The potent effect of the hydrodynamic pressure developed in the wake of a crack growing under cyclic loads in a viscous fluid environment is considered. While existing semi-analytical solutions provide an estimate of ...
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The potent effect of the hydrodynamic pressure developed in the wake of a crack growing under cyclic loads in a viscous fluid environment is considered. While existing semi-analytical solutions provide an estimate of the hydrodynamic pressure effect, they are inherently restricted by the assumption of specific crack opening profiles. To correct this limitation and to extend the study to a complete range of materials and fluid environments, a fully consistent numerical approach was developed. A self-consistent fracture mechanics solution procedure is derived initially for atomistically sharp cracks in brittle materials, and then extended to include the effect of crack tip blunting in more ductile materials. Three important dimensionless parameters are identified through which effects of various physical properties on crack-growth behavior can be examined. These include specimen geometry, material properties, fluid viscosity and cyclic loading conditions. General plots are constructed spanning wide ranges of these dimensionless parameters so that the hydrodynamic pressure contribution to crack-growth rates can easily be estimated for a complete range of materials, fluid environments and loading parameters. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
The purpose of the present study is to thoroughly understand the stress-strain behavior of polycrystalline NiTi deformed under tension versus compression, To do this, a micromechanical model is used which incorporates...
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The purpose of the present study is to thoroughly understand the stress-strain behavior of polycrystalline NiTi deformed under tension versus compression, To do this, a micromechanical model is used which incorporates single crystal constitutive relationships and experimentally measured polycrystalline texture into the self-consistent formulation. For the first time it is quantitatively demonstrated that texture measurements coupled with a micromechanical model can accurately predict tension/compression asymmetry in NiTi shape memory alloys. The predicted critical transformation stress levels and transformation stressstrain slopes under both tensile and compressive loading are consistent with experimental results, For textured polycrystalline NiTi deformed under tension it is demonstrated that the martensite evolution is very abrupt, consistent with the Luders type deformation experimentally observed. The abrupt transformation under tension is attributed to the fact that the majority of the grains are oriented along the [111] crystallographic direction, which is soft under tensile loading. Since single crystals of the [111] orientation are hard under compression it is also demonstrated that under compression the martensite in textured polycrystalline NiTi evolves relatively slower. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
The present paper addresses a flexible solution algorithm for associative isotropic elasto-plastic materials, i.e. for materials whose elastic and plastic behaviors are described through an isotropic free-energy funct...
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The present paper addresses a flexible solution algorithm for associative isotropic elasto-plastic materials, i.e. for materials whose elastic and plastic behaviors are described through an isotropic free-energy function, an isotropic yield function and an associative flow rule. The discussion is relative to a large deformation regime, while no hardening mechanisms are included. The algorithm is based on a combination of the operator split method and a return map scheme. Both the algorithm linearization and the requirements for the yield criterion convexity are discussed in detail. Finally, to show the algorithm flexibility and performance, the discussion is specialized to three yield criteria and some test problems are studied. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
In this paper the infinite eigenvalue assignment problem for singular systems is studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions are presented under which there exists a state feedback such that the closed-loop system is...
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In this paper the infinite eigenvalue assignment problem for singular systems is studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions are presented under which there exists a state feedback such that the closed-loop system is regular and has only infinite eigenvalues. The main result is proved constructively based on some simple numerical algorithms. These numerical algorithms consist of an orthogonal reduction to an upper (block) Hessenberg form and a simple linear recursion deduced from 2 x 2 Givens transformations. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
In this paper, we describe the implementation aspects of an optimization algorithm for optimal control problems with control, state, and terminal constraints presented in our earlier paper. The important aspect of the...
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In this paper, we describe the implementation aspects of an optimization algorithm for optimal control problems with control, state, and terminal constraints presented in our earlier paper. The important aspect of the implementation is that, in the direction-finding subproblems, it is necessary only to impose the state constraint at relatively few points in the time involved. This contributes significantly to the algorithmic efficiency. The algorithm is applied to solve several optimal control problems, including the problem of the abort landing of an aircraft in the presence of windshear.
The behaviour of materials involving Solid-solid phase transitions may be modelled by more or less smooth laws. The corresponding physical basis and microscopic mechanisms are still in most cases controversial and out...
