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Finite element modelling of inter-ply delamination and intra-yarn cracking in textile laminates
The aim of the current study is to demonstrate the effect of inter-ply delamination on stiffness degradation of multi-ply woven composites. Such a demonstration becomes possible due to new technique of modelling textile laminates. It is based on set of boundary value problems for unit cell of a single ply, where boundary conditions imitate interaction with the other plies. Once these problems are solved, local stress distribution and stiffness of the laminate are determined analytically as function of number of the plies and local stress/strain fields obtained in these problems. Hence, it opens the road for an efficient modelling of delamination, which is described as gradual reduction of plies in the laminate
Non-linear (3, 4, 1) multiplet of , supersymmetry as a semi-dynamical spin multiplet
We consider a new type of , semi-dynamical multiplet based
on the non-linear version of the mirror multiplet , with the
triplet of bosonic physical fields parametrizing a three-dimensional sphere
of the radius . The limit amounts to the contraction
and leads to the linear mirror multiplet . Spin degrees of freedom described by a Wess-Zumino action specify a
two-dimensional surface embedded in the sphere . A pair of the examples
considered correspond to the round and squashed ``fuzzy'' 2-spheres. We couple
the squashed 2-sphere model to the dynamical mirror multiplet . A notable feature of this coupling is the dependence of the squashing
parameter on the bosonic fields of the chiral multiplet.Comment: 1+17 page
SU(2|2) supersymmetric mechanics
We introduce a new kind of non-relativistic N = 8 supersymmetric mechanics, associated with worldline realizations of the supergroup SU(2|2) treated as a deformation of flat N = 8, d=1 supersymmetry. Various worldline SU(2|2) superspaces are constructed as coset manifolds of this supergroup, and the corresponding superfield techniques are developed. For the off-shell SU(2|2) multiplets (3,8,5), (4,8,4) and (5,8,3), we construct and analyze the most general superfield and component actions. Common features are mass oscillator-type terms proportional to the deformation parameter and a trigonometric realization of the superconformal group OSp(4∗|4) in the conformal cases. For the simplest (5,8,3) model the quantization is performed. © 2016, The Author(s)
Geometric calibration of Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System of ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter
There are many geometric calibration methods for "standard" cameras. These
methods, however, cannot be used for the calibration of telescopes with large
focal lengths and complex off-axis optics. Moreover, specialized calibration
methods for the telescopes are scarce in literature. We describe the
calibration method that we developed for the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging
System (CaSSIS) telescope, on board of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).
Although our method is described in the context of CaSSIS, with camera-specific
experiments, it is general and can be applied to other telescopes. We further
encourage re-use of the proposed method by making our calibration code and data
available on-line.Comment: Submitted to Advances in Space Researc
Multilevel modelling of mechanical properties of textile composites: ITOOL Project
The paper presents an overview of the multi-level modelling of textile composites in the ITOOL project, focusing on the models of textile reinforcements, which serve as a basis for micromechanical models of textile composites on the unit cell level. The modelling is performed using finite element analysis (FEA) or approximate methods (method of inclusions), which provide local stiffness and damage information to FEA of composite part on the macro-level
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