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Earthquake-Induced Collapse Risk and Loss Assessment of Steel Concentrically Braced Frames

This paper quantifies the collapse risk and earthquake-induced losses for a wide range of archetype buildings with special concentrically braced frames (SCBFs). The collapse risk and expected economic losses associated with repair, demolition and collapse ...

2018

Virtual Zero Gravity Impact on Internal Gravity Model

Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Elisa Canzoneri

This project investigates the impact of a virtual zero gravity experience on the human gravity model. In the planned experiment, subjects are immersed with HMD and full body motion capture in a virtual world exhibiting either normal gravity or the apparent ...

Ieee Computer Soc2017

A dynamically forced cholera model for operational forecasting in Haiti

Waterborne diseases are among the leading causes of deaths in developing countries. The prompt intervention during an outbreak is crucial to limit the spread of an epidemic and reduce the number of casualties. The epidemiological models developed in the pa ...

2017

INFLUENCE OF THE INITIAL VOLUME OF LOCK EXCHANGE GRAVITY CURRENTS ON THE SEDIMENT ENTRAINMENT CAPACITY

Jessica Zordan

In the lock-exchange technique used to produce gravity currents, two fluids of different densities are initially at rest in a tank and separated by a vertical barrier, the lock gate. When this gate is suddenly removed, the two fluids come into contact and, ...

2017

Horava Gravity is Asymptotically Free in 2+1 Dimensions

Sergey Sibiryakov, Diego Blas Temino, Mario Herrero Valea

We compute the beta functions of marginal couplings in projectable Horava gravity in 2 + 1 spacetime dimensions. We show that the renormalization group flow has an asymptotically free fixed point in the ultraviolet (UV), establishing the theory as a UV-com ...

American Physical Society2017

EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ON SEDIMENT ENTRAINMENT BY GRAVITY CURRENTS

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez, Jessica Zordan

Gravity currents are geophysical flows responsible of the distal transport of high volumes of sediments. In particular, turbidity currents, a form of gravity currents where sediments in suspension confer the buoyancy that ignites the flow, are the main mec ...

2017

Understanding the destabilizing role for surface tension in planar shear flows in terms of wave interaction

François Gallaire, Luca Biancofiore

Both surface tension and buoyancy force in stable stratification act to restore perturbed interfaces back to their initial positions. Hence, both are intuitively considered as stabilizing agents. Nevertheless, the Taylor-Caulfield instability is a countere ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Detecting unresolved binary stars in Euclid VIS images

Frédéric Courbin, Thibault Adrien Kuntzer

Measuring a weak gravitational lensing signal to the level required by the next generation of space-based surveys demands exquisite reconstruction of the point-spread function (PSF). However, unresolved binary stars can significantly distort the PSF shape. ...

Edp Sciences S A2017

Sloshing in a Hele-Shaw cell: experiments and theory

François Gallaire, Benjamin Jérémy Dollet, Francesco Viola

The response of the free liquid surface in a Hele-Shaw cell subjected to a horizontal oscillation is investigated. We study the low-oscillation-amplitude regime and we show, by varying the fluid viscosity, nu, and the forcing frequency, omega, that the rat ...

Cambridge Univ Press2017

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SEDIMENT ENTRAINMENT BY LOCK-EXCHANGE GRAVITY CURRENTS

Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez, Jessica Zordan, Foteini Kyrousi, Alessandro Leonardi

Gravity currents are flows driven by buoyancy differences between two contacting fluids caused by differences in temperature, salinity, or by the presence of suspended particles. Such flows can reach high velocities near the bed, especially on the area beh ...

2017

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