Growth of Microcellular Foams in Viscoelastic Mediums

Materials ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ki Young Kim ◽  
Sung Lin Kang ◽  
Ho-Young Kwak

The growing of the critical bubble by diffusion process in visco-elastic medium was treated by an integral method for the concentration boundary layer. In this study, we obtained a set of the first order time dependent equations to obtain bubble radius and gas pressure inside the bubble simultaneously. The calculated final cell sizes depending on the initial saturation pressure are in close agreement with the observed ones. The governing equations developed in this study may be used in polymer processing of microcellular foams.

2021 ◽  
pp. 107754632110004
Author(s):  
Hassan Afshari ◽  
Hossein Amirabadi

In this article, a comprehensive study is conducted on the free vibration analysis of rotating truncated conical shells reinforced with functionally graded agglomerated carbon nanotubes The shell is modeled based on the first-order shear deformation theory, and effective mechanical properties are calculated based on the Eshelby–Mori–Tanaka scheme along with the rule of mixture. By considering centrifugal and Coriolis accelerations and initial hoop tension, the set of governing equations is derived using Hamilton’s principle and is solved numerically using the differential quadrature method Convergence and accuracy of the presented model are confirmed and the effects of different parameters on the forward and backward frequencies of the rotating carbon nanotube-reinforced truncated conical shells are investigated.


1976 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Choong Se Kim ◽  
Paul M. Chung

The governing equations of thermal ignition are analyzed for porous solid fuel, such as coal, of various two-dimensional and axisymmetric geometries by the Laplace asymptotic method. Mass diffusion of the gaseous oxidant through the porous fuel is included. The nonlinear partial differential equations of energy and mass balances in time-space coordinates containing the Arrhenius volumic chemical reaction terms are analyzed. By employing the Laplace asymptotic technique and by invoking a certain limit theorem, the governing equations are reduced to a first order ordinary differential equation governing the fuel surface temperature, which is readily solved numerically. Detailed discussion of the effects of the various governing parameters on ignition is presented. Because of the basically closed-form nature of the solutions obtained, many general and fundamental aspects of the ignition criteria hitherto unknown are found.


2006 ◽  
Vol 5-6 ◽  
pp. 407-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mohammadi Aghdam ◽  
M.R.N. Farahani ◽  
M. Dashty ◽  
S.M. Rezaei Niya

Bending analysis of thick laminated rectangular plates with various boundary conditions is presented using Generalized Differential Quadrature (GDQ) method. Based on the Reissner first order shear deformation theory, the governing equations include a system of eight first order partial differential equations in terms of unknown displacements, forces and moments. Presence of all plate variables in the governing equations provide a simple procedure to satisfy different boundary condition during application of GDQ method to obtain accurate results with relatively small number of grid points even for plates with free edges .Illustrative examples including various combinations of clamped, simply supported and free boundary condition are given to demonstrate the accuracy and convergence of the presented GDQ technique. Results are compared with other analytical and finite element predictions and show reasonably good agreement.


2012 ◽  
Vol 550-553 ◽  
pp. 2786-2790
Author(s):  
Zhen Zhao ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
Lei Wang

The combustion characteristics of decorative materials were studied by thermal analysis. The experiments were performed in three kind of oxygen concentration (7%, 14%, 21%), the heating rate were 15°C/min and 30°C/min respectively. The ignition point and maximum weight loss rated were analyzed. Based on the Coats-Redfern integral method, the results show that the combustion process were first order reaction.


2013 ◽  
Vol 275-277 ◽  
pp. 1978-1983
Author(s):  
Xiao Chuan Li ◽  
Jin Shuang Zhang

Hamiltonian dual equation of plane transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic solids is derived from variational principle and mixed state Hamiltonian elementary equations are established. Similar to the Hamiltonian formulation in classic dynamics, the z coordinate is treated analogous to the time coordinate. Then the x-direction is discreted with the linear elements to obtain the state-vector governing equations, which are a set of first order differential equations in z and are solved by the analytical approach. Because present approach is analytic in z direction, there is no restriction on the thickness of plate through the use of the present element. Using the propagation matrix method, the approach can be extended to analyze the problems of magnetoelectroelastic laminated plates. Present semi-analytical method of mixed Hamiltonian element has wide application area.


1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitomi Kumagai ◽  
Hitoshi Kumagai ◽  
Toshimasa Yano

Author(s):  
SHIH-FENG HUANG ◽  
YUH-JIA LEE ◽  
HSIN-HUNG SHIH

We propose the path-integral technique to derive the characteristic function of the limiting distribution of the unit root test in a first order autoregressive model. Our results provide a new and useful approach to obtain the closed form of the characteristic function of a random variable associated with the limiting distribution, which is realized as a ratio of Brownian functionals on the classical Wiener space.


Author(s):  
Jianfeng Ma ◽  
Joshua David Summers ◽  
Paul F. Joseph

The meshless integral method based on regularized boundary equation [1][2] is extended to analyze elastoplastic geotechnical materials. In this formulation, the problem domain is clouded with a node set using automatic node generation. The sub-domain and the support domain related to each node are also generated automatically using algorithms developed for this purpose. The governing integral equation is obtained from the weak form of elastoplasticity over a local sub-domain and the moving least-squares approximation is employed for meshless function approximation. The geotechnical materials are described by pressure-sensitive multi-surface Drucker-Prager/Cap plasticity constitutive law with hardening. A generalized collocation method is used to impose the essential boundary conditions and natural boundary conditions are incorporated in the system governing equations. A comparison of the meshless results with the FEM results shows that the meshless integral method is accurate and robust enough to solve geotechnical materials.


2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 539-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Ansari ◽  
R. Gholami ◽  
A. Shahabodini

AbstractIn this paper, a non-classical plate model capturing the size effect is developed to study the forced vibration of functionally graded (FG) microplates subjected to a harmonic excitation transverse force. To this, the modified couple stress theory (MCST) is incorporated into the first-order shear deformation plate theory (FSDPT) to account for the size effect through one length scale parameter, only. Strong form of nonlinear governing equations and associated boundary conditions are obtained using Hamilton's principle. The solution process is implemented on two domains. The generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) method is first employed to discretize the governing equations on the space domain. A Galerkin-based scheme is then applied to extract a reduced set of the nonlinear equations of Duffing-type. On the second domain, through a time differentiation matrix operator, the set of ordinary differential equations are transformed into the discrete form on time domain. Eventually, a system of the parameterized nonlinear equations is acquired and solved via the pseudo-arc length continuation method. The frequency response curve of the microplate is sketched and the effects of various material and geometrical parameters on it are evaluated.


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