Cold rolled aluminum is a widely used metal in industry. The forming limit diagram (FLD) which is commonly used to predict safe deformation parameters currently fails to predict the uniform elongation after non-proportional strain path often found in industrial operations. In this work, a non-proportional strain path change in aluminum alloy 3104 going from plane strain tension to uniaxial tension was investigated. Plane strain tensile tests have been carried out to various pre-strains (3%, 6% and 9%), followed by uniaxial tensile tests at various orientation with respect to the tensile direction (0°, 45° and 90°). Digital image correlation (DIC) was employed to analyze the strain distribution in the sample during deformation. The mechanical response was studied as a function of pre-strain and reloading angle to quantify the effect of strain path change on AA3104.

Despite the on-going intensity of research in the field of protective structural design, one topic that has been largely ignored in the literature is the effect of high strain rates on the bond between reinforcing steel and the surrounding concrete. Therefore, a comprehensive research program was undertaken to establish the effect of high strain rates on reinforced concrete bond. The experimental research consisted of the construction and testing of fourteen flexural beam-end bond specimens and twenty-five lap-spliced reinforced concrete beams. The physical and material properties of the specimens were selected based on a range of design parameters known to significantly influence bond strength. In order to establish a baseline for comparison, approximately half of the total number of specimens were subjected to static testing, while the remainder were subjected to dynamic loading generated using a shock tube. The strain rates generated using the shock tube were consistent with those obtained for mid- and far-field explosive detonation. Results of the beam-end and lap splice beam tests showed that the flexural behaviour of reinforced concrete was significantly stronger and stiffer when subjected to dynamic loading. Furthermore, the high strain rate bond strength was always greater than the corresponding low strain rate values, yielding an average dynamic increase factor (DIF) applied to ultimate bond strength of 1.28. Analysis of the low and high strain rate test results led to the development of empirical expressions describing the observed strain rate sensitivity of reinforced concrete bond for spliced and developed bars with and without transverse reinforcement. The predictive accuracy of the proposed DIF expressions was assessed against the experimental results and data from the literature. It was found that the dynamic bond strength of reinforced concrete can be predicted with reasonably good accuracy and that the proposed DIF expressions can be used for analysis and design of protective structures. An analytical method was also developed to predict the flexural load-deformation behaviour of reinforced concrete members containing tension lap splices. The analysis incorporated the effect of reinforcement slip through the use of pseudo-material stress-strain relationships, in addition to giving consideration to the effect of high strain rates on bond-slip characteristics and on the material properties of concrete and steel. A comparison of the analytical predictions with experimental data demonstrated that the proposed analysis technique can reasonably predict the flexural response of beams with tension lap splices. The results also demonstrated that the model is equally applicable for use at low- and high-strain rates, such as those generated during blast and impact.

Background: Accurate assessment of left ventricular (LV) systolic function in chronic severe primary mitral regurgitation (MR) is important as the aim is to consider surgical repair prior to the onset of irreversible LV dysfunction. However this can be difficult to judge as conventional measures of LV function (such as ejection fraction, EF) may remain normal despite impaired LV contractility due to the increased preload of the condition. Advanced echocardiographic techniques, including deformation imaging, appear promising as they are less load dependent. As the earliest symptoms in severe MR are usually exertional, this study aimed to assess markers of LV deformation on exercise in patients with normal resting EF in order to try and identify the earliest signs of LV decompensation.Methods: Transthoracic echocardiography was carried out at rest and on submaximal supine exercise in asymptomatic patients with moderate to severe chronic primary MR and matched controls. Conventional contractile reserve (CR) as measured by EF change on exercise was used to subdivide patients into those with preserved (CR+) and abnormal (CR-) LV function. Myocardial strain and twist were assessed using the speckle tracking technique.Results: MR patients failed to show the normal enhancement in systolic twist on exercise. The onset and peak of untwisting were delayed in MR at rest and normalised on exercise in CR+ but not in CR-. Abnormalities in twist on exercise worsened with increasing resting preload. Longitudinal strain tended to increase normally on exercise in CR+ but not in CR-. Systolic longitudinal strain rate correlated with twist at rest and on exercise, whereas diastolic strain rate correlated with the timing of untwisting on exercise.Conclusion: Abnormalities in myocardial deformation are seen at rest and on exercise in patients with severe MR, particularly in those with decompensated LV function. This may contribute to the development of functional impairment with progressive disease.

Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of alloy 600 is regarded as one of the most important challenges to nuclear power plant operation worldwide. This study investigates two heats of alloy 600 (forged control rod drive mechanismnozzle and rolled divider plate) in order to obtain a better understanding of the effects of the material parameter on the SCC phenomenon. The experimental approach was designed to determine the effect of the manufacturing process (forged vs. rolled), the cold-work (as-received vs. cold-worked) and the strain path (monotonic vs. complex) on SCC of alloy 600. Specimens with different strain paths have been produced from two materials representative of plant components and tested in high temperature (360°C) high pressure primary water environment. The manufacturing process has been proven to have a great effect on the stress corrosion cracking behaviour of alloy 600. Indeed, the SCC susceptibility assessment has demonstrated that the rolled materialis resistant to SCC even after cold work, whereas the forged material is susceptible in the as-received state. Microstructural characterisations have been undertaken to explain these differences in SCC behaviour. The carbide distribution is the main microstructural parameter influencing SCC but the misorientation, in synergy with the carbide distribution, has been proven to give a better representation of the materials SCC susceptibilities.

Graphene nanocomposites have been successfully prepared in this study in the form of a sandwich structure of PMMA/graphene/SU-8. It has been proved that Raman spectroscopy is a powerful technique in the characterisation of the structure and deformation of graphene. The 2D band of the monolayer graphene has been used in the investigation of stress transfer in the graphene reinforced nanocomposites. It has been demonstrated that the 2D band moves towards low frequency linearly under tensile stress, which is shown to be significant method of monitoring the strain in graphene in a deformed specimen. The Raman spectroscopy behaviour under deformation validates that the monolayer graphene acts as a reinforcing role in nanocomposites although it is only one atom thick.A systematic investigation of the deformation of bilayer, trilayer and few-layer graphene has been undertaken with a view to determine the optimum number of layers for the reinforcement of nanocomposites. It has been demonstrated that monolayer graphene is not necessarily the optimum material to use for reinforcement in graphene-based polymer nanocomposites and bilayer graphene will be equally as good as monolayer graphene. There is therefore a balance to be struck in the design of graphene-based nanocomposites between the ability to achieve higher loadings of reinforcement and the reduction in effective Young’s modulus of the reinforcement, as the number of layers in the graphene is increased.Both the G and 2D bands have been found to undergo splitting under high strain levels or asymmetric band broadening in lower strain deformation. The G band polarisation property has been utilized to determine the crystallographic orientation of monolayer graphene by measuring the intensity ratio of G-/G+ bands. Analogously, the 2D band also undergoes strain-induced splitting where the 2D- band has higher Raman shift rate than that of the 2D+ band.

Ti-6Al-4V is the most widely used titanium alloy and is typically used in stages of gas turbine engines, due to its high strength-to-weight ratio, corrosion resistance and high strength at moderate temperatures. However, the alloy is susceptible to the development of strong textures during thermomechanical processing that leads to a preferred crystallographic orientation. These are referred to as macrozones and are thought to develop during the β to α phase transformation, as a result of the retention of large prior β grains during processing and variant selection. Macrozones are clusters of neighbouring grains with a common crystallographic orientation that may act as one single grain during loading and have been shown to cause scatter in the fatigue life. The focus of the current work was based on the analysing the strain behaviour of soft, hard and no macrozones within the microstructure, during various loading conditions. The local strain behaviour was studied at a micro and nanoscale, using the digital image correlation (DIC) technique, which utilises microstructural images recorded during mechanical loading. On a microscale, the no-macrozone and strong-macrozone condition loaded at 0% exhibited homogeneous strain behaviour. The strong-macrozone condition loaded at 45% and 90% to the extrusion direction, respectively, developed pronounced high strain bands correlating to regions that were favourably oriented for prismatic and basal slip, respectively. Characterisation of the slip bands provided a detailed understanding of the deformation behaviour at the nanoscale and the slip system was subsequently determined for each grain using slip trace analysis. Prismatic slip was the dominant slip system in all conditions, particularly in the soft-oriented macrozone regions of the strong-macrozone condition loaded at 45 degrees. Shear strains of 10 times the appliedstrain were observed. Further investigations on the strong-macrozone condition loaded at 45 degrees to ED during standard and dwell fatigue demonstrated early failure in the dwell sample, with higher strain accumulation for dwell.

