We study the scattering of a massless and neutral test particle in the gravitational field of a body (the string star) made of a large number of scalar states of the superstring. We consider two cases, the one in which these states are neutral string excitations massive already in ten dimensions and the one in which their masses (and charges) originate in the process of compactification on tori...

Paraffin wax exhibits a volumetric expansion of ∼15%, at around its melting point. By exploiting this phenomenon, high performance bulkachined electrothermal hydraulic microactuators have been demonstrated. The microactuators have been integrated into microfluidic valves, icrogrippers and micropipettes. The paraffin wax is confined within a bulk-micromachined silicon container. This container i...

In the implementation of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Polymer matrix Composites in structural applications, deflection and stress analysis are important considerations. In the present study, a multi scale analysis of deflection and stress analysis of carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced polymer composite plates is presented. A micromechanics model based on the Mori-Tanaka method is developed by intro...

In this article we derive the deflection equation of a simple beam using screw theory. The effects of tension, torsion and bending of the beam can be unified into a single equation. We begin by looking at the compliance matrix for small elements of the beam. This is loosely based on work by von Mises in the 1920s. We reproduce von Mises results for the compliance matrix of the entire beam by in...

Static deflection as well as free and forced nonlinear vibration of thin square plates made of hyperelastic materials are investigated. Two types of materials, namely rubber and soft biological tissues, are considered. The involved physical nonlinearities are described through the Neo-Hookean, Mooney-Rivlin, and Ogden hyperelastic laws; geometrical nonlinearities are modeled by the Novozhilov n...

Static deflection as well as free and forced large-amplitude vibrations of thin rectangular rubber plates under uniformly distributed pressure are investigated. Both physical, through a neo-Hookean constitutive law to describe the non-linear elastic deformation of the material, and geometrical non-linearities are accounted for. The deflections of a thin initially flat plate are described by the...

In order to confirm the prediction of the General Theory of Relativity that space and time are relative and that matter warps a dynamic space-time continuum that surrounds it, Einstein suggested two optical tests: one being the gravitational deflection of starlight, and the second being the gravitational red shift. The tests confirmed the predictions of the General Theory of Relativity. The obs...

This paper investigates the inertial force effect on nonlinear aeroelasticity of flexible wing aircraft. The geometric are nonlinearity due to rotational and tension stiffening. The effect of large bending deflection will also be investigated. Aeroelastic analysis will be conducted for a truss-braced wing aircraft concept with nonlinear effect of large bending deflection and inertial force coup...

Deflection routing is an effective way to improve the efficiency and reliability of data transmission in the network. Information theory, which is the foundation of channel communications, has not yet had a direct impact on network communications. In this paper, we study the deflection routing processes of point-to-point networks from an information-theoretic perspective. It is found that the p...

How the statistical behavior of semiflexible polymer chains may be affected by force stretching and tube confinement is a classical unsolved problem in polymer physics. Based on the Odijk deflection theory and normal mode decomposition in terms of Fourier expansion, we have derived a new compact formula for the extension of a wormlike chain of finite length strongly confined in a tube and simul...