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In this article, forming residual stresses in cold-formed small-radius corner sections are analytically predicted with the consideration of the shift in the neutral axis and the nonlinear strain-hardened material model. The predicted forming stress results in the transverse direction show a trend of increased compressive residual stress in the outer surface and reduced tensile residual stress in the inner surface, as the corner radius-to-thickness ratio increases in small-radius bends. In the longi- tudinal direction, there is no significant change in the residual stress values observed in the inner and outer surfaces with respect to an increase in corner radius-to-thickness ratios. But a considerable decrease in compressive residual stress and an increase in tensile stress values are observed in the midsection areas, with an increase in the corner radius-to-thickness ratio. It is observed that the analytical peak compressive residual stress values are always higher than the experimental results. Also, the through-thickness residual stress from the numerical model is in close agreement with the analytical results. The magnitude of the maximum compressive stress in the inner half thickness is observed to be more than the magnitude of the maximum tensile stress in the outer half thickness of the corner section. The shift in the neutral axis towards the inner corner surface is much severe for lower corner radius-to-thickness ratio sections. The new approach provides a more accurate definition of initial conditions for further nonlinear structural behavior analysis of cold- formed structures.

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Investigation of Residual Stresses in Cold-Formed Steel Sections with Nonlinear Strain-Hardened Material Model

This book offers a unique reconceptualization of cosmopolitanism. It examines several themes that inform politics in a globalized era, including global governance, international law, citizenship, constitutionalism, community, domesticity, territory, sovereignty, and nationalism. The volume explores the specific philosophical and institutional challenges in constructing a cosmopolitan political community beyond the nation state. It reorients and decolonizes the boundaries of 'cosmopolitanism' and questions the contemporary discourse to posit inclusive alternatives. Presenting rich and diverse perspectives from across the world, the volume will interest scholars and students of politics and international relations, political theory, public policy, ethics, and philosophy. © 2015 Sonika Gupta and Sudarsan Padmanabhan. All Rights Reserved.

Politics and Cosmopolitanism in a Global Age

Politics and cosmopolitanism in a global age

Epilogue: Imagining India: The interplay of the cosmopolitan and the vernacular

Global politics today is grappling with moral and epistemological questions arising out of the skewed distribution of power in the world. In this context, examinations of justice and equality are attended to with urgency in the contemporary cosmopolitan discourse that recasts the relationship between state and citizen within the framework of humanity. Cosmopolitanism addresses the loss of agency for the individual in the face of overwhelming state power, in the process engaging with the crisis of moral authority that the state as an agent faces today. As a redressal, cosmopolitanism offers the idea of cosmopolitan democracy that bridges the gap between those who take decisions and those who bear the consequences of these decisions. In this, cosmopolitanism demands and creates the discursive space for reinterpreting political community beyond the nation state.

Introduction

This chapter uses the European Union (EU) and United States (US) documents as a backdrop representing in rhetorical terms different approaches to international security, and analyses the approach taken by India within this context. It seeks to situate Indian state perspectives on security and conflict resolution within the extensive international debate on the US and EU security strategies. The chapter focuses on external threats by other states and on threats to India's territorial integrity than other major states. It utilizes the 2002 and 2003 documents issued by the US and the EU. The US issued its National Security Strategy (NSS) in September 2002 just after the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. 'A Secure Europe in a Better World', the European Union Security Strategy (EUSS) agreed by the European Council on 12 December 2003, is in many ways a self-conscious attempt to respond to the US NSS of 2002.

India in the Contemporary World: Polity, Economy and International Relations

The Paradox of doctrinaire violence and non-violence

The Democratic Predicament: Cultural Diversity in Europe and India

Introduction*: Democracy and the production of cultural diversity

Both India and Europe have been undergoing a difficult process of negotiating cultural, religious and ethnic diversity within their democratic frameworks. In fact, recent incidents of xenophobic backlash against multiculturalism and minority communities in Europe, as well as myriad movements for constitutional recognition of castes, tribes and languages and the emergence of Islamophobic terror in India, question the conventional idea of democracy as the idyllic preserver of diversity.This volume contests the simplistic connection between democracy and diversity by proposing that democracy, in fact, produces, sediments and reinforces cultural heterogeneity. it argues that in democratic polities, disparate cultural practices are often converted into identity categories, with disturbing implications for national identity, constitutionalism, political governance and citizenship. While mobilizations on the plank of cultural differences are typically viewed as being born in undemocratic spaces with little toleration for diversity, they also find fertile soil in democracy insofar as democracy celebrates diversity and allows cultural dissent to thrive. Such dissent, while essential for democracy, has difficult consequences. Examining the fundamental conflict between constructions of particular cultural identities and mandates of a unifying democratic ethos, the book brings forth the complexities underlying the politics of identity recognition and national integration.In making a radical intervention in the discourse, this volume offers a critique of existing paradigms of multiculturalism. it will interest scholars and students of political science, sociology, and postcolonial and comparative studies. © 2013 Jyotirmaya Tripathy & Sudarsan Padmanabhan.

The democratic predicament: Cultural diversity in Europe and India

In his magnum opus, "A Theory of Justice" (1971), John Rawls, one of the most influential American philosophers of the twentieth century, emphasizes two principles of justice, one that ensures equal liberties and the second equal opportunity for all irrespective of their status. The most important part of the second principle known as the "difference principle" addresses social inequity by recommending institutional support for the under-privileged segment of the society. These principles of justice serve as guidelines for political institutions to ensure equality of basic political and civil rights and equity in the social and economic conditions. To facilitate equity, Rawls places significant emphasis on the formal notion of "justice" over its substantive notion which is "fairness. " If fairness could be achieved in the process of institutionalising justice in any socio-political system then it would reach the position of "reflective equilibrium " which is an ideal condition for any just system. This paper would attempt to apply the Rawlsian principles of justice in the context of the emerging inequitable situation in the education sector and web based education in India. The emerging issue of "digital divide" widens the disparity among the society in education and economic sectors. The burgeoning fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the scope of ICT in education at various levels create a complex situation, when resources and opportunities remain inaccessible to the poor. Inequity due to digital divide assumes significance and requires urgent attention of the policy makers, administrators and community as the Indian government has been actively implementing massive schemes in education and rural development, to ensure accessibility, availability and affordability of education and economic opportunities to all citizens of the country. The paper analyses how accessibility to web based learning enhances opportunities for the educated sector and its inaccessibility implies "injustice" to the deprived sector of the society. The efforts of the government to bridge the digital divide could lead to a rapid improvement in the social, political and economic conditions of the poor and underprivileged strata in India. In this paper, the efforts of the Indian government to bridge the digital divide are highlighted and effective measures to tackle inequity due to the digital divide are suggested. © 1970, © 1970 Elsevier Ltd.