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Bearing the Burden of Global Leadership
Weary from a decade-plus of foreign wars, the United States has pulled back from its traditional role of global leader and has pursued a less...
Speakers: Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy, Brookings Institution; Author, The World America Made
Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Author, The Road to Global Prosperity
Stephen Sestanovich, George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama
Presider: Gideon Rose, Peter G. Peterson Chair and Editor, Foreign Affairs
April 23, 2014
Weary from a decade-plus of foreign wars, the United States has pulled back from its traditional role of global leader and has pursued a less ambitious and more multilateral approach to addressing international crises. Robert Kagan of the Brookings Institution, Michael Mandelbaum of Johns Hopkins, and CFR's Stephen Sestanovich join Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose to discuss the prospects for renewed, more assertive U.S. leadership, or whether the current period of foreign policy retrenchment is likely to continue.
Stephen Sestanovich on the current period of retrenchment in U.S. foreign policy:
"We've got the mess behind us, you know. We're not dealing any longer with Bush foreign policies. We've got a whole new set of problems. And the president has to figure out whether he wants to—intends to pivot from that period of reduced leadership to a renewed activism. It is the historical pattern is to make that pivot. But it's generally a pretty long process, even when it happens. Retrenchment often lasts longer than the maximalist excess that precedes it."
Robert Kagan on Russia's intentions in Ukraine:
"And let me just end by saying Putin is not done. Let's be clear about that. So to talk about what he's done in Crimea is not the real conversation. He is going to take the rest of Ukraine. Maybe not the West. But he's going to take Kiev. He's going to take the East plus Kiev. So we're going to wake up at some point in the next couple of months, and that's going to be the situation."
Michael Mandelbaum on the ability of the United States to promote democracy abroad:
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On Wednesday night in the Lamplighter League at Winona Bowl, she was at it again with a 636 score (200-205-231). If you're adding that up, that's a 224 average for the week. Not bad for someone who calls herself a slow starter.
"This is not normal," Gwendolyn Fakler said. "I'm usually a slow starter, definitely. I'm normally a lot stronger in January and February around the (city) tournament. "For me, it's a matter of throwing strikes. I'm a spare shooter. Each game Monday I threw three or four in a row. And I'm not leaving that split and having that open frame." When you marry into a Fakler family in Winona, you're more than likely going to be a bowler. Gwendolyn said when she first met Brian 20 years ago, she didn't know he bowled. And she was never a bowler.
But that average has been slowly climbing. She carried a 184 average last year in the Lamplighter League, which is quiet a feat considering her first year of bowling she was averaging in the 120s.
"I'm real quiet," she said. "I'm the one slowing creeping up. I can throw anywhere from a 510 to a 610. I'm not a power bowler. I don't get the turkeys and the four-baggers. This year I'm throwing more strikes." Gwendolyn, whose previous high series was a 666, enjoyed the family bragging rights on Monday as Brian came in with a 655 series in the City League.
"We definitely go at one another back and forth," she said. "When we bowl with one another (in the Mixed Nuts League), if I beat him a game, I'll let him know it. But I don't beat him that often."
One reason for the fast start this year might be the practice Gwendolyn got in during August with Krystal Dorman, Jenny Glowczewski, Joy Donnelly and Lisa Peterson, who met every Thursday night of the month and rolled a few games. That, she hopes, pays off in the long run this season.
"Last year I had maybe two or three (600s) back to back," she said. "Usually I only have four or five in a season. Hopefully that will be 12 or 13 this year. You never know. Next Wednesday is another day."
Who's hot?
The top men's series of the season was turned in last Thursday night in the Classic League at Westgate Bowl by Geoff Schewe with a 771.
Brian Fakler and Curtis Czaplewski both broke the 750 mark on Tuesday in the Blue Ribbon League. Fakler fired a 758 honor count and Czaplewski had a 754.
Other 700s for the week came from Seth Bonow (749), Josh Wenzel (746), Josh Wrycza (727), Larry Walters (718), Steve Walters (717), Jerry Koutsky (713), Don Skappel (709), Bill Bonow (706) and John Glowczewski (703).
Bob Bigelow was almost perfect Tuesday night in the American League at Westgate. After throwing 11 straight strikes to start a game, he rolled an eight on his final ball for a 298 game.
Joining Gwendolyn Fakler with the hot hand for the ladies were Jenny Glowczewski (629), Diane Marley (624), Keri Wegman (602) and Mandi Steffes (602).
Sami Kohner, a senior at Winona Senior High School, got the Next Generation League at Winona Bowl off to a flying start two weeks ago with a 688 series.


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A group of schoolchildren in the west end of Newcastle have been offered the chance to travel to Mount Everest base camp.
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In the weeks since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two proposed regulations to implement the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FMSA), the agency has reported 10 food recall notices, eight of them for undeclared ingredients and two for pathogenic contamination by either Shiga-Toxin producing E. coli or Listeria monocytogenes. The ongoing recalls illustrate the importance of the FDA and other agencies in ensuring the safety of the U.S. food supply.
In a previous column we looked at the proposed rule (Standards for the growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of produce for human consumption) that primarily involves the farm-level production of fruits and vegetables. This column is focused on the other proposed rule which amends FDA's "regulation for Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Packing or Holding Human food (GCMPs) to modernize it and add requirements for domestic and foreign facilities that are required to register" with the FDA.
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The overall goal of the FSMA is to enable the FDA to better protect public health by helping ensure the safety and security of the food supply. The "FSMA enables (the FDA) to focus more on preventing food safety problems rather than relying primarily on reacting to problems after they occur. In addition, the law gives (the FDA) important new tools to better ensure the safety of imported foods" which constitute about 15 percent of the U.S. food supply including "80 percent of our seafood, 50 percent of our fresh fruit, and 20 percent of our vegetables."
