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Analysis of interface cracks in adhesively bonded lap shear joints, part 4
Conservation laws of elasticity for nonhomogeneous materials were developed and were used to study the crack behavior in adhesively bonded lap shear joints. By using these laws and the fundamental relationships in fracture mechanics of interface cracks, the problem is reduced to a pair of linear algebraic equations, and stress intensity solutions can be determined directly by information extracted from the far field. The numerical results obtained show that: (1) in the lap-shear joint with a given adherend, the opening-mode stress intensity factor, (K sub 1) is always larger than that of the shearing-mode (K sub 2); (2) (K sub 1) is not sensitive to adherent thickness abut (K sub 2) increases rapidly with increasing thickness; and (3) (K sub 1) and (K sub 2) increase simultaneously as the interfacial crack length increases
Analysis of cracks emanating from a circular hole in unidirectional fiber reinforced composites, part 2
An analytical method is developed for cracks emanating from a circular hole in an off-axis unidirectional fiber-reinforced composite. The method which is formulated by using conservation laws of elasticity and fundamental relationships in anisotropic fracture mechanics, provides a convenient and accurate means to examine the complicated crack behavior, when used in conjunction with a suitable numerical scheme such as the finite element method. The formulation is eventually reduced to a system of linear algebraic equations of mixed-mode stress intensity factors. Fracture parameters, describing crack-tip deformation and fracture in the composite, are obtained explicitly. Effects of material anisotropy and crack/hole geometry are examined also. Of particular interest are the energy release rates associated with crack extension; their values are evaluated for various cases. Results show that mixed-mode stress intensity factors and energy release rates associated with the cracks emanating from a hole change very appreciably with fiber orientation in the composite. K sub 1 and G increase monotonically with increasing theta; but K sub 2 reaches its maximum at theta = 45 deg, and then decreases gradually as theta increases further
Elevated temperature crack growth
Critical gas turbine engine hot section components such as blades, vanes, and combustor liners tend to develop minute cracks during early stages of operations. The ability of currently available path-independent (P-I) integrals to correlate fatigue crack propagation under conditions that simulate the turbojet engine combustor liner environment was determined. To date, an appropriate specimen design and a crack displacement measurement method were determined. Alloy 718 was selected as the analog material based on its ability to simulate high temperature behavior at lower temperatures in order to facilitate experimental measurements. Available P-I integrals were reviewed and the best approaches are being programmed into a finite element post processor for eventual comparison with experimental data. The experimental data will include cyclic crack growth tests under thermomechanical conditions, and, additionally, thermal gradients
An Integral Spectral Representation of the Propagator for the Wave Equation in the Kerr Geometry
We consider the scalar wave equation in the Kerr geometry for Cauchy data
which is smooth and compactly supported outside the event horizon. We derive an
integral representation which expresses the solution as a superposition of
solutions of the radial and angular ODEs which arise in the separation of
variables. In particular, we prove completeness of the solutions of the
separated ODEs.
This integral representation is a suitable starting point for a detailed
analysis of the long-time dynamics of scalar waves in the Kerr geometry.Comment: 41 pages, 4 figures, minor correction
Non-Existence of Time-Periodic Solutions of the Dirac Equation in a Reissner-Nordstrom Black Hole Background
It is shown analytically that the Dirac equation has no normalizable,
time-periodic solutions in a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole background; in
particular, there are no static solutions of the Dirac equation in such a
background field. The physical interpretation is that Dirac particles can
either disappear into the black hole or escape to infinity, but they cannot
stay on a periodic orbit around the black hole.Comment: 24 pages, 2 figures (published version
Elevated temperature crack growth
The objective of the Elevated Temperature Crack Growth Project is to evaluate proposed nonlinear fracture mechanics methods for application to combustor liners of aircraft gas turbine engines. During the first year of this program, proposed path-independent (P-I) integrals were reviewed for such applications. Several P-I integrals were implemented into a finite-element postprocessor which was developed and verified as part of the work. Alloy 718 was selected as the analog material for use in the forthcoming experimental work. A buttonhead, single-edge notch specimen was designed and verified for use in elevated-temperature strain control testing with significant inelastic strains. A crack mouth opening displacement measurement device was developed for further use
Hom-quantum groups I: quasi-triangular Hom-bialgebras
We introduce a Hom-type generalization of quantum groups, called
quasi-triangular Hom-bialgebras. They are non-associative and non-coassociative
analogues of Drinfel'd's quasi-triangular bialgebras, in which the
non-(co)associativity is controlled by a twisting map. A family of
quasi-triangular Hom-bialgebras can be constructed from any quasi-triangular
bialgebra, such as Drinfel'd's quantum enveloping algebras. Each
quasi-triangular Hom-bialgebra comes with a solution of the quantum
Hom-Yang-Baxter equation, which is a non-associative version of the quantum
Yang-Baxter equation. Solutions of the Hom-Yang-Baxter equation can be obtained
from modules of suitable quasi-triangular Hom-bialgebras.Comment: 21 page
Absence of Stationary, Spherically Symmetric Black Hole Solutions for Einstein-Dirac-Yang/Mills Equations with Angular Momentum
We study a stationary, spherically symmetric system of (2j+1) massive Dirac particles, each having angular momentum j, j=1,2,..., in a classical gravitational and SU(2) Yang-Mills field. We show that for any black hole solution of the associated Einstein-Dirac-Yang/Mills equations, the spinors must vanish identically outside of the event horizon
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