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Under certain exposure conditions, a femtosecond laser beam focused in the bulk of fused silica leads to the formation of self-organized structures consisting of a series of “nanolayers,” parallel to one another. Remarkably, this laser-induced nanoscale an ...

2020

MEMS-Enabled Silicon Photonic Integrated Devices and Circuits

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Yu Zhang

Photonic integrated circuits have seen a dramatic increase in complexity over the past decades. This development has been spurred by recent applications in datacenter communications and enabled by the availability of standardized mature technology platform ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Extended Tension Chord Model for Boundary Elements of RC Walls Accounting for Anchorage Slip and Lap Splices Presence

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Danilo Tarquini

This paper presents a mechanical model for the simulation of reinforced concrete (RC) wall boundary elements with lap splices, which builds on the tension chord model. The model is composed of an assembly of components, each one accounting for a different ...

SPRINGEROPEN2020

Influence of thermo-mechanical history on the ordering kinetics in 18 carat Au alloys

Helena Van Swygenhoven, Steven Van Petegem, Nadine Baluc, Marina Garcia Gonzalez

Precious alloys are subjected to a series of mechanical and thermal operations during manufacturing. For 18 carat gold alloys the processing operations can induce L1(0) ordered nanodomains, known to lead to the buildup of residual stresses, which are the p ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

A double-structure hydromechanical constitutive model for compacted bentonite.

Lyesse Laloui, Yafei Qiao

This paper presents a double-structure elastoplastic constitutive model that can describe the hydromechanical behavior of compacted bentonite. The model is formulated based on a new developed double-structure hydromechanical framework that consists of four ...

2019

The simulation and classification of contact clusters between rough surfaces

Shijun Yin

The contact area of rough surfaces has a great influence on many mechanical process in tribology. In this report, we used the simulation method to study the contact area between two rough surfaces and its evolution when sliding. We generated artificial sel ...

2019

Thermo-mechanical schemes for energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria, Alberto Minardi

Currently, schemes based on seminal empirical knowledge about energy piles subjected to mechanical and thermal loads are available to describe the response of such foundations. However, schemes based on theoretical principles may more closely reflect the p ...

Springer Verlag2019

Very-High-Speed Miniaturized Permanent Magnet Motors: Design and Optimization

Yves Perriard, Guillaume Paul-André Burnand

This paper aims to present an optimization method for very-high-speed electrical machines based on multiphysical analytical models. Analytical models allow a fast design but have to be robust and reliable. The set of models presented is very complete and c ...

IEEE2019

From experimental evidence to mechanical modeling and design expressions: The Critical Shear Crack Theory for shear design

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

Many research efforts have so far been devoted to the topic of shear design of members without transverse reinforcement since the first development in structural concrete. This has allowed a number of significant advances in the understanding of the phenom ...

2019

Variable Stiffness Spring Actuators for Low-Energy-Cost Human Augmentation

Salil Apte

Theoretical studies suggest and experimental evidence confirms that maintaining and changing human joint stiffness by coactivated antagonistic muscles are metabolically expensive, even if muscles do not perform net mechanical work. Based on this observatio ...

2019

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