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Fornwall, Anna, and Emma Paulsson. "Har du vad som krävs? : En jämförande studie av färdigheters betydelse för löner och sysselsättning." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-316494.
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I denna undersökning studeras betydelsen av färdigheterna läskunnighet, räknefärdighet och problemlösning på sysselsättning och lönenivå. Undersökningen fokuserar främst på att studera om färdigheterna hos kvinnor och utrikes födda har annorlunda påverkan än för befolkningen i helhet. Studien jämför resultaten mellan Sverige och Tyskland. Metoden som används är linjär multipel regressionsanalys med minsta kvadratmetoden. Resultaten visar att en individs färdigheter har större betydelse för var i lönefördelningen hen befinner sig än om hen är sysselsatt eller inte. Effekterna på lön är genomgående positiva för båda länderna, men större för Tyskland än för Sverige – vilket indikerar att avkastningen på färdigheter är större i Tyskland. Resultaten visar vidare att kvinnor har lägre löner än män i både Sverige och Tyskland, men skillnaderna är genomgående större i Sverige. Det finns även vissa indikationer på att utrikes födda har det något svårare att komma in på den svenska än den tyska arbetsmarknaden.This study analyses the importance of the skills literacy, numeracy and problem solving on employment and earnings. The main focus of this study is particularly if the effects of skills within the groups ‘women’ and ‘foreign born’ differ from the population as a whole. The study compares the results between Sweden and Germany. The method used is multiple linear regression analysis using ordinary least squares. The results show that skills have a greater importance for an individuals placing in the wage distribution than for whether the individual is employed or not. The effects on wages are all through positive for both countries, but greater for Germany than Sweden – indicating that the return to skills is higher in Germany. The results further show that women’s wages are lower than men’s in both Sweden and Germany, but the gaps are larger in Sweden. There is also some evidence that foreign-born individuals have a harder time entering the Swedish labour market than the German.
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Flax, Matthew Raphael Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "The active compression wave cochlear amplifier." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41250.
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This thesis investigates hair cell (He) homeostasis and the compression wave cochlear amplifier. In the first part of the thesis, an accurate physiological treatment of a generic HC is conducted using a nonlinear distributed parameter physical model. This model includes the major ionic species (sodium, potassium and chlorine), defining the active cellular homeostatic properties. This model is used for transient response analysis. Resting state and transient responses of the HC model are in excellent agreement with the experimental literature. HCs in this model are most simply classified as instantaneous nonlinear transduction devices (i. e. their homeostatic mechanisms are not significantly frequency selective). A compression wave cochlear amplifier (CW-CA) is defined and modelled for the first time in the second part of the thesis. It is a physiological model that addresses three main elements present in the peripheral hearing circuit: cochlear mechanics, HC nonlinearity, and neurology. The actual physiological feedback mechanism of the CW-CA is realistic. A passive travelling wave (or other mechanical) vibration is the input to the system. Whilst the travelling wave wiggles the Organ of Corti, the compression wave pulsates it. The CW-CA is an alternative to the physiologically ill-defined locally active travelling wave cochlear feedback amplifier proposed by others. The new CW-CA model results in a cycle-by-cycle amplifier with nonlinear response. It is capable of assuming an infinite number of different operating states. The stable and first few amplitude-limited unstable states are significant in describing the operation of the peripheral hearing system. The CW-CA model can explain a large number of hearing phenomena. Several of these are investigated by means of a system analysis for both the stable and unstable cases. The system is studied and the tone, two-tone suppression and distortion product responses are found to align well with published results. Explanations for various mechanical, HC and neurological phenomena are discussed and presented. For example, previously poorly understood phenomena such as otoacoustic emissions and neural spontaneous rates are accounted for.
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Austin, James Clifton. "Ultrasonic compression wave propagation in flocculating aqueous kaolin suspensions." Thesis, Keele University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337001.
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Freemantle, Richard James. "Ultrasonic compression wave evaluation of adhered metal sheets and thin sheet materials." Thesis, Keele University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282635.
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Cheng, Qiao. "Compressive sensing for microwave and millimeter-wave array imaging." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2018. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/31704.
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Compressive Sensing (CS) is a recently proposed signal processing technique that has already found many applications in microwave and millimeter-wave imaging. CS theory guarantees that sparse or compressible signals can be recovered from far fewer measure- ments than those were traditionally thought necessary. This property coincides with the goal of personnel surveillance imaging whose priority is to reduce the scanning time as much as possible. Therefore, this thesis investigates the implementation of CS techniques in personnel surveillance imaging systems with different array configurations. The first key contribution is the comparative study of CS methods in a switched array imaging system. Specific attention has been paid to situations where the array element spacing does not satisfy the Nyquist criterion due to physical limitations. CS methods are divided into the Fourier transform based CS (FT-CS) method that relies on conventional FT and the direct CS (D-CS) method that directly utilizes classic CS formulations. The performance of the two CS methods is compared with the conventional FT method in terms of resolution, computational complexity, robustness to noise and under-sampling. Particularly, the resolving power of the two CS methods is studied under various cir- cumstances. Both numerical and experimental results demonstrate the superiority of CS methods. The FT-CS and D-CS methods are complementary techniques that can be used together for optimized efficiency and image reconstruction. The second contribution is a novel 3-D compressive phased array imaging algorithm based on a more general forward model that takes antenna factors into consideration. Imaging results in both range and cross-range dimensions show better performance than the conventional FT method. Furthermore, suggestions on how to design the sensing con- figurations for better CS reconstruction results are provided based on coherence analysis. This work further considers the near-field imaging with a near-field focusing technique integrated into the CS framework. Simulation results show better robustness against noise and interfering targets from the background. The third contribution presents the effects of array configurations on the performance of the D-CS method. Compressive MIMO array imaging is first derived and demonstrated with a cross-shaped MIMO array. The switched array, MIMO array and phased array are then investigated together under the compressive imaging framework. All three methods have similar resolution due to the same effective aperture. As an alternative scheme for the switched array, the MIMO array is able to achieve comparable performance with far fewer antenna elements. While all three array configurations are capable of imaging with sub-Nyquist element spacing, the phased array is more sensitive to this element spacing factor. Nevertheless, the phased array configuration achieves the best robustness against noise at the cost of higher computational complexity. The final contribution is the design of a novel low-cost beam-steering imaging system using a flat Luneburg lens. The idea is to use a switched array at the focal plane of the Luneburg lens to control the beam-steering. By sequentially exciting each element, the lens forms directive beams to scan the region of interest. The adoption of CS for image reconstruction enables high resolution and also data under-sampling. Numerical simulations based on mechanically scanned data are conducted to verify the proposed imaging system.
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Robb, Gary Benjamin O'Neill. "The in situ compressional wave properties of marine sediments." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/41187/.
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The inversion of compressional wave properties is presently emerging as a technique for determining the geotechnical properties of marine sediments. However, the relationships required to perform such an inversion are still under debate, with further research required to resolve the dependence of compressional wave properties on both frequency and geotechnical properties. Though the use of in situ probes provides the most promising manner of examining these relationships, previous work in this field has encountered a number of experimental difficulties. This work presents a series of well-constrained in situ transmission experiments. These were undertaken on inter-tidal sediments using a purpose built in situ device, the Sediment Probing Acoustic Detection Equipment (SPADE). Compressional wave properties were measured from 16 to 100 kHz in a range of sediment types (medium to fine sands and medium to fine silts), with several closely spaced locations examined at each general site to assess the local variability in compressional wave properties. Spreading losses, which were adjusted for sediment type, were incorporated into the data processing. Also included were a thorough error analysis and an examination of the repeatability of both the acoustic wave emitted by the source and the coupling between the probes and the sediment. The results indicate that sands possess greater group velocities, greater effective attenuation coefficients and lower quality factors than silts, while the low velocities measured in silts imply that the bulk moduli of the silt sites examined are lower than expected owing to a considerable fraction of organic matter. Significant variations were observed in compressional wave properties, which were more reliably related to variations in geotechnical properties in sands than in silts. Group velocities were observed to be independent of frequency in sands within 95 % confidence limits, with no reliable frequency-dependence being determined in silts owing to variability in the measured values. Effective attenuation coefficients were proportional to frequency within 95 % confidence limits for the majority of the sand and silt locations examined. Results indicate that compressional wave properties can be used to determine porosity, bulk density and sand fraction, while the reliable determination of mean grain diameter from compressional wave properties in inhibited by the scatter in the data. The results from this study were also used to assess the effectiveness of Biot Theory to predict the compressional wave properties of these sediment types. In sands, the Biot phase velocities agreed with measured group velocities, while Biot absorption coefficients were less than measured effective attenuation coefficients, owing to scattering or squirt flow not accounted for in the Biot Theory. In silts, Biot phase velocities are greater than measured group velocities, while Biot absorption coefficients generally agree with or are greater than measured effective attenuation coefficients. In silts, predicted velocities are greater than those measured, while absorption coefficients generally agree with or are greater than measured attenuation coefficients. The discrepancy between the measured attenuation coefficients and predicted absorption coefficients can be explained through the over-estimation of in situ porosities by the geotechnical measurement techniques adopted.
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Tengelsen, Daniel Ross. "Acoustical Analysis of a Horn-Loaded Compression Drivers Using Numerical Analysis." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2448.
