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Viscoelastic evaluation of biological soft tissue in crush process at subsonic level for anti-bird strike technology of airplane
Miniaturization and lightening of airplane are advanced to improve its economic efficiency, and the safety technology of airplane design becomes difficult while the accident of bird-strike is increasing year by year. Then a system of shock impact test by using airsoft rifle is developed to evaluate the design technology of anti-bird strike structure of airplane. The viscoelastic characteristics of specimen is evaluated by analyzing stress response using the modified Hertz contact theory and the wave equation at the moment when simple ball bullet is shot to specimen by the airsoft rifle. In the results of experiment, the obvious relationship is observed subjectively between quasi-static and impact responses of specimen. The evaluated viscoelastic relationship is applied to simulate the impact test by using LSDYNA with fundamental viscoelastic constitutive equation and the material parameters derived from the impact test, and the well similar behavior has been simulated by the constitutive equation. By using the developed technology here, the phantom imitating real bird will be developed as standard specimen for an anti-bird strike test in future
Polar Perturbations of Self-gravitating Supermassive Global Monopoles
Spontaneous global symmetry breaking of O(3) scalar field gives rise to
point-like topological defects, global monopoles. By taking into account
self-gravity,the qualitative feature of the global monopole solutions depends
on the vacuum expectation value v of the scalar field. When v < sqrt{1 / 8 pi},
there are global monopole solutions which have a deficit solid angle defined at
infinity. When sqrt{1 / 8 pi} <= v < sqrt{3 / 8 pi}, there are global monopole
solutions with the cosmological horizon, which we call the supermassive global
monopole. When v >= sqrt{3 / 8 pi}, there is no nontrivial solution. It was
shown that all of these solutions are stable against the spherical
perturbations. In addition to the global monopole solutions, the de Sitter
solutions exist for any value of v. They are stable against the spherical
perturbations when v sqrt{3 / 8 pi}.
We study polar perturbations of these solutions and find that all
self-gravitating global monopoles are stable even against polar perturbations,
independently of the existence of the cosmological horizon, while the de Sitter
solutions are always unstable.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, corrected some type mistakes (already corrected
in PRD version
Abelian Higgs Hair for Rotating and Charged Black Holes
We study the problem of vortex solutions in the background of rotating black
holes in both asymptotically flat and asymptoticlly anti de Sitter spacetimes.
We demonstrate the Abelian Higgs field equations in the background of four
dimensional Kerr, Kerr-AdS and Reissner-Nordstrom-AdS black holes have vortex
line solutions. These solutions, which have axial symmetry, are generalization
of the Nielsen-Olesen string. By numerically solving the field equations in
each case, we find that these black holes can support an Abelian Higgs field as
hair. This situation holds even in the extremal case, and no flux-expulsion
occurs. We also compute the effect of the self gravity of the Abelian Higgs
field show that the the vortex induces a deficit angle in the corresponding
black hole metrics.Comment: 22 pages, 16 figures, a section about the vortex self gravity on Kerr
black hole added, extremal black holes considered, one figure changed, one
reference adde
Looking for a charge asymmetry in cosmic rays
We combine the data from PAMELA and FERMI-LAT cosmic ray experiments by
introducing a simple sum rule. This allows to investigate whether the lepton
excess observed by these experiments is charge symmetric or not. We also show
how the data can be used to predict the positron fraction at energies yet to be
explored by the AMS-02 experiment.Comment: Contribution to the proceedings of DISCRETE 2010, 5 pages, 2 figure
Abelian Higgs Hair for AdS-Schwarzschild Black Hole
We show that the Abelian Higgs field equations in the background of the four
dimensional AdS-Schwarzschild black hole have a vortex line solution. This
solution, which has axial symmetry, is a generalization of the AdS spacetime
Nielsen-Olesen string. By a numerical study of the field equations, we show
that black hole could support the Abelian Higgs field as its Abelian hair.
Also, we conside the self gravity of the Abelian Higgs field both in the pure
AdS spacetime and AdS-Schwarzschild black hole background and show that the
effect of string as a black hole hair is to induce a deficit angle in the
AdS-Schwarzschild black hole.Comment: 19 pages, 33 figure
Thermal-Fluid Flow Transport Phenomenon over Slot-Perforated Flat Plates Placed in Narrow Channel
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/76151/1/AIAA-25872-119.pd
HESS J1616-508: likely powered by PSR J1617-5055
HESS J1616-508 is one of the brightest emitters in the TeV sky. Recent
observations with the IBIS/ISGRI telescope on board the INTEGRAL spacecraft
have revealed that a young, nearby and energetic pulsar, PSR J1617-5055, is a
powerful emitter of soft gamma-rays in the 20-100 keV domain. In this paper we
present an analysis of all available data from the INTEGRAL, Swift, BeppoSAX
and XMM-Newton telescopes with a view to assessing the most likely counterpart
to the HESS source. We find that the energy source that fuels the X/gamma-ray
emissions is derived from the pulsar, both on the basis of the positional
morphology, the timing evidence and the energetics of the system. Likewise, the
1.2% of the pulsar's spin down energy loss needed to power the 0.1-10 TeV
emission is also fully consistent with other HESS sources known to be
associated with pulsars. The relative sizes of the X/gamma-ray and VHE sources
are consistent with the expected lifetimes against synchrotron and Compton
losses for a single source of parent electrons emitted from the pulsar. We find
that no other known object in the vicinity could be reasonably considered as a
plausible counterpart to the HESS source. We conclude that there is good
evidence to assume that the HESS J1616-508 source is driven by PSR J1617-5055
in which a combination of synchrotron and inverse Compton processes combine to
create the observed morphology of a broad-band emitter from keV to TeV
energies.Comment: 7 pages, including 5 figures and 1 table. Accepted for publication in
MNRA
Abelian Higgs Hair for a Static Charged Black String
We study the problem of vortex solutions in the background of an electrically
charged black string. We show numerically that the Abelian Higgs field
equations in the background of a four-dimensional black string have vortex
solutions. These solutions which have axial symmetry, show that the black
string can support the Abelian Higgs field as hair. This situation holds also
in the case of the extremal black string. We also consider the self-gravity of
the Abelian Higgs field and show that the effect of the vortex is to induce a
deficit angle in the metric under consideration.Comment: REVTEX4, 12 pages, 6 figures, The version to be appeared in Phys.
Rev.
Probing the Galactic cosmic ray flux with submillimeter and gamma ray data
The study of Galactic diffuse radiation combined with the knowledge
of the distribution of the molecular hydrogen in the Galaxy offers a unique
tool to probe the cosmic ray flux in the Galaxy. A methodology to study the
level of the cosmic ray "sea" and to unveil target-accelerator systems in the
Galaxy, which makes use of the data from the high resolution survey of the
Galactic molecular clouds performed with the NANTEN telescope and of the data
from gamma-ray instruments, has been developed. Some predictions concerning the
level of the cosmic ray "sea" and the -ray emission close to cosmic ray
sources for instruments such as Fermi and Cherenkov Telescope Array are
presented.Comment: Proceedings of the 4th Heidelberg International Symposium on High
Energy Gamma-Ray Astronom
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