Liquid crystals (LCs) are intermediate states between conventional liquids and solid crystals [1]. They have fluidity like liquids and anisotropy like solids at the same time. The molecules tend to point in one direction, which is designated by a unit vector n called the director. Many important physical phenomena of NLCs such as reorientation of director under external fields and flow properti...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Computational fluid dynamics has become a popular tool for studying intracranial aneurysm hemodynamics, demonstrating success for retrospectively discriminating rupture status; however, recent highly refined simulations suggest potential deficiencies in solution strategies normally used in the aneurysm computational fluid dynamics literature. The purpose of the present st...

In this paper, the stress concentration around a hole in the single layer composite materials with long fibers is examined. The single layer has an infinite length, limited with and instant thickness and is loaded by a constant tension force p at infinity. The width of the lamina is considered to be finite and bears a hole as a defect. Due to presence of excessive shear stress in the matrix bay...

We have measured the response of shear stress to ac electric fields under steady shear flow in the droplet-dispersed phase of an immiscible polymer blend. A characteristic mode was found under steady shear flow, the relaxation frequency of which increased with increasing the shear rate. In the frequency dispersion, a scaling relation derived from dimensional analysis was confirmed to hold. The ...

Tapered composite poles with biomimicry features as in bamboo are a new generation of wood laminated composite poles that may some day be considered as an alternative to solid wood poles that are widely used in the transmission and telecommunication fields. Five finite element models were developed with ANSYS to predict and assess the performance of five types of composites members: a tapered h...

Gas emboli are a clinical issue often encountered in the space exploration, marine construction, and medical fields. Individuals involved with these disciplines will often have asympomatic gas emboli circulating throughout their bodies on a regular basis. A study into the impact of chronic asymptomatic gas emboli on the risk of atherosclerosis in humans is thus presented. This research utilized...

In order to image the shear modulus in soft tissue, for medical diagnosis, given one component of measured displacements as a function of time on an imaging plane, two related direct finite element-based inversion algorithms are presented. One algorithm is based on the governing equations expressed in the frequency domain, and the other is in the time domain. The algorithms consider the complet...

Accurately predicting the physical cutting process variables, e.g. temperature, velocity, strain and stress fields, plays a pivotal role for predictive process engineering for machining processes. These predicted field variables, however, are highly influenced by workpiece constitutive material model (i.e. flow stress), thermo-mechanical properties and contact friction law at the tool–chip–work...

Copyright© 2001 by Gharib, Modarress, Fourguette, and Wilson. Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., with permission. Abstract This manuscript describes two MEMS based optical sensors for wall shear stress and velocity measurements in flow fields. Experimental results obtained with the wall shear stress sensor, the MicroS3, are compared with boundary layer ve...