It was in 1994 that Francis Crick published The Astonishing Hypothesis - the hypothesis in question being "that 'You', your joys and your sorrows..., your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules".
She quotes his book The Astonishing Hypothesis in Are You an Illusion?: "You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact [her italics] no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their attendant molecules".
Predicting the operating behaviour of a complex assembly including active components is a challenge, since accurate models of those components are rarely available.
Mary Midgley's Are You an Illusion?, written when she was 94, was triggered (p. 5) by an outrageous claim by Francis Crick of DNA fame: "You, your joys and sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and your free-will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve-cells and their attendant molecules".
A uni-axial confined compression test was designed and set up to study the mechanical behaviour of an ellipsoidal granular assembly under vertical loading and the load transfer to the contacting boundary.
In order to accurately analyse the complete non-linear behaviour of an adhesive in an assembly, specimens with low edge effects have to be used.
Various models exist to describe the non-linear behaviour of an adhesive in an assembly, taking into account the two stress invariants, hydrostatic stress and von Mises equivalent stress, which can be explained by the nature of the adhesive, i.e., a polymer.
The single lap joint is the most used test in order to analyse the behaviour of an adhesive in an assembly as on one hand, the manufacturing of such specimens is quite easy, and on the other hand they require only a classic tensile testing machine.
This paper develops an analytical model, based on simple beam theory and which incorporates the thermal degradation of the component materials, to investigate the elevated temperature behaviour of a T-stub assembly in a steel beam-to-column connection.
