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Stress concentration factors associated with elliptic flaws in an anisotropic matrix are generally unavailable. In the absence of such information, the results presented in Figures 3-5 are a first approximation to the stress concentrations developed by the flaws in the drawn material. It follows that Equation 9 can be written as ... 

The calculation of stress concentration factors arising from flaws in an anisotropic matrix has been obtained from the isotropic results. Much additional work in this general area is required as a large... 

The presence of the PMMA or PET lowers the criticd concentration of the CTA. For example, a 19.6/1.2/70.2 (w/w/w) ternary solution of CTA, PMMA and TFA-CH2CI2 (6 4 v/v) and an 18.6/1.2/80.2 ternary solution of CTA, PET and TFA-CH2Q2 (6 4 v/v) were biphasic when viewed under crossed polars. Each solution appeared to be one ph but a small isotrq>ic phase may have been present, a required an extremely long time to separate due to the high viscosity of the anisotropic matrix. 

Another attempt is to prepare films with electronically isolated oligothiophene molecules in uniaxially oriented matrices. The matrix can consist of cyclic siloxanes [ 108] or dextrines which both possess cavities of defined diameter and length. Oligothiophenes can diffuse into the anisotropic matrix. Substitution with certain polar head-groups allows for a strong bonding to the metal substrate, i.e. nitriles or carboxyles couple to Pt, thiols to Au. 

Small angle light scattering and birefringence experiments showed a direct correlation between the director alignment in the anisotropic matrix and the orientation of the cellulosic fibers in these composites. 

The use of cellulosic nanofibers in the productiOTi of all-cellulosic based composites can greatly improve the mechanical performance of these composites. With these nanofibers and a cellulosic anisotropic matrix a synergy between the percolation of the nanofibers and its matrix-induced orientation can lead to composites with enhanced mechanical properties. 

Pratibha, R. Madhusudana, N. V. Sadashiva, B. K. An orientational transition of bent-core molecules in an anisotropic matrix. Science 2000,288, 2184-2187. 

Thus, in examples of synthesis of tetraazamacrocyclic compounds on nickel ions (mainly) and on copper(II), square-planar system assembling is realised [38,47-49]. Guanidium ion promotes building of 27-crown-9-ether [60]. o-Aminobenzaldehyde self-condensation on the copper ion as matrix results exclusively in forming a complex with TAAB [67]. When using nickel(II) or cobalt(II) as templates under the same conditions, two types of macrocyclic azomethine systems - TAAB and TRI - may be synthesised [67-71]. Macrocychsation of phthalonitrile on the anisotropic matrix 0=U=0 ends with obtaining the so-called superphthalocyanine product [U02(L29)] [72, 73], rather than with the isolation of the corresponding complex with the phthalocyanine (Pc), as observed for other metal ions (Eq. 1.18) [11,74]. 

Exchange coupling parameters and anisotropic matrix elements for Ho + in RBajCujO,. 

Anisotropy in mechanical properties was observed when MCC rods were used as reinforcing agent in an anisotropic HPC matrix [58]. Fernandes et al. [79] obtained similar results for composite films prepared by the incorporation of nanocrystaUine cellulose - NCC (aspect ratio = 1/d 20) in an HPC anisotropic matrix. Figures 8.6... 

Ihe increment observed in Yoimg s modulus and tensile stress of the HPC/NCC composite films are much higher than the ones observed for the HPC/MCC composite films, which is obviously a consequence of the different aspect ratio of the two fillers (for MCC l/d 5 for NCC l/d 20). Fernandes et al. showed [79] that the use of NCC filler does not destroy the liquid crystalline characteristics of the HPC matrix. In fact. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) images of the HPC/NCC composites present the same banded texture present in the anisotropic matrix (see Figure 8.8). 

Figure 20. Numerically calculated caustics at the tips of curvilinear cracks with different curvatures in Isotropic and anisotropic matrix materials, respectively-...

Even for a single radical tire spectral resolution can be enlianced for disordered solid samples if the inliomogeneous linewidth is dominated by iimesolved hyperfme interactions. Whereas the hyperfme line broadening is not field dependent, tire anisotropic g-matrix contribution scales linearly with the external field. Thus, if the magnetic field is large enough, i.e. when the condition... 

Mechanical Properties. Although wool has a compHcated hierarchical stmcture (see Fig. 1), the mechanical properties of the fiber are largely understood in terms of a two-phase composite model (27—29). In these models, water-impenetrable crystalline regions (generally associated with the intermediate filaments) oriented parallel to the fiber axis are embedded in a water-sensitive matrix to form a semicrystalline biopolymer. The parallel arrangement of these filaments produces a fiber that is highly anisotropic. Whereas the longitudinal modulus of the fiber decreases by a factor of 3 from dry to wet, the torsional modulus, a measure of the matrix stiffness, decreases by a factor of 10 (30). 

The variation of the ia-plane shear modulus normalised with respect to the matrix modulus as a function of the fiber volume fraction is shown ia Figure 11. As noted eadier, it is generally difficult to measure the shear modulus of the fibers, which may themselves be anisotropic. The equation should be used with caution. 

In order to describe completely the state of triaxial (as opposed to biaxial) stress in an anisotropic material, the compliance matrix will have 36 terms. The reader is referred to the more advanced composites texts listed in the Bibliography if these more complex states of stress are of interest. It is conventional to be consistent and use the terminology of the more general analysis even when one is considering the simpler plane stress situation. Hence, the compliance matrix [5] has the terms... 

Note that the transformed reduced stiffness matrix Qy has terms in all nine positions in contrast to the presence of zeros in the reduced stiffness matrix Qy. However, there are still only four independent material constants because the lamina is orthotropic. In the general case with body coordinates x and y, there is coupling between shear strain and normal stresses and between shear stress and normal strains, i.e., shear-extension coupling exists. Thus, in body coordinates, even an orthotropic lamina appears to be anisotropic. However, because such a lamina does have orthotropic characteristics in principal material coordinates, it is called a generally orthotropic lamina because it can be represented by the stress-strain relations in Equation (2.84). That is, a generally orthotropic lamina is an orthotropic lamina whose principai material axes are not aligned with the natural body axes. 

The general case of a laminate with multiple anisotropic layers symmetrically disposed about the middle surface does not have any stiffness simplifications other than the elimination of the Bjj by virtue of symmetry. The Aig, A2g, Dig, and D2g stiffnesses all exist and do not necessarily go to zero as the number of layers is increased. That is, the Aig stiffness, for example, is derived from the Q matrix in Equation (2.84) for an anisotropic lamina which, of course, has more independent... 

Composite materials have many distinctive characteristics reiative to isotropic materials that render application of linear elastic fracture mechanics difficult. The anisotropy and heterogeneity, both from the standpoint of the fibers versus the matrix, and from the standpoint of multiple laminae of different orientations, are the principal problems. The extension to homogeneous anisotropic materials should be straightfor-wrard because none of the basic principles used in fracture mechanics is then changed. Thus, the approximation of composite materials by homogeneous anisotropic materials is often made. Then, stress-intensity factors for anisotropic materials are calculated by use of complex variable mapping techniques. 

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