Nanoindentation of soft solids by a fla punch

Measuring the surface tension and elastic mod- ulus of soft materials and biological tissues under different physiological and pathological conditions is of significance for understanding various phenomena associated with defor- mation. In this paper, the nanoindentation of a circular fiat punch on a soft solid is analyzed with the influence of surface tension. By solving the corresponding singular integral equa- tion, the relation between load and indent depth is obtained. When the radius of the flat punch shrinks to the same order as the ratio of surface tension to elastic modulus, surface ten- sion significantly affects the indentation load-depth relation, which provides a facile method to measure surface tension in soft solids and biological tissues.

Exact simulation for direction-dependent large elastic strain responses of soft fibre-reinforced composites

An explicit form of the elastic strain-energy function for direction-dependent large elastic strain behaviors of soft fiber-reinforced composites is first presented based upon a decoupled approach for simulating complex nonlinear coupling effects.From this form,the exact closed-form solutions are then obtained for the uniaxial tension responses in the fiber and cross-fiber directions.With such exact solutions,the issue of simultaneously simulating strongly coupling nonlinear responses in the fiber and cross-fiber directions may be reduced to the issue of separately treating each decoupled uniaxial stress-strain response,thus bypassing usual complexities and uncertainties involved in identifying a large number of strongly coupled adjustable parameters.The numerical examples given are in good agreement with the experimental data for large strain responses.

Complex effective depth approximation for soft solid bottom

In this paper, the approximate equation of Chapman's (real) effective depth for Pekeris guide is extended to the complex effective depth approximation whose real and imaginary parts explicate respectively the phase change and energy loss on reflection. It is shown that the homogeneous acoustic field, which comprises the complex effective depth approximation,closely reproduces the character of low modes at small grazing angles, and calculates effectively the acoustic field at longer ranges in shallow water. Application of the complex effective depth approximation can be extended to bottoms having two soft solid layers.

Studies of Water V. Five Phonons in Protonic Semiconductor Lattice Model of Pure Liquid Water

We report physics based confirmation（~1% RMS deviation）, by existing experimental data, of protonprohol（proton-hole） ion product（p H） and mobilities in pure liquid water（0-100℃, 1-atm pressure） anticipated from our melted-ice Hexagonal-Close-Packed（H_2O）_4Lattice Model. Five phonons are identified.（1） A propagating protonic phonon（520.9 meV from lone-pair-blue-shifted stretching mode of isolated water molecule） absorbed to generate a proton-prohol pair or detrap a tightly-bound proton.（2） Two（173.4 and 196.6 meV） bending-breathing protonic-proholic or protonic phonons absorbed during de-trapping-limited proton or proton-prohol mobilities.（3）Two propagating oxygenic-wateric Debye-Dispersive phonons（30.3 and 27.5 meV） absorbed during scatteringlimited proton or proton-prohol mobilities.

Solid State Physics View of Liquid State Chemistry Ⅲ. Electrical Conductance of Pure and Impure Water

The ＇abnormally＇ high electrical conductivity ofpure water was recently studied by us using our protonic bond, trap and energy band model, with five host particles： the positive and negative protons, and the amphoteric protonic trap in three charge states, positive, neutral and negative. Our second report described the electrical charge storage capacitance of pure and impure water. This third report presents the theory of particle density and electrical conductance of pure and impure water, including the impuritons, which consist of an impurity ion bonded to a proton, proton-hole or proton trap and which significantly affect impure waters＇ properties.