An iterative method of evaluation of elastic-plastic deflections of hyperstatic framed structures

Summary The concept of substitutive concentrated elastic-plastic rotations, replacing actual elasticplastic zones is used, together with an iterative method of determination of the bending moment distribution to simplify the evaluation of elastic-plastic deflections of hyperstatic beams and frames.

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Eine iterative Methode der Auswertung von elastisch-plastischen Verschiebungen für statisch unbestimmte Rahmen

Übersicht Die Idee von fiktiven Ersatzrotationen, welche die tatsächlichen elastisch-plastischen Zonen modelliert, wird mit einer iterativen Methode kombiniert, um eine relativ einfache Bestimmung von Biegemomentenfeldern in statisch unbestimmten Balken und Rahmen zu ermöglichen. Die resultierenden Verschiebungen, ergeben sich mit ausreichender Genauigkeit.

     

An expression for transient thermal stress in a nonhomogeneous plate with temperature variation through thickness

Summary An expression for nonzero thermal stress in a nonhomogeneous flat plate with arbitrary variation in mechanical properties is presented under a transient temperature distribution. Especially an equation for nonzero thermal stress and its numerical calculation showing the effect of nonhomogeneous thermal and mechanical properties on temperature and thermal stress distribution, is given for the case of an exponentially varying thermal conductivity and Young's modulus, but for a homogeneous Poisson's ratio and coefficient of linear thermal expansion.

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Formeln für transiente Wärmespannungen in einer nichthomogenen Platte mit einer über die Dicke veränderlichen Temperatur

Übersicht Es werden Ausdrücke für nichtverschwindende Wärmespannungen in einer inhomogenen ebenen Platte bei beliebiger Ortsabhängigkeit der mechanischen Eigenschaften entwickelt, und zwar für eine transiente Temperaturverteilung. Insbesondere wird eine Gleichung für nichtverschwindende Wärmespannungen angegeben und numerisch ausgewertet, die den Einfluß nichthomogener thermischer und mechanischer Eigenschaften auf die Verteilung von Temperatur und Wärmespannung bei exponentieller Ortsabhängigkeit der Wärmeleitfähigkeit und des E-Moduls darstellt, wobei jedoch die Poissonzahl und der lineare Wärmeausdehnungskoeffizient konstant sind.

     

Reibungsdämpfung durch Scheuerleisten: Ein praxisgerechtes Auslegungskonzept

Übersicht Die Fugen zusammengesetzter Bauteile sind einerseits für eine nachteilige Steifigkeitsminderung verantwortlich, tragen aber andererseits durch Reibungsvorgänge wesentlich zum Dämpfungsvermögen einer Konstruktion bei. Merkliche Reibungsdämpfung ohne gleichzeitigen Steifigkeitsverlust bewirken zusätzliche Fugen, die durch Anbringen sogenannter Scheuerleisten entstehen. Der Autor stellt ein Näherungsverfahren zur dämpfungsoptimalen Auslegung von Scheuerleisten vor. Ausgehend von der zu dämpfenden Schwingungsform liefert dieses Verfahren Kriterien für eine günstige Scheuerleistenanordnung, geeignete Leistenabmessungen und als wichtigstes Ergebnis eine dämpfungsoptimale Fugenpressung, die zu maximaler Energiedissipation führt. Schließlich kann das zu erwartende Dämpfungsmaß berechnet und damit das Ergebnis einer vorgesehenen Dämpfungsmaßnahme abgeschätzt werden.

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Damping by friction ledges: a practical design concept

Summary On the one hand, mating surfaces of structures are responsible for a reduction of stiffness, on the other hand relative motion produces friction, which contributes considerably to the damping. Noticeable friction damping without simultaneous stiffness reduction can be achieved by adding further mating surfaces. Such interfaces are realized by fastening additional elements (e.g. beamlike) onto the structure. An analytic approximation method for these so-called friction ledges is described in this paper. Initiating from the mode shape to be damped the procedure yields criteria for the suitable positioning and design of the ledges. Most important of all is the damping optimized interface pressure, that leads to maximum energy dissipation. Finally, the expected damping rate can be computed, and therefore the result of the proposed measure assessed.

