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A multiscale space time approche to simulate damages in composite structures subjected to a low energy impact
Les stratifiés composites sont de plus en plus utilisés dans les pièces de structures des aéronefs ce qui fait émerger de nouvelles problématiques comme celle des Impacts de Faible Energie (IFE). En effet, bien qu’ils possèdent des propriétés rapportées à leur masse très intéressantes ces matériaux peuvent être vulnérables aux petits chocs. Or, compte tenu des nombreux paramètres influents lors d’un tel impact (énergie, vitesse, stratification...), les essais actuellement majoritairement privilégiés à l’échelle industrielle sont long et coûteux. Ainsi, l’apport de la simulation numérique pourrait être d’une grande aide pour les constructeurs. La pratique du « virtual testing », en particulier, permettrait d’aller dans cette direction ce qui aurait pour effet de rationaliser les campagnes d’essais et les coûts financier qui en découlent. Cependant, elle peine à être mise en place ici car le temps CPU nécessaire pour la simulation fine des ndommagements induits par les IFE est trop important avec les méthodes actuelles. Partant de ce constat, ce travail a consisté à tirer avantageusement partie de la localisation spatiale et temporelle des délaminages, fissurations matricielles et ruptures de fibres qui peuvent apparaître pendant l’impact pour diminuer le coût de calcul. Ainsi une méthode multiéchelle en espace et en temps a été mise en place. Elle consiste à découper la structure impactée en deux zones. L’une est située autour du point d’impact, elle contient l’ensemble des non-régularités du problème (contact, loi adoucissante, modèle de zone cohésive). Elle est traitée avec le code de dynamique explicite Europlexus. L’autre correspond à la partie complémentaire. Le problème mécanique y est beaucoup plus régulier et il est traité avec le code de dynamique implicite Zset/Zébulon. Un couplage peu intrusif basé sur la méthode GC est donc réalisé entre ces deux codes. Il permet d’utiliser une modélisation adaptée dans chacune des deux régions ce qui permet en particulier d’utiliser des pas de temps différents. Un rapport supérieur à 1000 peut ainsi être obtenu entre celui du code explicite fixé par la condition de stabilité et celui utilisé dans la partie complémentaire. Un gain de temps CPU significatif confirmé par la simulation d’un impact réalisé sur un panneau composite raidi est ainsi obtenu. Il est également montré que la répartition implicite/explicite peut évoluer au cours du calcul. Pour cela un mécanisme de bascule a été mis en place. Il permet ainsi de faire transiter la résolution d’une partie de la structure initialement traitée dans le code Zebulon dans Europlexus. Un gain de temps supplémentaire est alors obtenu grâce à cette méthode sur le même cas d’application.The composite laminates are increasingly used in aircraft structural parts which lead to new issues such as the Low Energy Impacts (LEI). Indeed, although they have well mechanical properties relative to their mass, small shocks may be very harmfull for laminates. Controlling such situations is essential for manufacturers that why lot of testing campaigns are currently performed. Yet, they are time consuming and expensive considering the many influential parameters (energy, speed, layup...). Numerical simulations of this phenomenon by practicing the so called “virtual testing” process could be really helpfull to rationalize testing campaigns in order to save money. Yet, this practice remain currently hard to do at the industrial scale due to the excessive CPU time required for fine simulation of damages induced by the LEI. Based on this observation, this work has consisted in taking advantage of the spatial and temporal location of delamination, matrix cracking and fiber breakage that can occur during impact in order to reduce the computational cost. Thus, a space and time multiscale method has been put in place. The impacted structure is split into two areas. One is located around the impacted point, it contains all the non-regularities of the problem (contact, softening law, cohesive zone model). This domain is treated with the explicit dynamics code Europlexus. The other one corresponds to the complementary part. The mechanical problem is much more regular and it is treated with the implicit dynamics code Zset / Zebulon. A low intrusive coupling based on the GC method is carried out between these two codes. It allows to use an adapted model in both regions different time step are in particular used. A time step ratio upper to 1000 can be reach between the one of the explicit code set by the stability condition and the one used in the complementary part. As a results, significant CPU time is saved. This is confirmed by the simulation of a stiffened composite panel impacted. It is also shown that the implicit / explicit allocation can change over the calculation. To do that, a switch mechanism has been established. It thus makes it possible to transit the resolution of a portion of the structure initially solved in the code Zebulon to Europlexus. As a results, further gain is obtained
Approche multiéchelle en espace et en temps pour la prévision des endommagements dans les structures composites soumises à un impact de faible énergie