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Two numerical techniques, the boundary-element method (BEM) and the finite-difference method (FDM), are used for simulating the radiation from horn-loaded compression drivers and from an infinitely-baffled, finite-length pipe. While computations of the horn-loaded compression driver are in steady state, transient analysis of the finite-length pipe is studied as a precursor to transient analysis within the horn-loaded compression driver. BEM numerical simulations show promise for the development of new designs. Numerical simulations serve as a good tool for time and cost-effective prototyping as poor designs are detected before they are built.
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Fateri, Sina. "Advanced signal processing techniques for multimodal ultrasonic guided wave response." Thesis, Brunel University, 2015. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11657.
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Ultrasonic technology is commonly used in the eld of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) of metal structures such as steel, aluminium, etc. Compared to ultrasonic bulk waves that travel in infinite media with no boundary influence, Ultrasonic Guided Waves (UGWs) require a structural boundary for propagation such that they can be used to inspect and monitor long elements of a structure from a single position. The greatest challenges for any UGW system are the plethora of wave modes arising from the geometry of the structural element which propagate with a range of frequency dependent velocities and the interpretation of these combined signals reflected by discontinuities in the structural element. In this thesis, a technique is developed which facilitates the measurement of Time of Arrival (ToA) and group velocity dispersion curves of wave modes for one dimensional structures as far as wave propagation is concerned. A second technique is also presented which employs the dispersion curves to deliver enhanced range measurements in complex multimodal UGW responses. Ultimately, the aforementioned techniques are used as a part of the analysis of previously unreported signals arising from interactions of UGWs with piezoelectric transducers. The first signal processing technique is presented which used a combination of frequency-sweep measurement, sampling rate conversion and the Fourier transform. The technique is applied to synthesized and experimental data in order to identify different wave modes in complex UGW signals. It is demonstrated that the technique has the capability to derive the ToA and group velocity dispersion curve of the wave modes of interest. The second signal processing technique uses broad band excitation, dispersion compensation and cross-correlation. The technique is applied to synthesized and experimental data in order to identify different wave modes in complex UGW signals. It is demonstrated that the technique noticeably improves the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of the UGW response using a priori knowledge of the dispersion curve. It is also able to derive accurate quantitative information about the ToA and the propagation distance. During the development of the aforementioned signal processing techniques, some unwanted wave-packets are identified in the UGW responses which are found to be induced by the coupling of a shear mode piezoelectric transducer at the free edge of the waveguide. Accordingly, the effect of the force on the piezoelectric transducers and the corresponding reflections and mode conversions are studied experimentally. The aforementioned signal processing techniques are also employed as a part of the study. A Finite Element Analysis (FEA) procedure is also presented which can potentially improve the theoretical predictions and converge to results found in experimental routines. The approach enhances the con dence in the FEA models compared to traditional approaches. The outcome of the research conducted in this thesis paves the way to enhance the reliability of UGW inspections by utilizing the signal processing techniques and studying the multimodal responses.
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Shaw, Anurupa. "La génération d'impulsions courtes d'ondes acoustiques de surface sur un matériau piézo-électrique." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017UBFCD063/document.
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La génération d’impulsions courtes d’ondes acoustiques de surface est étudiée, en s’inspirant du principe de l’amplification des impulsions chirpées qui est utilisée pour la génération d’impulsions laser ultrabrèves. La compression temporelle des impulsions est généralement réalisée à l’aide d’éléments dispersifs. Dans ce travail, un transducteur à ondes acoustiques de surface pouvant émettre des impulsions brèves est utilisé comme élément dispersif. Une étude comparative des transducteurs à peignes interdigités chirpés est menée avec un modèle du premier ordre et un modèle dit de matrice mixte. Des dispositifs à ondes acoustiques de surface sont conçus et réalisés à partir des résultats de simulation numérique. La façon de distribuer la période dans le transducteur est étudiée. L’apparition de bandes interdites dues aux réflexions internes dans le transducteur chirpé et son effet sur l’émission directionnelle des ondes surface sont en particulier observées et étudiées.Un interféromètre optique différentiel dans le domaine temporel et stabilisé est ensuite proposé afin de caractériser les impulsions brèves. Le transducteur à ondes acoustiques de surface est placé à l’extérieur de l’interféromètre. Des expériences sont conduites avec un transducteur à peignes interdigités chirpé ayant une bande opérationnelle couvrant la gamme de fréquences 200 MHz – 400 MHz et produisant des impulsions de 10 ns avec un déplacement hors-plan maximal de 36 nm. La réponse interférométrique est comparée à une mesure électrique directe obtenue à l’aide d’un transducteur de réception large bande ; une bonne correspondance des deux mesures est observée. Les influences de la différence de chemin optique dans l’interféromètre et du choix du point d’observation sur la surface sont discutées. La compression de l’impulsion le long du transducteur chirpé est observée expérimentalement.Finalement, une étude comparative de différents filtres de compression temporelle est présentée, dans l’objectif d’obtenir des impulsions optimales à la fois courtes temporellement et de forte intensité, pour un élément dispersif donné. Le filtre inverse est identifié comme le plus efficace et nous permet de produire les impulsions de plus grande amplitude. Afin d’optimiser la compression de l’impulsion pour les dispositifs fabriqués, des expériences sont conduites pour trouver les courbes de compromis optimal dans chaque cas de modulation de la période du transducteurGeneration of short pulses with surface acoustic waves (SAW) is studied, in analogy with the principle of chirped pulse amplification (CPA) used to produce ultrashort laser pulses. Temporal compression of pulses is generally achieved with dispersive elements. A SAW transducer emitting short SAW pulses is used as a dispersive element in this work. A comparative study of chirped inter digital transducers (CIDTs) using the first order model and the p-matrix model is presented. SAW devices are designed and fabricated using the simulation results and the effect of the varying pitch of the CIDts on the response is studied. Appearance of band gaps due to internal reflections within the CIDts and its effect on the directionality of the CIDTs are in particular found and studied.A stabilized time-domain differential optical interferometer is then proposed in order to characterize short pulses, with the surface acoustic wave (SAW) sample placed outside the interferometer. Experiments are conducted with surface acoustic waves excited by a chirped inter-digital transducer on a piezoelectric lithium niobate substrate having an operational bandwidth covering the 200 MHz – 400 MHz frequency range and producing 10 ns pulses with 36 nm maximum out-of-plane displacement. The interferometric response is compared with a direct electrical measurement obtained with a receiving wide bandwidth inter-digital transducer and good correspondence is observed. The effects of varying the path difference of the interferometer and the measurement position on the surface are discussed. Pulse compression along the chirped inter-digital transducer is observed experimentally.Finally, a comparative study of different filter designs for generating short pulses is presented with an objective to find a design to produce the optimal pulse which is short in width and high in amplitude, for a given dispersive element. The inverse filter is found to be the most efficient as it produces a short pulse with the highest amplitude. To optimize the pulse compression for the fabricated devices, experiments are conducted to find the optimal trade-off curve for each chirp case
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Sayed, Ali Yawar. "In Situ Compressional Wave Velocity Across An Exposed Brittle Fault Zone." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34336.
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The effects of lithology, fracturing, and gouge zone mineralization on the geophysical properties of fault zones are not very well understood. In situ seismic data collected over the exhumed San Gregorio Fault at Moss Beach, CA were used to relate in situ compressional wave velocity to internal fault zone properties. This active strike-slip fault is exposed in cross section on an uplifting and actively eroding wave-cut platform. It cuts shallow marine sediments that have been buried to depths of a few kilometers. The unweathered exposure containing seawater makes it a unique analog of subsurface faults. Previous structural analysis over this exposure observed damage caused by faulting over a ~100 m wide zone in cross-section. The fault zone is centered at a 10-17 m wide clay-rich fault core flanked by a ~30 m wide brecciated gouge zone. These gouge zones are bordered on either side by 30-40 m wide fractured zones. Resolving to a scale of a few meters, the seismic survey produced a continuous P-wave velocity profile analogous to a horizontal well log across the fault. Lateral variations in the velocity profile correlate exactly to previously mapped fault zone structure. The clay core and adjacent brecciated gouge create a ~50 m wide very low velocity zone, 25-50% slower than the surrounding host rock. Fractured bedrock on either side of the core causes a wider zone of 5-10% slow velocity, for a total fault signature ~100 m wide. Fault parallel fracture anisotropy was observed in the fractured zones, but surprizingly anisotropy was not observed in the strongly foliated gouge zones. The field measurements differ significantly from laboratory measurements at zero pressure and in some cases from expected values for saturated rock of this porosity, perhaps due to biased rock sampling, the long wavelength effects of macrofractures, frequency dispersion, and partial saturation. The velocity profile is similar in width and consistent in velocity contrast to low S-wave velocity zones derived from fault zone guided waves in other strike-slip faults. The traveltime delay across the fault zone is not large enough to cause the 2-3 km wide crustal low velocity zones modeled by refraction studies. Synthetic reflection seismograms in the typical frequency range show that the fault zone acts as a thick bed or as a constructively interfering thin bed. The models suggest that very large reflection coefficients observed across accretionary prism faults can be explained by fracturing, brecciation and clay content without elevated pore pressures. Comparison with a refraction study across the Punchbowl Fault shows a similar structural zonation of these two well-studied examples of brittle fault zones. This suggests that high-resolution seismic velocity models can be used to directly interpret internal deformation structure of brittle faults.Master of Science
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Toms, Julianna J. "Effect of fluid distribution on compressional wave propagation in partially saturated rocks." Curtin University of Technology, Department of Exploration Geophysics, 2008. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=128424.