     

W-Gleitgleitkinematik

The following gives some starting elements of a theory, which the author calls glide-glide-kinematics and which goes far beyond the kinematics of helical motion in ℝ ⁿ , which was studied up to now. We are mainly concerned here with “angle-preservering glide-glide-kinematics”, generalising (and giving as well some idea of) the distance-preservering glide-glide-kinematics, which we develop in a forthcoming book ([5]) in detail.      

Chain geometries over local alternative algebras

In this paper, chain geometries over local alternative algebras are introduced. We determine the isomorphisms between them, and embed them into chain geometries over associative algebras.Dedicated to Professor Rafael Artzy on the occasion of his 80th birthday     

A Monte Carlo program for QCD event simulation ine +e− annihilation at LEP energies

We present a Monte Carlo program for event simulation of Quantum Chromodynamics ine ⁺e^? annihilation, which includes multi-emission of quanta treated in the leading-logarithm approximation. Some difficulties of currentO(α _s ) phenomenology, associated with the treatment of divergences, are eliminated, without essentially altering the results of the analysis of the data from PETRA. At the same time a direct extension is provided of current QCD phenomenology to LEP energies, where multi-emission effects cannot be ignored. Detailed predictions for hadrons within the LEP energy interval are reported. With respect to conventionalO(α _s ) calculations, some new predicted features are: i) an average hadron multiplicity rising faster than logW, whereW is the c.m. energy, ii) a slower increase of the average hadron transverse momentum, 〈p _T ² 〉∝αα _s (W ²)W instead of the ∝α _s (W ²)W ² behaviour expected in theOα _s ) approximation. Implications for detector design and pattern recognition at LEP are also discussed.     

On 2x2 conservation laws with large data

We deal with a strictly hyperbolic system of two conservation laws in one spatial dimension. One of the eigenvalues of the system is of Temple type (rarefaction and shock curves coincide), the other eigenvalue is only required to be genuinely nonlinear.We consider the initial value problem for data of the following kind: the total variation of the Temple component is bounded, possibly large, while the total variation of the other component is small. For such data we prove global existence, uniqueness and L⊃-Lipschitz continuous dependence of solutions.AMS Subject Classification: Primary 35L65; Secondary 35D05, 35L45.     

Adapting to suprasegmental lexical stress errors in foreign-accented speech

Can native listeners rapidly adapt to suprasegmental mispronunciations in foreign-accented speech? To address this question, an exposure-test paradigm was used to test whether Dutch listeners can improve their understanding of non-canonical lexical stress in Hungarian-accented Dutch. During exposure, one group of listeners heard a Dutch story with only initially stressed words, whereas another group also heard 28 words with canonical second-syllable stress (e.g., EEKhorn, "squirrel" was replaced by koNIJN "rabbit"; capitals indicate stress). The 28 words, however, were non-canonically marked by the Hungarian speaker with high pitch and amplitude on the initial syllable, both of which are stress cues in Dutch. After exposure, listeners' eye movements were tracked to Dutch target-competitor pairs with segmental overlap but different stress patterns, while they listened to new words from the same Hungarian speaker (e.g., HERsens, herSTEL, "brain," "recovery"). Listeners who had previously heard non-canonically produced words distinguished target-competitor pairs better than listeners who had only been exposed to Hungarian accent with canonical forms of lexical stress. Even a short exposure thus allows listeners to tune into speaker-specific realizations of words' suprasegmental make-up, and use this information for word recognition.     

A simple-minded direct approach to estimating the calibration parameter for proportionate data

In non-destructive assay there exist techniques founded on physics principles and experimental design for which the quantity of interest y_True to be estimated is expected to vary in direct proportion to the true value x_True of the experimentally observed predictor quantity x. In other words, the calibration is a straight line passing through the origin, so that the assay method is fully described by a single parameter, the slope. In principle a single reference item is sufficient to estimate the slope. However, there are good reasons for including more than a single item in the calibration procedure. When multiple items are used questions arise regarding how to make best use of all the available calibration data in estimating the slope. This paper shows that the usual weighted least squares curve fitting approach can be circumvented by using only the familiar notion of a weighted arithmetic mean. In particular we draw attention to the ease with which uncertainties in both x and y can be incorporated using this simple and direct approach. Moreover the uncertainty in the calibration parameter is estimated using familiar techniques and with an appropriate magnitude for subsequent use, for instance, in setting reasonable uncertainties on assay results performed using the calibration. For completeness, weighted least squares accounting for nonzero covariances among the measurements y of y_True together with an errors in predictors approach accounting for errors in x is also presented.