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A parametric study on the buckling of functionally graded material plates with internal discontinuities using the partition of unity method
In this paper, the effect of local defects, viz., cracks and cutouts on the
buckling behaviour of functionally graded material plates subjected to
mechanical and thermal load is numerically studied. The internal
discontinuities, viz., cracks and cutouts are represented independent of the
mesh within the framework of the extended finite element method and an enriched
shear flexible 4-noded quadrilateral element is used for the spatial
discretization. The properties are assumed to vary only in the thickness
direction and the effective properties are estimated using the Mori-Tanaka
homogenization scheme. The plate kinematics is based on the first order shear
deformation theory. The influence of various parameters, viz., the crack length
and its location, the cutout radius and its position, the plate aspect ratio
and the plate thickness on the critical buckling load is studied. The effect of
various boundary conditions is also studied. The numerical results obtained
reveal that the critical buckling load decreases with increase in the crack
length, the cutout radius and the material gradient index. This is attributed
to the degradation in the stiffness either due to the presence of local defects
or due to the change in the material composition.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1301.2003, arXiv:1107.390
Dismantling Institutional Whiteness: Emerging Forms of Leadership in Higher Education
Dismantling Institutional Whiteness: Emerging Forms of Leadership in Higher Education focuses on the experiences of women of color in leadership roles in higher education. Top roles historically have gone to white men, and leadership has not reflected the range of identities and people who make up higher education. Why? And why does this problem continue to this day? Most importantly, what can be done to bring about meaningful change?
Dismantling Institutional Whiteness gathers a range of first-person narratives from women of color and examines the challenges they face not only at a systemic level, but also at a deeply personal level. Their experiences combined with research and statistics paint a sobering portrait of higher education’s problems when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Interspersed throughout their stories are practical suggestions for how to address inequity in higher education, and to give a voice to people who have been silenced and excluded. Whether a trustee, university executive, or faculty member at any level, this is essential reading for those interested in diversifying higher education leadership to ensure decisions reflect the priorities of all.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/navigatingcareershighered/1000/thumbnail.jp
Ultra-fast escape maneuver of an octopus-inspired robot
We design and test an octopus-inspired flexible hull robot that demonstrates
outstanding fast-starting performance. The robot is hyper-inflated with water,
and then rapidly deflates to expel the fluid so as to power the escape
maneuver. Using this robot we verify for the first time in laboratory testing
that rapid size-change can substantially reduce separation in bluff bodies
traveling several body lengths, and recover fluid energy which can be employed
to improve the propulsive performance. The robot is found to experience speeds
over ten body lengths per second, exceeding that of a similarly propelled
optimally streamlined rigid rocket. The peak net thrust force on the robot is
more than 2.6 times that on an optimal rigid body performing the same maneuver,
experimentally demonstrating large energy recovery and enabling acceleration
greater than 14 body lengths per second squared. Finally, over 53% of the
available energy is converted into payload kinetic energy, a performance that
exceeds the estimated energy conversion efficiency of fast-starting fish. The
Reynolds number based on final speed and robot length is .
We use the experimental data to establish a fundamental deflation scaling
parameter which characterizes the mechanisms of flow control via
shape change. Based on this scaling parameter, we find that the fast-starting
performance improves with increasing size.Comment: Submitted July 10th to Bioinspiration & Biomimetic
Diffractive wave guiding of hot electrons by the Au (111) herringbone reconstruction
The surface potential of the herringbone reconstruction on Au(111) is known
to guide surface-state electrons along the potential channels. Surprisingly, we
find by scanning tunneling spectroscopy that hot electrons with kinetic
energies twenty times larger than the potential amplitude (38 meV) are still
guided. The efficiency even increases with kinetic energy, which is reproduced
by a tight binding calculation taking the known reconstruction potential and
strain into account. The guiding is explained by diffraction at the
inhomogeneous electrostatic potential and strain distribution provided by the
reconstruction.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
Acoustic radiation from lifting airfoils in compressible subsonic flow
The far field acoustic radiation from a lifting airfoil in a three-dimensional gust is studied. The acoustic pressure is calculated using the Kirchhoff method, instead of using the classical acoustic analogy approach due to Lighthill. The pressure on the Kirchhoff surface is calculated using an existing numerical solution of the unsteady flow field. The far field acoustic pressure is calculated in terms of these values using Kirchhoff's formula. The method is validated against existing semi-analytical results for a flat plate. The method is then used to study the problem of an airfoil in a harmonic three-dimensional gust, for a wide range of Mach numbers. The effect of variation of the airfoil thickness and angle of attack on the acoustic far field is studied. The changes in the mechanism of sound generation and propagation due to the presence of steady loading and nonuniform mean flow are also studied
