Centrifugal Form

This chapter argues that aesthetic form emerges from matter in motion. Form is not different in kind than matter and function; it is different only in kinetic distribution or regime. The form of something is always a circulation of motion, but in a specific pattern. Form is not a geometric essence, like a circle or an empirical object like a round plate, but, rather, a material kinetic process of rounding or roundness. The form or shape of images and our ideas of images are both made possible by the continuous circulation of matter into a specific form or pattern, again and again. All things are kinomorphic, but when a fixed pattern is used as a model that forces all other flows into a single set of kinetic relations, there is a kind of formalism or dominance of form over kinetic formation. This is what occurred in the ancient world.

The Medieval Image, II

This chapter continues the thesis of Chapter 10 in demonstrating that a kinesthetic shift occurred in the arts from a centrifugal to a more tensional pattern of motion over the course of the Middle Ages. This chapter demonstrates that same thesis in the arts of perspective, keyboard music, and epistolography. The argument is that each of these major fields is defined predominately by a distinctly tensional pattern of motion and a relational aesthetics. All the newly dominant arts of the Middle Ages are defined by the kinesthetic pattern of relational or linked tensional motions holding images together and apart. The brilliant insight of the Middle Ages is that aesthetic form is nothing other than the polygonal intersection of a network of material kinetic relations.

Wave dispersion characteristics of agglomerated multi-scale hybrid nanocomposite beams

Herein, the agglomeration effect of nanoparticles on the wave dispersion of multi-scale hybrid nanocomposite beams is investigated. The constituent material consists of both macro- and nano-reinforcements which are dispersed in the polymer matrix. Homogenization is conducted according to the well-known micromechanical methods. Herein, the combination of the Eshelby–Mori–Tanaka model and the rule of the mixture is implemented in order to estimate the equivalent material properties of the nanocomposite beam. Also, a refined higher-order beam theory is used in order to calculate the kinetic relations free from utilizing an additional factor to account for the shear deformation. Furthermore, the governing equations are achieved by applying Hamilton’s principle. Then, the governing equations are solved analytically to enrich the wave frequency. The effects of various parameters on the variation in wave frequency and phase velocity of the multi-scale hybrid nanocomposite beam are studied. The results of this study reveal that the mechanical responses of the system decrease whenever the nanotubes are inside the clusters.

METHOD FOR DETERMINING QUASI INVARIANTS IN KINETICS OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS

A method was developed for determining the approximate kinetic relations (quasi-invariants), which connect equilibrium constants of multi- step reactions with reagent concentrations measured in several non-stationary experiments (multi-experiments). With this method use the quasi-invariants were defined for the oxidation reaction of carbon monoxide proceeding through different mechanisms.

Room temperature synthesis of Bi25FeO39 and hydrothermal kinetic relations between sillenite- and distorted perovskite-type bismuth ferrites

Sillentite-type Bi25FeO39 is synthesized at room temperature and its kinetic relations with rombohedrally distorted perovskite-type BiFeO3 are revealed.