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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"stress averaging"”.
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Detection of in-plane stress waves with Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) sensors
… (PVDF), a piezoelectric polymer, is an excellent stress sensor. The objective of this research is to investigate the application of the PVDF sensors for detection of in-plane stress waves in 31 and 32 modes. This was achieved by focusing on aspects of PVDF sensing related to determination of …
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Numerical Constitutive Models of Woven and Braided Textile Structural Composites
… are assumed to be transversely isotropic and a stress averaging technique based on an iso-strain assumption is used to determine the effective moduli of the unit cells. Comparisons of the effective moduli are made to other unit cell models in the literature. The micromechanical models are …
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Towards Improved Estimates of Upper Ocean Energetics
… between ocean surface currents and surface wind stress, a number of surface current decompositions can be used to decompose wind work calculations. In this research, geostrophic, ageostrophic, Ekman, and total current decompositions are all used to calculate wind work. Geostrophic currents are …