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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"preloads"”.
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The effects of tensile preloads on the impact response of carbon/epoxy laminates
… clamped-clamped/free-free configuration. Tensile preloads from near zero to approximately 60% of ultimate breaking strength were applied to specimens which were impacted at energies of 3.4, 4.5 and 6 Joules (2.5, 3.3 and 4.4 ft- Ibs). The amount of damage induced into the specimen was evaluated …
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Nonlinear inelastic analysis of concrete-filled steel tubular slender beam-columns
… global buckling when subjected to biaxial loads, preloads or cyclic loading. The local buckling effects of steel tube walls under stress gradients have not been considered in existing numerical models for CFST slender beam-columns. This thesis presents a systematic development of new numerical …
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A novel nutritional approach to the management of type 2 diabetes: effects of nutritional preloads on postprandial blood glucose and gastric emptying in type 2 diabetes mellitus
… on the impact of dietary protein and fibre preloads on postprandial blood glucose and gastric emptying in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Key themes relate to: 1) The longitudinal evaluation of gastric emptying in type 2 diabetes 2) The evaluation of gastric emptying as measured by means of a …
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A kinematic coupling based 6 degrees of freedom dynamometer
… settlement-based problems are small for small preloads. Fortunately, settlement ability will be improved thanks to vibrations. Future investigations shall look towards low friction solutions, since the sturdiest and most user-friendly design will be the one that minimizes friction during the …
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Ground improvement using vacuum preloading together with prefabricated vertical drains
… relative magnitudes of applied vacuum and fill preloads as well as the distribution of vacuum pressure with depth and time. The distribution of vacuum pressure which should be constant with depth under ideal conditions, may not develop to full intensity at different depths due to ‘leakage’ of …
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Free vibration and nonlinear transient analysis of imperfect laminated structures
… are the initial stresses as caused by preloads. Using a 48 degrees of freedom thin shell element, the effect of complex, arbitrary in-plane and out-of-plane loads on the transverse vibrations of thin arbitrarily laminated plates, cylindrical panels, and hyperbolic shells without and …
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Resilire: Achieving High Availability Through Virtual Machine Live Migration
… a fast and efficient way. VMresume predicts and preloads the memory pages that are most likely to be accessed after the VM's resumption, minimizing otherwise potential performance degradation due to cascading page faults that may occur on VM resumption. Our experimental studies reveal that VM …
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Some issues concerning the dynamic response and damage of composite laminates subjected to low velocity impact
… including both tensile and compressive preloads, both uniaxial and biaxial, were analysed by means of numerical finite element simulations; the case of laminates impacted in postbuckling conditions was also considered. The study focused on how the effect of preload varies with the …