The work concerns numerical – experimental studies on pre- and post-buckling of thin-walled, steel, cylindrical shells, with the open section, subjected to constrained torsion. Two geometrically varied structures are considered: an open section cylindrical shell without stiffeners and one that is reinforced by closed section stringers. The shells have five different length to diameter ratios. Numerical simulations were carried out and the neuralgic zone stress distributions in pre- and post-buckling responses, were determined. Torsion experiments were performed and the results were compared to the numerical conclusions, with reasonably high level of agreement. The exactness of the experiment was proven for selected cases, establishing the basis for FEM numerical model estimation.
In the paper, the authors present the approach to modelling of austenitic steel hardening basing on the Frederick-Armstrong’s rule and Chaboche elastic-plastic material model with mixed hardening. Non-linear uniaxial constitutive equations are derived from more general relations with the assumption of an appropriate evolution of back stress. The aim of the paper is to propose a robust and efficient identification method of a well known material model.
A typical LCF strain-controlled test was conducted for selected amplitudes of total strain. Continuous measurements of instant stress and total strain values were performed. Life time of a specimen, signals amplitudes and load frequency were also recorded.
Based on the measurement, identification of constitutive equation parameters was performed. The goal was to obtain a model that describes, including hardening phenomenon, a material behaviour during the experiment until the material failure. As a criterion of optimisation of the model least square projection accuracy of the material response was selected.
Several optimisation methods were examined. Finally, the differential evolution method was selected as the most efficient one. The method was compared to standard optimisation methods available in the MATLAB environment. Significant decrease of computation time was achieved as all the optimisation procedures were run parallel on a computer cluster.
The article presents results of tests performed at the AGH-University of Science and Technology in Cracow on strength of single-coil inductors used as tools in electrodynamic machining of pipes. The character of volumetric Lorentz forces acting on coils of compressing and expanding inductors was discussed, and numerically determined distributions of stresses and displacements created in coils under the impact of these forces were presented. The problems presented are relevant when designing durable inductors intended for industrial applications.
This paper presents an estimation method for the spatial pose and displacement parameters of multi-rod suspension mechanism, based on measurement results by using wire sensors. Some changes of position and orientation of the platform fixed to wheel knuckle cause corresponding changes of sensors’ cable lengths. The fixation points of the cable sensors are selected with the collision-free conditions taken into account. Numerical example deals with platform poses and positioning of the sensors that satisfy the measurement conditions.
The study presents an attempt at increasing the effectiveness of the crushing process through the application of a new original crumbling system. In the process of crushing materials, friction is present in many crushers as extremely significant or even dominating factor. The proposed construction solution is characterized by the occurrence – always on one of the working surfaces – of the static friction factor, and thus a friction that is greater than the kinetic friction.
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Marek Wojtyra, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Editorial Board
Prof. Krzysztof Arczewski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Janusz T. Cieśliński, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Antonio Delgado, LSTM University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Prof. Peter Eberhard, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Prof. Jerzy Maciej Floryan, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Prof. Janusz Frączek, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Zbigniew Kowalewski, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Prof. Zenon Mróz, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Prof. Andrzej J. Nowak, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Andrzej F. Nowakowski, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Prof. Jerzy Sąsiadek, Carleton University, Canada
Prof. Jacek Szumbarski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Tomasz Wiśniewski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Günter Wozniak, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Assistant to the Editor
Małgorzata Broszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Editorial Advisory Board
Prof. Alberto Carpinteri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Prof. Fernand Ellyin, University of Alberta, Canada
Prof. Feng Gao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China
Prof. Emmanuel E. Gdoutos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Prof. Gregory Glinka, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Prof. Andrius Marcinkevicius, Vilnius Gedeminas Technical University, Lithuania
Prof. Manuel José Moreira De Freitas, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Prof. Andrzej Neimitz, Kielce University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Thierry Palin-Luc, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Institut Carnot Arts, France
Prof. Andre Pineau, Centre des Matériaux, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France
Prof. Narayanaswami Ranganathan, LMR, Ecole Polytechnique de l'Université de Tours, France
Prof. Jan Ryś, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Adelia Sequeira, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal,
Prof. Józef Szala, University of Technology and Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz, Poland
Prof. Edmund Wittbrodt, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Jens Wittenburg, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Prof. Stanisław Wojciech, University of Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Language Editor
Lech Śliwa, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland
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