Bulge Shapes Research Articles

The Mass of the Black Hole in NGC 5273 from Stellar Dynamical Modeling

We present a new constraint on the mass of the black hole in the active S0 galaxy NGC 5273. Due to the proximity of the galaxy at 16.6 ± 2.1 Mpc, we were able to resolve and extract the bulk motions of stars near the central black hole using adaptive-optics-assisted observations with the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph, as well as constrain the large-scale kinematics using archival Spectroscopic Areal Unit for Research and Optical Nebulae spectroscopy. High-resolution Hubble Space Telescope imaging allowed us to generate a surface-brightness decomposition, determine approximate mass-to-light ratios for the bulge and disk, and obtain an estimate for the disk inclination. We constructed an extensive library of dynamical models using the Schwarzschild orbit-superposition code FORSTAND, exploring a range of disk and bulge shapes, halo masses, etc. We determined a black hole mass of M • = [0.5–2] × 107 M ⊙, where the low side of the range is in agreement with the reverberation mapping measurement of M • = [4.7 ± 1.6] × 106 M ⊙. NGC 5273 is one of the few nearby galaxies that hosts a broad-lined active galactic nucleus, allowing a crucial comparison of black hole masses derived from independent mass-measurement techniques.

Creating load-adapted mechanical joints between tubes and sheets by controlling the material flow under plastically unstable tube upsetting

Abstract Mechanical joining processes provide various advantages over conventional fusion welding of metallic components such as shorter cycle times, little or no heat input and reduced need for subsequent surface finishing operations. Several investigations in the past have shown that joints between tubes and sheets or plates can be manufactured by upsetting operations. Under axial compression, the tube develops a plastic instability in form of bulge. In-between two such bulges, a force and form fit to sheet material can be created. Previous work concentrated on forming fully developed bulges, i.e., at the end of the bulging process, both hinges of the bulge are in contact. This paper presents a numerical and experimental study aiming at optimizing the bulge shape to increase the bearable limit loads. Two new bulge designs are investigated, an ‘arrow bulge’ and a ‘wave bulge’. The paper details the results of FE-simulations of the bulge shapes under bending and torsion loads. Forming tools were designed and both bulge shapes were produced experimentally. The results show that the material flow under compressive plastic instability can be controlled and that the resulting bulge shapes yield improved strength in various load cases.

Flow Stress Determination of Steel Tube for Hydroformability Evaluation

This study aims to determine flow stress of a steel tube by using hydraulic bulge test. A new proposed analytical model for analyzing bulge shapes of hydroformed tubes is postulated. Bulge test apparatus designed using FEA simulation of hydroforming and STKM 11A steel tubes are used in the hydraulic bulge test. Bulge heights and internal pressures are measured during bulge testing. Tube thicknesses at vertex of a bulge shape are measured by a dial caliper gauge. Bulge curvatures and contact points are measured by taking digital photos of bulge shapes combined with measurement methods in CAD software. Effective stress - strain relationships are obtained from the newly developed analytical model using those measured values. Flow stress curves obtained from the effective stress – strain relationships are compared with those by other researchers and tensile test. Finite element analysis methods are used to conduct simulation of tube hydroforming using the flow stress curves. Predicted internal pressures versus bulge heights and tube thicknesses are compared with experimental results. Verification of the developed analytical model is presented. The flow stress at neck point of formed tube is determined.

Flow Stress Determination of Steel Tube for Hydroformability Evaluation

This study aims to determine flow stress of a steel tube by using hydraulic bulge test. A new proposed analytical model for analyzing bulge shapes of hydroformed tubes is postulated. Bulge test apparatus designed using FEA simulation of hydroforming and STKM 11A steel tubes are used in the hydraulic bulge test. Bulge heights and internal pressures are measured during bulge testing. Tube thicknesses at vertex of a bulge shape are measured by a dial caliper gauge. Bulge curvatures and contact points are measured by taking digital photos of bulge shapes combined with measurement methods in CAD software. Effective stress - strain relationships are obtained from the newly developed analytical model using those measured values. Flow stress curves obtained from the effective stress – strain relationships are compared with those by other researchers and tensile test. Finite element analysis methods are used to conduct simulation of tube hydroforming using the flow stress curves. Predicted internal pressures versus bulge heights and tube thicknesses are compared with experimental results. Verification of the developed analytical model is presented. The flow stress at neck point of formed tube is determined.

Control of flow separation from a model wing at low Reynolds numbers

The results of an experimental investigation of the structure of the flow separated from the model of a straight wing with point sources of disturbances (bulges) made on its surface are presented. The variations in the three-dimensional flow pattern are analyzed as functions of the bulge shapes and positions. It is found that the flow can be controlled by means of mounting the bulges downstream of the separation line, in the return flow region, since in this case they hinder large-scale vortex formation in the separation zone. The results obtained show that there is an intimate connection between the vortices and the separation zone as a whole. Impeding the vortex structure formation can result in considerable variations in the separation zone structure, up to its complete disappearance.

