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Nonlinear damping of sandwich structures with entangled fibre core material
No full textLes structures sandwichs sont largement utilisées dans le domaine de l’aéronautique et de l’espace du fait de leur bon rapport rigidité sur masse. Cependant, leur amortissement doit être amélioré pour le confort des utilisateurs et la durabilité des structures. L’objectif de cette thèse est d’étudier l’amortissement apporté à une structure sandwich par l’utilisation d’un matériau d’âme récemment développé. Ce matériau est fabriqué à base de fibres de carbone enchevêtrées, réticulées avec de la résine époxy. Le matériau enchevêtré-Réticulé est d’abord étudié seul. Les mesures expérimentales montrent un comportement dépendant de l’amplitude et de l’historique de sollicitation, et indépendant de la fréquence. Un modèle d’hystérésis est développé pour décrire les boucles contrainte-Déformation mesurées. L’étude théorique d’une structure à un degré de liberté permet de détailler l’effet des différentes composantes de ces boucles sur la réponse dynamique. Le matériau est ensuite inclus dans une poutre sandwich. Un modèle de vibrations de poutres sandwichs en flexion est proposé pour inclure un comportement non-Linéaire dissipatif du matériau d’âme. Une étude expérimentale est menée sur des poutres sandwichs, montrant un amortissement très supérieur à celui apporté par un matériau d’âme classique comme le nid d’abeille. Les simulations réalisées avec le modèle de poutre sandwich et le modèle d’hystérésis permettent de bien capturer les phénomènes non-Linéaires observés. A la fin de l’étude, une utilisation mixte d’un matériau d’âme en nid d’abeille et d’un matériau d’âme enchevêtré-Réticulé est proposée afin d’obtenir un bon amortissement pour un faible ajout de masse.Sandwich structures are widely used in aerospace applications for their very good stiffness to weight properties. However, the damping properties of these structures have to be improved for user comfort and structural durability. The aim of this thesis is to study how the use of a recently developped core material can increase damping in sandwich structures. This material is made with entangled carbon fibres cross-Linked with epoxy resin. The entangled-Cross-Linked material is first studied separately. Experimental measurements show that the behavior depends strongly on strain amplitude and excitation history, while it depends weakly on frequency. A hysteresis model is developed to describe measured stress-Strain loops. A single-Degree-Of-Freedom structure containing the material is studied theoretically to show the effect of the different parts of the hysteresis loops on the steadystateand transient responses. The material is then included in a sandwich beam. A model for the bending vibrations of a sandwich beam is developped to include any nonlinear nonconservative behavior of the core material. Sandwich beams are then studied experimentally, showing a much higher damping than for classical core materials such as honeycomb. Simulations made with the sandwich beam model and the hysteresis loop model capture well the observed nonlinear phenomena. At the end of the study, a mixed use of honeycomb and entangled-Cross-Linked core materials is proposed, in order to obtain a high level of damping without adding much weight to the structure
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Un programme pour le calcul de géométries d'aubes de compresseur à partir de paramètres d'arcs circulaires multiples avec flèche et inclinaison (v1.0)
No full textThis repository contains the source code used to generate compressor blade geometries for the following publication (currently under minor revisions): Piollet, E., Nyssen, F. and Batailly, A. "Blade/casing rubbing interactions in aircraft engines: numerical benchmark and design guidelines based on NASA rotor 37". This code computes the cross-section coordinates of a compressor blade composed of multiple-circular-arc elements including variable sweep and lean angles. The goal is to study the design of blades that are robust to contact interactions, and to serve as a basis for comparative work between different research teams on blade dynamics. All input and output files related to the seven blades studied in the aforementioned publication are provided along with the program. This includes input parameters (multiple-circular-arc profile parameters and sweep and lean parameters) and output for all seven blades ((x, y, z) coordinates of the suction side and pressure side for each stacked profile -- CAD (Computer-Aided Design) files in STEP format -- finite element mesh files).Ce dossier contient le code source utilisé pour générer des géométries d'aubes de compresseur pour la publication suivante (actuellement en cours de révisions mineures): Piollet, E., Nyssen, F. et Batailly, A. "Blade/casing rubbing interactions in aircraft engines: numerical benchmark and design guidelines based on NASA rotor 37". Ce code calcule les coordonnées des sections d'une aube de compresseur composée d'éléments de type arcs circulaires multiples, incluant la prise en compte de paramètres de flèche et d'inclinaison. L'objectif est d'étudier la conception d'aubes robustes aux interactions de contact, et de permettre des comparaisons entre les travaux de plusieurs équipes de recherche sur la dynamique des aubes. Tous les fichiers d'entrée et de sortie reliés aux sept aubes étudiées dans la publication sus-mentionnée sont fournis avec le programme. Ceci inclut les paramètres d'entrée (paramètres de profils de type arcs circulaires multiples et paramètres de flèche et d'inclinaison) et les sorties pour les sept aubes (coordonnées (x, y, z) de l'extrados et de l'intrados -- fichiers CAO au format STEP -- fichiers de maillage éléments finis)
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe 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.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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