Aluminum alloy AA6061 is of interest to the US Navy for ship structure applications due its light weight, ease manufacturing, corrosion resistance and strength. However, response complex loading subsequent fire damage presents a concern practical applications. The purpose this study evaluate effect on microstructure material with applied tensile, torsional, combined loading. Fire exposure was s...

The double-stranded nature of DNA links its replication, transcription and repair to rotational motion and torsional strain. Magnetic tweezers (MT) are a powerful single-molecule technique to apply both forces and torques to individual DNA or RNA molecules. However, conventional MT do not track rotational motion directly and constrain the free rotation of the nucleic acid tether. Here we presen...

Carbon nanotubes can be distinctly metallic or semiconducting depending on their diameter and chirality. Here we show that continuously varying the chirality by mechanical torsion can induce conductance oscillations, which can be attributed to metal –semiconductor periodic transitions. The phenomenon is observed in multiwalled carbon nanotubes, where both the torque and the current are shown to...

We show that an all-fiber acousto-optic tunable filter based on polarization mode coupling using torsional acoustic wave is immune to the fiber bend and physical contact in the acousto-optic interaction region. We also propose and demonstrate a novel strain-free and size-reduced tunable filter with a 4-m-long fiber acousto-optic interaction region looped into a 5- cm-diameter coil.

The dynamic behavior of three high manganese steels with very different stacking faultenergy (SFE) values (4-30 mJ/m2) were studied using high strain rate torsional tests. The hotrolledmicrostructure of the steel with the lowest SFE of 4 mJ/m2 consisted of a duplex mixture ofaustenite and ε-martensite, but those of the other two steels were fully austenitic. The deformedmicrostructures were stu...

Carbon fiber nanotubes are a relatively new material with amazing physical and electrical properties. In this paper we report the results of the first-principles calculations for the elastic properties of several single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) with diameters between 4 and 17 !. We show that the torsional and axial strain potential energy curves can be well described in terms of the experim...

This paper reports the design, simulation, fabrication, and experimental testing of a low-frequency piezoelectric energy harvester fabricated using screen-printing technology. A centrally supported meandering geometry is chosen to reduce the torsional mode effects during the unit vibrations and to achieve better power efficiency. The design experiences alternating stress along the beams and a s...

Abstract This paper is concerned with the strain gradient theory of porous thermoelastic solids. We study deformation isotropic chiral cylinders subjected to a temperature field that linear in axial coordinate. It shown solution can be reduced two-dimensional problems. The results are used investigate circular cylinder uniform variation. In contrast case achiral materials, thermal produces tors...