Na busca contínua de atender as exigências de um mercado cada vez mais competitivo, as empresas devem buscar diminuir todas as suas perdas em seus processos produtivos, reduzindo custos e ganhando margem em seus produtos. Este trabalho teve como objetivo investigar os fenômenos presentes na ocorrência de quebras dos produtos derivados do aço SAE 1057B trefilado e galvanizado utilizado em culturas aéreas. O estudo utilizou bibliografia documental, pesquisa de laboratório e uma amostra composta por trinta e seis relatórios de análises sobre o desempenho do produto intermediário trefilado, ou do produto final galvanizado. Os dados referem-se à eventos de falhas do produto em quaisquer etapas do processo produtivo e mesmo de aplicação em campo. Juntamente com ensaios efetuados especificamente para amparar as conclusões destes relatórios, efetuou-se pesquisa bibliográfica para dar suporte às conclusões. Identificaram-se similaridades entre estudos de alguns autores e análises amostrais de testes padronizados de tração e enrolamento sobre o próprio eixo de outubro 2010 a setembro de 2011. Os resultados mostraram que o fenômeno que induz a um elevado índice de quebra do arame Cultura Aérea é o envelhecimento que ocorre posteriormente à sua passagem por elevadas reduções percentuais de área no processo de trefilação, que encrua o material, e em função de elevadas temperaturas encontradas no processo de galvanização, tendo, ainda, suas consequências amplificadas por pontos de concentração de tensões. Algumas soluções para amenizar a ocorrência do envelhecimento foram propostas, como o aumento do número de passes, o que reduz o encruamento, e a substituição do material por outro menos suscetível ao fenômeno, como um com menor percentual de carbono. / In the ongoing pursuit to meet demands of an increasingly competitive market, companies have to reduce all their losses in the production process, therefore reducing costs and adding margin to their products. The main goal of this study was to investigate the phenomena present in the occurrence of ruptures of products originated from drawn and galvanized SAE 1057B steel, used in aerial cultivation. The study uses literature and laboratory research and a sample of thirty-six report concerning galvanized final and drawn intermediate product behavior. The data reference to product failure in any stage of the productive process or in field application. Along with testing a bibliographical research was made for conclusion support . Similarities were found between some authors studies and sample analysis of standardized tensile tests and winding over own axis tests from October 2010 to September 2011. The results shown that the primary phenomenon inducing wire failure in aerial cultivation wire is alignment of the hardening due to the high percentage area reductions in the drawing process that allows the development of the strain aging phenomenon after the hot dip galvanizing process witch has it´s effects enhanced by stress concentration points. Some solutions to mitigate the strain aging were proposed, like increasing the number of reduction passes for hardening reduction and the use of less susceptible material to the phenomena as a lower percentage carbon steel.

Orientador: Cecília Amélia de Carvalho Zavaglia / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T19:00:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Brito_JuniaRibeirode_M.pdf: 3348250 bytes, checksum: 88bd87279275d739ae30a9b4306d65de (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 / Resumo: A resina composta fotopolimerizável é amplamente utilizada como material dental restaurador tanto em dentes anteriores como em dentes posteriores. Porém, como todo material polimérico, a resina composta também sofre contração devido a sua reação de polimerização. A contração de polimerização das resinas compostas dentais tem sido relatada como causa das falhas na interface dente-restauração, resultando em microinfiltrações de bactérias, com conseqüências negativas para o dente restaurado. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar a contração linear de polimerização de duas resinas compostas fotopolimerizáveis, uma experimental e outra comercial. A experimental foi desenvolvida por Palácio (2003) no DEMA/FEM/UNICAMP. A resina composta comercial é a Z-250/3M. A mudança dimensional que ocorreu durante e após a fotopolimerização foi monitorada durante 5 minutos a partir do instante em que a luz foi ligada. Na metodologia utilizada, os valores da contração linear de polimerização das referidas resinas compostas foram quantificados através da utilização de extensômetros elétricos / Abstract: The composite resin is widely used as a material for the restoration of anterior and posterior teeth. However, like any other polymeric material, the composite resin also presents shrinkage due to it's polymerization reaction. The polymerization shrinkage of dental composite resins has been reported to cause a marginal gap between the cavity wall and the restoration, resulting in bacterial microleakage, with negative consequence for the tooth. The main goal of this study is to analyse the linear shrinkage of two photo-activated dental composite resins. An experimental one, developed by Palacio (2003), and other commercial (Z-250/3M). The measuring time of linear shrinkage was 5 minutes from the start of photoactivation. The dimensional changes which develop during and after the curing of composite resins, were measured by electrical resistance strain gages / Mestrado / Materiais e Processos de Fabricação / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