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Partial saturation of porous rock by two fluids substantially affects compressional wave propagation. In particular, partial saturation causes significant attenuation and dispersion due to wave-induced fluid flow. Such flow arises when a passing wave induces different fluid pressures in regions of rock saturated by different fluids. When partial saturation is mesoscopic, i.e. existing on a length scale much greater than pore scale but less than wavelength scale, significant attenuation can arise for frequencies 10-1000 Hz. Models for attenuation and dispersion due to mesoscale heterogeneities mostly assume fluids are distributed in a regular way. Recent experiments indicate mesoscopic heterogeneities have less idealised distributions and distribution affects attenuation/dispersion. Thus, theoretical models are required to simulate effects due to realistic fluid distributions.The thesis focus is to model attenuation and dispersion due to realistic mesoscopic fluid distributions and fluid contrasts. First X-ray tomographic images of partially saturated rock are analysed statistically to identify spatial measures useful for describing fluid distribution patterns. The correlation function and associated correlation length for a specific fluid type are shown to be of greatest utility. Next a new model, called 3DCRM (CRM stands for continuous random media) is derived, utilizing a correlation function to describe the fluid distribution pattern. It is a random media model, is accurate for small fluid contrast and approximate for large fluid contrast. Using 3DCRM attenuation and dispersion are shown to depend on fluid distribution.
Next a general framework for partial saturation called APS (acoustics of partial saturation) is extended enabling estimation of attenuation and dispersion due to arbitrary 1D/3D fluid distributions. The intent is to construct a versatile model enabling attenuation and dispersion to be estimated for arbitrary fluid distributions, contrasts and saturations. Two crucial parameters within APS called shape and frequency scaling parameters are modified via asymptotic analysis using several random media models (which are accurate for only certain contrasts in fluid bulk moduli and percent saturation). For valid fluid contrasts and saturations, which satisfy certain random media conditions there is good correspondence between modified APS and the random media models, hence showing that APS can be utilized to model attenuation and dispersion due to more realistic fluid distributions.
Finally I devise a numerical method to test the accuracy of the analytical shape parameters for a range of fluid distributions, saturations and contrasts. In particular, the analytical shape parameter for randomly distributed spheres was shown to be accurate for a large range of saturations and fluid contrasts.
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Boller, Shaun M. "One-Dimensional Dynamic Wake Response in an Isolated Rotor due to Inlet Total Pressure Distortion." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9587.
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An experimental investigation of the wake of a low-speed axial-flow compressor rotor was conducted with and without the presence of steady inlet total pressure distortions. The steady three-dimensional rotor inlet flow was obtained by a five-hole pneumatic pressure probe, while the one-dimensional rotor exit data were obtained using a piggyback steady/unsteady total pressure probe in non-nulling mode. Both inlet and exit flow conditions were measured in the stationary frame of reference.
Results indicate increases in wake thickness and magnitude of total pressure defect as blade loading increased into the distortion cycle. The wake suction side jet increased in width and magnitude as blade loading increased, which appears to be a response to flow blockage caused by the growing boundary layer on the blades. Based on one-dimensional exit total pressure conditions with respect to the distortion screen, the dynamic response of the intra-blade passage flow does not appear to be a function of blade loading, measurement span, or distortion intensity within the ranges tested. Unsteady one-dimensional rotor exit suction side jet width and magnitude varied a great deal within and outside of the distorted region, and were only moderately correlated to inlet flow conditions. Changes in the unsteady one-dimensional rotor wake width and magnitude were usually in phase with and strongly correlated to changes in the inlet flow conditions.Master of Science
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SOUSA, Welington Barbosa de. "Simulação numérica de propagação da onda cisalhante em rochas sedimentares a partir de imagens microtomográficas de Raios X." Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, 2017. http://dspace.sti.ufcg.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/riufcg/1265.
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O conhecimento das propriedades petrofísicas é de grande importância para melhor entender o comportamento físico das rochas, especialmente quando se considera que o principal método de prospecção geofísica para alvos profundos é o método sísmico, o qual investiga a propagação de ondas elásticas em subsuperfície. O estudo das ondas sísmicas fornece informações a respeito do tipo de rocha e fluidos em subsuperfície: assim, é de grande importância o desenvolvimento de um trabalho que possibilite gerar um modelo matemático capaz de simular a propagação dessas ondas, tendo em vista sua importância para o cálculo das propriedades elásticas. Este trabalho tem por objetivo suprir essa necessidade, por meio da geração um modelo matemático (utilizando o software Comsol Multiphysics 5.1) capaz de simular a propagação de ondas cisalhantes (S) em rochas sedimentares a partir de imagens microtomográficas de raios-X de dois tipos de rocha: arenitos e carbonatos. A simulação da propagação de ondas compressionais e cisalhantes foi realizada através da aplicação do módulo solid mechanics, da sessão Structural Mechanics, que permite a análise transiente da propagação de ondas em maciços rochosos causada pela aplicação de uma carga explosiva de curta duração. Os valores obtidos pelo método objeto deste trabalho foram comparados aos valores medidos em laboratório (P e S) e aos valores obtidos utilizando o método apresentado por Apolinário (2016) para a onda P. No caso das ondas cisalhantes, os valores obtidos foram comparados apenas aos valores obtidos em laboratório. O modelo numérico desenvolvido neste trabalho apresentou uma performance satisfatória na simulação das velocidades de propagação das ondas P e S em amostras reais de arenitos e carbonatos, tendo seu desempenho sido superior ao método proposto por Apolinário (2016). Uma maior representatividade estatística dos resultados pode ser obtida pela aplicação em um maior número de amostras.
The knowledge of the petrophysical properties is of great importance to better understand the physical behavior of the rocks, especially when considering that the main method of geophysical prospecting for deep targets is the seismic method, which investigates the propagation of elastic waves in subsurface. The study of seismic waves provides information about the type of rock and subsurface fluids: thus, the development of a work that allows to generate a mathematical model capable of simulating the propagation of these waves is of great importance, considering their importance for the calculation of elastic properties. This work aims to furnish this need by generating a mathematical model (using software Comsol Multiphysics 5.1) able to simulate the propagation of shear waves (S) in sedimentary rocks from microtomographic images of X-rays of two types of rock: sandstones and carbonates. The simulation of the propagation of compressive and shear waves was carried out through the application of the solid mechanics module of the session Structural Mechanics, which allows the transient analysis of the propagation of waves in rocky masses caused by the application of a short duration explosive load. The results obtained by the object method of this work were compared to the values measured in laboratory (P and S) and the values obtained using the method presented by Apolinário (2016) for the P wave. In the case of the shear waves, the values obtained were compared only values obtained in the laboratory. The numerical model developed in this work presented a satisfactory performance in the simulation of the propagation velocities of P and S waves in real samples of sandstones and carbonates, and its performance was superior to the method proposed by Apolinário (2016). A greater statistical representativeness of the results can be obtained by the application in a greater number of samples.
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Rabe, Douglas Cameron. "Shock wave end wall boundary layer interaction in a transonic compressor rotor." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49872.
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The passage shock wave end wall boundary layer interaction in a transonic compressor was investigated with a laser transit anemometer. A two stage transonic compressor designed without inlet guide vanes was used in this flow field investigation. Measurements of the flow velocity were made within the first stage rotor passage of this transonic compressor. Laser measurements were made in two blade passages at six axial locations from 10% of the axial blade chord in front of the leading edge to 30% of the axial blade chord into the blade passage. At three of these axial locations, laser traverses were taken at different radial immersions to investigate the flow behavior near the tip end wall. Twenty-six different locations were traversed circumferentially. The measurements reveal that the end wall boundary layer in this region is separated from the core flow by what appears to be a shear layer where the passage shock wave and all ordered flow seem to end abruptly.Ph. D.
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Oghenekohwo, Felix Onovughe. "Analysis of effect of using estimated shear wave data as compared to measured compressional and shear wave sonic log." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4216.
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This study is aimed at developing a workflow, and ultimately a model, for quantitative interpretation of sonic and seismic data. Measured data collected at the point of logging can be fraught with errors that can lead to wrong interpretation. One of such data is the shear wave velocity which in most cases is collected with the compressional wave velocity. The measured shear wave velocity log may contain errors that are due to drilling conditions, mud invasion etc. It may also contain cycle skips and might contain a lot of missing data and information. It is because of the poor quality of this type of log that has often made well log analysis companies and log interpreters neglect the measured shear wave log and subsequently generate or create an estimated shear wave log which they use for interpretation and modelling to check how the amplitudes vary with increasing offsets, among other uses.The workflow presented in this study considers the effect of working with the measured data, a reprocessed shear wave log and a locally estimated shear wave log. Specific correction procedures for invasion of the logs was done and synthetic seismograms were created for each type after correction for comparison to a 3D seismic data. The results of this study suggest that oil based mud invasion can cause significant problems to sonic logs especially the shear wave log. It also suggests that, if a shear wave log is of low or bad quality, a reprocessed shear wave log would be better for interpretation and modeling rather than a locally calibrated shear wave log or an estimated shear wave log using global predictions. The conclusion is evident from the synthetics generated using the measured shear wave data and the estimated shear wave data.
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Yu, Hao. "Modeling of High Strain Rate Compression of Austenitic Shape Memory Alloys." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062835/.
