An infinitesimal theory for bending and earthquaking in onedimensional dynamics is developed. It is shown that any tangent vector to Teichmuller space is the initial data for a bending and for an earthquaking ordinary differential equation. The discussion involves an analysis of infinitesimal bendings and earthquakes, the Hilbert transform, natural bounded linear operators from a Banach space o...

The respiration of cut flowers of gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii H. Bolus ex Hook.f. 'Vesuvio') and sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) increased exponentially with increasing storage temperature. Poststorage vase life and negatively gravitropic bending of the neck of the flowers were both strongly affected by simulated transport at higher temperatures. Vase life and stem bending after dry storage sho...

Early attempts to derive curved beam and shell elements in a curvilinear system were dramatically unsuccessful. This was wrongly attributed to the failure of these elements to recover strain-free rigid body displacement modes in a curvilinear co-ordinate description. Recent evidence points to a ‘membrane locking’ phenomenon that arises when constrained strain fields corresponding to inextension...

Utilizing the coupled piezoelectric and semiconducting dual properties of ZnO, we demonstrate a piezoelectric field effect transistor (PE-FET) that is composed of a ZnO nanowire (NW) (or nanobelt) bridging across two Ohmic contacts, in which the source to drain current is controlled by the bending of the NW. A possible mechanism for the PE-FET is suggested to be associated with the carrier trap...

Abstract Key message Mechanical models of inosculations benefit from moderate geometric detail and characterisation the structurally optimised area interwoven tension-resistant fibres between branches. Living architecture is formed by shaping merging trees, often in combination with non-living technical elements. These structures employ mechanical physiological adaptations living trees to suppo...

in this work, laser bending of perforated sheets has been investigated numerically. laser bending of perforated sheets is more complicated than non-perforated sheets due to their complex geometries. in this paper, laser bending of perforated sheets is studied numerically in the form of thermo-mechanical analysis with abaqus/implicit code. for this purpose, the effects of process and sheet param...

A one-dimensional local bend model is used to describe the variation of electronic properties of acetylene in vibrational levels that embody large amplitude local motions on the S0 potential energy surface. Calculations performed at the CCSD(T) and MR-AQCC levels of theory predict an approximately linear dependence of the dipole moment on the number of quanta in either the local bending or loca...