Resonances of an in-extensional asymmetrical spinning shaft with speed fluctuations

In this study, main and parametric resonances of an asymmetrical spinning shaft with in-extensional nonlinearity and large amplitude are simultaneously investigated. The main resonance is due to inhomogeneous part of the equations of motion, which is due to dynamic imbalances of shaft whereas the parametric resonances are due to parametric excitations due to speed fluctuations and a shaft asymmetry. The shaft is simply supported with unequal mass moments of inertia and flexural rigidities in the direction of principal axes. The equations of motion are derived by the extended Hamilton principle. The stability and bifurcations are obtained by multiple scales method, which is applied to both partial and ordinary differential equations of motion. The influences of asymmetry of shaft, speed fluctuations, inequality between two eccentricities corresponding to the principal axes and external damping on the stability and bifurcation are studied. To investigate the effect of speed fluctuations on the bifurcations and stability the loci of bifurcation points are plotted as function of damping coefficient. The numerical solutions are used to verify the results of multiple scales method. The results of multiple scales method show a good agreement with those of numerical solutions.     

Stability analysis of a nonlinear rotating asymmetrical shaft near the resonances

An asymmetrical rotating shaft with unequal mass moments of inertia and flexural rigidities in the direction of principal axes is considered. In this system, there are two excitation sources, including a harmonic excitation due to the dynamic imbalances and a parametric excitation due to shaft asymmetry. Nonlinearities are due to the in-extensionality of the shaft and large amplitude. In this study, harmonic and parametric resonances due to the mentioned effects are considered. The influences of inequality of mass moments of inertia and flexural rigidities in the direction of principal axes, inequality between two eccentricities corresponding to the principal axes and external damping on the stability and bifurcation of steady state response of the rotating asymmetrical shaft are investigated. In addition, the characteristic of stable stationary points and loci of bifurcation points as function of damping coefficient are determined. In order to analyze the resonances of the system the multiple scales method is applied to the complex form of partial differential equations of motion. The achieved results show a good agreement with those of numerical computation.     

Distribution of dislocation source length and the size dependent yield strength in freestanding thin films

A method is proposed to estimate the size-dependent yield strength of columnar-grained freestanding thin films. The estimate relies on assuming a distribution of the size of Frank-Read sources, which is then translated into a log-normal distribution of the source strength, depending on film thickness, grain size and theoretical strength of the material, augmented with a single fit parameter. Two-dimensional discrete dislocation plasticity (DDP) simulations are carried out for two sets of Cu films and the fit parameter is determined from independent experiments. Subsequent DDP predictions of the stress-strain curves in comparison with the corresponding experimental data show excellent agreement of initial yield strength and hardening rate for films of varying film thickness and grain size. Having thus demonstrated the power of the proposed strength distribution, it is shown that the mode of this distribution governs the most effective source strength. This is then used to suggest a method to estimate the yield strength of thin films as a function of film thickness and grain size. Simple maps are presented that are in very good agreement with recent experimental results for Cu thin films.     

Finite element simulation of turbulent Couette–Poiseuille flows using a low Reynolds number k–ϵ model

Developing Couette–Poiseuille flows at Re=5000 are studied using a low Reynolds number k–ϵ two‐equation model and a finite element formulation. Mesh‐independent solutions are obtained using a standard Galerkin formulation and a Galerkin/least‐squares stabilized method. The predictions for the velocity and turbulent kinetic energy are compared with available experimental results and to the DNS data. Second moment closure's solutions are also compared with those of the k–ϵ model. The deficiency of eddy viscosity models to predict dissymmetric low Reynolds number channel flows has been demonstrated. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Computing latest starting times of activities in interval-valued networks with minimal time lags

This paper deals with problems of determining possible values of earliest and latest starting times of an activity in networks with minimal time lags and imprecise durations that are represented by means of interval or fuzzy numbers. Although minimal time lags are practical in different projects, former researchers have not considered these problems.After proposing propositions which reduce the search space, a novel polynomial algorithm is presented to compute intervals of possible values of latest starting times in interval-valued networks with minimal time lags. Then, the results are extended to networks with fuzzy durations.     

A Critical Evaluation and Modification of the Padé–Laplace Method for Deconvolution of Viscoelastic Spectra

This paper shows that using the Padé–Laplace (PL) method for deconvolution of multi-exponential functions (stress relaxation of polymers) can produce ill-conditioned systems of equations. Analysis of different sets of generated data points from known multi-exponential functions indicates that by increasing the level of Padé approximants, the condition number of a matrix whose entries are coefficients of a Taylor series in the Laplace space grows rapidly. When higher levels of Padé approximants need to be computed to achieve stable modes for separation of exponentials, the problem of generating matrices with large condition numbers becomes more pronounced. The analysis in this paper discusses the origin of ill-posedness of the PL method and it was shown that ill-posedness may be regularized by reconstructing the system of equations and using singular value decomposition (SVD) for computation of the Padé table. Moreover, it is shown that after regularization, the PL method can deconvolute the exponential decays even when the input parameter of the method is out of its optimal range.     

Synthesis of multi-wall carbon nanotubes by copper vapor laser

Synthesis of multi-wall carbon nanotubes in a 1473 K furnace using a copper vapor laser (CVL) is reported. The operating parameters of this laser, i.e. a high fluence at the focal point and an extremely high frequency of 10 kHz, distinguished it from common laser sources in the synthesis of CNTs. Therefore, the unexpected experimental findings, the formation of MWNTs instead of the generally reported SWNTs, would be verified by these two notable parameters. Electron microscopy beside Raman spectroscopy illustrates the presence of multi-wall carbon nanotubes in the resulting product.     

A generalization of k-Cohen–Macaulay simplicial complexes

For a positive integer k and a non-negative integer t, a class of simplicial complexes, to be denoted by k-CM _t , is introduced. This class generalizes two notions for simplicial complexes: being k-Cohen–Macaulay and k-Buchsbaum. In analogy with the Cohen–Macaulay and Buchsbaum complexes, we give some characterizations of CM _t (=1?CM _t ) complexes, in terms of vanishing of some homologies of its links, and in terms of vanishing of some relative singular homologies of the geometric realization of the complex and its punctured space. We give a result on the behavior of the CM _t property under the operation of join of two simplicial complexes. We show that a complex is k-CM _t if and only if the links of its non-empty faces are k-CM _t?1. We prove that for an integer s≤d, the (d?s?1)-skeleton of a (d?1)-dimensional k-CM _t complex is (k+s)-CM _t . This result generalizes Hibi’s result for Cohen–Macaulay complexes and Miyazaki’s result for Buchsbaum complexes.     

Design and analysis of all-optical 4–2 binary encoder based on photonic crystal

In this paper we theoretically propose combining optical waveguides with nonlinear photonic crystal based ring resonators for realizing an all optical 4–2 encoder. Nonlinear resonant rings are constructed from GaAs as the material used for dielectric rods. By application of optical beam to input ports of the structure the on/off states are realized and the resulting truth table confirms functionality of proposed device. The switching threshold and time delay of the device are about 1 kW/µm² and 1 ps, respectively. The normalized power at the output ports for all the ports in ON states is the same and equal to 60%.