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Shape memory alloys (SMAs) exhibit the ability to absorb large dynamic loads and, therefore, are excellent candidates for structural components where impact loading is expected. Compared to the large amount of research on the shape memory effect and/or pseudoelasticity of polycrystalline SMAs under quasi-static loading conditions, studies on dynamic loading are limited. Experimental research shows an apparent difference between the quasi-static and high strain rate deformation of SMAs. Research reveals that the martensitic phase transformation is strain rate sensitive. The mechanism for the martensitic phase transformation in SMAs during high strain rate deformation is still unclear. Many of the existing high strain rate models assume that the latent heat generated during deformation contributes to the change in the stress-strain behavior during dynamic loading, which is insufficient to explain the large stress observed during phase transformation under high strain rate deformation. Meanwhile, the relationship between the phase front velocity and strain rate has been studied. In this dissertation, a new resistance to phase transformation during high strain rate deformation is discussed and the relationship between the driving force for phase transformation and phase front velocity is established. With consideration of the newly defined resistance to phase transformation, a new model for phase transformation of SMAs during high strain rate deformation is presented and validated based on experimental results from an austenitic NiTi SMA. Stress, strain, and martensitic volume fraction distribution during high strain rate deformation are simulated using finite element analysis software ABAQUS/standard. For the first time, this dissertation presents a theoretical study of the microscopic band structure during high strain rate compressive deformation. The microscopic transformation band is generated by the phase front and leads to minor fluctuations in sample deformation. The strain rate effect on phase transformation is studied using the model. Both the starting stress for transformation and the slope of the stress-strain curve during phase transformation increase with increasing strain rate.
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Aziz, Saduman. "Perfect Gas Navier-stokes Solutions Of Hypersonic Boundary Layer And Compression Corner Flows." Phd thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606661/index.pdf.
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The purpose of this thesis is to perform numerical solutions of hypersonic, high temperature, perfect gas flows over various geometries. Three dimensional, thin layer, compressible, Navier-Stokes equations are solved. An upwind finite difference approach with Lower Upper-Alternating Direction Implicit (LU-ADI) decomposition is used.
Solutions of laminar, hypersonic, high temperature, perfect gas flows over flat plate and compression corners (qw=5°, 10°
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Gurak, Derya. "Numerical Investigation Of Rotor Wake-stator Interaction." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605434/index.pdf.
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Lenglin, Geoffroy (Geoffroy Philippe) 1976. "Characterization of wake- and tip-vortex-induced unsteady blade response in multistage compressor environment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82227.
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Warren, Linda M. "Analysis of global compressional-wave spectra to determine anelastic earth structure and earthquake rupture directivity /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3100367.
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Gresko, Mark J. "Analysis and interpretation of compressional (P-wave) and shear (SH-wave) reflection seismic and geologic data over the Bane Dome, Giles County, Virginia." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53879.
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Approximately 37 km of predominantly 24-fold P-wave Vibroseis data and 16 km of 24-fold SH-wave Vibroseis data were acquired in the southern portion of the folded Appalachians near the Bane Dome in Giles County, Virginia. Data processing techniques included the application of newly developed methods for crossdip removal as well as the determination of statics solutions in the case of time variant shifts within the data traces. Minimum-phase filter deconvolution was also applied for the removal of reverberating energy and multiples recorded on the SH—wave lines. Vp/Vs ratios were used to aid in the determination of lithologies in the absence of bore-hole data.
Interpreted thickening of the Lower Cambrian to Upper Precambrian sequence beneath the Bane Dome appears to represent Eocambrian rifting. Faults generated at that time may now be reactivated by the present stress regime, causing earthquake activity in this area. Interpretation of the seismic data supports a duplex structure proposed for the Paleozoic rocks of the Bane Dome Complex within the Narrows thrust sheet of southwestern Virginia.Ph. D.
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AL, Ismail Marwah I. "On the relationship between compressional wave velocity of saturated porous rocks and density : theory and application." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108912.
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Understanding the velocity of the compressional waves travelling through rocks is essential for the purposes of applied geophysics in such areas as groundwater and hydrocarbon exploration. The wave velocity is defined theoretically by the Newton-Laplace equation, which relates the wave velocity, V, to the square root of the ratio of the rock's elastic modulus, M, and its density, [rho] (Bourvie et al., 1987). Therefore, the equation indicates that the velocity is inversely proportional to density. However, the in-situ field measurements and laboratory experiments of compressional wave velocity through different rocks show otherwise. In other words, the velocity is directly proportional to approximately the 4th power of density as stated by Gardner (Gardner et al., 1974). This thesis investigates the inconsistency between theory and observations regarding the relationship between velocity and density of saturated porous rocks. The inconsistency is clarified by deriving a new expression for the elastic modulus, M, using Wyllie's time average equation and the Newton-Laplace equation. The new derived expression of the elastic modulus, M, provides dependence of M on density to approximately the 9th power. In addition, Gardner's equation is modified to accurately obtain the velocity over the entire range of densities (from 1.00 g/cm³ to around 3.00 g/cm³) and porosity (from 0% to 100%). The end of this thesis is an application of the previous outcomes with real data sets, where the results validate the derived expression of the elastic modulus as well as the generalized form of Gardner's equation.
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Quesenbury, Robert C. "Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurements in the wake of a cascade of compressor blades at stall." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Mar%5FQuesenbury.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.Thesis Advisor(s): Garth V. Hobson "March 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-84). Also available online.
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Mourre, Gilles B. P. "Five essays on performance and structural rigidities in European labour markets." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210306.
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The thesis investigates the role of structural rigidities in recent labour market performances in Europe through various and complementary angles in five essays. By structural rigidities, we mean a lasting feature caused by a set of institutions, which prevents a market from operating efficiently. The approach is essentially empirical and macro-economic, while the scope of the analysis is definitely European, which is technically reflected in the use of either euro area aggregates or panels and cross-sections of European countries.Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion
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Gattobigio, Giovanni Luca. "Manipulation of a Large Magneto-Optical Trap:application to Four-Wave Mixing." Phd thesis, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00312718.
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Dans cette thèse, nous présentons une recherche expérimentale détaillée des lois caract érisant la taille et la densité atomique de grands pièges magnéto-optiques contenant typiquement 10^10 atomes. Il est bien connu que les interactions induites par laser, produites par la diffusion multiple, y constituent la limitation principale à l'obtention de densités atomiques élevées. Pour contourner cette limite, nous avons réalisé un piège magnéto-optique 'noir' combiné un piège dipolaire. Les forces de répulsion assistées par la lumière ont ainsi pu être considérablement réduites et une augmentation de près de deux ordres des grandeur sur le densité (jusqu'à 10^12 atm/cm^3) a été corrélativement observée. Nous avons proposé également un modèle qualitatif pour rendre compte de la densité atomique (et également pour la taille) o`u nous avons introduit les interactions mécaniques induites par les photons du laser repompeur quand son épaisseur optique devient importante. Ce travail fait partie d'un projet de recherche qui vise à terme à observer la localisation d'Anderson de la lumière dans des nuages d'atomes froids, mais pour laquelle des densités de l'ordre (10^13-10^14 atm/cm^3) sont requises. Pour des densités inférieures, des mécanismes de gain peuvent toutefois être mis à profit pour amplifier des modes pre-localisés. Nous avons, ainsi, mis en place une technique pompe-sonde pour la création d'un gain dans l'échantillon atomique. La configuration des pompes a autorisé l'observation du signal de mélange a quatre ondes. Une analyse détaillée de ses propriétés et de ses caractéristiques a été présentée. En particulier, une asymétrie rouge-bleu dans le spectre, pour des intensités élevées des faisceaux pompes, a été mise en évidence. Cette asymétrie a pu tre expliquée en tenant compte du regroupement des atomes dans les noeuds ou dans les ventres de l'onde stationnaire des faisceaux de pompe.
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Jouadé, Antoine. "Millimeter-wave radar imaging systems : focusing antennas, passive compressive devicefor MIMO configurations and high resolution signal processing." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017REN1S154/document.
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Les travaux présentés dans cette thèse sont une contribution à l’étude des systèmes d’imagerie active en bande millimétrique et plus spécifiquement sur les parties antennaires et le traitement de signal. Ces travaux ont été menés dans le cadre d’une collaboration entre Canon Research Center France et l’ETR. Une première étude a porté sur les antennes focalisantes et plus spécifiquement sur la lentille de Fresnel avec un procédé de fabrication de matériau à gradient d’indice qui a permis d’améliorer l’efficacité (59%) et la largeur bande de fréquence (75-110 GHz). Cette antenne a été utilisée sur un système rotatif pour imager une scène réelle extérieure. L’étude s’est ensuite focalisée sur la conception d’une configuration Multiple-Input Multiple-Output ou MIMO (entrées multiples, sorties multiples) grâce notamment à l’utilisation d’un dispositif compressif passif 4×1 permettant de réduire, par compression, le nombre de chaînes RF. Ces chaînes sont décompressées par post-traitement. Le dispositif, placé à l’émission, a été associé avec un scanner qui permet de synthétiser un réseau d’antennes à la réception. Cette configuration a permis de générer virtuellement un réseau de plus grande taille, permettant d’améliorer la résolution azimutale du système tout en limitant le nombre de chaînes RF. Cette configuration est utilisée pour imager une scène en chambre anéchoique afin de valider le concept. Pour améliorer encore plus la résolution du système avec un nombre limité de chaînes RF, l’étude d’algorithmes de haute-résolution, ou méthodes d’estimation spectrales, sont utilisés dans des configurations à large bande de fréquences pour imager des cibles en champs proche. L’association de la configuration MIMO, du dispositif compressif passif et des méthodes d’estimation spectrales permet d’améliorer la résolution du système tout en limitant le nombre de chaînes RF nécessaireThe broad topic of the presented Ph.D. thesis consists in the contribution to the study of Radar imaging systems at millimeter-wave and more specifically to the antennas and signal processing. These works have been carried out during a partnership between Canon Research Center France and IETR. A first study on focusing antennas, particularly on Fresnel lens antennas, thanks to a technological process to manufacture inhomogeneous materials, has allowed to improve the efficiency and the frequency bandwidth. The antenna has been mounted on a rotary system to image a real outdoor scene. Then, the study has been focused on the realization of a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) configuration notably using a 4 × 1 passive compressive device allowing to reduce, by compression, the number of radiofrequency (RF) chains. The chains are decompressed by post-processing. The device, used at the transmitting part, is associated with a scanner that synthetizes a receiving array of antennas. This configuration allows to generate a large virtual array, to improve the azimutal resolution of the system while maintaining acceptable the number of RF chains. This configuration has been used to image a scene in an anechoid chamber to validate the concept. To further improve the spatial resolution of the system for a given number of RF chains, the study of high resolution algorithms, or spectral estimation methods, are used to image scenes in near field and wide-band configurations. The combination of MIMO configurations, the passive compressive device and the spectral estimation methods have allowed to drastically improve the spatial resolution of the radar imaging system while limiting the number of RF chains
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Ma, Ruolong. "Unsteady Turbulence Interaction in a Tip Leakage Flow Downstream of a Simulated Axial Compressor Rotor." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28060.
