Technical Mechanics

Stress Transfer Modeling in CNT Reinforced Composites using Continuum Mechanics (TECHNICAL NOTE)

Because of the substantial difference in stiffness between matrix and nanotube in CNT composite, the stress transfer between them controls their mechanical properties. This paper investigates the said issue, analytically and numerically, in axial load using representative volume element (RVE). The analytical model was established based on the modified Cox’s shear lag model with the use of some ...

McSCert TECHNICAL REPORT Mechanics of Megamodeling: Design Patterns and Laws

A megamodel is a model, whose instances are systems of models and intermodel relationships. To be independent of a particular modeling language, typical megamodels reduce models and their relationships to unstructured nodes and edges, thus creating a significant gap between abstract megamodels and their concrete instances. We address this gap problem by mathematical means borrowed from category...

Designing and validating a Model for Integration of Professional Ethics Components with Technical Competencies for Industrial Mechanics Branch

Background: The emerging world of work requires the acquisition of a set of non-technical competencies with technical competencies in a career for sustainable employment. This paper aims at designing and validating a model for integrating the ethical components with technical competencies in curriculum based on competency in industrial mechanics’ branch. Method: The research approach is based ...

Mesoscale Mechanics of Reactive Materials for Enhanced Target Effects – Performance/Technical Report 2011

Technical Report Arap-7-p-1 the Foundations of Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics

In this paper a novel philosophy of irreversible dynamics is formulated, This philosophy stems from the fact that the kinetic equations available (Boltzmann, Landau,, Bogolubov-Balescu-Lenard) are essentially exact and cannot be improved. That isv for kinetic gases (those whose behavior is characterized by that of one typical particle) these equations constitute closed, statistically complete k...