Experiments have been performed on the dam-reservoir system with empty and full reservoir water by applying horizontal sinusoidal chirp excitations to the shake table to observe the basic behaviour, crack formation, crack opening, sliding along crack planes and stability after crack formation of the dam model.
Additionally, effects on the resettling behaviour and formation of aggregates due to temperature and particle concentration were investigated.
The final fracture surface is examined by SEM to explore the physical origins of deformation and fracture behaviour: void formation, craze nucleation, craze extension, crack initiation and propagation.
The validated CFD model reveals the strong compressible effects, a highly transient behaviour, the formation of compressible vortex rings and the shock cell phenomenon within the overexpanded supersonic jet.
This includes the correct lift-off behaviour, the formation of OH that mark the initiation of auto-ignition kernels upstream of the flame base and the presence of "most reactive mixtures" at lean conditions.
The casting behaviour, microstructure formation and resulting mechanical properties of materials that undergo a peritectic phase transition during solidification are largely determined by the kinetics of this high-temperature phase transformation during the production process.
It was found out that the barrier properties of the polyaniline coating was improved by its catalytic behaviour on formation of freshly produced nickel oxide layers and the reduction of polymer film at metal/polymer interface.
The basolateral amygdala (BLA) has long been implicated functionally in emotional behaviour and formation of emotional memories (Kluver & Bucy, 1937; Weiskrantz, 1956; Cahill, 2000; McGaugh, 2000).
Identifying the substrate-induced mechanical and molecular mechanisms that influence chondrocyte behaviour and tissue formation may ultimately lead to the formation of a tissue that more closely resembles natural articular cartilage.