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The unsteady behavior of a tip leakage flow downstream of a simulated axial compressor rotor has been studied. The Virginia Tech low speed linear cascade wind tunnel was adapted to model the unsteady tip leakage flow produced by a rotor operating in the vortical wakes of a set of stator vanes. The cascade, consisting of 8 GE rotor B blades, has adjustable tip gap, inlet angle of 65.1 degrees, turning angle of 11.8 degrees and solidity of 1.076. The cascade Reynolds number, based on blade chord, was 393,000. A moving end wall was used to simulate the relative motion between rotor and casing, and vortex generators attached to the moving end wall were used to produce an idealized periodic unsteady vortical inflow similar to that shed by the junction of a row of inlet guide vanes.
Measurements of the vortical inflow to the cascade produced by the generators and of the mean blade loading at the mid span are presented. The periodic and aperiodic behavior of the tip leakage flow downstream of the cascade, produced by this vortical disturbance, is also presented using phase and time averaged 3-component turbulence and pressure fluctuation measurements. These measurements are made for tip gap from 0.83% to 3.3% chord and streamwise locations from 0.772% to 1.117% blade spacing axially downstream of the cascade.
The phase averaged inflow measurements reveal that the inflow produced by the vortex generators consists of a pair asymmetric counter-rotating vortices embedded in a thin (4.6% chord) endwall boundary layer. The vortices extend some 7.4% chord from the end wall. Their strength is about two orders smaller than the typical circulation of the tip leakage vortices produced by the cascade.
Phase averaged single point three component hot-wire measurements downstream of the cascade reveal that the vortical inflow is, however, capable of producing significant large scale fluctuations in the size, strength, structure and position of the tip leakage vortex. These effects increase in magnitude with increase of tip gap. For small tip gaps these effects appear to be due to simple superposition between the inflow vortices and the tip leakage vortex. However for larger tip gaps these effects appear primarily a consequence of the inflow vortices interfering with the shedding of circulation from the blade tip. The fact that the circulation fluctuation is consistent with the inviscid unsteady loading prediction suggests that the inviscid response may be a major mechanism for generating the tip leakage unsteadiness.
Although there is large periodic fluctuation in the tip leakage flow disturbed by the inflow, there is a larger aperiodic component. Two point correlation measurements and linear stochastic estimation are used to reveal the structure of this aperiodic part for a tip gap of 3.3% chord. The aperiodic fluctuation, containing most of the turbulence energy, is found appearing to be organized structures in large scale, and making the estimated instantaneous velocity field significantly different from the phase averaged periodic velocity field.
Phase averaged pressure fluctuation measurements made using a microphone in the tip leakage vortex downstream of the cascade reveal that there are significant periodic fluctuating pressure waves and intense mean square fluctuation of the aperiodic fluctuating pressure. They are consistent with the measured periodic flow and aperiodic flow field respectively. These microphone measurements are validated using fluctuating pressure gradient estimates determined from the hot-wire measurements.Ph. D.
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Schwartz, Jeffrey R. "An Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Dynamic Flow Response of a Fan Rotor with Distorted Inlet Flow." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44314.
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An experimental and analytical investigation was conducted to gain insight and ultimately predict the dynamic flow response of a fan rotor with inlet flow distortion. Rotor exit total pressure circumferential profiles were accurately predicted using frequency response functions derived from experimental rotor response data. Using these predicted profiles, an initial attempt was made at predicting the dynamic (distorted) stage characteristics of the test machine with promising results.
The first step of this research was an experimental investigation to gather unsteady rotor response data. The steady three-dimensional inlet flow of an isolated rotor subjected to inlet distortion was obtained using a five-hole pneumatic prism probe. Exit flow dynamic wake data were obtained using a piggyback steady/unsteady total pressure probe in non-nulling mode. Inlet and exit data were collected for eighteen different combinations of distortion level, operating point, and measurement span.
Frequency response functions were generated and then averaged for each operating regime, span, and distortion intensity, assuming the data to be stationary and ergodic. These 'generalized' FRF's were used to predict the rotor exit total pressure profile. These pressure profiles were then used in an initial attempt to predict the dynamic stage (distorted) characteristics of the test machine. Best predictions resulted when an FRF was used for individual operating regimes, defined with respect to rotor blade mean aerodynamic loading.Master of Science
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Aichele, Johannes. "Elastic waves in complex conditions : from the onset of rupture to viscous dispersion in foams." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE1217.
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Ces travaux s'inscrivent dans la continuité des recherches académiques du Labtau (Laboratory of therapeutic applications of ultrasound) et de l’ ISTerre (Institut des sciences de la terre) à l'interface entre imagerie médicale et sismologie, deux disciplines reposant sur la propagation des ondes élastiques. La nature de la propagation des ondes élastiques dans des milieux complexes est étudiée à travers l'imagerie ultrasonore ultrarapide - également connue sous le nom d'imagerie d’ondes de cisaillement. Cette technique d'imagerie médicale permet de récupérer un champ d'onde de cisaillement se propageant dans un milieu élastique mou. Elle est habituellement utilisée comme modalité d’imagerie cartographiant les élasticités d’organes tels que le foie ou le sein. La première partie se penche sur le comportement des ondes dans des milieux poreux. La dispersion de l'onde de cisaillement et de l'onde de compression secondaire dans des matériaux imitant le poumon est analysées expérimentalement, puis comparées à la théorie de poro-élasticité de Biot. Les résultats quant à l'onde de cisaillement sont conformes à la théorie, et ceux de l’onde de compression y correspondent qualitativement. Pour conclure, dans le cas des milieux mous, poreux et élastiques, la dispersion des ondes élastiques est gouvernée par les propriétés du fluide visqueux. Ainsi, les résultats présentés au cours de cette thèse pourraient consolider la théorie nécessaire à une imagerie de l’élasticité pulmonaire. Potentiellement d’autres organes pourraient en bénéficier : en effet, le foie et la rate sont constitués d'un pourcentage élevé de sang. Ce fluide non-Newtonien présente une forte variabilité de la viscosité. Celle-ci implique la nécessité d’étudier le rôle du sang vis-à-vis de l'élastographie du foie, pas encore expliquée par les modèles visco-élastique. En outre, la preuve expérimentale de l'onde de compression secondaire est utile dan l’étude de la propagation d'ondes poro-élastiques. Il est important de noter que l’onde de compression secondaire a été objet principal d’études approfondies en géophysique et n’a été observée que dans quelques rares cas. La partie suivante s’intéresse à une problématique de la géophysique explorée au moyen de l’imagerie de l’onde de cisaillement : Que pourrait révéler sur la nature de la rupture dynamique d’une instabilité de friction l’étude du champs d’onde élastique ? Comment la rupture, le processus responsable des tremblements de terre, est générée? En observant la carte du champ d’onde de cisaillement pendant la rupture d’une aspérité granulaire au point source et dans le milieu, il est possible d’acquérir une meilleure compréhension de la propagation de la rupture. L’expérience qui se base sur l’utilisation de fantômes mous et élastiques montre une multitude de phénomènes qui sont aussi présents dans la friction des roches en laboratoire, ainsi que dans la Terre. Par exemple, les ruptures supershear, sub-Rayleigh, une phase de nucléation et la friction du type stick-slip ont été observés. Toutefois, ni un mécanisme de source d’une force unique, ni un double-couple n’arrivent à expliquer l’ensemble des ruptures observées. De plus, pour analyser la complexité spatio-temporelle des ruptures de cette expérience, un workflow semi-automatique intègrant la segmentation d’image et la vision numérique est suggéréThis thesis is part of the research at Labtau (Laboratory of therapeutic applications of ultrasound) and ISTerre (Institut des sciences de la terre - earth science institute) at the interface of medical imaging and seismology, two research disciplines that are based on the propagation of elastic waves. It investigates the nature of elastic wave propagation in complex conditions by ultrafast ultrasound imaging, also known as transient elastography or shear wave imaging. This medical imaging technique allows for retrieval of the dynamic shear wave field inside a soft elastic material and is commonly applied in hospitals for elasticity mapping in, e.g., the liver and breast. In the present manuscript, two research questions of interest for bio- and geophysics are tackled. The first part treats elastic wave propagation in porous materials. The dispersion of the shear and secondary compression wave in lung-mimicking materials is analyzed experimentally and compared to Biot's theory of poro-elasticity. The results show a good agreement for the shear wave and qualitative agreement for the secondary compression wave. This has direct implications for elasticity imaging: the properties of the viscous fluid govern the shear wave dispersion in highly porous soft elastic materials. The thesis thus contributes to the emerging branch of lung elasticity imaging. The results could have clinical implications for other organs as well. The liver and spleen contain a high percentage of blood, a non-Newtonian fluid which exposes a highly varying viscosity. The conclusions drawn from the comparison of the experimental results and poro-elastic theory imply, that the role of the pore-filling fluid should be investigated in liver elastography: The clinically observed dispersion of shear waves in the liver remains partly unexplained by purely visco-elastic models. Furthermore, the experimental proof of the secondary compression wave is of general interest for poroelasticity. Originally, this wave has been the object of geophysical studies and has scarcely been shown experimentally. In the second part, the ultrafast ultrasound shear wave imaging technique is applied to a geophysical research question. What does the elastic wavefield, which is emitted by a frictional instability, reveal about the nature of dynamic rupture propagation? How does rupture, the process behind earthquakes, nucleate? By mapping the shear wave-field during rupture of a granular asperity at the source point and in the medium, unique insights into rupture nucleation are gained. The experimental setup, which relies on soft elastic phantoms, is shown to reproduce many characteristics of sliding friction that have been show for real rocks in the earth and the laboratory. These include supershear and sub-Rayleigh rupture propagation, a nucleation phase and stick-slip friction. Neither a singular-force nor a double-couple source mechanism explain the entirety of observed rupture modes. Finally, in order to statistically analyze the complex spatio-temporal evolution of the presented experiment, a semi-automated data analysis workflow, taking advantage of image segmentation and computer vision, is suggested
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Chamming's, Foucauld. "Elastographie quantitative des tumeurs du sein et de la réponse au traitement." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCB152/document.
