Introduction The Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) process plays a key role in the manufacture of data storage, video display panels, and semiconductor chips. The process combines the chemical (acidic or basic) effect of the slurry, which contains micro-abrasives with the mechanical effect provided by polishing to reduce the topography on the wafer or rigid disk substrate. The process for...

The simulation of wear processes is dominated by the feedback between system dynamics and wear, which have completely different characteristic time scales. We present a method for decoupling the time scales. Its central ideas are the introduction of a wear density on the entire wearing surface and the establishment of an evolution equation in the slow time scale. The sample problem of a wearing...

It is known that the motion of bodies in frictional contact with each other is not always determinable within the principles of rigid-body mechanics. One example of such is when forces are applied to a disk lying inside a V-shaped wedge. Here, we approach this example by considering a linear regularization of the wedge. Under certain conditions, we obtain results which, on the one hand, are mea...

The normal mode theory for warping of galaxy disks, in which disks are assumed to be tilted with respect to the equator of a massive, flattened dark halo, assumes a rigid, fixed halo. However, consideration of the back-reaction by a misaligned disk on a massive particle halo shows there to be strong coupling leading to efficient damping (or in some circumstances excitation) of the misalignment,...

Abstract. This paper presents the results of an extensive experimental campaign focused on analysis dynamic interactions between elastic structure and a non-Newtonian fluid. The is circular cylindrical shell clamped in one end to shaking table other heavy rigid disk. has been investigated both presence absence fluid mixture water corn starch flour, commonly called Oobleck. experiments were carr...

In the early sixties, Amice ([Am1], [Am2]) studied the space of K-valued, locally analytic functions on Z Z p and formulated a complete description of its dual, the ring of K-valued, locally Q p-analytic distributions on Z Z p , when K is a complete subfield of C p. She found an isomorphism between the ring of distributions and the space of global functions on a rigid variety over K parameteriz...

this study proposes a new linear approximation for solving the dynamic response equations of a rocking rigid block. linearization assumptions which have already been used by hounser and other researchers cannot be valid for all rocking blocks with various slenderness ratios and dimensions; hence, developing new methods which can result in better approximation of governing equations while keepin...

this study proposes a new linear approximation for solving the dynamic response equations of a rocking rigid block. linearization assumptions which have already been used by hounser and other researchers cannot be valid for all rocking blocks with various slenderness ratios and dimensions; hence, developing new methods which can result in better approximation of governing equations while keepin...

We analyze the formation and evolution of stellar bars in galactic disks embedded in mildly triaxial cold dark matter (CDM) halos that have density distributions ranging from large flat cores to cuspy profiles. We have applied tailored numerical simulations of analytical and live halos which include the feedback from disk/bar system onto the halo in order to test and extend earlier work by El-Z...