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The behaviour of materials involving Solid-solid phase transitions may be modelled by more or less smooth laws. The corresponding physical basis and microscopic mechanisms are still in most cases controversial and out of our purpose. In a previous paper, we studied (from mathematical and numerical point of view) relaxation procedures of non-convex bulk potentials issued from the Fremond modelling. For example, the quasiconvexification is obtained by considering specific microstructures. By accepting local minima of the total energy as possible equilibrium state, we can find, numerically, hysteretic behaviours and fronts of phase transition. However, some thermomechanical modellings of solid-solid phase transitions involve interaction energies between the phases which account at the macroscopic scale for the incompatibilities between deformations at the microscopic scale. We define a class of models which contains the Fremond model as the simplest one. An interaction term is introduced and is discussed in the context of the generalized standard materials. This term may lead, according to a parameter noted G, to the instability of the equilibrium. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
In this paper we present the solution to the algebraic Riccati-type equation of the state-dependent noise linear-quadratic optimal control problem in terms of algebraic Lyapunov iterations. By properly initializing th...
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In this paper we present the solution to the algebraic Riccati-type equation of the state-dependent noise linear-quadratic optimal control problem in terms of algebraic Lyapunov iterations. By properly initializing the sequence of algebraic Lyapunov iterations we got monotonic convergence from above to the positive-definite stabilizing solution of the algebraic Riccati-type equation (the solution that represents the optimal solution to the corresponding optimal control problem). The proposed algorithm requires much less computational efforts than those previously used to solve the same problem. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
The finite-horizon optimal compensation problem is considered in the case of linear time-varying discrete-time systems with deterministic and white stochastic parameters and quadratic criteria. The dimensions of the c...
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The finite-horizon optimal compensation problem is considered in the case of linear time-varying discrete-time systems with deterministic and white stochastic parameters and quadratic criteria. The dimensions of the compensator are a priori fixed and may be time varying. Also the dimensions of the system may be time varying. Strengthened discrete-time optimal projection equations (SDOPE) are developed which, within the class of minimal compensators, are equivalent to the first-order necessary optimality conditions. Based on the SDOPE and their associated boundary conditions, two numerical algorithms are presented to solve the two point boundary value problem. One is a homotopy algorithm while the second iterates the SDOPE repeatedly forward and backward in time. The latter algorithm is much more efficient and constitutes a generalization of the single iteration of the control and estimation Riccati equations, associated with the full-order problem for systems with deterministic parameters. The algorithms are illustrated with a numerical example. The case of systems with deterministic parameters will be treated as a special case of systems with white parameters. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
The numerical solution of the Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings equation (Ffowcs Williams, J. E., and Hawkings, D. L., "Sound Generation by Turbulence and Surfaces in Arbitrary Motion," Philosophical Transactions of ...
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The numerical solution of the Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings equation (Ffowcs Williams, J. E., and Hawkings, D. L., "Sound Generation by Turbulence and Surfaces in Arbitrary Motion," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. A264, No. 1151, 1969, pp. 321-342) on a rotating supersonic domain is discussed. Based on the emission-surface algorithm, the adopted solver performs the integration on the so-called acoustic domain to avoid the Doppler singularity in the integral kernels. The presence of multiple emission times for the supersonic source points and the particular time evolution of the integration domain force the use of a particular data-fitting procedure on both the geometrical and integral quantities. The algorithm may he used in the numerical prediction of the quadrupole source term for helicopter rotors operating at a high transonic regime and in the aeroacoustic analysis of the modern propeller blades, rotating at supersonic tip speed.
Apparatus for instantaneous regression rate measurements based on a simple plane-capacitor geometry and circuit theory is described, and results from a prototype setup are presented for both metallized and nonmetalliz...
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Apparatus for instantaneous regression rate measurements based on a simple plane-capacitor geometry and circuit theory is described, and results from a prototype setup are presented for both metallized and nonmetallized AP composite propellants at p approximate to 1 bar. The experiments show the apparatus is potentially effective as an instantaneous burning rate diagnostic only for the nonmetallized composite propellant. For metallized propellants the technique offers potential as 1) a go/no-go technique and 2) a monitor for the onset of bulk activity inside the gaseous part of the flame. Some tentative general conclusions about the:applicability of electric field diagnostics for solid propellants are suggested.
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