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Introduction : L’élastographie shear wave (ESW) est une technique récente d’échographie qui évalue quantitativement la dureté des tissus et permet d’améliorer la caractérisation des lésions mammaires. Comme toute nouvelle technique d’imagerie, l’ESW nécessite une validation préclinique pour définir les conditions d’utilisations et établir les limites des champs d’applications dans lesquelles la technique pourra être considérée comme valide. Matériels et méthodes : Dans une première partie effectuée au laboratoire de recherche en Imagerie nous avons étudié les éléments histologiques sous tendant l’image d’ESW sur un modèle de cancer du sein implanté chez la souris, au cours de sa croissance puis sous traitement. Dans une deuxième partie, nous avons étudié chez des patientes le rôle de la compression manuelle en ESW pour la caractérisation des lésions mammaires. Dans une dernière partie, effectuée en collaboration avec une équipe de l’Institut Langevin Ondes et Images, nous avons étudié la faisabilité d’un nouveau paramètre, le module de cisaillement non linéaire pour l’analyse des lésions mammaires. Résultats : Au laboratoire, nous avons établi des corrélations entre la dureté mesurée en élastographie et les caractéristiques histologiques des tumeurs, y compris sous traitement. Nous avons montré que la fibrose était associée à une dureté élevée et la nécrose à une dureté moindre. Notre étude clinique a montré qu’une compression manuelle minimale était nécessaire pour obtenir de bonnes performances de l’ESW et qu’une pression trop élevée devait être évitée. Enfin nous avons montré la faisabilité en imagerie mammaire d’un nouveau paramètre quantitatif obtenu en élastographie shear wave : le module de cisaillement non linéaire. Conclusion : A partir de travail de thèse, une meilleure compréhension de la part des éléments biologiques et techniques en ESW du sein est possible et des recommandations pour l’utilisation clinique peuvent être formulées. Nos observations cliniques ont entrainé la mise au point d’un nouveau paramètre diagnostique quantitatif : le module de cisaillement non linéaireIntroduction: Shear Wave Elastography (SWE) is a recent ultrasound technique assessing quantitatively tissue stiffness and improving breast lesions characterization. As every new imaging technique, SWE requires a pre clinical validation in order to define in which conditions it should be used and precise the applications for which the technique is validated. Materials and methods: First, in a research lab we have investigated the pathological features underlying SWE image in a breast cancer model implanted in mice, during tumor growth and under therapy. Secondly, we have studied in patients the role of manual compression in SWE for the characterization of breast lesions. Finally, in collaboration with on team from Institut Langevin Ondes et Images, we have studied the feasibility of a new parameter, the non-linear modulus, for breast lesion assessment. Results: in the research lab, we have shown correlations between stiffness as measured with SWE and pathological features of tumors, even on treatment. We have shown that fibrosis was associated with high stiffness values and necrosis with lowers. Our clinical study, showed that a minimal manual compression was required for optimal performance of SWE and that strong compression should be avoided. Finally, we demonstrated feasibility of a new parameter, derived from SWE, the non-linear modulus. Conclusion: Our work provides a better understanding of biological and technical elements of SWE. On the basis of our results, new recommendations may be made for the use of SWE in clinical practice. From our clinical findings, we developed a new quantitative parameter, which may be useful for the diagnosis of breast lesions, the non-linear modulus
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Lee, Joo-yong. "Hydrate-bearing sediments formation and geophysical properties /." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24726.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.Committee Chair: J. Carlos Santamarina; Committee Member: Carolyn D. Ruppel; Committee Member: Costas Tsouris; Committee Member: Glenn J. Rix; Committee Member: J. David Frost
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Frauziols, Fanny. "Elastographie ultrasonore des tissus mous du membre inférieur en vue de la caractérisation des effets mécaniques de dispositifs médicaux textiles." Thesis, Saint-Etienne, EMSE, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EMSE0809/document.
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La compression élastique de la jambe est le traitement de référence des pathologies liées à l’insuffisance veineuse. Bien que l’efficacité ne soit plus à prouver, les objectifs thérapeutiques restent non atteints pour certains patients. Un objectif de la compression élastique est la réduction de la pression pariétale des veines afin de rétablir ou d’augmenter le retour du sang vers le cœur par une transmission de pression au travers des tissus mous. Ce mécanisme est complexe et peut être prédit par des modèles éléments finis personnalisés. Pour être personnalisés, ces modèles doivent prendre en compte la géométrie et la carte des propriétés mécaniques du sujet.Dans cette étude, on développe deux méthodologies permettant d’identifier les propriétés mécaniques des tissus mous. Dans un premier temps, on mesure par élastographie ultrasonore par onde de cisaillement la distribution du module élastique au sein des tissus mous superficiels. Dans un deuxième temps, on identifie par une méthode inverse les propriétés mécaniques des tissus mous profonds. Cette méthode associe l’acquisition de données d’un essai expérimental de compression localisée de la jambe à un modèle éléments finis bidimensionnel. Ces deux méthodologies nous permettent d’évaluer l’hétérogénéité des propriétés mécaniques de la peau au fascia cruris et de caractériser le comportement non-linéaire des tissus mous profonds. Enfin, les résultats de ces deux méthodologies sont couplés afin de générer un modèle biomécanique de la jambe sous compression élastique pour prédire la distribution de pression au sein des tissus mous pour quatre sujets sainsElastic compression of the leg is a widely used treatment in case of pathologies related to venous insufficiency. Its benefits are not to be proven, but still, for some patients, the therapeutic goal is not reached. One goal of this treatment is to reduce transmural pressure applied to veins in order to restore or increase blood return to the heart by the transmission of the external pressure through soft tissues. This is a complex mechanism that can be predicted by patient-specific finite element models. To be patient-specific, these models must take into account the geometry and the distribution of mechanical properties of each subject.In this study, two methodologies are developed to identify the mechanical properties of soft tissues. First, the elastic modulus distribution inside the superficial soft tissues is measured by shear wave ultrasound elastography. Second, the mechanical properties of deep soft tissues are identified through an inverse method combining the data acquired from an experimental localized compression of the leg to a bi-dimensional finite element model.These two methodologies allow to evaluate the mechanical properties heterogeneity from the skin to the fascia cruris and to characterize the non-linear behaviour of deep soft tissues. Finally, the results from both methodologies are brought together to generate a biomechanical model of the leg under elastic compression to predict pressure distribution inside soft tissues for four healthy subjects
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Chpoun, Amer. "Contribution a l'etude d'ecoulements hypersoniques (m=5) sur une rampe de compression en configuration 2-d et 3-d." Paris 6, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA06A005.
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Etude experimentale de l'influence de l'ecoulement transversal sur les distributions du flux thermique et de la pression parietale. Determination des grandeurs caracteristiques de la zone de decollement. Etude de l'apparition de la transition dans la zone du decollement en fonction du nombre de reynolds. Solution numerique pour la distribution de pression dans le cas de l'interaction laminaire
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Parizotto, João Cândido Valenga. "Degradação hidromecânica de rochas brandas silto-argilosas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18132/tde-16112015-094046/.