A multiscale model for dilute turbulent gas-particle flows based on the equilibration of energy concept
The objective of this study is to improve Eulerian-Eulerian models of particle-laden turbulent flow. We begin by understanding the behavior of two existing models—one proposed by Simonin [von Kármán Institute of Fluid Dynamics Lecture Series, 1996], and the other by Ahmadi [Int. J. Multiphase Flow16, 323 (1990)]—in the limiting case of statistically homogeneous particle-laden turbulent flow. The decay of particle-phase and fluid-phase turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) is compared with direct numerical simulation results. Even this simple flow poses a significant challenge to current models, which have difficulty reproducing important physical phenomena such as the variation of turbulent kinetic energy decay with increasing particle Stokes number. The model for the interphase TKE transfer time scale is identified as one source of this difficulty. A new model for the interphase transfer time scale is proposed that accounts for the interaction of particles with a range of fluid turbulence scales. A new multiphase turbulence model—the equilibration of energy model (EEM)—is proposed, which incorporates this multiscale interphase transfer time scale. The model for Reynolds stress in both fluid and particle phases is derived in this work. The new EEM model is validated in decaying homogeneous particle-laden turbulence, and in particle-laden homogeneous shear flow. The particle and fluid TKE evolution predicted by the EEM model correctly reproduce the trends with important nondimensional parameters, such as particle Stokes number
Entrepreneurial orientation, social embeddedness and non financial performance among Malaysian Indian ethnic entrepreneur in Selangor Klang Valley, Malaysia
Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of Malaysian Indian ethnic entrepreneurs and its antecedents and consequences are under-researched. The purpose of present study is to investigate the influence of social embeddedness namely family ties, co-ethnic networks, and mainstream networks on entrepreneurial orientation. The study also examines the non financial performance as consequence of entrepreneurial
orientation among Malaysian Indian ethnic entrepreneurs. The data were collected from Malaysian Indian ethnic entrepreneurs in the Selangor, Klang valley, Malaysia. There are 129 questionnaires were used to analyze the data. Results indicate that positive and significant relationship was found between family ties, co-ethnic networks and entrepreneurial orientation. Then, there was no significant relationship between mainstream networks and entrepreneurial orientation. The study also
revealed that entrepreneurial orientation has a positive significant influence upon entrepreneur‘s non financial performance. Theoretical and practical implication of the study as well as suggestions for future research was discussed
Optical/IR studies of Be stars in NGC 6834 with emphasis on two specific stars
We present optical and infrared photometric and spectroscopic studies of two
Be stars in the 70--80-Myr-old open cluster NGC 6834. NGC 6834(1) has been
reported as a binary from speckle interferometric studies whereas NGC 6834(2)
may possibly be a gamma Cas-like variable. Infrared photometry and spectroscopy
from the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT), and optical data from
various facilities are combined with archival data to understand the nature of
these candidates. High signal-to-noise near-IR spectra obtained from UKIRT have
enabled us to study the optical depth effects in the hydrogen emission lines of
these stars. We have explored the spectral classification scheme based on the
intensity of emission lines in the and bands and contrasted it with the
conventional classification based on the intensity of hydrogen and helium
absorption lines. This work also presents hitherto unavailable UBV CCD
photometry of NGC 6834, from which the evolutionary state of the Be stars is
identified.Comment: Published in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, RAA 14 (2014)
1173-1192, 20 pages, 10 figure
Secreted proteins of quiescent, serum-stimulated and over-confluent mouse embryo fibroblasts
Quiescent and proliferating cultures of Swiss mouse embryo fibroblasts were pulse labelled with [14C]-amino acids and the newly synthesized proteins that were secreted into the medium were resolved by electrophoresis on Polyacrylafde gradient gels. Conditioned media obtained from quiescent cultures that were stimulated to grow by the addition of 20% fetal calf serum showed the presence of two unique polypeptides of molecular weights 48000 and 26000. A polypeptide of molecular weight 45000 was present in increased amounts in serum-stimulated cells than in quiescent cells. This protein was also superinduced in quiescent cells by cycloheximide treatment. Mouse embryo fibroblasts grown under over-crowded conditions secreted two proteins of molecular weights 35000 and 11000. The 35 K polypeptide was shown to be related to the major excreted protein of transformed cells, since it was immunoprecipitated by an antiserum to major excreted protein. These results indicate that the 48 K and 26 K proteins may be proliferation specific proteins, while the 35 K protein present in the conditioned media of over-confluent cells may be a marker of morphological transformation
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