See What You Feel: A Crossmodal Tool for Measuring Haptic Size Illusions

The purpose of this research is to present the employment of a simple-to-use crossmodal method for measuring haptic size illusions. The method, that we call See what you feel, was tested by employing Uznadze’s classic haptic aftereffect in which two spheres physically identical (test spheres) appear different in size after that the hands holding them underwent an adaptation session with other two spheres (adapting spheres), one bigger and the other smaller than the two test spheres. To measure the entity of the illusion, a three-dimensional visual scale was created and participants were asked to find on it the spheres that corresponded in size to the spheres they were holding in their hands out of sight. The method, tested on 160 right-handed participants, is robust and easily understood by participants

Temperature effect on stress-strain properties of dispersion-hardened crystalline materials with incoherent nanoparticles

In this paper, the mathematical simulation is used to study the effect from the size of incoherent nanoparticles on thermal strength of heterophase aluminum alloy in materials with the equal volume fraction of the strengthening phase. It is shown that during the deformation process, prismatic dislocation loops and dislocation dipoles contribute to the dislocation density. It is found that the behavior of the flow stress curves of materials with the equal volume fraction of strengthening particles depends on a combination of scale parameters of the strengthening phase at various deformation temperatures. The areas of strong and weak temperature dependence of the flow stress are identified

Illusory lightness in the Delboeuf Figure

A white disk presented inside a small concentric circle (a display like Delboeuf figure) looks lighter than when inside a larger one. The magnitude of the effect was measured with 20 observers (10 women, 10 men; ages 19 to 26 years). The decrements in luminance of the disk inside the smaller circle, in order to match the lightness of the disk inside the larger circle, are reported for three different grey backgrounds and correspond to 9.13%, 10.33% and 10.46%

Lightness effects in Delboeuf and Ebbinghaus size-contrast illusions

We examined lightness effects observed in Delboeuf and Ebbinghaus size-contrast illusions. Results of four experiments are reported. Experiment 1 was conducted with Delboeuf- like stimuli and shows that the disk that appears bigger appears either lighter or darker than the disk that appears smaller, depending on the contrast polarity between disks and background. Experiment 2 shows that the direction of these lightness effects is not influenced by the lumi- nance of the size-contrast inducers. Experiment 3 shows that a similar lightness effect is also observed in modified Ebbinghaus size-contrast displays. Experiment 4 tested the presence of the size-contrast illusion in the stimuli used in experiments 2 and 3

Stress-stain state of pipe made of copper-based alloy strengthened with incoherent nanoparticles

The approach which combines methods of crystal plasticity and deformable solid mechanics is used to explore the stress-strain state of a heavy-wall pipe made of dispersion-hardened Cu-based alloy and subjected to the uniform internal pressure. The distribution of the deformation and stress along the pipe wall is determined for various pipe geometry. The approximating equations are obtained to determine the yielding area and elastic and plastic strength limits

Plastic deformation of copper-based alloy reinforced with incoherent nanoparticles

The paper deals with research carried out into plastic deformation of a heavy-wall pipe made of nanoparticle reinforced copper-based alloy. We present an original approach which combines methods of crystal plasticity and deformable solid mechanics, thereby allowing to study the stress-strain state of the heavy-wall pipe strengthened with incoherent nanoparticles using a homogeneous internal pressure. Dependences are constructed for the yielding area and the pressure, the limit of elasto-plastic resistance is obtained for the heavy-wall pipe and its deformation degree is described. It is shown that the particle size has an effect on strength properties of the material