Two dimensional (2D) materials can withstand an order of magnitude more strain than their bulk counterparts, which results in dramatic changes to electrical, thermal and optical properties. These changes can be harnessed for technological applications such as tunable light emitting diodes or field effect transistors, or utilized to explore novel physics like exciton confinement, pseudo-magnetic fields (PMFs), and even quantum gravity. However, current techniques for straining atomically thin materials offer limited control over the strain field, and require bulky pressure chambers or large beam bending equipment. This dissertation describes the development of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) as a platform for precisely controlling the magnitude and orientation of the strain field in 2D materials. MEMS are a versatile platform for studying strain physics. Mechanical, electrical, thermal and optical probes can all be easily incorporated into their design. Further, because of their small size and compatibility with electronics manufacturing methods, there is an achievable pathway from the laboratory bench to real-world application. Nevertheless, the incorporation of atomically thin crystals with MEMS has been hampered by fragile, non-planer structures and low friction interfaces. We have innovated two techniques to overcome these critical obstacles: micro-structure assisted transfer to place the 2D materials on the MEMS gently and precisely, and micro-riveting to create a slip-free interface between the 2D materials and MEMS. With these advancements, we were able to strain monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) to greater than 1\% strain with a MEMS for the first time. The dissertation develops the theoretical underpinnings of this result including original work on the theory of operation of MEMS chevron actuators, and strain generated PMFs in transition metal dichalcogenides, a large class of 2D materials. We conclude the dissertation with a roadmap to guide and inspire future physicists and engineers exploring strain in 2D systems and their applications. The roadmap contains ideas for next-generation fabrication techniques to improve yield, sample quality, and add capabilities. We have also included in the roadmap proposals for experiments such as a speculative technique for realizing topological quantum field theories that mimics recent theoretical wire construction methods.

abstract: Academic deviance is a potentially detrimental behavior for students and universities alike in that it causes credit to be given to individuals where it is not due. Furthermore, it is a common occurrence, with around half of college students admitting to engaging in this behavior at least once. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between perfectionism, strain, and academic deviance. In doing this, this study uses data from a primary data collection effort in Arizona State University, with a final sample of 696 students, to answer three research questions: Are there differences in the likelihood of engaging in academic deviance by maladaptive perfectionists, adaptive perfectionists, and non-perfectionists? Are there differences in the perceptions of the wrongness of academic deviance between maladaptive perfectionists, adaptive perfectionists, and non-perfectionists? Are there differences in how context dependent maladaptive perfectionists, adaptive perfectionists, and non-perfectionists view academic deviance the wrongness of academic deviance? Ordered logistic regression are used to access these research questions. Results suggest that neither perfectionism nor strain were a significant factor in determining the likelihood that a participant would engage in an academically deviant behavior, or how wrong they believed that behavior to be. However, perfectionism did seem to have a mild impact on how context dependent individuals felt the wrongness of their behaviors, meaning that if the cause of the strain was due to the professor’s actions, students viewed academic deviance as less wrong, and self-control explained at least part of this effect. Strain, on the other hand, did not have a significant effect. Overall, the results suggest some legitimacy to the use of general strain theory to explain the potential relationships, given the relationship between perfectionism and context dependency. Additionally, the results support policy implications designed to reduce maladaptive thoughts and subsequently academic deviance, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Future research should examine the link between perfectionism and other types of academic strain. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Criminology and Criminal Justice 2020