Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus

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This is a must-read book. It brings together all the processes of the government’s actions but also fleshes out the half stories that we were reading at the time and revealing new facts. In my opinion, it is a good start to any enquiry into the Tories’ handling of the crisis. Macroscopic material failure is defined in terms of load carrying capacity or energy storage capacity, equivalently. Li [2] presents a classification of macroscopic failure criteria in four categories:

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Johnson’ refused to have the circuit breaker in September, ridiculed Starmer who called for it, then adopted it 3 weeks later. The book has interviews with doctors saying that people could have been saved and when the cases went down such people were saved. Material failure theory is an interdisciplinary field of materials science and solid mechanics which attempts to predict the conditions under which solid materials fail under the action of external loads. The failure of a material is usually classified into brittle failure ( fracture) or ductile failure ( yield). Depending on the conditions (such as temperature, state of stress, loading rate) most materials can fail in a brittle or ductile manner or both. However, for most practical situations, a material may be classified as either brittle or ductile.Five general levels are considered, at which the meaning of deformation and failure is interpreted differently: the structural element scale, the macroscopic scale where macroscopic stress and strain are defined, the mesoscale which is represented by a typical void, the microscale and the atomic scale. The material behavior at one level is considered as a collective of its behavior at a sub-level. An efficient deformation and failure model should be consistent at every level. the Hankinson criterion, an empirical failure criterion that is used for orthotropic materials such as wood Lloyd George remained chancellor of the exchequer through the early years of World War One. In 1915 he was appointed minister of munitions in Asquith's wartime coalition government. In July 1916 he became secretary of state for war, but was increasingly critical of Asquith. In December 1916, with the support of the Conservative and Labour leaders, he replaced Asquith as prime minister. Lloyd George's achievements in the last two years of the war included persuading the Royal Navy to introduce the convoy system and the unification of the Allied military command under the French general Ferdinand Foch. When asked to say anything about mistakes made, Johnson said at first we didn’t know about asymptomatic people spreading the virus. He even repeated this story a week or so ago. The authors point out that the first super-spreader in the UK had been such a person and the Chinese had reported the problem in January 2020.

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The following represent the most common yield criterion as applied to an isotropic material (uniform properties in all directions). Other equations have been proposed or are used in specialist situations.c < ε 3 < ε 1 < ε t {\displaystyle \varepsilon _{c}<\varepsilon _{3}<\varepsilon _{1}<\varepsilon _{t}\,} Find sources: "Material failure theory"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( November 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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A yield criterion often expressed as yield surface, or yield locus, is a hypothesis concerning the limit of elasticity under any combination of stresses. There are two interpretations of yield criterion: one is purely mathematical in taking a statistical approach while other models attempt to provide a justification based on established physical principles. Since stress and strain are tensor qualities they can be described on the basis of three principal directions, in the case of stress these are denoted by σ 1 {\displaystyle \sigma _{1}\,\!} , σ 2 {\displaystyle \sigma _{2}\,\!} , and σ 3 {\displaystyle \sigma _{3}\,\!} . Apart from the first section on the origin of the virus, in which they heavily hint at the Wuhan lab, it is very objective. At the successful conclusion of the war, Lloyd George was Britain's chief delegate to the Paris Peace Conference that drafted the Versailles Treaty. He remained prime minister, although now dependent on Conservative support. In 1921 he secured the settlement that established the Irish Free State. In the summer of 1922, Lloyd George was involved in a scandal involving the selling of knighthoods and peerages. In October, the Conservatives withdrew from the coalition over their opposition to Britain's foreign policy in Turkey. Lloyd George resigned as prime minister. The book finishes its account in mid-January with the fiasco of Johnson keeping schools open and then closing them on the same day. It is a devastating indictment of the government’s actions and blames it for a huge number of deaths. The failure criteria that were developed for brittle solids were the maximum stress/ strain criteria. The maximum stress criterion assumes that a material fails when the maximum principal stress σ 1 {\displaystyle \sigma _{1}} in a material element exceeds the uniaxial tensile strength of the material. Alternatively, the material will fail if the minimum principal stress σ 3 {\displaystyle \sigma _{3}} is less than the uniaxial compressive strength of the material. If the uniaxial tensile strength of the material is σ t {\displaystyle \sigma _{t}} and the uniaxial compressive strength is σ c {\displaystyle \sigma _{c}} , then the safe region for the material is assumed to bewhere σ c {\displaystyle \sigma _{c}} is a critical value of the far field stress and Y {\displaystyle Y} is a dimensionless factor that depends on the geometry, material properties, and loading condition. The quantity K I c {\displaystyle K_{\rm {Ic}}} is related to the stress intensity factor and is determined experimentally. Similar quantities K I I c {\displaystyle K_{\rm {IIc}}} and K I I I c {\displaystyle K_{\rm {IIIc}}} can be determined for mode II and model III loading conditions.