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Tomorrow's Children
No full text"When the New York Tomorrow People move their base to get out of the reach of Tim Donovan, a sensation-seeking reporter, they discover that there are others who live beneath New York, and that Donovan is also interested in the non-human who lives with them. When Stephen is captured by Donovan, he is forced to share a cage with Vincent and they combine their abilities in a joint escape, But Donovan is not yet finished and Vincent's family need the Tomorrow People's help to rescue him from a second kidnap attempt and to keep Donovan silent forever."--Fanlore.org wiki
Irrigation Water Quality, Critical Salt Levels for Peanuts, Cotton, Corn & Grain Sorghum
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Partners and Lovers Issue 2
No full textThis issue is not dated.This publication may contain explicit sexual literary descriptions and/or artistic depictions.Edited by C. Hillman."Partners & Lovers is an explicit slash Simon and Simon anthology."--Fanlore.org wiki
Determination of Microcrack Surface Area Caused by Fracture in Quasi-Brittle Solids Using Grafea Simulations
No full textA method for estimating the crack free surface area created by distributed microcracks for quasi-brittle materials is proposed and tested within the quasi-static regime of the two-dimensional (2D) non-local GraFEA (Graph-based Finite-Element Analysis) finite-element (FE) framework. This method defines a failure probability of the material in a micro-region area (defined by an assumed minimum microcrack segment length) of a simulated sample. This microcrack density is calculated for each FE within a sample domain, which leads to a quantitative estimate for the crack free surface area when summed over the domain. To ensure convergence of this estimation with respect to FE mesh density, coupled Abaqus/GraFEA simulations of three 2D quasi-static boundary value problems were performed with various FE mesh refinements. These allowed a sufficient FE mesh refinement to be determined which will ensure convergence of free surface area creation and force-displacement response results. This data, along with the experimentally determined fracture energy of the material, was then used to estimate the fracture energy absorbed during the simulations, and reasonable results were achieved. Therefore, the estimation of free surface area created in 2D quasi-static GraFEA simulations was confirmed to be a viable approach