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A finite difference technique is developed to predict the second stage creep displacement rates and stress analysis of a short fiber metal matrix composite subjecting to a constant axial load through a micromechanical approach. The technique is capable to take into account the presence of interfacial debonding as one of the main factors affecting the creep performance of short fiber composites. The exponential law is adopted to describe the matrix creep behavior. Also, a model for prediction of interfacial debonding at fiber/matrix interface is developed using a stress based method. The obtained results could greatly help to better understand the flow pattern of matrix material and the load... 

A modified analytical model is developed for analysis of 3-D elastic stress fields in short fibre composites subjected to an applied axial load. Two sets of exact displacement solutions for the matrix and fibre are derived based on the theory of elasticity. The superposition of these two solutions are then used to obtain the analytical expressions for the 3-D stress field components over the entire composite system including the fibre end region which is modelled by the use of imaginary fibre technique. The main difference with the previous works here is that the stress field is considered to be dependent on both radial and axial directions. Such an assumption made it possible to calculate... 

It has been shown that FEM simulation of creep deformation of composites is somehow very challenging. The type of FEM model, mesh size, element type, internal defects (such as fibre/matrix debonding), and the type of mathematical creep law all affect the calculation of the creep strain rate. In the present study, the fibre offsetting which happens in the manufacturing phase of composites is added to the simulation. It is shown that this defect at some critical point can affect the calculation of creep deformation. Here, the quantification of this phenomenon is performed using 3-D FEM models. Since it has also been shown that the fibre/matrix debonding affects the creep strain rate, the... 

The creep deformation behavior of short fiber composites has been studied by an approximate analytical model. A perfect fiber/matrix interfacial bond is assumed and a power law function is considered for describing the steady state creep behavior of the matrix material. The results obtained from the proposed analytical solution satisfy the equilibrium and constitutive creep equations. Also, a parametric study was undertaken to define the effects of geometric parameters on the steady state creep strain rate of short fiber composites. The present model is then validated using the results of finite element method. The predicted strain rate and stress components by the proposed analytical... 

A novel analytical model is presented for analyzing the steady-state creep in short-fiber composites under axial load utilizing the previous shear-lag theory, the imaginary fiber technique and also new approaches of Hermite polynomials, hyperbolic trigonometric functions and power series. The steady-state creep behavior of the matrix is described by an exponential law, while the fibers behave elastically. In this model, in spite of the previous researches, some unknowns such as shear stress, displacement rates, and creep strain rates are correctly determined in all regions of the unit cell without using any further assumptions. In comparison with previous analytical approaches, the results... 

A new analytical model based on the shear-lag theory is developed for stress analysis and prediction of the steady state creep deformation of short fiber composites subjected to an applied axial load. A perfect fiber/matrix interface is assumed and the steady state creep behavior of the matrix is described by an exponential law. The results obtained from the proposed analytical solution satisfy the equilibrium and constitutive creep equations. These analytical results are then validated by the FEM modeling. Interestingly, good agreements are found between the analytical and numerical predictions for all the stress and displacement rate components. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved  

A new analytical model based on the shear-lag theory is developed for stress analysis and steady state creep deformation of short fiber composites subjected to an applied axial load. A perfect fiber/matrix interface is assumed and an exponential law is considered for describing the steady state creep behavior of the matrix material. The matrix stress field components obtained from the proposed analytical solution satisfies the equilibrium and constitutive creep equations. Also, the obtained axial stress in the fiber in an average form satisfies the equilibrium requirements within the fiber and between the fiber and the matrix. Moreover, the above stress field components satisfy well the... 

Prediction of the creep behavior of metal matrix whiskers reinforced composites is the subject of many analytical and experimental research works. However, application of the FEM modeling to this area has not been so successful. The present research work highlights the shortcomings of the previous FEM studies and combines the analytical findings with the power of FEM modeling. More specifically, the fiber/matrix debonding parameter ξ is incorporated into the modeling. In contrary to the analytical results, it is shown that the value of ξ could only change in the range of zero to 0.5. The results indicate that the exponential creep law along with the modified ξ-σ relationship, and the newly... 

