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We note here that the fragment size predicted through the more recent energy-horizon theory ((8.30) or (8.34)) is between a factor of 2 to 3 smaller in nominal diameter than predicted through the earlier kinetic energy theory ((8.26)). This difference is more marked if a measure of fragment mass is... 

Of all the theories dealing with the prediction of yielding in complex stress systems, the Distortion Energy Theory (also called the von Mises Failure Theory) agrees best with experimental results for ductile materials, for example mild steel and aluminium (Collins, 1993 Edwards and McKee, 1991 Norton, 1996 Shigley and Mischke, 1996). Its formulation is given in equation 4.57. The right-hand side of the equation is the effective stress, L, for the stress system. 

The stress, L, determined using the Modified Mohr method effeetively aeeounts for all the applied stresses and allows a direet eomparison to a materials strength property to be made (Norton, 1996), as was established for the Distortion Energy Theory for duetile materials. The set of expressions to determine the effeetive or maximum stress are shown below and involve all three prineipal stresses (Dowling, 1993) ... 

For most practical purposes, the onset of plastic deformation constitutes failure. In an axially loaded part, the yield point is known from testing (see Tables 2-15 through 2-18), and failure prediction is no problem. However, it is often necessary to use uniaxial tensile data to predict yielding due to a multidimensional state of stress. Many failure theories have been developed for this purpose. For elastoplastic materials (steel, aluminum, brass, etc.), the maximum distortion energy theory or von Mises theory is in general application. With this theory the components of stress are combined into a single effective stress, denoted as uniaxial yielding. Tlie ratio of the measure yield stress to the effective stress is known as the factor of safety. 

To evaluate the load capacity of drill pipe (e.g., allowable tensile load while simultaneously a torque is applied), the maximum distortion energy theory is... 

Maximum strain energy theory, which postulates that failure will occur in a complex stress system when the total strain energy per unit volume reaches the value at which failure occurs in simple tension. 

Manning (1947) has shown that the maximum shear strain energy theory of failure (due to Mises (1913)) gives a closer fit to experimentally determined failure pressures for monobloc cylinders than the maximum shear stress theory. This criterion of failure gives ... 

But many computations of phase-formation based on the application of pseudo-potential, quantum-mechanical techniques, statistic-thermodynamic theories are carried out now only for comparatively small number of systems, for instance [1-3], A lot of papers dedicated to the phenomenon of isomorphic replacement, arrangement of an adequate model of solids, energy theories of solid solutions, for instance [4-7], But for the majority of actual systems many problems of theoretical and prognostic assessment of phase-formation, solubility and stable phase formation are still unsolved. 

But the formulation (3.27) for E is not the most practical one for our intended applications to bond energy theory. A good approximation can be used instead. 

This equation describes chemical binding in the simplest possible way, in terms of effective potentials at the nuclei. Therein lies the importance of this approximation, as shown in the next section. It lays the foundation of the bond energy theory, which will be developed shortly. 

The perturbation A(T f + 2T ) describes the replacement of model densities and inter-nuclear distances by the values that are appropriate for the molecule under scrutiny. Similarly, appropriate reference atomic energies must be used in the atomic-like formula (4.15) to get A °. Ingeniously selected references require small corrections. Nature helps a lot in that matter by keeping the changes of p(r) as small as possible. The bond energy theory is rooted in Eq. (4.47). 

This peculiar approach [9,61,79] with no overlap or cross-terms, made the present bond energy theory possible. 

This concludes the enumeration of the concepts involved in our bond energy theory. 

Straightforward general bond energy theory is applied in the calculation of intrinsic CN bond energies by means of the equation... 

Alternative Activation Energy Theories of Dynamics in Glass-Forming Liquids... 

XL ALTERNATIVE ACTIVATION ENERGY THEORIES OF DYNAMICS IN GLASS-FORMING LIQUIDS... 

Experimental work providing information on reaction kinetics— the time dependence of reactants and products under defined conditions—served indispensably to correlate structure-reactivity data and to provide estimates of transition state energies. Theory-based definitions of transition structures gave some clues as to how reactions might actually take place. But the dynamic aspects of chemical reactions remained inaccessible, or only poorly accessible. 

D. R. Rosseinsky, Electrode Potentials and Hydration Energies. Theories and Correlations, in Chem. Rer.. 1965, 65. 467. 

Ainslie, G. (1982) A behavioral economic approach to the defence mechanisms Freud s energy theory revisited , Social Science Information 21,735-70. 

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