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Explosive fragmentation of Prince Rupert's drops leads to well-defined fragment sizes

Anyone who has ever broken a dish or a glass knows that the resulting fragments range from roughly the size of the object all the way down to indiscernibly small pieces: typical fragment size distributions of broken brittle materials follow a power law, an ...

Nature Research2021

Impact of quantum-chemical metrics on the machine learning prediction of electron density

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Ksenia Briling, Alberto Fabrizio

Machine learning (ML) algorithms have undergone an explosive development impacting every aspect of computational chemistry. To obtain reliable predictions, one needs to maintain a proper balance between the black-box nature of ML frameworks and the physics ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

Fiber-Tip Polymer Microcantilever for Fast and Highly Sensitive Hydrogen Measurement

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, Jiangtao Zhou, Leonardo Venturelli, Yiping Wang, Chaohui Li, Meng Zhu, Cong Xiong

Hydrogen as an antioxidant gas has been widely used in the medical and biological fields for preventing cancer or treating inflammation. However, controlling the hydrogen concentration is crucial for practical use due to its explosive property when its vol ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

High Power Electromagnetics Applied to Humanitarian Demining in Colombia

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Nicolas Mora Parra

This paper summarizes the main findings of a long-term research to explore the use of high power electromagnetics in humanitarian demining. A neutralization method based on remote detonation of electrically-activated improvised explosive devices (IED) was ...

Ieee2016

Predictive Models for Thermal Stability and Explosive Properties of Chemicals from Molecular Structure

Nadia Baati

Industrial chemical processes may involve thermal risks as most of the reactions performed are exothermic, the chemicals used are often thermally unstable, and the operating conditions are set to induce high conversion and throughput. Besides the reactive ...

EPFL2016

A model for the evaluation of the electric field associated with the lightning-triggering rocket wire and its corona

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Aleksandr Smorgonskii

In this paper, we analyze the electric field at ground level during the first stage of triggered lightning experiments, i.e., during the rocket ascent and prior to the lightning initiation. At distances of some tens of meters from the triggering wire, the ...

Amer Geophysical Union2015

Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships for Thermal Stability and Explosive Properties of Chemicals

Thierry Meyer, Francis Stoessel, Annik Nanchen, Nadia Baati

Handling and storing chemicals in the industrial world require a conscientious hazards assessment and the implementation of appropriate measures to ensure safety for the workers, the company, the environment and the society. Reliable evaluations and predic ...

2013

Rock damage control in bedrock blasting excavation for a nuclear power plant

Jian Zhao

Drill and blast is a major method for bed rock excavation in nuclear power plant engineering. Under blasting excavation, blast-induced vibration propagates in rock mass and induces damage to surrounding rock. Studying the characteristics of wave propagatio ...

Elsevier2011

Affective content analysis of music video clip

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ashkan Yazdani, Krista Kappeler

Nowadays, the amount of multimedia contents is explosively increasing and it is often a challenging problem to find a con- tent that will be appealing or matches users’ current mood or affective state. In order to achieve this goal, an efficient indexing t ...

ACM2011

Analysis of the brittle fragmentation of an expanding ring

Jean-François Molinari

The current research extends our previous work on brittle fragmentation of a one-dimensional bar [F. Zhou, J.-F. Molinari, K.T. Ramesh, A cohesive-model based fragmentation analysis: effects of strain rate and initial defects distribution, International Jo ...

2006