The work described herein consists of experimental measurement of the post-impact buckling loads of Eglass/epoxy laminates. Composite samples with stacking sequence of [+45/45/90/0]2s were subjected to low-velocity impact loading at energy levels of 36, 56.13, 79.95, 110.31 and 144 J. The impact tests were conducted with a specially developed vertical drop weight testing machine. Impact parame...

A new generation of current and wave testing tanks is required to simulate more realistic sea conditions at larger scales. One means of producing a current is by using groups of impellers arranged around the perimeter of a circular tank. Each propeller produces a single flow velocity which may be different to its neighbours. These differences can lead to a stepped or curved plan view velocity p...

We study the use of parallax microlensing to separate the effects of the mass function of dark massive halo objects (MHOs or ‘machos’) on the one hand and their spatial distribution and kinematics on the other. This disentanglement is supposed to allow a much better determination of the two than could be achieved entirely on the basis of the durations of events. We restrict our treatment to the...

Wave catastrophes are characterized by logarithmic phase singularities. Examples are light at the horizon of a black hole, sound in transsonic fluids, waves in accelerated frames, light in singular dielectrics and slow light close to a zero of the group velocity. We show that the wave amplitude grows with a half-integer power for monodirectional and symmetric wave catastrophes.

Within the Hartree-Fock approximation the ground state of the composite fermion metal is found. We observe that the single-particle energy spectrum is dominated by the logarithmic interaction exchange term which leads to an infinite jump of the singleparticle energy at the Fermi momentum. It is shown that the Hartree-Fock result brings no corrections to the RPA Fermi velocity.

We have measured the kinematic profile of the early-type (E/S0) lens galaxy in the system 0047−281 (z=0.485) with the Echelle Spectrograph and Imager (ESI) on the W.M. Keck–II Telescope, as part of the Lenses Structure and Dynamics (LSD) Survey. The central velocity dispersion is σ = 229± 15 km s, and the dispersion profile is nearly flat to beyond one effective radius (Re). No significant stre...

A well-established, non-invasive, in-line technique for monitoring the rheological properties of a fluid in a pipe in real time is Pulsed Ultrasound Velocimetry (PUV) in combination with pressure difference measurement (PD). PUV makes it possible to determine the velocity profile along the measuring axis using Doppler echography. One problem that is left to solve is to develop an automatic dete...

We report experimental measurements on the rheology of a dry granular material under a weak level of vibration generated by sound injection. First, we measure the drag force exerted on a wire moving in the bulk. We show that when the driving vibration energy is increased, the effective rheology changes drastically: going from a non-linear dynamical friction behavior --weakly increasing with the...

The one-dimensional (1D) power law velocity distribution, commonly used for computing velocities in open channel flow, has been derived empirically. However, a multitude of problems, such as scour around bridge piers, cutoffs and diversions, pollutant dispersion, and so on, require the velocity distribution in two dimensions. This paper employs the Shannon entropy theory for deriving the power ...

The velocity-response curves of the cat's superior colliculus neurons responding to moving stimuli mere studied quantitatively. They were fitted by logarithmic Gaussian curves described by three parameters: optimal stimulus velocity, amplitude and dispersion of the curve. Since reversal of the stimulus movement direction changed neither optimal stimulus velocity nor dispersion of the velocity t...