The calculation of the load carrying capacity of variable thickness circular plates subjected to arbitrary rotational symmetric loading is presented. The analysis considers plate materials that obey either the square or the Tresca yield criterion. By using upper and lower bound theorems of limit analysis, corresponding estimations for the load carrying capacity of the plate are obtained. It is ...

In this work, tensile and yield stress and tensile and yield strain of oblique layer functionally graded steels produced by electroslag remelting were investigated. Functionally graded steels containing ferrite, austenite, bainite, and/or martensite layers may be fabricated via diffusion of alloying elements during the remelting stage. Tensile and yield stress and tensile and yield strain of fu...

The relationship between bone mineral density and bone strength has been investigated as a ubiquitous property of bone. This study utilized 22 isolated vertebral body preparations which had their volumetric bone mineral density quantified and their compressive mechanics measured. Cadaveric baboon ninth thoracic vertebral body samples were investigated which ranged in age from 1 to 30 years and ...

in this paper the design, implementation, and evaluation of an experimental-scale potato yield monitoring system is presented. the main objective of this research was to develop a method for accurate mapping of potato yield. at the first stage an instantaneous yield monitoring system was mounted on a potato harvesting machine. this system consisted of a weighing tray, two load cells, a shaft rp...

Verde plant bugs, Creontiades signatus Distant (Hemiptera: Miridae), were released onto caged cotton, Cossypium hirsutum L., for a 1-wk period to characterize the effects of insect density and bloom period of infestation on cotton injury and yield in 2011 and 2012, Corpus Christi, TX. When plants were infested during early bloom (10-11 nodes above first white flower), a linear decline in fruit ...

Considering the large number of customers, local online monitoring is not conceivable. Alternatively, customers’ load could be estimated using some measurements in the main station and also on important points of power grid. Therefore, the customers’ load allocation is a consequential part in automated distribution power systems. In this paper, the load allocation is developed using average dem...

A modified strip-yield model has been developed to simulate the plasticity-induced crack closure under the constant amplitude (CA) and a single overload loading conditions. The paper focuses on the simulation of the near tip crack profiles and stress distributions during the fatigue process. Detailed information on near-tip stress and displacement fields at the maximum load (Pmax), the minimum ...

Compression tests carried out on aluminium specimens showed that when the die was rotated the compression load dropped. A slab method is employed to examine this process. The load reduction is explained by the deviation of friction vector due to the relative circumferential movement between the die and the material. This mechanism is incorporated into a theoretical model and an expression is de...