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Of particular interest to farmers, especially those who engage in on-farm processing of agricultural products is the discussion in the rule of which on-farm facilities fall under the regulation (covered facilities) and which are exempt. In making that decision the Department of Health and Human Services conducted a science-based risk analysis to determine which on-farm facilities to exempt from the requirements in the proposed rule.
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Tyler, Texas (KETK) — The church bells at central baptist in Tyler have been ringing for 80 years, today.
As long standing church members from all over the country celebrated the anniversary of the church this morning at service.
Packed pews, and powerful praise is nothing new at Central Baptist Church in Tyler.
But Sunday, this church, and everyone inside it; celebrated the church's 80th birthday.
Senior Pastor, Kim Beckham, says, "I think what really sets the church aside is the vision of it's people."
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Play 1 - Slot Seam - Great man beater.
In this play you will see that your right HB will have a shake route to the outside. I like to sub in Randall Cobb here and usually you get him matched up on a LB. If they are playing man coverage even the great Patrick Willis will have trouble covering this route.
I like to hot route my outside WR on the right to a deep out or a hitch depending on if they are in off or press coverage.
You can audible your slot WR to a quick slant or keep him as is.
I like to audible my left HB to a delay flat route and use him as my dump off.
Play 2 - WR Corners - Great cover 2 beater
I basically run this play as is, only I will motion my far outside right WR and after he takes about 1-2 steps I snap the ball. You are basically doing a smash route with a bit of a wrinkle. Your HB will occupy the flat defender and your slot WR will occupy the deep safety and the WR you put in motion will find the deep pocket on the sideline. You can also block your left HB for added protection.
Play 3 - Skins Deep In - Great cover 3 beater
The only adjustment I like to make on this play is to audible my left HB to a in route (so he will occupy the LB)
You right HB will draw down the light blue defender and your outside right WR will occupy the deep blue. Your slot WR is running a 10 yard out and he will be open right after his cut. For a change up, you can audible him to a deep in at 10 yards and hit him at his cut point as well. Always be sure to read the LOLB.
Play 4 - HB Draw - good run change up
I like to slide protect my OL to aggressive.
Play 5 - HB Slip Screen - also a good change up
You can run the play as is, or as a wrinkle I will hot route my right HB (which I usually put in Randall Cobb here) and tell him to run a swing left and you get a wrinkle when it comes to your screen pass.
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PHOENIX -- An international team of developers and designers is working to build a new iconic landmark in downtown Phoenix.
Novawest, LLC worked with the Bjarke Ingles Group of Denmark to create plans for what is currently known as the Phoenix Tower.
The roughly 40-story tower would be built at the base of the Arizona Science Center.
"We've gotten a great response from the Science Center, and most everyone we've worked with at the city is excited about the idea," said developer Jay Thorne of Novawest.
Glass elevators would bring visitors up to several floors of indoor and outdoor observation decks, a restaurant, a bar, and possibly a museum and art gallery.
"People who live here might think, 'There's not much to see, but people climb Camelback to get views of the Valley.' You'll get a view like no other,'' Thorne told 3TV Thursday.
Thorne says financing the project is a 'challenge,' but he is confidently working to convince private investors that the Tower could turn a profit.
The Tower is being compared to the Seattle Space Needle, and the St. Louis Arch.
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He's heard the Tower's design described as a 'golf ball on a tee,' a 'Google map pin,' and a honey-dipper.
After sunset, the Tower's LED lighting would change colors with seasons, events, and holidays.
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Wrightsboro Elementary second graders are using their artistic talents to tell others to just say no.
It is part of a national campaign called Red Ribbon Week. It focuses on reducing the demand for alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. Students in second grade take the day to make drawings to encourage others to stay away from drugs.
Riley Dunwood, a second grader, said "We are learning about don't do drugs stuff, and we are going to do songs and music about drugs."
Wrightsboro Elementary has positive activities planned for the students all week such as special assemblies and art contests.


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I guess "NOW" is relative as the essay I wrote for Open Design Now is now at least 2 years old. But still I figured it makes sense to share. (on more than one level) I recommend reading this in the original site, but just as a backup I will publish it here as well. […]
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Bradley Manning's disrupted family life
The trial of Bradley Manning has cast light on how he came to leak thousands of classified documents, and on his troubled childhood in a family splintered by divorce and alcoholism.
Susan Manning liked vodka - it was easier to hide. "If you put vodka in certain drinks, you can't really smell it," said her daughter, Casey Major, in a courtroom in Fort Meade, Maryland, last week.
She also liked rum and beer - and, really, whatever was in the house.
When she got pregnant for the second time, friends and family had mixed feelings. One relative, Debra Van Alstyne, testifying in court, said: "At first I said, 'Oh great.' Then I thought, 'Oh no.'"
At the time, Major was 11. Sitting in the witness stand, Major, now 36 and a homemaker who lives in Oklahoma City, counted on her fingers - adding up the weeks that her mother was pregnant - and drinking. She put her hands in her lap.
"At least through the first trimester," she said. Her brother weighed about 6lb (2.7kg) when he was born.
Wikileaks revelations
- Manning downloaded thousands of classified documents while posted to Iraq
- These were passed to Wikileaks, which published war records from Iraq and Afghanistan in 2010, and US diplomatic cables in 2011
- He was convicted of 20 charges, but acquitted of aiding the enemy
Pte First Class Bradley Manning, 25, showed signs of foetal alcohol syndrome, said Capt David Moulton, a clinical psychiatrist, who testified in court that day.