Stellar populations in the Milky Way bulge region: towards solving the Galactic bulge and bar shapes using 2MASS data

We re-analyse photometric near-infrared data in order to investigate why it is so hard to get a consensus for the shape and density law of the bulge, as seen from the literature. To solve the problem we use the Besancon Galaxy Model to provide a scheme for parameter fitting of the structural characteristics of the bulge region. The fitting process allows the determination of the global shape of the bulge main structure. We explore various parameters and shape for the bulge/bar structure based on Ferrer's ellipsoids and fit the shape of the inner disc in the same process. The results show that the main structure is a quite standard triaxial boxy bar/bulge with an orientation of about 13 degree with respect to the Sun-centre direction. But the fit is greatly improved when we add a second structure, which is a longer and thicker ellipsoid. We emphasize that our first ellipsoid represent the main boxy bar of the Galaxy, and that the thick bulge could be either a classical bulge slightly flattened by the effect of the bar potential, or a inner thick disc counterpart. We show that the double clump seen at intermediate latitudes can be reproduced by adding a slight flare to the bar. In order to better characterize the populations, we further simulate several fields which have been surveyed in spectroscopy and for which metallicity distribution function (MDF) are available. The model is in good agreement with these MDF along the minor axis if we assume that the main bar has a mean solar metallicity and the second thicker population has a lower metallicity. It then creates naturally a vertical metallicity gradient by the mixing of the two poulations. (abridged)

Evaluation of superplastic characteristics of tubular materials by multi-tube bulge test

In this study, the superplastic characteristics of tubular material Ti-alloy “Ti–4.5Al–3V–2Fe–2Mo”, commercial name SP-700, has been characterized by a new testing method “Multi-tube bulge test”. After the test, every tube specimen has four different bulge shapes, sized 50, 40, 30, and 20 mm, respectively. The flow stress and the strain rate were then calculated at the apex of every bulge part using membrane theory and then the relationship could be established for certain strain rate range, from a single tube specimen. Multi-tube bulge experiments were conducted under constant pressure at a superplastic temperature of 825 °C. The material characteristics obtained through multi-tube bulge test were compared to those obtained by tensile jump tests. The tube bulge forming was also simulated by finite element method (FEM) to verify the experimentally obtained material characteristics. Finally the results of estimated bulge time obtained from the simulations were compared to those of multi-tube bulge forming experiments.

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High strain rate superplastic bulge forming of aluminum alloy matrix composite sheets reinforced by SiC particles was studied and compared to their deformation characteristics in a tensile test. Bulge forming test was performed at elevated temperatures using 36 mm diameter blank disks by gas pressure. The bulge shapes were successfully formed at high strain rate (about 0.1/s) at which superplasticity is observed in the tensile test. The superplastic formability of the composite with 25% volume fraction of SiC particles is better than that with 17% SiC, corresponding to the measured elongation in the tensile test. The limit bulge height of the sheet with the same SiC volume fraction is increased with increasing initial thickness. The higher forming gas pressure, namely the higher forming rate, lead to the uniform thickness distributions of the bulged part. The maximum thickness strain at the top of the bulge and the applied stress calculated from the forming gas pressure in bulge forming can be concerned with the elongation and the flow stress in the tensile test.

Mechanics of left ventricular aneurysm

When a coronary artery is significantly occluded, the left ventricular myocardial segment, which is perfused by that coronary artery, will become ischaemic and even irreversibly infarcted. An acute infarct has very low stiffness and if it involves the entire wall there is a risk of rupture: however, in the absence of such a critical situation, fibrous tissue is laid into the infarcted myocardial segment. Such an infarcted fibrotic myocardial segment will not be able to contract, and so generate tensile stress. The surrounding intact myocardium will contract and generate wall stress, thereby developing a high intra-chamber syslolic pressure; the chronically infarcted and fibrotic segment will have to sustain this high chamber pressure. Its loss of contractility and the resulting reduced systolic stiffness relative to the intact segment, will cause it to deform into a bulge; this is an aneurysm. When a left ventricular chamber with an aneurysm contracts during the systolic phase, some blood also goes into the aneurysm, and this decreases the stroke volume; since the aneurysm wall is passive, stagnant blood flow prevails in the aneurysm itself, which in turn can give rise to the formation of a mural thrombus. These serious consequences provide a justification for the analysis of an infarcted left ventricular chamber, in order to predict the size of the aneurysmic bulge. Such an analysis is presented in this paper. To determine the left ventricular wall deformation, and the stress arising from infarction of a wall segment (which leads to a ventricular aneurysm) the left ventricle is modelled here as a pressurized ellipsoidal shell. Deformations of infarcted wall segments are computed for several damaged wall-thicknesses in left ventricles of different shapes. The analysis involves a derivation of equations for wall-stress equilibrium with the chamber pressure, and myocardial incompressibility before and after infarct formation. The equations are solved by the Newton Raphson method (using elliptical integrals of the first and second kind). Of significance are the prognostic implications of the results, presented in the form of graphs, showing the dependence of tensile stress and the bulge of infarcted wall-segments, on the extent of damaged wall-thickness and the angle of infarct. Scaled illustrations of the bulge shapes, for various degrees of infarcts, are provided. The results indicate that for rupture of the ventricle, the percentage of infarcted wall-thickness and the shape of the ellipsoidal left ventricular chamber play more dominant roles than the angle-of-damage, or the extent of the infarct.