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Mimicking the pattern formation of fruits and leaves using gel materials

  • Chen, Li;Zhang, Yang;Swaddiwudhipong, Somsak;Liu, Zishun
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.50 no.5
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    • pp.575-588
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    • 2014
  • Gel materials have recently gained more attention due to its unique capability of large and reversible volumetric changes. This study explores the possibility of mimicking the pattern formation of certain natural fruits during their growing process and leaves during drying processes through the swelling and de-swelling of gel materials. This will hopefully provide certain technical explanations on the morphology of fruits and plants. We adopt the inhomogeneous field gel theory to predict the deformation configurations of gel structures to describe the morphology of natural fruits and plants. The growing processes of apple and capsicum are simulated by imposing appropriate boundary conditions and field loading via varying the chemical potential from their immature to mature stages. The drying processes of three types of leaves with different vein structures are also investigated. The simulations lead to promising results and demonstrate that pattern formation of fruits and plants may be described from mechanical perspective by the behavior of gel materials based on the inhomogeneous field theory.

Vibration analysis of boron nitride nanotubes by considering electric field and surface effect

  • Zeighampour, Hamid;Beni, YaghoubTadi
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.607-620
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    • 2021
  • In this paper, the vibrations of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) are investigated by considering the electric field. To consider the size effect at nanoscale dimensions, the surface elasticity theory is exploited. The equations of motion of the BNNTs are obtained by applying Hamilton's principle, and the clamped-guided boundary conditions are also considered. The governing equations and boundary conditions are discretized using the differential quadrature method (DQM), and the natural frequency is obtained by using the eigenvalue problem solution. The results are compared with the molecular dynamic simulation in order to validate the accurate values of the surface effects. In the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, the potential between boron and nitride atoms is considered as the Tersoff type. The Timoshenko beam model is adopted to model BNNT. The vibrations of two types of zigzag and armchair BNNTs are considered. In the result section, the effects of chirality, surface elasticity modulus, surface residual tension, surface density, electric field, length, and thickness of BNNT on natural frequency are investigated. According to the results, it should be noted that, as an efficient non-classical continuum mechanic approach, the surface elasticity theory can be used in scrutinizing the dynamic behavior of BNNTs.

Dynamic vibration response of functionally graded porous nanoplates in thermal and magnetic fields under moving load

  • Ismail Esen;Mashhour A. Alazwari;Khalid H. Almitani;Mohamed A Eltaher;A. Abdelrahman
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.475-493
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    • 2023
  • In the context of nonclassical nonlocal strain gradient elasticity, this article studies the free and forced responses of functionally graded material (FGM) porous nanoplates exposed to thermal and magnetic fields under a moving load. The developed mathematical model includes shear deformation, size-scale, miscorstructure influences in the framework of higher order shear deformation theory (HSDT) and nonlocal strain gradient theory (NSGT), respectively. To explore the porosity effect, the study considers four different porosity models across the thickness: uniform, symmetrical, asymmetric bottom, and asymmetric top distributions. The system of quations of motion of the FGM porous nanoplate, including the effects of thermal load, Lorentz force, due to the magnetic field and moving load, are derived using the Hamilton's principle, and then solved analytically by employing the Navier method. For the free and forced responses of the nanoplate, the effects of nonlocal elasticity, strain gradient elasticity, temperature rise, magnetic field intensity, porosity volume fraction, and porosity distribution are analyzed. It is found that the forced vibrations of FGM porous nanoplates under thermal and live loads can be damped by applying a directed magnetic field.

A Critical Review on Behavioral Economics with a Focus on Prospect Theory and EBA Model (프로스펙트 이론과 속성별 제거모형을 중심으로 한 행동경제학에 대한 비판적 고찰)