Moulton described Manning's facial features that characterised the syndrome, such as his smooth, thin upper lip, and looked over at him in the courtroom.
Manning has been found guilty of 20 charges, including multiple counts of espionage, theft of government data and computer fraud. He will be demoted to E1, a lower rank of private and the lowest rank in the military.
On Tuesday he was sentenced to 35 years, significantly less than the 90 that he could have spent in prison.
It is not clear to what extent, if any, the testimony about his upbringing affected the decision of the military judge, Denise Lind.
By then, she may have had a good idea what she planned to do. As retired military judge Gary Solis explained, she had already "heard the facts and the arguments from both sides".
Bradley Manning, then and now
A Washington Post picture gallery includes other family photos, such as Brian Manning holding baby Bradley, and Susan Manning with her young son. Another depicts Casey with a teenage Bradley at a Thanksgiving dinner.
More photos - such as a young Bradley with the family dog - feature in a PBS Frontline gallery.
Nevertheless, the stories about his upbringing leave an impression.
And regardless of the impact they may have had on the judge, this testimony helps to flesh out Manning's story, revealing what his childhood and adolescence in Oklahoma and Wales were like.
His mother naturally played a role in shaping him during those years. The descriptions of her life and her role as a parent help to show how he became the person he is today - for some, a traitor; to others, a hero.
Whether he is seen as cowardly or courageous, he is known around the world. For most of the controversy over the past three years, however, his mother has remained off stage.
Susan Manning, 59, who lives in Wales, gave an interview to the Daily Mail earlier this month, but otherwise has said little or nothing to journalists.
Efforts to reach her through friends and family for this article have been unsuccessful.
For Tim Price, author of The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, who has had tea at her house, she is "just a Welsh mum who loves her children very much".
This was not the picture painted of her in the courtroom.
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End Quote Susan Manning's message to her sonI know I may never see you again but I know you will be free one day"
Susan Fox, as she was known before her marriage, is from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in south-west Wales. She grew up with eight brothers and sisters. In the 1970s, Brian Manning, a US Navy man, was stationed at nearby Cawdor Barracks.
One day in the early to mid-1970s, she was shopping at Woolworths and met Brian. They fell for each other and eventually decided to move to the US.
She had grown up in a noisy, crowded house and lived near cousins and other relatives in Wales. Suddenly she found herself in rural Oklahoma, with no close family, and in many ways cut off from the world around her.
Brian Manning worked as a project manager for Hertz, and they lived on five acres of land outside Crescent, a town in Logan County. They had a pond, a swing, two horses and a dog, recalled Major in court.
The nearest neighbour lived a quarter of a mile away, and her mother did not know how to drive.
What prosecutors claimed...
- Manning caused "serious and substantial" harm to national security by leaking 700,000 files
- He also harmed US relations with its allies
- The leaks endangered the lives of Afghans by identifying those who were friendly to the US
In addition, it is not clear if she was fully literate. "I know she can read," said Major. "I'm not too sure about the writing part."
She talked with friends and family on the phone - and drank. When she was pregnant, she continued to drink, "but not as much", said Major. After her son was born, she went back to her routine.
She was "very friendly" when she started drinking in the middle of the day, her daughter recalled. "As the evening wore on, she would become sad. She would drink until she passed out or went to bed. In the morning she was mean, very mean. She would yell from the other room to get her cigarettes or to make her a cup of tea."
Major took care of her brother when he was a baby, bringing him milk at night when he cried. Her mother did not get up.
As Major testified about their childhood, her brother's face, marked with pimples, was expressionless. He fiddled with a ballpoint pen, his hands bony and pale.
Bradley had been a "happy kid", she told the court. "He had little trucks that he played with in the dirt."
As a photo of him as a child was shown on an overhead screen, a smile flickered across his face. He clicked his pen. Major choked up and reached for a tissue.
Their parents' marriage started to crumble in the 1990s, and one night her mother hit a low point.
"My mom took a full bottle of Valium and then she woke me up in the middle of the night and told me she had done it to kill herself," Major said.
She called 911 and was told it would take too long for the ambulance to arrive. She helped her mother into the back seat of the car and told her father to sit with her and make sure she was breathing. He climbed in the front.
"Unfortunately my 12-year-old brother had to get in the back and make sure our mother was still alive," she said.
The couple separated in 2000, and afterwards their mother moved back to Haverfordwest with her son.
Manning joined the US Army in 2007 and was sent to Iraq, where he floundered.
At one point, he was found on the floor of a supply room, "curled up in a ball with a Gerber knife", said Moulton. In May 2010, he released the classified material to Wikileaks and was arrested.
Two years ago, his mother sent a letter to UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, asking consular officials to visit him in a military jail in the US. In her letter, she said she had travelled to Quantico, Virginia, to see him.
During the sentencing hearings last week, however, she was not in court.


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BY GEORGE: They sure were biting
Submitted by George Elliott on Fri, 09/21/2012 - 1:06pm.
