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Earthquakes around the world have affected many unanchored tanks used for storage of gasoline. When these unanchored tanks are subjected to strong motion, the moment generated at the base, by the mass of liquid contained in the tank, will cause partial upl ...

Elsevier2011

Theoretical treatment and numerical simulation of potential and concentration profiles in extremely thin non-electroneutral membranes used for ion-selective electrodes

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The applicability of extremely thin non-electroneutral membranes for ion-selective electrodes (ISEs) is investigated. A theoretical treatment of potential and concentration profiles in space-charge membranes of

Elsevier2010

Seismic Behavior of Shell-to-Base Connections in Large Storage Tanks

Alain Nussbaumer, Gustavo Cortes

A study of non-anchored tanks found in Switzerland (Koller, 2003) revealed that the plastic rotation of the shell-to-bottom connection in four of the six tanks studied did not satisfy the 0.2 radians limit established by the Eurocode (Eurocode-8, 2005). Th ...

2010

Constrained Output Path-Following for Nonlinear Systems Using Predictive Control

Timm Faulwasser

We address the problem of steering the output of a nonlinear system along a given parametrized reference path, taking input and state constraints into account. Such problems are known as output path-following problems, which typically arise in vehicle and ...

2010

Spin-orbit coupling effects in the band structure of surface alloys

Luca Moreschini

At the surface of a solid, quantum mechanics allows the existence of two-dimensional Bloch waves as solutions of the Schrödinger equation. These "surface" states are interesting both for fundamental and practical reasons, and have been extensively explored ...

EPFL2009

Direct observation of nuclear spin diffusion in real space

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Schahrazede-Lila Mouaziz

Images directly visualizing the spatial spin-diffusion process are reported. The measurements were performed using a magnetic resonance force microscope. The field gradient associated with the forcedetection experiment is large enough to affect the spin dy ...

2007

Quasilinear second order elliptic systems and topological degree

Hicham Georges Gebran

We consider a large class of quasilinear second order elliptic systems of the form - ∑α,β=1N aαβ(x,u(x)),∇u(x))∂2αβu(x) + b(x,u(x),∇u(x)) = 0, where x varies in an unbounded domain Ω of the Euclidean space RN and u = (u1,...,um) is a vector of functi ...

EPFL2005

Imaging of electron potential landscapes on Au(111)

Klaus Kern, Harald Brune

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem states that the ground state electron density completely determines the external potential acting on an electron system. Inspired by this fundamental theorem, we developed a novel approach to map directly the electron potential i ...

2002

The role of radial electric fields in linear and nonlinear gyrokinetic full radius simulations

Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino

The pivotal role played by radial electric fields in the development of turbulence associated with anomalous transport is examined by means of global gyrokinetic simulations. It is shown that the stabilizing effect of E x B flows on ion temperature gradien ...

2002

High-Quality Isosurface Rendering with Exact Gradient

Michaël Unser, Philippe Thévenaz

We address the task of rendering by ray tracing the isosurface of a high-quality continuous spline model of volumetric discrete and regular data. By expressing the spline model as a sum of nonnegative B-splines, we are able to confine the potential locatio ...

IEEE2001

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