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Este trabalho caracterizou os siltitos do Grupo Itararé, rocha branda proveniente da amostragem de pedreira localizada nas proximidades de futuro empreendimento brasileiro, o Trem de Alta Velocidade. Objetivou entender as causas da pronunciada e rápida alteração da rocha intacta, e simular, em condições controladas de laboratório, a degradação hidromecânica causada pela simples variação da umidade relativa do ar. Para tal, estabeleceu-se técnica de amostragem de testemunhos por meio da extração via seca com ar-comprimido, e processo de intemperismo artificial, composto por 4 ciclos de 2 etapas (secagem e umedecimento). O processo se deu em dessecadores, sendo a variação da umidade ocasionada pela técnica do vapor e sílica gel. O acompanhamento da degradação dos corpos de prova efetuou-se com duas técnicas não-destrutivas de propagação de ondas: o pulso ultrassônico e a excitação por impulso (sistema Sonelastic). Em paralelo, realizou-se a caracterização geotécnica dos siltitos em umidade natural, com ensaios mineralógicos, físicos, físico-mecânicos, físico-químicos e de alteração laboratorial. Por meio desta metodologia, foi possível estimar as minorações do módulo de deformabilidade e da resistência, além das causas físico-químicas da degradação.This work characterized the siltstones of the Itararé Group, a soft rock sampled in a quarry located near a future Brazilian venture, the High Speed Train. It aims at understanding the causes of the pronounced and fast changes of the intact rock, and simulate in controlled laboratory conditions the hydro degradation process caused by simple variation of relative air humidity. Dry sampling technique with compressed air was used to extract samples from blocks, and the process of artificial weathering consisted on 4 cycles of 2 steps (drying and wetting). The process occurred in desiccators, where moisture variation was caused by the vapor technique and silica gel. The monitoring of the specimens degradation was performed with two non-destructive wave propagation techniques: the ultrasonic pulse and the impulse excitation (Sonelastic system). A geotechnical characterization of the siltstones in natural moisture condition was made in parallel, consisting on mineralogical, physical, physical-mechanical, physical-chemical and durability tests. By this methodology, it was possible to estimate the mitigation of the deformability modulus and strength besides the physical- chemical causes of degradation.
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Riera, William. "Evaluation of the ZDES method on an axial compressor : analysis of the effects of upstream wake and throttle on the tip-leakage flow." Thesis, Ecully, Ecole centrale de Lyon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014ECDL0030/document.
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L’écoulement de jeu dans les compresseurs axiaux est étudié à l’aide de la Zonal Detached Eddy Simulation (ZDES). L’objectif consiste à évaluer la capacité de méthodes hybrides URANS/LES à simuler l’écoulement de jeu d’un compresseur axial réaliste afin de mieux comprendre la physique de cet écoulement, notamment son comportement au vannage ainsi que l’effet de sillages venant du stator amont sur le rotor aval. Après avoir choisi la méthode hybride ZDES, un banc d’essai numérique est défini afin de simuler le premier rotor du compresseur de recherche CREATE. Ce banc a la particularité de pouvoir prendre en compte les effets instationnaires venant de la roue directrice d’entrée (RDE), notamment son sillage ainsi que les tourbillons générés en pied et en tête. Basé sur des critères de maillage ZDES, il est utilisé pour évaluer cette méthode comparativement aux méthodes classiques RANS et URANS. La ZDES est validée par étape jusqu’à une analyse spectrale de l’écoulement de jeu se basant sur des données expérimentales. Elle s’est révélée capable de capturer plus précisément l’intensité et la position des phénomènes instationnaires rencontrés en tête du rotor, notamment le tourbillon de jeu. Les densités spectrales de puissance analysées montrent que cela est dû en partie à une meilleure prise en compte du transfert d’énergie des grandes vers les petites structures de l’écoulement avant leur dissipation. De plus, l’écart entre les approches s’accentue lorsque le tourbillon de jeu traverse le choc en tête. Proche pompage, les effets d’interaction entre le choc, le tourbillon de jeu, la couche limite carter et le tourbillon venant de la tête de la RDE sont amplifiés. Le décollement de la couche limite carter s’accentue et une inversion locale de l’écoulement est observée. De plus, le tourbillon de jeu s’élargit et est dévié vers la pale adjacente, ce qui intensifie le phénomène de double écoulement de jeu. L’interaction du tourbillon venant de la tête de la RDE avec le choc et le tourbillon de jeu du rotor est ensuite étudiée au point de dessin. Un battement du tourbillon de jeu est rencontré lors de l’interaction de ce tourbillon avec le tourbillon de tête de la RDE, ce qui diminue le double écoulement de jeuThe tip-leakage flow in axial compressors is studied with the Zonal Detached Eddy Simulation (ZDES). This study aims at evaluating the capability of hybrid URANS/LES methods to simulate the tip-leakage flow within a realistic axial compressor in order to better understand the involved physics, especially the behaviour of the flow near surge and the effects of stator wakes on the downstream rotor. Once the ZDES method is chosen, a numerical test bench is defined to simulate the first rotor of the research compressor CREATE. This bench takes into account the unsteady effects of the Inlet Guide Vane (IGV), such as its wake as well as vortices generated at the IGV hub and tip. It is based upon ZDES meshing criteria and is used to evaluate this method compared to classic RANS and URANS approaches. A method validation is carried out up to a spectral analysis compared to experimental data. The ZDES is capable to capture more accurately the intensity and position of the unsteady phenomena encountered in the tip region, especially the tip-leakage vortex. The power spectral densities highlight that this partly originates from a better capture of the energy transfer from large to small structures until their dissipation. The discrepancy between the methods is accentuated as the tip-leakage vortex crosses the shock. Near the surge line, the interactions between the shock, the tip-leakage vortex, the boundary layer developing on the shroud and the vortex generated by the IGV tip are amplified. The boundary layer on the shroud separates earlier and a local flow inversion occurs. Besides, the tip-leakage vortex widens and is deflected toward the adjacent blade. This strengthens the double leakage. At the design operating point, the interaction of the IGV tip vortex with the shock and the rotor tip vortex is studied. A vortex flutter is observed as the IGV tip vortex arrives on the rotor blade and stretches the rotor tip vortex. This phenomenon decreases the double leakage
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Chpoun, Amer. "Contribution à l'étude d'écoulements hypersoniques (M=5) sur une rampe de compression en configuration 2-D et 3-D." Paris 6, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA066149.
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Etude expérimentale de l'influence de l'écoulement transversal sur les distributions du flux thermique et de la pression pariétale. Détermination des grandeurs caractéristiques de la zone de décollement. Etude de l'apparition de la transition dans la zone du décollement en fonction du nombre de Reynolds. Solution numérique pour la distribution de pression dans le cas de l'interaction laminaire
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Taro, Mandikizinoyou. "Modélisation et simulation des procédés de mise en compression des surfaces à très grandes vitesses de déformation par méthode semi-analytique." Thesis, Lyon, INSA, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ISAL0105/document.
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La défaillance des pièces mécaniques est très souvent initiée par un défaut de surface. Par conséquent, la génération de contraintes résiduelles compressives sur des pièces mécaniques via une déformation plastique hétérogène améliore la tenue en fatigue et augmente la durée de vie des pièces. Parmi les procédés permettant d'introduire des contraintes résiduelles dans les pièces, le traitement par choc laser est plus intéressant à plusieurs titres. D'une part, il permet de produire des pressions en surface du matériau de l'ordre de 1 à 6 GPa sur de courtes durées d'impulsion allant de 3 à 30 nanosecondes. D'autre part, il offre la possibilité d'introduire des contraintes résiduelles de compression sur une certaine profondeur tout en conservant l'état initial de la pièce traitée. Ainsi, les simulations numériques par réalisation de modèles simples permettent de cerner les physiques mises en jeux. Dans cette perspective, la méthode semi-analytique offre d'énormes avantages, notamment la simplicité des modèles et la réduction des temps de calcul. Cependant, cette méthode n’a jamais été étendue aux problème dynamiques. Dans cette thèse la méthode semi-analytique a été étendue aux problèmes dynamiques et le modèle mis en place été appliqué pour la simulation du procédé de choc LaserThe failure of the mechanical parts is very often initiated by a surface defects. Consequently, the generation of compressive residual stresses on mechanical parts by introducing a heterogeneous plastic strain improves the resistance to fatigue and increases the lifetime of the parts. Among the processes making it possible to introduce residual stresses into the parts, the laser shock peening is more interesting for several reasons. On the one hand, it makes it possible to produce pressures on the surface of material of about 1 to 6 going GPa over short pulse times from 3 to 30 nanoseconds. In addition, he gives the opportunity of introducing residual stresses of compression on a certain depth while preserving the initial state of the treated part. The numerical simulation becomes necessary to determine the best physical phenomena involved. Thus, the semi-analytical method offers a lot of advantages, in particular the simplicity of the models and the computation times saving. This method was never extended to the dynamic problems. In this thesis the semi-analytical method was extended to the dynamic problems and the model implemented is applied for the simulation of the Laser process of shock
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Humbert, Fabien. "Analyse pétrophysique et anisotropie de roches détritiques dans des systèmes compressifs en présence de failles actives : exemple des prismes de Taiwan et de Nankai." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010CERG0480/document.