US seafood landings reached a 17-year high in 2011, thanks in part to rebuilding fish populations, and the value of landings also increased, according to a new report released today by NOAA. US commercial fishermen landed 10.1 billion pounds of fish and shellfish in 2011, valued at $5.3 billion, an increase over 2010 of 1.9 billion pounds and more than $784 million. Much of the increase is due to higher catches of Gulf Menhaden, Alaska Pollock, and Pacific Hake, also known as Whiting. More than 10 million recreational saltwater anglers in the United States took 69 million marine fishing trips in 2011 and caught 345 million fish, releasing nearly 60 percent of them alive. Spotted sea trout remained the top catch for recreational anglers, with 41 million caught in 2011. Atlantic croaker, sand sea trout, spot, and kingfishes were the other most common catches for saltwater anglers last year. The report also shows that the average American ate 15 pounds of fish and shellfish in 2011, less than the 2010 figure of 15.8 pounds. Altogether, Americans consumed 4.7 billion pounds of seafood, making the US second only to China in seafood consumption. In 2011, about 91 percent of seafood consumed in the US was imported, up five percent from 2010. However, a portion of this imported seafood is caught by American fishermen, exported overseas for processing and then re-imported to the US The top three imports are shrimp, canned tuna, and tilapia fillet. Almost half of imported seafood comes from aquaculture, or farmed seafood. America's aquaculture industry currently meets less than five percent of US seafood demand, producing primarily oysters, clams, mussels, and some finfish, including salmon. By: George Elliott They sure were biting,Submitted by David (not verified) on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 12:06am.
Its a crying shame that we in the great United States have to import 91% of the seafood that we consume, while a huge number of our nations commercial fisherman have been over-regulated out of business and the ones that are still in business spend more time tied up at the docks than actually fishing. Our recreational fisherman have suffered as well with closures and lowered limits on fish stocks that have been deemed overfished, when in reality these stocks are more than plentiful. For example black bass, vermilion snapper, grouper, sea trout and speckeled trout just to name a few. »


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(AP) -- He couldn't get elected president, but Stephen Colbert has been voted The Associated Press Celebrity of the Year.
The votes came from newspaper editors and broadcast producers who decided the South Carolinian Colbert had the biggest impact on pop culture in 2007.
The mock pundit on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" put together an ill-fated run for president. He couldn't get on the ballot in South Carolina.
His show went 0-for-4 at the Emmys. But his book, "I Am America And So Can You" topped the best-seller lists.
Colbert finished just ahead of another author, Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling. The final book in her series came out this year. Al Gore was third.
Colbert says he's pleased to be chosen ahead of "two great spinners of fantasy," as he described them.
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Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 537493, 10 pages
Numerical Simulation on the Residual Stress Induction due to Welding Process and Assessment by the Application of the Crack Compliance Method
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Sección de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, Unidad Profesional Adolfo López Mateos Zacatenco, Edificio 5, 2do Piso, Col. Lindavista, 07738 México, DF, Mexico
Received 6 August 2013; Revised 31 October 2013; Accepted 1 November 2013
Academic Editor: Magd Abdel Wahab
Copyright © 2013 Guillermo Urriolagoitia-Sosa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Residual stresses are mechanical effects that remain in a body after all external loads have been removed. In this sense and because a weldment is locally heated by a welding heat source, the temperature distribution is not uniform and changes as welding progresses. During the welding thermal cycle, complex transient thermal stresses are produced in the weldment and the surrounding joint. With the advancement of modern computers and computational techniques (such as the finite-element and the finite-difference methods), a renewed effort has been made in recent years to study and simulate residual stresses and the related phenomena. This paper discusses the procedure applying a finite element analysis by a 2D model to determine the residual stresses and distortions of steel AISI 316 bars under an arc welding process; additionally, the state of the stresses in the component is determined by the application of the crack compliance method (CCM); this is destructive experimental method based on fracture mechanics theory. This research also demonstrates that the residual stress distribution and the magnitude inducted into the component must be carefully assessed, or it could result in a component susceptible to failure.
1. Introduction
In general, welding is defined as a manufacture or sculptural process that joins components and produces coalescence of materials by heating them to a specific temperature. Several welding techniques have been employed during the past decades to develop numerous products or systems [1]. Nevertheless, for welding industries around the world, the induction of residual stresses and material distortion is a major concern [2, 3]. Due to autoequilibrated conditions that residual stresses provide, during the welding process residual stresses could be detrimental to the integrity and the expected service life of the component structure. It has been clearly established that welding residual stresses may promote brittle fracture, decrease buckling strength, interrupt fatigue life, and promote stress corrosion cracking [4].
Components that are manufactured by a welding process are often under high-cycle fatigue services, where the induction of residual stresses affects directly the fatigue strength of the material [5]. Several factors contribute to the development of detrimental residual stress fields in welded components like a noncontrolled heat input or constraints [6]; Influence of material properties of both (base and welding) metals [7]; be the cause, when a consumable with a low-temperature martensític phase transformation is applied, achieve a high-tensile steel structure [8]; Cases with previous loading history [9, 10]. Additionally, the application of a nonhomogeneous process causes an elastoplastic deformation into both metals, and its intensity could depend on structure, material, and manufacturing factors [4].
Heat flow theory is essential in order to understand, explain, and develop analytically, numerically, and/or experimentally a welding process. Since the pioneering work of Rosenthal, considerable interest in the thermal aspects of welding, was expressed by the engineering and research community [11–13]. In this sense, the most critical input data required for welding thermal analysis are the parameters necessary to describe the heat input to the weldment. Some researchers have developed the thermal finite element simulation to investigate the temperature distribution on metal [14–17]. Numerical simulation of welding processes enables engineers to predict transient residual stress fields and deformation in structures. Potential applications can be contemplated to control photothermal phenomena or heat transference induced by laser effects even in nanostructures [18]. The results obtained can be applied to evaluate structural misalignments and premature failures due to external agents. However, welding process simulation altogether is not a simple computational task, due to the involvement of multifield interactions such as thermal, mechanical, and metallurgical [19–21]. Other factors that make this kind of simulation extremely complex are filler metal deposition, moving heat source, and material behavior at elevated temperature along with geometric nonlinearities. In this sense, several commercially computational programs are available, with a finite element code application such as; ANSYS, ABAQUS, FEMLAB, MSC MARC, ADINA, and SYSWELD, and can be employed to carry out such type of manufacturing process simulation.