  • Won, Jee-Sung
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.63-76
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    • 2013
  • Purpose - For the past several decades, behavioral economics or behavioral decision theory has undergone rapid development. This study provides a critical review of the development of behavioral economics with a focus on what are deemed to be core theories in the field. Starting from the utility function proposed by Daniel Bernoulli in the 18th century, the development history of utility functions until the emergence of the prospect theory is thoroughly reviewed. Some of the experimental results violating the traditionally assumed utility function and supporting the prospect theory value function are summarized. The most representative principles of rational choice are transitivity, independence from irrelevant alternatives (IIA), and regularity. The development of behavioral economics has been triggered by finding counter-examples to these principles. Some of the choice behaviors discussed in this study as counter-examples to the traditional theories of rational choice are the St. Petersburg paradox; the Allais paradox; gambling behavior; and the various context effects including the similarity effect, attraction effect, and the compromise effect. The Elimination-by-Aspects (EBA) model, which was proposed as an explanation for the similarity effect, is discussed in detail as well. Based on the literature review and further analysis, this study summarizes the relationship between the context effects, prospect theory, and EBA model. Research design, data, and methodology - This study provides an extensive literature review on several important theories in the field of behavioral decision theory and adds some critical comments to the theories and the relationships among them. This study first reviews the development of utility functions. Daniel Bernoulli introduced the concept of utility function to solve the St. Petersburg paradox. In the mid-20th century, Herbert Simon proposed the "satisficing" heuristic and presented a value function with a shape different from traditional utility functions. This study highlights the strengths and weaknesses of several utility functions proposed until the emergence of the prospect theory value function. Results - This study posits that prospect theory and EBA model are the two most important theories in the field of behavioral decision theory. They can explain various choice behaviors that traditional utility maximization analysis has been unable to. The application of these models to various fields is further increasing nowadays. This study explains how prospect theory and the EBA model can be used to explain the context effects. Conclusions - The traditional economic theory relies on a single variable called "utility" in explaining consumer choice. However, this study argues that, in investigating consumer choice, several other variables should also be considered. These are the similarity among alternatives, an alternative's prototypicality within the category, the dominance relationship between alternatives, and the reference point in evaluating alternatives. Due to the development of behavioral economics, we are now closer to a more complete understanding of consumer choice behavior than in the past when we had only a single tool called utility.

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INNOVATION OF SOME RANDOM FIELDS

  • Si, Si
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.793-802
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    • 1998
  • We apply the generalization of Levy's infinitesimal equation $\delta$X(t) = $\psi$(X(s), s $\leq$ t, $Y_{t}$, t, dt), $t\in R^1$, for a random field X (C) indexed by a contour C or by a more general set. Assume that the X(C) is homogeneous in x, say of degree n, then we can appeal to the classical theory of variational calculus and to the modern theory of white noise analysis in order to discuss the innovation for the X (C.)

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Conformal Change in Einstein's *gλʋ-Unified Field Theory. -II, The Vector Sλ

  • CHUNG, KYUNG TAE
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.29-31
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    • 1974
  • In the first paper of this series, [2], we investigated how the conformal change enforces the connections and gave the complete relations between connections in Einstein's $^*g^{{\lambda}{\nu}}$-unified field theory. In the current paper we wish to investigate how the vector def $$S_{{\lambda}{{\mu}}{{^\mu}}{=^{def}}S_{\lambda}$$ is transformed by the conformal change. This topics will be studied for all classes and all possible indices of inertia.

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Evaluation of Stress Intensity Factors for an Electrostrictive Crack with an Electric Yielding Zone (전기적 항복영역을 갖는 전왜균열에 대한 응력강도계수 계산)

  • 범현규;정은도
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.469-472
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    • 2000
  • a crack with electrically impermeable surfaces in an electrostrictive material subjected to uniform electric loading is analysed. A strip yield zone model is employed to investigate the effect of electric yielding on stress intensity factor. complete forms of electric fields and elastic fields for the crack are derived by using complex function theory. /the stress intensity factors are obtained based on the strip yield zone model.

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EXISTENCE THEOREM FOR NON-ABELIAN VORTICES IN THE AHARONY-BERGMAN-JAFFERIS-MALDACENA THEORY

  • Zhang, Ruifeng;Zhu, Meili
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.54 no.3
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    • pp.737-746
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we discuss the existence theorem for multiple vortex solutions in the non-Abelian Chern-Simons-Higgs field theory developed by Aharony, Bergman, Jafferis, and Maldacena, on a doubly periodic domain. The governing equations are of the BPS type and derived by Auzzi and Kumar in the mass-deformed framework labeled by a continuous parameter. Our method is based on fixed point method.