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Stress fluctuation, crack renucleation and toughening in layered materials
It has been established that contrast in the elastic properties can lead to enhancement of fracture toughness in heterogeneous materials. Focussing on layered materials as a model system, we show that this enhancement is a result of two distinct phenomena – first, fluctuations in stress leading to regions where the stress intensity at the crack is considerably smaller than that of the macroscopically applied value; and second, the lack of stress intensity when a crack is at a compliant to stiff interface thereby requiring renucleation. Using theoretical, computational and experimental methods, we study two geometries – a layered material and a layered material with a narrow channel – to separate the two phenomena. The stress fluctuation is present in both, but renucleation is present only in the layered medium. We provide quantitative estimates for the enhanced toughness
Exploring Regional Development of Digital Humanities Research: A Case Study for Taiwan
This study analyzed references and source papers of the Proceedings of
2009-2012 International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities
(DADH), which was held annually in Taiwan. A total of 59 sources and 1,104
references were investigated, based on descriptive analysis and subject
analysis of library practices on cataloguing. Preliminary results showed
historical materials, events, bureaucracies, and people of Taiwan and China in
the Qing Dynasty were the major subjects in the tempo-spatial dimensions. The
subject-date figure depicted a long-low head and short-high tail curve, which
demonstrated both characteristics of research of humanities and application of
technology in digital humanities. The dates of publication of the references
spanned over 360 years, which shows a long time span in research materials. A
majority of the papers (61.41%) were single-authored, which is in line with the
common research practice in the humanities. Books published by general
publishers were the major type of references, and this was the same as that of
established humanities research. The next step of this study will focus on the
comparison of characteristics of both sources and references of international
journals with those reported in this article.Comment: 25 pages, 10 tables, 5 figure
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