Recent studies demonstrate novel metamaterials featuring unique properties by combining origami-inspired designs with additive manufacturing. In particular, the use of flexural hinges endow distinct advantages toward miniaturization and fabrication; howeve ...
Transient pressure waves in real pipe systems are affected by several phenomena not accounted for in the classic waterhammer theory. Damping mechanisms are differently manifested according to the material, configuration and existing features of pipe system ...
Several non-linear behaviors in scales space, in the framework of Scale Relativity Theory, are highlighted. All these are possible through the employment of fractal-type Airy functions, which allow a revaluation of the wave/corpuscle duality, from the pers ...
In any sport or human endeavor, coaches regularly state “play to your strengths.” One might not guess that a land-locked, mountainous country like Switzerland would have strengths that would give them a chance at winning the oldest, most competitive sailin ...
This thesis is devoted to the study of activated processes at the nanoscale by means of state-of-the-art computer simulations. On the one hand, we are interested in addressing specific aspects of chemico-physical processes of great practical importance, na ...
We provide upper and lower bounds on the escape rate of the Bhattacharyya process corresponding to polar codes where transmission takes place over the the binary erasure channel. More precisely, we bound the exponent of the number of sub-channels whose Bha ...
