Dynamics of sprinkler jets

The problem of the motion of droplet-air sprinkler jets is examined. On the basis of the equations of a turbulent two-phase boundary layer the trajectories and range of these jets are calculated. A comparison of the calculation results with experiment indicates satisfactory agreement. It is shown that the expression for the range of a body projected at an angle to the horizontal gives exaggerated values for the range, while calculating the range for a single droplet with allowance for the air resistance gives values that are much too low. It has been established that in calculating the motion of sprinkler jets it is necessary to take into account the air resistance to the water droplets reduced as a result of the acceleration of the air in the immediate vicinity of the preceding droplets.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 60–67, September–October, 1985.     

The Stress–Strain State of Geometrically and Physically Nonlinear Plates with One-Sided Corrosive Wear

A technique is proposed to investigate one-sided corrosive wear. The problem is solved with regard for geometric and physical nonlinearity. Two, Dolinskii's and Gutman's corrosion models are considered. The quasistatic problem is solved by the method of variational iterations, which reduce ordinary differential equations to a system of nonlinear equations with approximation o(h ²) to be solved by Newton's method. At each step, to allow for physical nonlinearity, the method of variable elastic parameters is used. Also a technique is developed to consider various boundary conditions and ⁱ(e ⁱ) diagrams. Specific numerical results are presented.     

Reverse shear on inclined planes at the tip of a sharp crack

Plane strain plastic yielding at a crack tip has been represented by edge dislocations with Burgers vectors parallel to symmetrical planes inclined at 70° and 45° to the plane of the crack. The plastic displacement and the stresses near the crack tip were calculated by a numerical method and the effect of a reduction in applied stress was determined. Removal of the whole or a part of the initial load produces reverse shear in regions of the slip band nearest the crack tip. The amount of reverse shear depends only on the reduction in the load and not on its initial value. The reverse shear is associated with the presence of negative dislocations and the stresses near the crack tip may become compressive even though the applied (remote) stress is still tensile. The degree and extent of compression depends on the reduction in applied stress and on its original value. It is argued that the residual compressive stresses produced under fluctuating loads may produce crack closure and crack arrest. The effect of residual plasticity in a slip band left behind a growing crack has been estimated. It is shown that after an overload the excess residual plasticity opposing crack opening rises to a maximum value when the crack tip has advanced some distance from the point where the overload was applied.     

Characteristic relations of flow birefringence

This is the first of two closely related papers on the flow-birefringence response to the velocity vector field of a particular liquid representing a certain class of birefringent bodies.^* The flowing material under study was the aqueous solution of the compound known under the name NGS 1828 and commonly known as “milling yellow” or “acid yellow”. This solution appears to exhibit all three major mechanisms of birefringence. The physical parameters characterizing this material depend strongly on temperature, concentration and age and, therefore, it can be considered as representing a typical class of liquids used in flow-model experiments. The paper presents the experimental evidence that the flow birefringence cannot be explained and described by the simple mathematical model of birefringence in solid continuum which relates the changes of the components of dielectric tensor to the components of stress and strain tensors, or their derivatives, and which neglects the influence of the spectral frequency (wavelength of radiation). Results are presented for transmission birefringence (and for scattered-light birefringence in the second paper) in the visible and the infrared bands of radiation. It is shown that:

- the amount of birefringence depends strongly and non-monotonically on wavelength of radiation;

- the linear range of optical response to shear-strain rate depends on wavelengths of radiation;

- the directions of optic axes strongly depend both on the shear-strain rate and on the wavelength of radiation, even in the linear range of mechanical response.

It is further shown that there exists a relation between the absorption bands, the maximum transmittance, the dispersion of birefringence, the spectral dependence of optic-axes direction, and the linear range of optical response. Within the maximum transmittance band and the linear range of mechanical response the linear range of birefringence is maximum and the dispersion of birefringence is minimum with respect to the shear-strain rate; the corresponding dispersion of optic axis is also minimum. Samples of typical recordings are given in the visible and the infrared radiation for typical flow patterns. One of the practical conclusions is that to optimize the flow-birefringence studies of engineering problems it is advisable to choose the radiation in the near-infrared range. The evidence presented shows that the common trend in engineering research toward simplification of the model of the flow-birefringence response is not necessary.     

One dimensional lattice gases with rapidly decreasing interaction

We consider the pressure and the correlation functions of a one dimensional lattice gas in which the mutual interaction decreases as r exp-n ^t, (r, t>0), when the interparticle distance n. We prove that such a system cannot show phase transitions of order k1 in the sense that the pressure and the correlation functions are infinitely differentiable with respect to any relevant parameter (such as the temperature or the chemical potential).     

Triaxial force measurement at specific positions on a soil-cutting blade

In order to create a mathematical model of a soil-cutting blade, it is necessary to understand thoroughly the behavior of a soil slice and its interaction with the blade surface. The triaxial force transducer was developed to serve as one of the various tools to verify the proposed mathematical model. The prototype model transducer was fabricated, calibrated and tested with a soil slice on a flat cutting blade. The calibration results have indicated high sensitivity and the capability of simultaneous measurement in three directions. As a technological refinement, the detecting part of this triaxial force transducer was tapered to solve the problem of soil clogging in the opening clearance. Furthermore, the effects of the clearance configurations between the bore on the soil-cutting blade and the detecting part which is embedded in this bore were investigated to determine the most desirable configuration. The comparative results indicated that by tapering both the detecting part and the bore, the tangential stress measurement gained the highest value, and provided the most satisfactory condition for three-dimensional stress management.     

Transient thermal stresses in a strip with an eccentric hole

A procedure is presented for dealing with the constraint associated with the direction of the thickness of a thin model and for obtaining transient thermal stresses under plane-stress conditions; the stresses are induced by severe thermal loads. Thermal-stress-concentration factor in an unrestrained strip with an eccentric circular hole placed near the thermally loaded edge is obtained. One straight edge of the strip is cooled and the others are insulated. Consequently, two cases for which the hole acts remarkably as a stress raiser are found.