In this work, we develop numerical schemes for mechano-chemical fluid-structure interactions with long-term effects. We investigate a model of a growing solid interacting with an incompressible fluid. A typical example for such a situation is the formation and growth of plaque in blood vessels. This application includes two particular difficulties: First, growth may lead to very large deformati...

Structure/reactivity and structure/structure correlations of 5 sulfate monoesters and 11 sulfamate esters determined by low temperature X-ray crystallography reveal similar ground state deformations that suggest similar reaction coordinates for sulfuryl and sulfamyl group transfer.

We propose a theory for the effective interaction between soft dendritic molecules that is based on the shape of the monomer density profile of the macromolecules at infinite dilutions. By applying Flory-type arguments and making use of the experimentally measured density profiles, we derive a Gaussian effective interaction whose parameters are determined by the size and monomer number of the d...

This paper describes the development of a finite element model capable of representing a blast-resistant flexible window (flex-window) system developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)/Airbase Technologies Division. Computational fluid-structure interaction finite element simulations are used to develop an improved understanding of the manner in which fluid phenomena, such as air com...

The implosion of an underwater structure is a dynamic event caused by the ambient constant pressure environment. It produces a short duration pressure pulse that radiates outwards and can damage adjacent structures. This paper presents results from a combined experimental/numerical study that aims to understand the underlying physics and establish the parameters that govern the nature of such p...

cables have always been under consideration as a structural element because of important features such as large strength to weight ratios and long spans. their equilibrium analysis is an important issue in this regard. but this analysis involves highly nonlinear equations arising from large deformations and material nonlinearity. different methods have been under use for numerical analysis of s...

Liquid crystal elastomers are attractive materials featuring promising applications in emerging technologies, but their structure–property relationship has yet to be thoroughly explored. Some mechanical properties of these the focus this article. Three tensile experiments monodomain nematic liquid have been theoretically analyzed using a free energy density expression describing and orientation...

To a hyperbolic smooth curve defined over a number-field one naturally associates an "anabelian" representation of the absolute Galois group of the base field landing in outer automorphism group of the algebraic fundamental group. In this paper, we introduce several deformation problems for Lie-algebra versions of the above representation and show that, this way we get a richer structure than t...

This paper describes comparative experiment on corrugated steel pipe culverts with different stiffness. The two culverts both with 1.2m span and 4m backfill height but with different corrugation pattern and plate thickness were constructed side by side. Displacement, strain and soil pressure at critical points were tested during construction. Two-dimensional (2D) finite element (FE) models were...

For nonrigid image registration, matching the particular structures (or the outliers) that have missing correspondence and/or local large deformations, can be more difficult than matching the common structures with small deformations in the two images. Most existing works depend heavily on the outlier segmentation to remove the outlier effect in the registration. Moreover, these works do not ha...