Global asymptotics of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the damped wave equation with absorption

We consider the Cauchy problem for the damped wave equation with absorption

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Cavitation for incompressible anisotropic nonlinearly elastic spheres

In this paper, the effect ofmaterial anisotropy on void nucleation and growth inincompressible nonlinearly elastic solids is examined. A bifurcation problem is considered for a solid sphere composed of an incompressible homogeneous nonlinearly elastic material which is transversely isotropic about the radial direction. Under a uniform radial tensile dead-load, a branch of radially symmetric configurations involving a traction-free internal cavity bifurcates from the undeformed configuration at sufficiently large loads. Closed form analytic solutions are obtained for a specific material model, which may be viewed as a generalization of the classic neo-Hookean model to anisotropic materials. In contrast to the situation for a neo-Hookean sphere, bifurcation here may occur locally either to the right (supercritical) or to the left (subcritical), depending on the degree of anisotropy. In the latter case, the cavity has finite radius on first appearance. Such a discontinuous change in stable equilibrium configurations is reminiscent of the snap-through buckling phenomenon of structural mechanics. Such dramatic cavitational instabilities were previously encountered by Antman and Negrón-Marrero [3] for anisotropiccompressible solids and by Horgan and Pence [17] forcomposite incompressible spheres.     

Parameter estimation for first-order bifurcating autoregressive processes with Weibull innovations

We study the first-order bifurcating autoregressive process X_t=?X_⌊t/2⌋+?_t with Weibull innovations. Using point process technique, we estimate the model parameter ? and the tail index α in the Weibull distribution and obtain the joint limit distribution of estimators.     

Epitaxy of Binary Compounds and Alloys

The present work aims at constructing a theoretical framework within which to address the issues of morphological instabilities (one-dimensional step bunching and two-dimensional step meandering), alloying, and phase segregation in binary systems in the context of (physical or chemical) vapor deposition. The length scale of interest, although nanoscopic, is sufficiently large that the steps on a vicinal surface can be viewed as smooth curves and, correspondingly, the theory is a continuum one. In a departure from theories inaugurated by Burton, Cabrera, and Frank [The growth of crystals and the equilibrium structure of their surfaces. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A 243 (1951) 299–358] the steps are endowed with a thermodynamic structure whose main ingredients are a step free-energy density and edge species chemical potentials. Moreover, crystal anisotropy, with its altering of the dynamics of steps and the associated morphological instabilities, is accounted for – in a manner consistent with the second law – both in the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of terraces and, more importantly, of steps. Additionally, in contrast with most of the literature on the subject (cf. [J. Krug, Introduction to step dynamics and step instabilities. In: A. Voigt (ed.) Multiscale Modeling in Epitaxial Growth. Birkhäusser, Berlin (2005)]), adsorption–desorption along the steps, bulk atomic diffusion, and chemical reactions (both on the terraces and along the step edges) are incorporated and coupled to the other mechanisms, e.g., terrace adatom diffusion and step attachment–detachment kinetics, whose interplay governs the evolution of steps on vicinal surfaces. Importantly, aided by the concept of configurational forces for which a separate balance law is postulated Configurational Forces as Basic Concepts of Continuum Physics. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2000)]), the proposed theory allows the steps to evolve away from local equilibrium thus contributing to a general treatment of the dynamics of steps. Finally, a specialization to the epitaxy of binary compounds and alloys is afforded, yielding a generalization of the classical Gibbs–Thomson relation in the former and novel evolution equations for an individual step in the latter.     

圆盘状裂纹前缘塑性区尺寸及张开位移估计

将Ｄｕｇｄａｌｅ模型推广到三维裂纹问题计算了圆盘状裂纹前缘塑性区尺寸,并结合断裂力学中的Ｂａｒｅｎｂｌａｔｔ－Ｄｕｇｄａｌｅ裂纹模型和三维Ｊ－积分原理计算了圆盘状裂纹前缘张开位移,得到了Ｊ－积分与裂纹张开位移的关系,最后用非线性有限元方法对圆盘状裂纹的前缘塑性区尺寸作了数值分析,确定了公式中的未知常数,并对其正确性作了数值验证,本文的工作推广了Ｄｕｇｄａｌｅ模型的应用范围。     

On the separation of stress-induced and texture-induced birefringence in acoustoelasticity

In this paper we develop a simple micromechanical model of a prestressed polycrystalline aggregate, in which the texture-induced and stress-induced anisotropies of the aggregate are precisely defined; here the word texture always refers to the texture of the aggregate at the given prestressed configuration, not to that of a perhaps fictitious natural state of the aggregate. We use this model to derive, for a prestressed orthotropic aggregate of cubic crystallites, a birefringence formula which shows explicitly the effects of the orthotropic texture on the acoustoelastic coefficients. From this formula we observe that, generally speaking, we cannot separate the total birefringence into two distinct parts, one reflecting purely the influence of stress on the birefringence, and the other encompassing all the effects of texture. The same formula, on the other hand, provides for each material specific quantitative criteria under which the separation of stress-induced and texture-induced birefringence would become meaningful in an approximate sense.     

Characterization of a class of bivariate distribution functions

Let F_X,Y(x,y) be a bivariate distribution function and P_n(x), Q_m(y), n, m = 0, 1, 2,…, the orthonormal polynomials of the two marginal distributions F_X(x) and F_Y(y), respectively. Some necessary conditions are derived for the co-efficients c_n, n = 0, 1, 2,…, if the conditional expectation E[P_n(X) ∥ Y] = c_nQ_n(Y) holds for n = 0, 1, 2,…. Several examples are given to show the application of these necessary conditions.