Distribution of dislocation density and residual stresses in plastically deformed specimens: numerical studies

A two-scale approach to the simulation of mechanical properties of metallic materials is considered. On the macroscopic level, the material behavior is described by a phenomenological model of finite strain viscoplasticity with nonlinear kinematic hardening. In particular, the process-induced plastic anisotropy is captured by backstresses. On the microstructural level, the so called “load path sensitive two-population dislocation cell model” is implemented. It describes an evolving dislocation cell structure with dislocation populations for dislocation cell walls and the cell interior. Owing to the coupling with the phenomenological plasticity model, it can describe the evolution of the dislocation densities depending on the load path. The applicability of the multiscale approach to the FEM simulation of severe plastic deformation processes such as Equal Channel Angular Pressing is demonstrated. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Finite Sections of Band-Dominated Operators: l p -Theory

We propose an algebraic approach to the stability problem for the finite sections of general band-dominated operators acting on for 1 < p < ∞. This approach allows us to get new results which previously were known mainly for p = 2. One of the main results shows that a band-dominated operator is Fredholm if and only if the approximation numbers of its finite sections have a special behavior. Submitted: June 14, 2007. Accepted: November 5, 2007.     

An optimised molecular model for ammonia

Based on molecular dynamics (MD) computer simulations we investigate the dynamic behaviour of a model complex fluid suspension consisting of large (A) particles (the ‘solute’) immersed in a bath of smaller ‘solvent’ (B) particles. The goal is to identify the effect of systematic simplifications (coarse-graining) of the solvent on typical microscopic time correlation functions characterizing the single-particle and collective dynamics of the solute. As a reference system we employ a binary Lennard–Jones mixture of spherical particles with significant differences in particle sizes (σ_A>σ_B) and masses (m _A>m _B). We then replace the original B particles step by step by a reduced number of larger and heavier particles such that the mass and volume fraction of B particles is kept constant. At each step of coarse-graining, the intermolecular interactions between A particles are chosen such that the static A–A structure of the reference system is preserved. Our MD results indicate that coarse-graining has a profound influence on both the single-particle dynamics as reflected by the self-diffusion constant and the collective dynamics represented by the distinct part of the van Hove time correlation function. The latter holds only at intermediate packing fractions, whereas the collective dynamics turns out to be essentially insensitive to coarse-graining at high packing fractions.     

Two Projection Theorems and Symbol Calculus for Operators with Massive Local Spectra

In this paper we construct a symbol calculus for Banach algebras generated by two idempotents and a coefficient algebra. This, combined with local principles for ?embedding algebras”?, leads to a symbol calculus for singular integral operators on spaces with Muckenhoupt weight and for singular integral operators with measurable coefficients.     

Zero sums of idempotents in Banach algebras

The problem treated in this paper is the following.Let p ₁,...,p _k be idempotents in a Banach algebra B, and assume p ₁+...+p _k =0.Does it follow that p _j =0,j=1,..., k? For important classes of Banach algebras the answer turns out to be positive; in general, however, it is negative. A counterexample is given involving five nonzero bounded projections on infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert space. The number five is critical here: in Banach algebras nontrivial zero sums of four idempotents are impossible. In a purely algebraic context (no norm), the situation is different. There the critical number is four.     

A general look at local principles with special emphasis on the norm computation aspect

Local principles associate with every element of a Banach algebra a family of local objects in terms of which the properties of the original element can be studied. In this paper some general relations between three such principles, usually affiliated with the names of Simonenko, Allan/Douglas, and Gohberg/Krupnik, are discussed. Special attention is paid to the question on how the norm of an element can be expressed in terms of the norms of the local objects associated with it. The general theory is illustrated by some concrete results on singular integral operators and Toeplitz operators.     

Asymptotic Moore-Penrose invertibility of singular integral operators

The topic of the paper is the asymptotic Moore-Penrose inversion of singular integral operators by means of the trigonometric collocation and the finite section method. Two versions (a weak and a strong one) of these methods are considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the applicability of the weak method, and sufficient conditions for the strong method, are derived. These conditions involve a certain asymptotic resp. exact kernel structure of the approximation matrices.Partially supported by the HCM project ROLLS under contract CHRX-CT 93-0416 (both authors) and by a DFG Heisenberg grant (S. Roch)