The main objective of this paper is to present a methodology for numerical analysis, carry out a coupled study considering the thermal and mechanical effects, and evaluate the residual stress field in welding components. This work is based on the application of the semilinear elastic thermal conditions, which in conjunction with the elastic-plastic mechanical properties reproduce the elastoplastic material behavior the components that induce residual stresses. To develop a proper numerical model, it was necessary to consider real welding process parameters, such as speed, heat input, efficiency, filling material supply, geometrical constrains, material nonlinearities, and different physical phenomena involved. The present work deals with the following main assumptions and features regarding the thermal model.(a)Displacements of the parts during the welding will not affect the thermal distribution of the parts themselves.(b)The material properties considered in this work are those of the material before entering into the liquid phase transformation.(c)Convection effects are considered.(d)The analysis performed is a combination of thermomechanical behavior.
Additionally, the numerical simulation of a welding process requires that the study has to be divided into two parts: transient thermal analysis and elastoplastic mechanical analysis. Nevertheless, to simplify the reproduction of the welding procedure, uncoupled numerical simulations were used. In such uncoupled research, the results of the transient thermal analysis (which include the temperature distribution) will be used for the second analysis together with the temperature dependent mechanical properties of the material.
Lastly, it is important to establish a technique to determine the residual stress field acting into the strip and caused by the welding procedure. In this sense, the crack compliance method (CCM) [22–24] was selected to be numerically simulated to determine the acting residual stress field, and a comparison against numerical results is presented to assess the accuracy of both the numerical simulation and the CCM, so later it could be corroborated in an experimental manner.
2. Theoretical Background
2.1. Stress Effect due to Welding Joints
Welding is a locally heated process, and temperature distribution tends to be established in a nonuniform manner which changes as the procedure progresses. During the welding thermal cycle, complex transient thermal stresses are produced in the weldment and the surrounding joint. As the welded section undergoes shrinkage and deformation during solidification and cooling, a typical residual stresses distribution in a grooved weld is presented in Figure 1 [25].
The thermal analysis performed by the finite element method is based on the consideration of the first law of thermodynamics; it states that the thermal energy is conserved, so the welding process simulation is based on heat transfer [26], which is expressed by (1) [27] where represents the heat generation, is the temperature, is the thermal conductivity, is the material density, and is the specific heat in the system. The previous equation can be written as where
Three types of boundary conditions are considered as follows.(a)Temperature acting over the surface .(b)Heat flow acting over the surface . where is the normal vector and is the heat flow.(c)Convection of the surfaces acting on the surface (Newton's law of cooling) where is the film coefficient evaluated at , is the bulk temperature, and is the temperature at the surface of the model. Regarding the differential equation (5), by a virtual change in temperature and integrating over the volume of the element, it defined as where is the volume of the element and is the allowable virtual temperature. Initially, the thermal condition was set up to reach the plastic response of the material considering the mechanical properties conditions. The stress strain relationship is defined by (6) where where = strain vector and = thermal strain vector, The general formulation to determine the stress is given by the following expressions: where The numerical analysis, developed in this research, was a thermomechanical simulation that was divided into two sequentially coupled simulations. A transient nonlinear thermal analysis is performed to capture the thermal behavior, and this is a nodal temperature distribution followed by an iterative structural analysis. An overview of the coupled thermomechanical simulation procedure is shown in Figure 2.
2.2. Crack Compliance Method [24]
In addition to the thermal simulation, it was necessary to implement a mechanical simulation to assess the accuracy of the finite element program by the application of the crack compliance method (CCM) and to determine the residual stress field induced into the component. The analytical solution of the CCM can be carried out only when the relaxed strain readings have been obtained by cutting a component with inherent residual stresses. In general, the analysis for the determination of the residual stress field from the strain data collected is performed in two stages, the forward solution stage, followed by the inverse solution stage. These solutions are based on linear isotropic material considerations. A brief summary of the theory relative to the CCM applied in this research follows. Let the unknown residual stress distribution in the beam be represented by the summation of an th order polynomial series [28] as follows: where are the coefficients that have to be obtained and are the power series , and so forth. Legendre polynomials are also used. However, the CCM includes a step which assumes that the stress distribution, , interacting with the crack is known. This known stress field is used to obtain the crack compliance function by using Castigliano's approach. Therefore, it is required to evaluate the change in the strain energy due to the presence of the crack and the virtual force. One alternative is by means of the Strain Energy Density. Its main factor, , is direction sensitive. It establishes the direction of the least resistance for crack initiation. The stationary value of can be used as an intrinsic material parameter, whose value at the point of crack instability is independent of crack geometry and loading [29]. In the case of an elastic material, the expression for the intensity of the strain energy density field is as follows: This criterion is based on the local density of the energy field at the crack tip, and it does not require any assumption on the direction in which the energy is released. This is suitable for mixed mode loading. For the problem at hand, ; , as the specimen is under mode I. In this way, can be combined with Castigliano's theorem. The displacement can be determined by taking a derivative with respect to the virtual force as [30] follows: Now differentiating, with respect to the distance , the strain in the -direction is given by [30] The strain (where = crack length and is the distance between the location of the strain gauge and the crack plane) due to the stress fields is known as the compliance function and is given by
Due to the linearity of with , the second term under the integral sign in (15) is the same as in With , therefore, it can be written as follows: is the stress intensity factor due to the residual stress field when the crack depth in the beam is equal to , and is the stress intensity factor corresponding to the same depth due to a pair of virtual forces applied tangentially at a position on the beam where strain measurements will be taken during the CCM cut at the slot where is a geometry dependant function (see (13)): By following the weight function approach, and can be expressed as [31] where and is known as the weight function [32]. So, the is the stress field due to the virtual force . Once the solutions are determined, the expected strain due to the stress components in (11) can be obtained as follows: The unknown terms are determined so that the strain given by (20) matches those strains measured in the experiment at the cut, this is, . In order to minimise the average error over all data points for an th order approximation, the method of least squares is used to obtain the values of . Therefore, the number of cutting increments is chosen to be greater than the order of the polynomial, that is, . This work used with 8 constants and , this being the number of experimental slot cutting depths at which strain readings were collected. The least square solution is obtained by minimising the square of the error relative to the unknown constant [33]:
This gives where and [34] give a linear set of simultaneous solutions, from which values are determined and (11) is then used to determine the residual stress distribution. This numerical procedure was implemented in a FORTRAN program.
