We have argued that magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in an accretion disk naturally produces hoop-stresses, and that in a geometrically-thick flow these stresses could both drive and collimate an outflow. We based this argument on an analogy of turbulent MHD fluids to viscoelastic fluids, in which azimuthal shear flow creates hoop-stresses that cause a variety of flow phenomena, including t...

We investigate the validity of Thorne’s hoop conjecture in non-axisymmetric spacetimes by examining the formation of apparent horizons numerically. If spaces have a discrete symmetry about one axis, we can specify the boundary conditions to determine an apparent horizon even in non-axisymmetric spaces. We implement, for the first time, the “hoop finder” in non-axisymmetric spaces with a discret...

We have argued that MHD turbulence in an accretion disk naturally produces hoop-stresses, and that in a geometrically-thick flow these stresses could both drive and collimate an outflow. We based this argument on an analogy of turbulent MHD fluids to viscoelastic fluids, in which azimuthal shear flow creates hoop-stresses that cause a variety of flow phenomena, including the Weissenberg effect ...

Geocell structures consist of a series of interconnected single cells, made from different polymer materials. The cell walls completely encase the infill material and provide an all-around confinement to the soil. The confinement effect is based on three main mechanisms: active earth pressure within loaded cell, passive earth resistance in the adjacent cells and hoop stresses in the cell walls....

The scalar generalized-screen method in isotropic media is extended here to trans-versely isotropic media with a vertical symmetry axis (VTI). Although wave propaga-tion in a transversely isotropic medium is essentially elastic, we introduce an equiv-alent ‘acoustic’ system of equations for the qP-waves which we prove to be accuratefor both the dispersion relation and the po...

Hoop-shaped ?-conjugated macrocycles constitute a new family of systems displaying unique properties induced by their radially directed ?-orbitals.

We give general sufficient conditions for the existence of trapped surfaces due to concentration of matter in spherically symmetric initial data sets satisfying the dominant energy condition. These results are novel in that they apply and are meaningful for arbitrary spacelike slices, that is, they do not require any auxiliary assumptions such as maximality, time symmetry, or special extrinsic ...

This paper presents an investigation on the influence of various factors rolling shear (RS) properties timber feedstock for cross laminated (CLT) available from Australian plantation forest resources. Comparison RS between three softwood species namely southern pine, radiata pine and hoop are presented. Furthermore, effect modulus elasticity (MOE), equilibrium moisture content (EMC), aspect rat...

Abstract Background Silicon carbide-fibre/silicon carbide matrix (SiC/SiC) composites are candidate materials for accident tolerant fuel cladding in light water and advanced gas cooled nuclear fission reactors. The mechanical damage behaviour of ceramic is sensitive to the composite geometry, microstructure loading state. Reliable test methods needed investigate subcritical that affects hermeti...