Ah&act--It is shown that in solid mechanics a skin effect is associated with anisotropy. Near a free surface or a surface of discontinuity certain components of the stress field vary rapidly from zero to a maximum within a thin skin. The thickness of this skin tends to vanish for increasing anisotropy. A stress concentration also occurs whereby certain stress components are amplified within the...

”Radiographic Testing is a NDT method to detect inherent volumetric discontinuities in materials such as castings and welds” A common type of discontinuity found and most often misinterpreted and evaluated is rounded indications, whether isolated, aligned or clustered. This paper addresses the acceptance criteria of rounded indications based on various codes and standards and intends to lay at ...

A qualitative model that relates the period of the surface roughness to the vertical and spherical growth rates of glancing angle deposited GLAD nanorods suggests that rod self-shadowing is responsible for the previously reported temperature dependence in the rod width. Atomic shadowing interactions between neighboring rods as well as surface islands on the rod growth fronts control the morphol...

A two-fold is a singular point on the discontinuity surface of a piecewise-smooth vector field, at which the vector field is tangent to the discontinuity surface on both sides. If an orbit passes through an invisible two-fold (also known as a Teixeira singularity) before settling to regular periodic motion, then the phase of that motion cannot be determined from initial conditions, and, in the ...

Sinai et al (1998 Nature 395 497-500) showed that less distance is perceived along a ground surface that spans two differently textured regions than along a surface that is uniformly textured. We examined the effect of texture continuity on judged distance using computer-generated displays of simulated surfaces in five experiments. Discontinuities were produced by using different textures, the ...

Surface reconstruction from gradient fields is of wide application in computer vision fields. Traditional methods usually enforce surface integrability in discrete domain, while current kernel approach suffers the problems of parameter choice. In this paper, we propose a novel method, i.e. kernel gradient regression, to reliably reconstruct surfaces. The box-spline kernel, instead of the common...

We report on the size dependence of the surface tension of a free surface of an isotropic fluid. The size dependence of the surface tension is evaluated based on the Gibbs-Tolman-Koenig-Buff equation for positive and negative values of curvatures and the Tolman lengths. For all combinations of positive and negative signs of curvature and the Tolman length, we succeed to have a continuous functi...