3. Numerical Simulation Procedure
The numerical simulation was divided into two parts: the thermal analysis and the mechanical analysis. The main reason is based on the fact that, in the thermal process, the residual stress field will be induced and, in the mechanical analysis (applying the strain data), the residual stress will be determined to corroborate the data provided by the thermal analysis.
Initially, the geometry was developed for the finite element program, and the model is illustrated in Figure 3(a). The beam model was selected because this model has been widely used by the Biomechanical group of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, and the results obtained on the specimen of 10 mm thickness have been validated in different papers [23, 35–38]. The discretization of the bar was performed in a controlled manner, taking care to obtain square elements of 1 mm by 1 mm (Figure 3(b)). The center of the bar was marked, as this is the zone where the CCM is going to be applied.
The mesh is developed by 2D second-order finite element; this element has only a temperature degree of freedom at each node. This element is also suitable to be used in a steady state or transient thermal analysis. Convection or heat flux and radiation can be the input in the element faces, and heat generation rates can then be the input as element body loads. The outputs from this analysis are the nodal temperatures, film coefficient average, temperature average, heat flow rate, and so forth. The material properties obtained from this temperature analysis are illustrated in Figure 4.
In this research, the transient thermal analysis determines the temperatures and other thermal parameters that change over the time. This type of analysis follows the same principles as the steady state thermal analysis; the main difference is that the applied load changes over the time, and in this specific study the load is the temperature provided by the heat source.
The nodal temperature of the metal elements at the start is equal to the ambient temperature, and the nodal constraints are removed when the elements come under the influence of the heat source [39]. The time step in the analysis is determined by During the heating phase, the time step is kept constant and the heat source was induced moving it from bottom to top with a specified welding speed. For the cooling phase, the time steps increase as the weldments are cooling till they finally reach the ambient or initial temperature. For this case study, an initial temperature is set at 700°C which is high enough to induce the residual stresses into the material (however, the temperature could be set up to a higher level and produce a more intensive effect). The ambient temperature is considered to be 25°C and the convection heat transfer coefficient is 10 (W/m2 K). The heat source is considered to move at a constant velocity of 1 mm/sec.
For the mechanical research development and since the load for the structural analysis is the temperature distribution from the transient thermal analysis, the mesh should be the same for both studies; otherwise, the temperature mapping will be incorrect. The action is just to switch from the finite element thermal model to the structural are with the same nodes and elements. The finite element used for the structural analysis is a 2D second-order element with 8 nodes. This element has the capability to model plasticity, creep, stress stiffening, large deflection, large strain, and birth and death elements. The outputs for the elements are principal stress, equivalent stress, principal plastic strain, principal elastic strains, average plastic strains, and displacements.
The kinematic hardening option is chosen to model the mechanical properties with the elastic and plastic modulus decreasing with temperature; this is the most usual and close way to simulate the material behavior. Additionally, the viscous effect is not considered. A general material model consisting of a nonlinear kinematic and isotropic hardening component as given in (23) and (24), respectively, was used for the mechanical analysis and the application of the CCM. Consider where is the equivalent plastic strain, is the back stress, is the initial kinematic hardening modulus, determines the rate at which kinematic modulus decreases with plastic deformation, is the current yield stress, is the initial yield stress, is the maximum change in the size of the yield surface, and defines the rate at which the size of the yield surface changes as plastic straining develops. Equation (23) describes the translation of the yield surface in the stress space due to the back-stress , while (24) describes the change of the equivalent stress defining the size of the yield surface, , as a function of plastic deformation. The behavior of material properties is described in Figure 5.
The solution of the structural analysis is based on the steady loading conditions, which ignore the inertia, damping effects, and so forth. The external load applied to the model is the temperature distribution from the transient thermal analysis. The boundary conditions are critical to determine the residual stresses; therefore, the restrictions should be applied in such a way that there is not a stress concentration on the constrained nodes. The boundary conditions for this analysis were applied to the bottom edges of the model as illustrated in the Figure 6.
The first step in the proposed solution is to apply the temperature and send it to be solved. The second step is to cool down the system by removing the temperature and solve it again. To apply the CCM method, it is necessary to induce a slot, which is developed by deleting elements from top to bottom of the model (Figure 7) [23, 35–38]. The slot is induced by deleting a pair of elements of the first row at the center of the piece; the system is sent to be solved and the elastic strain data is recollected at the rear end of the plate (Figure 7). The introduction of the crack will produce strain relaxation data from the reaccommodation of the residual stress field. This step is continued eight more times with the respectively strain data recollection. The total elastic strain data recollected after the nine consecutive cuts was applied in the CCM program, and the residual stress acting into the element was determined and can be assessed against the results obtained by the thermal analysis.
