23 research outputs found
Beyond Empire: Postcolonialism and Mission in a Global Context, By Jonathan Ingleby. Milton Keynes, UK, Author House 2010. Pp. xix + 279. £13.50.
No full textBook review: Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler Capital As Power: A Study of Order and Creorder, Routledge: London, 2009; 438 pp: 9780415496803, £22.99 (pbk)
No full textReview of Nitzan and Bichler's "Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder"
No full textFROM THE REVIEW: "Capitalism is the 'natural reality' of the day: we live in and with its beauty and perplexities. As of now, we seem to be helpless before its gigantic leap forward and submit ourselves to its power. The rules by which we abide, the morals we keep and the very life we love to cherish all sprout up, engage, adjust, fight in and with the different manifestations of capitalism, and owe much debt to its intricate legacies. But do we know what capitalism really is? And how do we know that what we know of capitalism is accurate? This book brilliantly examines and rigorously analyses these very old questions of political economy and the theoretical attempts to define capitalism in its political, social and philosophical sense, situating them in the classical political economy of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Restoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past
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Trendy Acquisitions, Marxist Readings and Hinduism: A Review of<i>The Seductions of Karl Marx</i>by Jal Murzban
No full textMelvyn C. Goldstein, <i>A History of Modern Tibet. Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951–1955</i> (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 639 pp
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The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
No full textLiza Piper The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canad
Strain analysis in glenohumeral capsule through finite element modelling
No full textThe injury mechanics and strain distribution in the glenohumeral capsule at a particular joint angle have been studied extensively. However, there is a lack of information on the strain distributions in the capsule under complex joint angles, i.e, during the activities of daily living (ADL). To investigate the mechanical response of the capsule under the kinematics of the forward reach, a subject specific finite element model of the glenohumeral joint with the capsule was developed. Since the mechanical properties of the capsule under multiaxial loading were unknown we proposed an inverse finite elements based optimization routine to determine the material coefficients of the capsule. Several constitutive material models were evaluated to identify feasibility of convergence for the complex loading associated with physiological tasks. We established limits for the material coefficients of the Mooney-Rivlin model used to model the capsule. The Mooney-Rivlin model with the material coefficients C1 = 6, C10 = 6.5, and D1 = 0.12 converged for around 50% of the cycle. The results also suggest that the peak strain occurred on the inferior aspect of both the anterior and posterior side of the capsule. This work serves as the basis for future comparisons of material models and can be extended to other activities of daily living.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2021-08-01The student, Vineeth Bodapati, accepted the attached license on 2019-07-18 at 20:31.The student, Vineeth Bodapati, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-07-18 at 20:40.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-07-19 at 11:25.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14386 on 2019-11-26 at 13:06:21Made available in DSpace on 2019-11-26T20:49:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Computational Modelling of the Oryon Watermill: A Nested Fluid-Structure Interaction Problem with Non-Smooth Dynamics
No full textThe current research aims to numerically predict the performance characteristics of the Oryon Water Mill. The simulation mechanism to be developed, begins at the structural solver part of a partitioned FSI solver, upon which the unique functional characteristics of the turbine are embedded. The modelling is carried out to account for the turbine’s functional characteristics like, multiple nested rigid body FSI dynamics, non-smooth dynamics and lamella partial torque contributions. The solver is built to resolve the turbine dynamics in two dimensions and re-scale the final result with respect to the turbine core height. The results of the simulation show the predicted torque to be of similar trend as that of the experimental data collected by MARIN, while being an over-prediction by a factor of two. The optimal performance range of the turbine is predicted within an error bound of 0.1RPS. The overprediction of the torque is considered to be a result of the 2D solution not accounting for the flow leakage in the third and unaccounted for direction. The time variant fluid solution is found to be unstable due to the spikes observed in the torque time signal and is a consequence of the perfect momentum sink assumption employed in the modelling of the lamella’s non-smooth dynamics. The lamella dynamics are observed to not convergence to fully periodic behaviour and the sensitivity of the lamella’s dynamics is considered to be the root cause. The velocity Verlet based structural solver does not provide fluid-structure coupling iterations, the inclusion of which, could improve the stability of the fluid solution.This endeavour establishes a foundation for the predictive numerical simulation of the OWM in the form of baseline numerical simulation results and a developed simulation framework
