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DOE OSTI2019

Why does light bend when it enters glass?

The motion of light depends crucially on the material in which it is traveling. When light passes from one medium to another, an unexpected thing happens: the direction of travel changes. There are many explanations for why this happens and many of those explanations are wrong. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln explains the real reason. Correction: Dr. Don is aware that the direction the plus and minus charges moved at 12:02 is backward. He apologizes.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗
DOE OSTI2015

Transition among failure modes of the bending system with a stiff film on a soft substrate

Growing interest is being attracted by stretchable and flexible electronics recently due to their attractive characteristics, commercial potentials, and engineering challenges. In comparison with the system on a macroscopic scale, different failure modes are observed in a system with a thin film bonded on an elastomeric substrate. Furthermore, the experimental observations reveal that failure modes occur in turn with the increasing of thickness ratio of the film to substrate. In this paper, theoretical analysis is performed on the failure mechanism in this system with the focus on transitions among these failure modes based on the theory of fracture mechanics. The present theoretical predictions are coincident with related experiment results and can be used to guide the related structural design.

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND↗
DOE OSTI2015

Bending of five-layer beams with lengthwise corrugated main core

The paper is devoted to one orthotropic thin-walled sandwich beam with trapezoidal core and two-layer facings. The inner layers of the facings are also corrugated. The orientation of the corrugations of the inner layers of the facings is perpendicular to trapezoidal corrugation of the beam core. The mathematical and physical model of this beam is formulated, and also the field of displacements. Basing on the principle of the total potential energy the system of equilibrium equations is derived. The analytical solutions will be verified numerically with the use of the finite element method (MES)

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗
DOE OSTI2015

Bending of five-layer beams with crosswise corrugated main core

The subject of the study is one orthotropic thin-walled sandwich beam with trapezoidal core and two-layer facings. The outer layers of facings are flat, but inner layers are trapezoidal corrugated. The main core of the beam is also trapezoidal corrugated – in perpendicular direction to the corrugation of inner layers of facings. The beam is with lengthwise corrugated layers and crosswise corrugated main core. The mathematical and physical model of this beam is formulated, and also the field of displacements. The system of equilibrium equations is analytically derived using the energy method. The obtained solutions will be verified numerically (FEM)

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗
DOE OSTI2015

Bending self-collimated one-way light by using gyromagnetic photonic crystals

We theoretically demonstrate that electromagnetic waves can self-collimate and propagate unidirectionally in photonic crystals fabricated using semicylindrical ferrite rods in magnetized states. The parity and time-reversal symmetries of such photonic crystals are broken, resulting in a self-collimated one-way body wave within the photonic crystals. By applying the bias magnetic field in a complex configuration, the self-collimated one-way wave beam can be bent into arbitrary trajectories within the photonic crystal, providing an avenue for controlling wave beams.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗
DOE OSTI2014

The Development of Reversible Bending Fatigue Tester and Its Application to High Burnup Spent Nuclear Fuel Vibration Integrity Investigation under Normal Transportation

For high burn-up spent nuclear fuel (SNF), it is expected that the spent fuel cladding will have a high population of microcracks and hydrides, including macro-hydrides and micro-hydrides. This will reduce the stress intensity required to advance the crack growth. The linking of these microcracks during vibration loading also reduces the fatigue threshold/incubation period significantly, accelerating fatigue failure. In addition to the damages in cladding, the microstructure of comprising fuel pellets and interfaces of fuel rod have changed dramatically after the high burn-up process. These modifications have a direct impact on the structural integrity and vibration response of SNF rods in transportation.

Fuel Transport↗