4. Results
Figure 8 intends to show how the material cools down. The analysis starts with the heat focus applied at the bottom of the model and proceeds to move toward the top of the beam, and once the top of the beam is reached, the heat source is retired and the beam model is left to cool down until it reaches ambient temperature. Figure 8(a) shows the case of the heat source still being applied at that point and the corresponding temperature distribution five seconds after the experiment started, at this time the heat source is at the middle of the beam (velocity of 1 mm/sec). The temperature distribution in Figure 8(b) shows how the beam cools down after the heat source reaches the top and is eliminated. Figures 8(c) and 8(d) show the subsequent cool down of the element as time goes by (25 and 300 seconds, resp.).
Figure 9 shows the axial residual stress distribution in , when the piece finally cools down to room temperature. The major stresses are located at the weld area and the surrounding elements.
Figure 10 shows a nodal solution of the residual stress along at the welding zone; these are the most significant stresses due to the welding process.
Once the residual stress field has been induced into the component, by simulating the introduction of a crack, it was possible to determine the existing residual stress field acting into the component. A crack has been induced in a sequence of 9 steps; each crack step is 1 mm long. Each time material is removed, and the crack will redistribute the residual stress in the material, causing a deformation which can be recorded as a strain at the rear location with respect to the direction where the crack should propagate. The relaxation for the mechanical component developed as strain data, during the 9 cuts, as shown in Figure 11.
In Figure 12, the residual stress field as determined by the CCM as well as data for the residual stress field determined by the thermal finite element simulation is presented. It can clearly be seen that the data obtained by the CCM is very similar to the thermal analysis, so it can be concluded that the CCM is a potential technique to predict residual stress.
5. Conclusions
This paper analyzes the residual stress caused by the temperature raise of the welding heat source in a coupled thermal-structural analysis. The finite element analysis as well is a potential methodology to determine the residual stress during the design stage, which saves time and cost in the product development. To develop a coupled thermal-structural finite element analysis, it is important to consider the appropriate thermal properties of the material to obtain a high accuracy temperature distribution during the transient thermal analysis; otherwise, the structural analysis will not predict the residual stress properly.
For a structural analysis, when the external load comes from the temperature distribution, the boundary conditions generate a stress concentration on the displacement constrains; therefore, constrains have to be applied in such way that the stress concentration does not lie on the constrained nodes.
From Figure 9 it can be observed that the bending introduction will tend to be detrimental to the component because a high tensile residual stress field will be left lying on the surfaces of the material.
This research has several applications as the welding process has been widely used in several fields, and generally the thermal residual stress is neglected; however, this research shows that the magnitude of the stresses could produce an early failure in the component function if they are ignored.
Additionally, in this research, the CCM was numerically evaluated; Figure 10 shows a very good correlation with those from the FEM results. The CCM method has proved to be a very good tool to obtain residual stresses when the component is under bending behavior and could be extremely useful to avoid certain problems when it is applied in the laboratory.
Lastly, an additional objective of this work was the convergence evaluation of the numerical solution proposed. Previous papers have evaluated the advantages of the application of the crack compliance method (CCM) when the residual stresses are uniformly distributed over the surface layer. In particular, in this paper, an experimental-numerical approach has been followed and encouraging results have been obtained. Nevertheless, for the case of a welded joint, the residual stress distribution is complex, as the heat that affected zone (HAZ) has a great influence. Therefore, it has been intended to find, by using codes at hand (ANSYS, ABAQUS, FEMLAB, MSC MARC, ADINA, and SYSWELD), which one gives the best results. Such codes are in a continuous process for quality improvement. Everyone knows that the algorithms involved are carefully validated. Therefore, it is considered that the procedures involved in the finite element analysis have already been accepted. So, the research was focused only on the comparison of diverse solutions.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that their academic interest is not influenced by any financial gain and that they do not have any conflict on interests.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Mexican government by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Distrito Federal and the Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Additionally are very grateful to Mr. Michael Hartman, Dr. Neal Fellows, and Professor John Durodola from Oxford Brookes University, for the advice and time spent in this research.
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Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away, I posted a rant in this section about how slow I thought this site was. I cannot for the life of me find that post. So I will start a new one and just ask for folks to post their speedtest.net scores from their PC's so I can try to compare and see why I still feel like this site for me renders like I was on dial up. I do this because in my last rant thread everyone else said they had no problems at all. So this thread is totally centered around your speedtest.net scores. If you are not willing to post your speedtest, please do not post at all. If all you have to say is that this site is fine for me and don't post your speedtest.net score, then please don't bother either. I hope any other trolls get what I am trying to do here. And I hope the admins will understand if I report any and every other post that doesn't answer my question as asked. Thx in advance. teddy Oh and p.s. I already know my score sucks!
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Also to be fair to 4g, I've seen four times those speeds when I get outside of my Faraday cage of a house! Sent from my DROID BIONIC using DroidForums
Here we go..... I'm in St. Louis using a server in Memphis. Macbook Pro with U-verse. http://www.speedtest.net/result/1885320007.png
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It's my understanding that the OP was looking for computer speediest scores. I'll run it again tethered to my Bionic.
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After looking at the scores posted so far, Yes I am feeling more and more like I'm on dial-up. And yes I am. We all know that 4g flies and it is not a good comparison to run a speedtest on your phone and post using either the DF app or the actual tapatalk app, as that doesn't render this site as if on a PC. So thanks. Keep 'em coming, please folks. And TIA.
