to the lung. Theoretical studies are necessary to help the understanding of injury mechanisms. Within the framework of elastodynamics, we study the transmission of a wave at the interface between two weakly coupled semi-infinite media representing the thoracic wall and the lung. By using an appropriate method, we describe the distribution of energy carried by the shear and pressure waves in the medium representing the lung. These results should contribute to a better interpretation of the experimental results.     

Rhéologie des matériaux en cours de prise : Approche théorique

The rheological behavior of setting heterogeneous materials is studied from a theoretical approach by means of the homogenization technique of periodic medium. These materials considered as suspensions of gas bubbles at finite concentration in a viscoelastic matrix with low compressibility, present the macroscopic behavior of a compressible viscoelastic medium. The shear and volume macroscopic moduli are of the same order of magnitude and directly proportional to that of the fluid. The effective compressibility of the gas (out of thermal equilibrium) is added to these fluid contributions.     

Interprétation géométrique de la décomposition des équations de compatibilité en grandes déformations

In this paper, we establish compatibility equations satisfied by the right Cauchy–Green stress tensor by annihiling the associated curvature and torsion. The cancelation of torsion, using variables introduced by the polar decomposition, is not trivial as is usually the case. This point is the key to the decomposition of compatibility conditions in two first-order EDPs.     

Étude numérique des instabilités de la phase fluide et de l'interface de solidification en croissance dirigée horizontale

Convective instabilities of low Prandtl number fluids are subject to various studies. The purpose here is an extension to hydrodynamic transitions in the fluid phase with a free or rigid surface under phase change and to construct the corresponding bifurcation diagram. Investigations interesting the process control by using the latent heat and the solid/liquid thermal conductivity difference are considered. The solution methodology is based on a front localisation approach showing a very good ability to describe convection regimes coupled to the phase change transition in the case of vertical solidification with confinement. To cite this article: E.A. Semma et al., C. R. Mecanique 331 (2003).     

Développement d'un modèle en vue de la prédiction du rallumage d'un foyer de turboréacteur à haute altitude

Within the context of turbojet engine re-ignition after in-flight extinction, a thermo-diffusive model has been developed to describe the electrical ignition, at low pressure and low temperature, of a cluster of fuel droplets. The model involves the resolution of the conservation equations of mass, species and energy. It also takes into account the various physical and chemical phenomena occurring during the ignition process. This Note presents the ignition model and preliminary results of this model applied to an experimental configuration. To cite this article: V. Quintilla et al., C. R. Mecanique 330 (2002) 811–818.     

Mesure de la température de gouttelettes en combustion par fluorescence induite par laser à deux couleurs : résultats préliminaires et perspectives

Two color laser-induced fluorescence technique is able to measure mean temperature of flying droplets, in the evaporation regime without combustion. This paper presents preliminary results about the use of this technique in reactive media.     

Joseph Kampé de Fériet et la mécanique des fluides en France durant l'entre-deux-guerres

Up until the twentieth century, fluid mechanics was characterised by a strong division between theory and practice. The formulas of mathematicians and physicists were difficult to apply experimentally and their relevance was neither well accepted nor well understood by engineers. In France, where priority was given to the theoretical aspects of this subject, the creation of several centres of fluid mechanics in the 1930s (Lille, Marseille, Paris and Toulouse) represented an attempt at a rapprochement between fluid mechanics, experimental aerodynamics, and hydrodynamics. The aim was to re-establish France's international profile, which had been lost after 1918. In Lille, the leadership of the “Institut de mécanique des fluides” (IMFL) was entrusted to Jospeh Kampé de Fériet, who was able to address questions of both theoretical and experimental nature in the context of his work at the IMFL and at the “Commission de la turbulence atmosphérique”. On the one hand, Kampé de Fériet used a probabilistic approach to give greater mathematical rigour to the statistical theory of turbulence due to Taylor–von Kármán. On the other hand, he played an active part in his group's experimental research on atmospheric turbulence. This paper aims to show in what way Kampé de Fériet's approach to fluid mechanics enabled him to contribute to the international development of the statistical theory of turbulence during the interwar period.     

Analyse mathématique de l'équation de Galbrun en écoulement uniforme

We consider Galbrun's equation, used in linear aeroacoustics. For a simple case (rigid duct with uniform flow) in the time harmonic regime, we show that an approach based on a regularized variational formulation of the problem ensures the convergence of a nodal finite-element method.     

Rhéologie particulière des solutions de polymères en millieus poreux

This paper describes the work carried out to investigate the pore pressures occurring in secondary consolidation. A theoretical approach and an experimental technique was developed in order to conduct the study. By considering compression to occur only due to water leaving the soil it was possible to derive an expression for the dissipation of pore pressure in the secondary phase. By further simplified assumptions which are based on experimental observations, the above general solution was reduced to a simple formula which predicted the observed behaviour of pore water pressures during secondary consolidation.     

Mise en évidence par granularité en lumière blanche de phénomènes de multilocalisation de la déformation pour les bétons de poudres réactives sollicités en traction

From kinematic observations by granularity in whiting light mode based on a technique of digital speckle images correlation, the behaviour in tension of a reactive powders concrete is studied. The measures show several localisation areas of the deformation fields and the role of the fibres in the transmission of the stresses in the neighbourhood of a damaged area.     

Modélisation de la turbulence en déclin avec rotation

The study presented in the present paper deals with the modeling of the rotation effects on a homogeneous turbulence evolving without a mean velocity gradient. The developed model results from a modification of the second order model of Haworth and Pope. This modification is expressed as a function of the rotation rate, of the component of the Reynolds tensor and of the characteristic length scale in the direction of the rotation axis. The obtained results have evidenced the great capacity of the present model to describe the rotation effects on the time evolution of the homogeneous decaying turbulence.     

Mesure des modules de rigidité de torsion et de cisaillement de matériaux souples

A specific machine test to measure the shear modulus in the plane and the twisting rigidity of flowing materials, is developed. This machine is tested on samples with known material properties (brass, paper); results obtained on textile samples are then reported.