The composite laminates are increasingly used in aircraft structural parts which lead to new issues such as the Low Energy Impacts (LEI). Indeed, although they have well mechanical properties relative to their mass, small shocks may be very harmfull for laminates. Controlling such situations is essential for manufacturers that why lot of testing campaigns are currently performed. Yet, they are time consuming and expensive considering the many influential parameters (energy, speed, layup...). Numerical simulations of this phenomenon by practicing the so called “virtual testing” process could be really helpfull to rationalize testing campaigns in order to save money. Yet, this practice remain currently hard to do at the industrial scale due to the excessive CPU time required for fine simulation of damages induced by the LEI. Based on this observation, this work has consisted in taking advantage of the spatial and temporal location of delamination, matrix cracking and fiber breakage that can occur during impact in order to reduce the computational cost. Thus, a space and time multiscale method has been put in place. The impacted structure is split into two areas. One is located around the impacted point, it contains all the non-regularities of the problem (contact, softening law, cohesive zone model). This domain is treated with the explicit dynamics code Europlexus. The other one corresponds to the complementary part. The mechanical problem is much more regular and it is treated with the implicit dynamics code Zset / Zebulon. A low intrusive coupling based on the GC method is carried out between these two codes. It allows to use an adapted model in both regions different time step are in particular used. A time step ratio upper to 1000 can be reach between the one of the explicit code set by the stability condition and the one used in the complementary part. As a results, significant CPU time is saved. This is confirmed by the simulation of a stiffened composite panel impacted. It is also shown that the implicit / explicit allocation can change over the calculation. To do that, a switch mechanism has been established. It thus makes it possible to transit the resolution of a portion of the structure initially solved in the code Zebulon to Europlexus. As a results, further gain is obtained.Les stratifiés composites sont de plus en plus utilisés dans les pièces de structures des aéronefs ce qui fait émerger de nouvelles problématiques comme celle des Impacts de Faible Energie (IFE). En effet, bien qu’ils possèdent des propriétés rapportées à leur masse très intéressantes ces matériaux peuvent être vulnérables aux petits chocs. Or, compte tenu des nombreux paramètres influents lors d’un tel impact (énergie, vitesse, stratification...), les essais actuellement majoritairement privilégiés à l’échelle industrielle sont long et coûteux. Ainsi, l’apport de la simulation numérique pourrait être d’une grande aide pour les constructeurs. La pratique du « virtual testing », en particulier, permettrait d’aller dans cette direction ce qui aurait pour effet de rationaliser les campagnes d’essais et les coûts financier qui en découlent. Cependant, elle peine à être mise en place ici car le temps CPU nécessaire pour la simulation fine des ndommagements induits par les IFE est trop important avec les méthodes actuelles. Partant de ce constat, ce travail a consisté à tirer avantageusement partie de la localisation spatiale et temporelle des délaminages, fissurations matricielles et ruptures de fibres qui peuvent apparaître pendant l’impact pour diminuer le coût de calcul. Ainsi une méthode multiéchelle en espace et en temps a été mise en place. Elle consiste à découper la structure impactée en deux zones. L’une est située autour du point d’impact, elle contient l’ensemble des non-régularités du problème (contact, loi adoucissante, modèle de zone cohésive). Elle est traitée avec le code de dynamique explicite Europlexus. L’autre correspond à la partie complémentaire. Le problème mécanique y est beaucoup plus régulier et il est traité avec le code de dynamique implicite Zset/Zébulon. Un couplage peu intrusif basé sur la méthode GC est donc réalisé entre ces deux codes. Il permet d’utiliser une modélisation adaptée dans chacune des deux régions ce qui permet en particulier d’utiliser des pas de temps différents. Un rapport supérieur à 1000 peut ainsi être obtenu entre celui du code explicite fixé par la condition de stabilité et celui utilisé dans la partie complémentaire. Un gain de temps CPU significatif confirmé par la simulation d’un impact réalisé sur un panneau composite raidi est ainsi obtenu. Il est également montré que la répartition implicite/explicite peut évoluer au cours du calcul. Pour cela un mécanisme de bascule a été mis en place. Il permet ainsi de faire transiter la résolution d’une partie de la structure initialement traitée dans le code Zebulon dans Europlexus. Un gain de temps supplémentaire est alors obtenu grâce à cette méthode sur le même cas d’application
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
We have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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