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Obama Says 'No Apologies' For Bergdahl Deal
President Barack Obama has said at a press conference in Brussels he makes "no apologies" for the deal that freed American POW Bowe Bergdahl.
The US leader said: "We have a basic principle we don't leave anybody wearing the American uniform behind.
"We had a prisoner of war whose health had deteriorated and we were deeply concerned about it and we saw an opportunity and we seized it. And I make no apologies for that.
"We had discussed with Congress the possibility that something like this might occur, but because of the nature of the folks we were dealing with and the fragile nature of these negotiations we felt it was important to go ahead and do what we did."
Obama administration officials have been scrambling to defuse a political row over the deal that exchanged Army Sgt Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban inmates at Guantanamo Bay.
The president, however, said the bipartisan backlash back home was not unexpected.
"I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington," he told reporters. "That's par for the course."
"This is not political football," he added.
His remarks come a day after Sgt Bergdahl's Idaho hometown cancelled his homecoming party amid mounting backlash over claims he deserted.
Hailey residents were swamped with hate mail and angry phone calls branding Sgt Bergdahl, who officials concluded walked away from his base in June 2009, a traitor.
The 28-year-old is at an American military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, undergoing "decompression" as he is made ready to re-enter society, say US officials.
Senators, who are dismayed they did not receive prior notification of the prisoner swap, voiced frustration as they left a closed-door briefing on Wednesday night with officials from the State Department, Pentagon and intelligence agencies.
Some of the lawmakers said the deal to exchange the US soldier was a bad move.
"I'm increasingly sceptical that this was a good trade for America," Republican Senator Marco Rubio said.
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In Valencia McLaren increased the height of the sidepod winglets. In Singapore they have increased their length, bringing their leading edge forwards by around 12cm (area to right of dotted line). The main effect of this is to increase the efficiency and cooling capabilities of the MP4-23's very small radiator inlets - critical given the high temperatures and humidity here. The horizontal slits have also been elongated to minimise the aero disruption caused by the winglets' increased dimensions. The leading edge of the winglet is now almost completely vertical, increasing the quantity of air diverted towards the rear of the car, and helping to improve the extraction of hot air from the top of the sidepod's small venting gills.


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Saturday, November 17, 2012
England boss Roy Hodgson has spoken of Grant Holt's chances of a place in the England squad.
Hodgson said: "The fact is that when you're a national team coach you've got a job of picking a squad of players and there are a lot of teams up and down the country that feel themselves a bit disadvantaged that they don't have a representative.
"That's not to say that their representatives aren't good enough, and in the case of your man Grant, there's no reason why a man like him with the abilities he has couldn't play for England.
"I haven't made any strong judgements for or against players like Grant, and people of the same ability as him. Rickie Lambert's name is often mentioned, and Grant has had a similar career really.
"He's done fantastically well to come through the lower leagues and prove himself at every level he's played.
"Andy Carroll is another player in that category, and he has been in the England squad, but the last time we played I went down a slightly different route.
"That's not to say I won't every go back to a route where I'm looking for a player of Andy Carroll's stature, of Grant Holt's stature, and of Rickie Lambert's stature, and then these players will come very much into consideration.
"He's a player I admire, because I admire everybody who has had a career like he has had. He's a player whose first step wasn't into the top Premier League clubs and fated from the first moment he came into professional football.
"He's a man like Stuart Pearce and like Garry Birtles, whose career has started outside of professional football. He has made such a great career for himself, not only at this club but also at other clubs where he has played.
"I have to say that he has my full admiration, but if I was to give an England cap to every player that has my full admiration then I'd have to find about 420 places and I don't have quite that many."
Hodgson will be attending today's match at Carrow Road against Manchester United and is confident that Chris Hughton's side can remain in the Premier League.
He said: "If you're asking me for my opinion on whether Norwich will survive this season in the Premier League and go on to be stronger in years to come then I've got a resounding opportunity to say that you'll definitely do that.
"I think you've got every reason to be proud of your football club for what you've done over the last few years.
"Any club that comes here, whether they're Manchester United or Reading, they will know they've got one heck of a fight on their hands when they come to Carrow Road.
"Here you have a family club, a club that's very well supported, you're in the Premier League, and you're in the Premier League to stay.
"Obviously Delia Smith, Michael Wynn-Jones, and David McNally are friends of mine so I'm preaching to the converted to some extent, but I think they've done a fantastic job for you, and you've achieved a wonderful family atmosphere at the club
"I think it's a very good thing that there is that partisan support, and that's something you've got to be very proud of here in Norwich.
"Here you have a club which has always done extremely well, and a club that you have supported not only through the very good times, but through the occasional bad time as well.
"The fact is you've made Norwich a very difficult place to come to, because everyone who comes to Norwich knows that they're playing in front of a very partisan crowd, a crowd who believe in their own, a crowd that really want to see their own doing well – a family in a way."
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Did the journo mean "fated" or "féted"? That rude comment, presumably referring to Grant Holt, is no longer a tired cliché; it`s a moribund one, TB. GH did a great job vs MUFC, I`d hope Hodgson was duly impressed.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Nice words from Hodgson, I can only hope he was impressed by Grant Holt's work, the amount of times he won nothing balls from getting in front of Smalling or Ferdinand when the long ball was played was fantastic, and it allowed us to counter and not get hemmed in. He also had some lovely flicks and touches to give life to Hoolahan.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
The pie eaters got NO chance of playing for England unless they get 17 strikers injured
Saturday, November 17, 2012
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