Thermomechanical Behavior of Multilayered Media: Results

1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Leroy ◽  
A. Floquet ◽  
B. Villechaise

To study the thermoelastic behavior of coatings a two-dimensional model of a finite thickness layered medium submitted to a moving heat flux was presented in a previous paper (Leroy, Floquet, and Villechaise, 1989). The influence of thin coatings with variable properties or thicknesses on the temperature and stress fields is studied here. These results show that important stresses occur in a coating whose properties differ from those of the substrate, even for low temperature rises.

2000 ◽  
Vol 123 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-871 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Decuzzi ◽  
M. Ciaverella ◽  
G. Monno

The propensity toward thermoelastic instability (TEI) in multi-disk clutches and brakes is investigated by introducing a new bidimensional analytical model, where metal and friction disks are replaced by two-dimensional layers of finite thickness. This new model permits to estimate the effect of the thickness ratio a1/a2, between friction and metal disks, on the critical speed, critical wave parameter and migration speed of the sliding system. It is found that as the thickness ratio a1/a2 decreases the critical speed reduces significantly taking up values about 80 percent smaller than that predicted by previous two-dimensional models for commonly used ratios 0.1<a1/a2<1, whilst the critical wave parameter slightly increases. Therefore, not only the susceptibility towards TEI can be reduced by changing the material properties of the friction lining but also by adjusting suitably the thickness ratio of the disks. The two-dimensional model is also employed to determine the critical speed in a real multi-disk clutch, and the results are compared with a three-dimensional finite element code. It is shown that the critical speed estimated by the present two-dimensional plane strain model is in good agreement with that determined by the FE code for sufficiently large radial thickness of the disks, whilst the two-dimensional plane stress solution has to be used for relatively small radial thickness ratios. Also, it is found that the critical number of hot spots is independent of the radial thickness ratio and it is correctly predicted by the two-dimensional model.


Geophysics ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Press ◽  
Jack Oliver ◽  
Maurice Ewing

Two dimensional model experiments on refractions from layers of finite thickness are described. Refractions can be unreliable for velocity and depth determinations when they occur with wavelengths which are large compared to the layer thickness. Discrepancies reported between refraction velocities and borehole velocities can be partially accounted for in this manner. Even simple two‐ and three‐layer models can show such effects as misleading second arrivals, echeloning of travel time curves, masked layers, and selective absorption in the overburden.


Geophysics ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 927-939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yosio Nakamura

The propagation characteristics of surface‐reflected head waves have been studied experimentally using two‐ dimensional, Plexiglas‐aluminum and polystyrene‐aluminum, single‐layer models. In addition to the contributions from the reflected refractions (with reflections near the source) and the refracted reflections (with reflections near the receiver) those from the refraction‐reflection intermixtures (with reflections midway in the refraction path) have been found to be significant, resulting in a slight reinforcement of the surface‐reflected head waves with increasing distance. The phase relations of the arrivals have been examined by computing the Fourier transforms of the observed waveforms. It has been found that, relative to the principal head‐wave arrival, the surface‐reflected head waves exhibit an anomalous phase shift, which is due probably to the finite thickness of the model materials. For the dispersive effect to be negligible, the thickness of the two‐dimensional model must be less than approximately one‐fifteenth of the wavelength of interest.


1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 538-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Leroy ◽  
A. Floquet ◽  
B. Villechaise

Hard coatings are more and more used to improve the mechanical and tribological behavior of surfaces. Thermomechanical cracking can occur in these coatings when they slide under heavy loads. We present a two-dimensional model of a finite thickness layered medium submitted to a moving heat source. The analytical solution of the temperature and thermoelastic stress fields is obtained using Fourier transforms. The behavior of each layer is described by transfer-matrices and a relation between the displacement- and stress-vectors is given. The originality of the study is the use of a Fast Fourier Transform algorithm. With this method, calculation time is reduced, no singularity problems are met in the inverse transform and each parameter (especially the thickness of the layers) can be studied over a wide range.


2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Tafani ◽  
Lionel Souchet

This research uses the counter-attitudinal essay paradigm ( Janis & King, 1954 ) to test the effects of social actions on social representations. Thus, students wrote either a pro- or a counter-attitudinal essay on Higher Education. Three forms of counter-attitudinal essays were manipulated countering respectively a) students’ attitudes towards higher education; b) peripheral beliefs or c) central beliefs associated with this representation object. After writing the essay, students expressed their attitudes towards higher education and evaluated different beliefs associated with it. The structural status of these beliefs was also assessed by a “calling into question” test ( Flament, 1994a ). Results show that behavior challenging either an attitude or peripheral beliefs induces a rationalization process, giving rise to minor modifications of the representational field. These modifications are only on the social evaluative dimension of the social representation. On the other hand, when the behavior challenges central beliefs, the same rationalization process induces a cognitive restructuring of the representational field, i.e., a structural change in the representation. These results and their implications for the experimental study of representational dynamics are discussed with regard to the two-dimensional model of social representations ( Moliner, 1994 ) and rationalization theory ( Beauvois & Joule, 1996 ).


2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilona M. McNeill ◽  
Bernard A. Nijstad ◽  
Michel J. J. Handgraaf ◽  
Carsten K. W. De Dreu

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