Church and State Relations in the Constitution of Malta by Kevin Aquilina

“… This paper discussed the relationship between the Catholic Church and the State of Malta as evidenced primarily in the Constitution of Malta and secondarily in other Constitutional Laws. It is noted that the Roman Catholic Apostolic Religion is the national religion of Malta. …”
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Variational Analysis of a Dynamic Contact Problem with Wear and Damage Involving Viscoelastic Materials with Long-Term Memory by Ahmed Hamidat, Hakim Bagua, Adel Aissaoui

“…The material behaviour is explained using a viscoelastic constitutive law that includes long-term memory and damage. …”
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A frictionless contact problem for viscoelastic materials by Mikäel Barboteu, Weimin Han, Mircea Sofonea

“…The body is assumed to have a viscoelastic behavior that we model with the Kelvin-Voigt constitutive law. The contact is frictionless and is modeled with the well-known Signorini condition in a form with a zero gap function. …”
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Study on Impact Behavior and Impact Force of Bridge Pier Subjected to Vehicle Collision by Deyuan Zhou, Ruiwen Li, Juan Wang, Changtuan Guo

“…Nonlinear material constitutive laws considering the strain-rate effect were used. …”
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Mechanical Performance and Design Method of Improved Lead Shear Damper with Long Stroke by Baoshun Wang, Weiming Yan, Haoxiang He

“…Based on the ideal rigid-plastic constitutive law of lead, a mechanical model of the ILSD-LS is established. …”
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Accelerating the Adaptive Eyre–Milton FFT-based method for infinitely double contrasted media by Dolbeau, Martin, Bleyer, Jérémy, Sab, Karam

“…Sab et al. (2024) have recently proposed an FFT-based iterative algorithm, termed Adaptive Eyre–Milton (AEM), for solving the Lippmann–Schwinger equation in the context of periodic homogenization of infinitely double contrasted linear elastic composites (heterogeneous materials with linear constitutive laws that contain both pores and rigid inclusions). …”
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Flow optimization in vascular networks by Radu C. Cascaval, Ciro D'Apice, Maria Pia D'Arienzo, Rosanna Manzo

“…Detailed $3$D studies of flow in the arterial system based on the Navier-Stokes equations require high computational power, hence reduced models are often used, both for the constitutive laws and the spatial domain. In order to capture the major features of the phenomena under study, such as variations in arterial pressure and flow velocity, the resulting PDE models on networks require appropriate junction and boundary conditions. …”
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An Analytical Step-by-Step Procedure to Derive the Flexural Response of RC Sections in Compression by Piero Colajanni, Marinella Fossetti, Maurizio Papia

“…The formulation is developed in dimensionless terms, after a preliminary definition of the geometrical and mechanical parameters involved, so that the results are valid for classes of RC sections. The constitutive laws of the materials include confinement effect on the concrete and postyielding behaviour of the steel reinforcement, which can be assumed to be softening behaviour for buckled reinforcing bars. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Study on Tensile Strength of Concrete under Different Strain Rates by Fanlu Min, Zhanhu Yao, Teng Jiang

“…The implementation of material constitutive law is of capital importance for the numerical simulation of the dynamic processes as those caused by earthquakes. …”
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Dynamic Characteristics of Blade with Viscoelastic Damping Block Based on Complex Eigenvalue Method by Jiao Wang, Yue-hao Zhang, Tao Yu, Qing-kai Han

“…Complex modulus model is applied to represent the constitutive law of viscoelastic material and shear force acting on the VE-blade formulates the effect of viscoelastic damping at the root interfaces. …”
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Influence of the Constitutive Flow Law in FEM Simulation of the Radial Forging Process by Olivier Pantalé, Babacar Gueye

“…As the deformation of the workpiece, during the process, is a consequence of a large number of high-speed strokes, the Johnson-Cook constitutive law (taking into account the strain rate) seems to be well adapted for representing the material behavior even if the process is performed under cold conditions. …”
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Modelling of Rough Contact between Linear Viscoelastic Materials by Sergiu Spinu, Delia Cerlinca

“…The spatial discretization needs to be supported by temporal sampling of the simulation window when time-dependent viscoelastic constitutive laws are considered in the description of the material response. …”
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Evaluation of the increased load bearing capacity of steel beams strengthened with pre-stressed FRP laminates by S. Bennati, D. Colonna, P.S. Valvo

“…The adhesive is modelled as a cohesive interface with a piecewise linear constitutive law defined over three intervals (elastic response, softening response, debonding). …”
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Theorical study on mechanical properties of AZ31B Magnesium alloy Sheets under multiaxial loading by A. Znaidi, O.Daghfas, S.Guellouz, R.Nasri

“…An essential part of simulation tools is the constitutive law used to describe the material used. The activity of characterization and modeling of material behavior of the plastic deformation shaping remains a very important research field of activity; the objective of proposing laws of behavior used in computer codes, essentially based on finite element is sufficiently to represent the real behavior of materials. …”
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An analysis of the position of Islam and Islamic standards in the legal systems of Malaysia and Egypt by Mohammad Yosefzadeh, Mahdi Zare, Mohammad Mazhari

“…This descriptive-analytical research has produced a novel perspective on the constitutional laws of the studied countries, as these Islamic countries, despite sharing a common core of Islamic thought, exhibit significant differences in the extent of its application at the higher levels of political structure, fundamental norms, and constitutional adjudication.…”
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Numerical Simulation of Corroded Reinforced Concrete Beam Strengthened by a Steel Plate with Different Strengthening Schemes by Huang Tang, Jianxin Peng, Linfa Xiao, Xinhua Liu, Jianren Zhang

“…The FE models use the coupled damaged-plasticity constitutive law for concrete in tension and compression and consider the bond-slip between the corroded tensile steel bar and concrete. …”
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A frictional contact problem with normal damped response conditions and thermal effects for a thermo-electro-viscoelastic material by Abdelmoumene Djabi

“…Purpose – The paper presents a mathematical problem involving quasistatic contact between a thermo-electro-viscoelastic body and a lubricated foundation, where the contact is described using a version of Coulomb’s law of friction that includes normal damped response conditions and heat exchange with a conductive foundation. The constitutive law for the material is thermo-electro-viscoelastic. …”
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“Rights and Liberties” in Pylyp Orlyk’s Constitution through the Prism of Renaissance Interpretations of Justice by S. B. Ivanov

“…XVIII century, has demonstrated the desire of its authors and the people to establish the principles of constitutionalism, law and order over the ideas of absolutism, which prevailed in Europe at that time. …”
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Political paradigms and vocational education policy in Indonesia: a document analysis by Yasdin Yasdin, Muksin Muksin

“…Purpose – This study aims to explore vocational education as stated in the basic constitution, law, government and ministerial regulations in the Indonesian context. …”
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A durability- based design approach for structural applications with advanced cement-based materials by Francesco Soave, Liberato Ferrara

“…In this framework, a performance based durability design approach is proposed, which, through experimentally calibrated time-evolution trends for the material performance and design constitutive laws, defines the evolution, over the intended service life, of the structural performance indicators and the consequently needed, if any, maintenance interventions. …”
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