Using multiple antennas at the transmit and receive sides of a passive radar brings both the benefits of MIMO radar and passive radar. However one of the obstacles arisen in such configuration is the receive antennas placement in proper positions so that the radar performance is improved. Here we just consider the case of positioning one receiver among multiple illuminators of opportunity. Indeed it is a start for the solution of optimizing the geometry of the multiple receivers in a passive radar  

SbCl3 supported on montmorillonite K-10 is an efficient catalyst for the ring opening of epoxides with aromatic amines under solvent-free conditions and microwave irradiation to give the corresponding b-amino alcohols in high yields with high regioselectivity  

In this paper, we consider an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with wireless power transfer (WPT) where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based radar serves a group of energy-limited communication users in addition to its sensing functionality. In this architecture, the radar senses the environment in phase 1 (namely sensing phase) and mean-while, the communications users (nodes) harvest and store the energy from the radar transmit signal. The stored energy is then used for information transmission from the nodes to UAV in phase 2, i.e., uplink phase. Performance of the radar system depends on the transmit signal as well as the receive filter; the energy of the transmit... 

One of the important obstacles in MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) radars is the issue of designing proper transmit signals. Indeed, the capability of signal design is a significant advantage in MIMO radars, through which, the system can achieve much better performance. Many different aspects of this performance improvement have been considered yet, and the transmit signals have been designed to attain such goal, e.g., getting higher SNR or better detector's performance at the receiver. However, an important tool for evaluating the radar's performance is its ambiguity function. In this paper, we consider the problem of transmit signal design, in order to optimize the ambiguity function... 

Two gains play key roles in recently developed MIMO wireless communication systems: "spatial diversity" gain and "spatial multiplexing" gain. The diversity gain refers to the capability to decrease the error rate of the MIMO channel, while the multiplexing gain implicitly refers to the amount of increase in the capacity of the MIMO channel. It has been shown that there is a fundamental tradeoff between these two types of gains, meaning interplay between increasing reliability (via an increase in the diversity gain) and increasing data rate (via an increase in the multiplexing gain). On the other hand, recently, MIMO radars have attracted much attention for their superior ability to enhance... 

It is a well known fact that using multiple antennas at transmit and receive sides improves the detection performance. However, in such multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration, proper positioning of transmitters and receivers is a big challenge that can have significant influence on the performance of the overall system. In addition, determining the power of each transmitter under a total power constraint is a problem that should be solved in order to enhance the performance and coverage of such a system. In this paper, we design the Neyman-Pearson detector under the Rayleigh scatter model and use it to introduce a criterion for the antenna placement at both transmit and receive... 

There has been much interest, recently, towards exploiting the Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technique in radar. It is shown that using multiple antennas at transmit and receive sides can improve the performance of the system. However, in order to analyze the system's performance, its ambiguity function, i.e. the ambiguity function of a MIMO radar, is needed to be defined. In this paper, beginning from the information theoretic definitions, we derive such function, specifically for a MIMO radar with widely separated antennas  

By combining the two ideas of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) and PCL (Passive Coherent Location) in radar, one can achieve the advantages of both recently developed techniques simultaneously. While using multiple antennas at the receive side provides a spatial diversity of the object to be detected, using multiple illuminators of opportunity, most importantly, makes the radar covert to the interceptors. One obstacle in such MIMO configuration is choosing the positions of the receive antennas. In this paper, after analyzing the Neyman-Pearson detector for the DVB-T based PCL, we introduce the probability of missed detection as a criterion to place the receive antenna. Here, we only... 

One of the most important obstacles in passive radar applications is removing the direct signal from the target channel. Otherwise, week echoes from the targets in the target channel would be ignored due to the limited dynamic range of the system. One of the most effective techniques in this field is using adaptive filters. In this paper various adaptive filters are introduced and their performances are shown and compared  

It has been shown that using multiple antennas in a radar system improves the performance considerably, since multiple target echoes are received from different aspect angles of the target. In this way, the target detection is improved. However, when using multiple antennas, some problems, such as designing the transmit signals, synchronization, etc. emerge that should be solved. One of such problems is the receiver placement. Receiver placement deals with choosing a proper position for the receive antenna in order to optimize the whole system's performance. In this paper, a receiver placement procedure based on improving the radar ambiguity function is proposed for the case of a multisite... 

By employing the MIMO (multiple-input-multiple-output) technology in radar, some new problems emerged, that, in order to benefit the MIMO gains in radar, it was necessary to solve them suitably. One of such obstacles is determining the positions of receive antennas in a MIMO radar system with widely separated antennas (WS MIMO radar), since it is shown that the antennas' positions affect the whole system's performance considerably. In this study, a proper receivers' positioning procedure is proposed. To do this end, four criteria are developed based on the proposed MIMO detector and the MIMO ambiguity function. The simulations verify that the proposed positioning procedure improves the...