Uniform stress

Very shortly, the first one is based on the stress measurement performed using a rosetta strain gauge located in an area of sufficiently uniform stress distribution. In this case, the calibration factor Cr can be easily obtained by the following equation ... 

In particular, the known stress calibration method was chosen, therefore 6 rosetta strain gauges (R1-R6) on the shell and 7 (R7-R13) on the the head were applied. Their distances measured from the head centre are listed in table 1. R3 and R4 were applied only to check a uniform stress level on the shell surface. 

The stresses imposed by axial deflection are much greater at the hub than at the rim as seen in Figure 18-9. Therefore, to maintain uniform stresses in the diaphragm when all the various forces acting on the diaphragm are at their maximum, the diaphragm must be used to connect the contoured profile at both the hub and the rim to reduce stresses. 

A key element in the experimental determination of the stiffness and strength characteristics of a lamina is the imposition of a uniform stress state in the specimen. Such loading is relatively easy for isotropic materials. However, for composite materials, the orthotropy introduces coupling between normal stresses and shear strains and between shear stresses and normal and shear strains when loaded in non-principal material coordinates for which the stress-strain relations are given in Equation (2.88). Thus, special care must be taken to ensure obtaining... 

A uniform stress field must exist over the entire gage-section volume to eliminate volume-based statistical failure effects (e.g., a realistic distribution of ordinary defects must exist for the test to be representative of the actual material). 

The torsion-tube test described by Whitney, Pagano, and Pipes [2-14] involves a thin circular tube subjected to a torque, T, at the ends as in Figure 2-29. The tube is made of multiple laminae with their fiber directions aligned either all parallel to the tube axis or all circumferentially. Reasonable assurance of a constant stress state through the tube thickness exists if the tube is only a few laminae thick. However, then serious end-grip difficulties can arise because of the flimsy nature of the tube. Usually, the thickness of the tube ends must be built up by bonding on additional layers to introduce the load so that failure occurs in the central uniformly stressed portion of the tube (recall the test specimen criteria). Torsion tubes are expensive to fabricate and require relatively sophisticated instrumentation. If the shearing strain y 2 is measured under shear stress t.,2, then... 

The axial load (compression) gives a uniform stress and strain in the absence of a bending moment. If a bending moment exists, then one side is extended while the other is compressed. 

Significantly, a flexural specimen is not in a state of uniform stress. When a simply supported specimen is loaded, the side of the material opposite the loading undergoes the greatest tensile loading. The side of the material being loaded experiences compressive stress (Fig. 2-16). These stresses decrease linearly toward the center of the sample. Theoretically the center is a plane, called the neutral axis, experiences no stress. 

With turbulent channel flow the shear rate near the wall is even higher than with laminar flow. Thus, for example, (du/dy) ju = 0.0395 Re u/D is vaHd for turbulent pipe flow with a hydraulically smooth wall. The conditions in this case are even less favourable for uniform stress on particles, as the layer flowing near the wall (boundary layer thickness 6), in which a substantial change in velocity occurs, decreases with increasing Reynolds number according to 6/D = 25 Re", and is very small. Considering that the channel has to be large in comparison with the particles D >dp,so that there is no interference with flow, e.g. at Re = 2300 and D = 10 dp the related boundary layer thickness becomes only approx. 29% of the particle diameter. It shows that even at Re = 2300 no defined stress can be exerted and therefore channels are not suitable model reactors. 

Since it is the first derivative with respect to r that we are interested in, we only need the 1=1 term from this expansion. The angular part contributes only to the overall constant, but it is the spherical function j (kr) that sets the cutoff value of the wavevector, above which the phonons do not produce significant linear uniform stress on the domain. In Fig. 24, we plot the derivative dji x)/dx (or, rather, we plot the square of it, which enters into all the final expressions). 

In the Couette cell the shear stress varies signficantly with radial position across the gap as r2. Should a more uniform stress environment be required then the cone-and-plate geometry may be used [17]. An example apparatus is shown in Figure 2.8.7. 

From Figure (13.44) it can be seen that the stress falls off rapidly across the wall and that the material in the outer part of the wall is not being used effectively. The material can be used more efficiently by prestressing the wall. This will give a more uniform stress distribution under pressure. Several different prestressing techniques are used the principal methods are described briefly in the following sections. 

The analytical solutions derived in Sections 4.3 and 4.4 for the stress distributions in the monotonic fiber pull-out and fiber push-out loadings are further extended to cyclic loading (Zhou et al., 1993) and the progressive damage processes of the interface are characterized. It is assumed that the cyclic fatigue of uniform stress amplitude causes the frictional properties at the debonded interface to degrade... 

In actuality, this has been far from the case. Antibiotic therapy, although an important component of mastitis control strategy, is much less effective than could be desired. Farm advisors uniformly stress the principle that treatment must not be relied upon to redress the disease promoting effects of bad animal husbandry, unsanitary milking practices and defective milking machinery. 

For an externally applied pressure, a compression-compression stress field is obtained with a thick-walled sphere. If the sphere wall is thin, a biaxial field is produced. If the pressure is applied internally, a triaxial tension-tension-compression state is generated. A nearly uniform stress field is produced over the entire specimen. The supporting tube is surrounded with a low modulus material to avoid stress concentration and... 

Use Eq. 11.12 to show that a dislocation in a crystal possessing a uniform nonequilibrium concentration of point defects and a uniform stress field will... 

The strength of a brittle solid is defined as the applied thrust force required to produce cracks in the sample under test, with uniform stress action. From the energy balance of Griffith (1980), we get the basic expression... 

In all these studies uniform stress and uniform temperature are assumed in the sample and the tests are of the Kelvin relation connecting stress and temperature. 

A conscious choice of such elements can be made but in general the equilibrium distribution of stress cannot be found except for particular geometries. The assumptions of uniform strain throughout the assembly or of uniform stress were respectively made by Voigt and by Reuss. Returning to the structures actually perceivable in polymers one may consider the spherulite in a semi crystalline polymer as being unsuitable as a RVE because the boundary is not included. However, an assembly of spherulites would be acceptable, since it would contain sufficient to make it entirely typical of the bulk and because such an assembly would have moduli independent of the surface tractions and displacements. The linear size of such a representative volume element of spherulites would be perhaps several hundred microns. 

Another fracture criterion has been introduced by Irwin, based on the stress intensity existing at a point of polar coordinates, r and 9 from the tip of a sharp crack of length 2a in a body uniformly stressed by an applied stress, a0. For regions close to the crack tip, the components of the stress tensor at the considered point take the form ... 

Figure 7.11 Irreversible stress-induced phase reorientation in 2,10-undecandione-urea. (a) Crystal before stress, (b) Schematic of crystal before stress arrows represent carbonyl dipoles for guests in one layer, (c) Crystal under uniform stress from bottom left of picture, (d) Schematic of stressed crystal. (Reproduced by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd).

Let us consider an apparently simple situation of compaction of solids in a cylinder (Fig. 4.9). Assuming a uniform stress field, a normal force Fo applied to the top ram generates within the solids a certain normal stress %zz, as well as a radial stress xrr. The frictional shear force due to the latter acts in the opposite direction to the applied force. Hence, the transmitted force to the lower ram, FL, will be smaller than the applied force. By making a force balance similar to that made in deriving the Janssen equation, and assuming that the wall friction is fully mobilized, that the ratio of axial to radial stresses is a constant throughout, and that the coefficient of friction at the wall is constant, we obtain the following simple exponential relationship between the applied and transmitted force ... 

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