Periodic bifurcation modes that occur in ductile multilayered plates or sheets stretched in plane strain tension are analyzed to reveal whether necks are likely to localize at the scale of the thickness of individual layers or at the scale of the full thickness of the multilayer. The energy dissipated in tearing a ductile multilayer scales with the extent of the localized thinning region in the...

The surface molecular alignment in a sandwich cell showing V-shaped switching has been investigated using a photocontrolling method. The results indicate that the molecules on the rubbed surface are aligned parallel to the rubbing direction as in an open cell with an air–liquid crystal boundary. This alignment is due to strong in-plane anchoring, due to which the small twisted state appears alo...

We report our experimental finding that there exists an oscillation of magnetic anisotropy with varying Cr sublayer thickness along the direction normal to the easy axis in Fe/Cr/Fe trilayers, where the easy axis is induced along a certain direction in the film plane by applying an external field during film deposition. Interestingly enough, the squareness of the hysteresis loop measured along ...

The conventional theoretical forming limit diagram (FLD) based on the plane stress state has defects due to neglect of in thickness direction sheet. It is urgent study FLD which considers direction. Through finite element simulation, it further confirmed that will be induced deformation process. At same time, effect not as always applied during Based Modified Maximum Force Criterion (MMFC) inst...

The behavior of an exponentially graded hybrid cylindrical shell subjected to an axisymmetric thermo-electro-mechanical loading placed in a constant magnetic field is investigated. The hybrid shell is consisted of a functionally graded host layer  embedded with pyroelectric layers as sensor and/or actuator  that can be imperfectly bonded to the inner and the outer surfaces of a shell. The shell...

gamma camera is an important apparatus in nuclear medicine imaging. its detection part is consists of a scintillation detector with aheavy collimator. substitution of semiconductor detectors instead of scintillator in these cameras has been effectively studied. in this study, it is aimed to introduce a new design of p-n semiconductor detector array for nuclear medicine imaging. a p-n semiconduc...

A mixed semi-analytical cum numerical approach is presented in this paper which accounts for the coupled mechanical and electrical response of piezoelectric, functionally graded (FG) and layered composite hollow circular cylinders of finite length. Under axisymmetric mechanical and electrical loadings, the three-dimensional problem (3D) gets reduced to a two-dimensional (2D) plane strain proble...

Moisture content (MC), thickness swelling (TS), and bending properties of five commercial oriente 1 strandboards (OSBs) made of two wood species were measured. The measurements were made after specimens were conditioned to equilibrium at 35, 55, 75, 85, 95% relative humidity (RH) and 24°C'. It was shown that bending modulus of elasticity (MOE) and modulus of rupture (MOR) decreasej with increas...

The material characteristics such as size effect are one of the most important factors that could not be neglected in cutting the material at nanoscale. The effects of anisotropic nature of single crystal materials in nano-cutting are investigated employing the molecular dynamics simulation. Results show that the size effect of the plastic deformation is based on different plastic carriers, suc...