Monthly Archives: September 2016

Exact solutions of an integro-differential equation with quadratically cubic nonlinearity

ABSTRACT Exact solutions of a nonlinear integro-differential equation with quadratically cubic nonlinear term are found. The equation governs, in particular, stationary shock wave propagation in relaxing media. For the exponential kernel the shapes of both compression and rarefaction shocks having a finite width of the front are calculated. For media with limited “memorizing time” the […]

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Strengthening our industrial PSS research: welcome Alice!

Alice Rondini, 3rd year PhD student in Economics and Management of Technologies (DREAMT) at the University of Pavia (Italy), joins PDRL in the next three months as guest researcher to strengthen our capabilities in the domain of Service Engineering. Her focus will be on simulation techniques to design, configure and monitor Product-Service provision processes. Alice […]

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Framtidens digitala produktutveckling samlar företag

“Modelldriven utveckling och beslutsstöd” heter en av BTH:s två forskningsprofiler. Temat är hur digitala modeller kan utvecklas och användas för att snabbare utveckla nästa generations produkter som passar in ett hållbart samhälle. Under tre dagar träffades forskare och företagsrepresentanter i forskningsprofilen för att diskutera resultat och lägga ut planen för de kommande 3 åren av forskning och samverkan.

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Volvo CE Exploration Forum 2016 – Innovation Conference coming up

Volvo CE held the Innovation Conference XPLORATION FORUM 2016 in Eskilstuna early September, effectively displaying Volvo Concept Lab. Being closely involved in the innovation model research and development, several PDRL researchers took part. The meeting brought together researchers, engineers and innovators in the VCE network in order to share, learn, inspire, and connect. A poster […]

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Study of Ligament Length Effect on Mode Mix of a Modified In-Plane Shear Test Specimen

ABSTRACT Shear fracture toughness is an important material behavior that needs to be determined and considered in many industrial fields. At the same time, shear testing is one of the complex material testing areas where available methods are few, often need special arrangements, and most of the methods do not strictly satisfy the definition of […]

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Study of Shear Dominant Delamination in Thin Brittle-High Ductile Interface

ABSTRACT Thin laminates of Aluminum (Al) foil and Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) film are essential constituents of food packages where these two substrates are bonded together with a thin layer of LDPE acting as adhesive. Noticeably, Al is a low ductile/quasi brittle material, whereas LDPE is highly ductile. The mechanism of delamination and strength of […]

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