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Analyse pétrophysique et anisotropie des roches détritiques dans des systèmes en compression et sous influence de failles actives : Exemple des prismes de Taiwan et du prisme de Nankai (Japon)L'objectif de cette thèse est l'étude de la déformation enregistrée par des roches d'origine détritique dans des domaines sujets au raccourcissement tectonique sub-horizontal (Layer Parallel Shortening) et à des failles actives. Cette étude est basée sur la caractérisation de diverses propriétés physiques et de leur anisotropie à l'échelle de l'échantillon dans le but de décrire à plus grande échelle la structure d'un prisme d'accrétion. Deux prismes ont ainsi été échantillonnés, le premier est le prisme inactif de Taiwan dans le cadre du projet TCDP et le second considéré comme actif celui de Nankai dans le cadre du projet NanTroSeiZE. La microstructure d'une roche sédimentaire, y compris en l'absence de déformation tectonique, présente toujours une ou plusieurs caractéristique(s) anisotrope(s) liée(s) à la forme, à l'orientation préférentielle ou à l'arrangement de ses éléments constitutifs. De nombreux travaux ont porté sur les conséquences de ces anisotropies sur les propriétés physiques, d'abord dans un but prédictif, puis selon une démarche inverse visant à caractériser, à l'aide de modèles, microstructures et histoire tectonique associée. Dans cette thèse la confrontation des résultats obtenus pour différentes propriétés physiques (principalement vitesses des ondes acoustiques, susceptibilité magnétique et aimantation rémanente) met en évidence des réponses sélectives liées à un fort contrôle de la lithologie.Au niveau de prisme de Taiwan, deux résultats majeurs ont été obtenus. D'une part, la comparaison des anisotropies magnétiques et acoustiques a permis de montrer une évolution différentielle de la déformation entre les roches riches en matrice (siltite) par et celles plus riches en grain sableux (grès). D'autre part, les résultats combinés de l'anisotropie des ondes P, l'étude microstructurale et la minéralogie magnétique, montrent un comportement particulier des échantillons situé dans le mur de la faille FZB1136, considérée comme responsables du séisme de Chi-Chi en 1999. Un réseau de structures dilatantes fortement perméable à permis la circulation de fluides, de néo-cristallisation de calcite et de néoformation de minéraux magnétique. Sur le prisme de Nankai, une estimation de la quantification de la déformation enregistrée par les échantillons du prisme est modélisée en utilisant le modèle de March et les paramètres de susceptibilité magnétique. Les différents travaux réalisés dans cette thèse mettent en évidence un couplage direct de certaines propriétés physiques mesurées avec certains effets de déformation, chaque propriété caractérisant un point précis de la fabrique enregistré dans les roches.Mots-clefs : Anisotropie, susceptibilité magnétique, vitesses d'ondes ultrasoniques, déformation, fabrique, microstructures, faille inverse, TCDP, NanTroSeiZEPetrophysics of sedimentary rocks in compressive regime near active faults: examples of the Taiwan and Nankai accretionary prismsThe objective of this PhD is to study the deformation recorded by detrital rocks in areas subject to sub-horizontal tectonic shortening (Layer Parallel Shortening) and active faults. This study is based on the characterization of various physical properties and their anisotropy at sample scale in order to describe larger-scale structure of an accretionary prism. Two prisms have been sampled, the first is the inactive in Taiwan prism (TCDP project) and the second active the Nankai prism (NanTroSeiZE project).Sedimentary rocks microstructures, regardless of the degree to which they were loaded tectonically, always present some anisotropic characteristic emerging from a preferential shape, orientation or distribution of its constituents. Numerous studies have focused on the effect of such anisotropies on physical properties, first for prediction purposes, then to conversely get diffuse strain insight through the use of various effective medium models. In this thesis, the comparison between results obtained in discrete samples for various physical properties (essentially acoustic wave velocities, magnetic susceptibility and remanent magnetization) reveals selective responses due to a strong lithologic control.In TCDP, two significant results are reported. On the one hand, comparison of magnetic and acoustic anisotropy showed a differential evolution of deformation between the matrix-rich rocks (siltstones) and those with coarser granular fraction (sandstone). On the other hand, the combined results of the anisotropy of P waves velocity, microstructural analysis and magnetic mineralogy, show a peculiar behavior of the samples located in the wall of the fault FZB1136, considered to be responsible of the Chi-Chi earthquake in 1999. A network of highly permeable dilatant structures allowed the circulation of fluids, neo-crystallization of calcite and neoformation of magnetic minerals. On the Nankai prism, an estimate of quantifying the deformation recorded by the samples of the prism is modeled using a simple March-type model and the parameters of magnetic susceptibility. The various work in this thesis show a direct coupling of physical properties measured with some aspect of deformation, each property characterizing a specific point of the fabric recorded in rocks.Keywords : Anisotropy, magnetic susceptibility, ultrasonic wave velocity, strain, fabric, microstructures, thrust fault, TCDP, NanTroSeiZE
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Resende, Rafaella Moreira Lima Gondim. "Avaliação dos efeitos da danificação e da acustoelasticidade sobre a velocidade de pulso ultrassônico em corpos de prova de concreto submetidos a compressão uniaxial." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18134/tde-21052018-121753/.
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A teoria da acustoelasticidade relaciona a variação de velocidade de propagação de ondas mecânicas à variação de tensão em um meio sólido. Em materiais frágeis como concreto, a danificação altera a velocidade de propagação paralelamente ao efeito acustoelástico. O objetivo deste trabalho é identificar e quantificar como a danificação e o efeito acustoelástico agem sobre a Velocidade de Pulso Ultrassônico (VPU) em corpos de prova de concreto submetidos a compressão uniaxial. Para tanto, foram realizadas três fases de ensaio. A primeira fase objetivou gerar dados para a análise da aplicação da interferometria de cauda de onda (Coda Wave Interferometry – CWI). Duas variações deste método foram estudadas e comparadas, com o propósito de determinar-se qual gera melhores resultados e quais parâmetros devem ser adotados para as análises. Para tal, um código computacional foi desenvolvido utilizando a linguagem Python 3.6.0. Foi constatado que a técnica do alongamento apresenta resultados melhores que a técnica tradicional da interferometria de cauda de onda. A segunda etapa foi dedicada ao estudo da variação de velocidade de propagação devido à recuperação de dano do corpo de prova. A terceira fase abordou a influência da geometria da amostra e da composição do concreto sobre a resposta do material à acustoelasticidade. Além disso, definiu-se um Índice de Dano (D) baseado na redução do módulo de elasticidade devido ao carregamento, a fim de isolar a variação de velocidade causada pelo efeito acustoelástico. Quanto ao estudo da recuperação de dano ao longo do tempo, a variação relativa de velocidade nas primeiras 24 horas após a retirada do carregamento se mostrou muito pequena em relação às variações geradas pelas condições de temperatura e umidade. Concluiu-se também que as amostras cilíndricas apresentaram respostas mais uniformes ao efeito acustoelástico que as amostras prismáticas. Por fim, o Índice de Dano se mostrou eficaz para isolar os efeitos da danificação e da acustoelasticidade sobre a VPU.The acoustoelasticity theory relates the variation in propagation velocity of mechanical waves to the stress variation in a solid medium. In brittle materials such as concrete, damage affects the propagation velocity parallel to the acoustoelastic effect. This research aims to identify and quantify how damage and acoustoelastic effect act on Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity (UPV) in concrete samples subjected to uniaxial compression. In order to do so, three phases of testing were performed. The first one focused on generating data to analyze the application of the Coda Wave Interferometry (CWI). Two variations of this method were studied and compared, to the purpose of determining which variation shows better results and which parameters should be adopted in the analysis. To enable the analysis, a computational code using Python 3.6.0 language was developed. It was verified that the stretching technique shows better results than the traditional coda wave interferometry technique. The second phase was dedicated to study the variation in propagation velocity due to damage recovery in the sample. The third phase addressed the influence of the sample geometry and the concrete composition over the response from the material to the acoustoelasticity. Furthermore, a Damage Index (D) was defined based on the elastic modulus reduction due to loading, in order to isolate the variation of velocity due solely to the acoustoelastic effect. Regarding the study of damage recovery over time, the relative velocity variation in the first 24 hours following the withdrawal of the loading showed to be too little when compared to the variations caused by temperature and humidity conditions. It was also concluded that the cylindrical samples showed more uniform responses to the acoustoelastic effect than the prismatic samples. Finally, the Damage Index proved itself to be a reliable tool to isolate the effects of damage and acoustoelasticity over the UPV.
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Trinca, Alex Julio. "Influencia da dimensão do corpo-de-prova no ensaio destrutuvo de compressão paralela as fibras e no ensaio não-destrutivo utilizando ultra-som." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/257144.
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Orientador: Raquel GonçalvesDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Agricola
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Resumo: é praticamente toda exportada em sua forma in natura sem que a ela seja agregado valor de beneficiamento. Um dos problemas enfrentados pela indústria moveleira é o fato da madeira não ser submetida à classificação, dificultando a elaboração de projetos e a certificação da qualidade do móvel confeccionado a partir deste material. Nesse contexto as empresas moveleiras brasileiras buscam parâmetros para composição e certificação de seu produto, sendo atualmente a norma brasileira ¿Projeto de Estruturas de Madeira¿ ¿ NBR 7190/97, o único instrumento norteador para a caracterização de propriedades da madeira. No entanto, nesse setor as dificuldades para a obtenção de corpos-de-prova nas dimensões especificadas por esse texto normativo têm gerado dúvidas quanto aos resultados de caracterização de propriedades, de maneira que este trabalho teve como objetivo principal verificar se os valores do módulo de elasticidade e da tensão de ruptura no ensaio de compressão paralela às fibras podem ser considerados estatisticamente equivalentes, desde que sejam mantidas a proporcionalidade da dimensão do corpo-de-prova. Para isso adotou-se, como alternativa ao corpo-de-prova proposto pela NBR 7190/97, a dimensão 0,03 m x 0,03 m x 0,09 m. Os ensaios foram realizados utilizando-se 7 diferentes espécies de madeira com densidades variadas, buscando-se, com essa amostragem, a generalização dos resultados. Como objetivo secundário se buscou avaliar a influência das dimensões do corpo-de-prova e da freqüência do transdutor na velocidade de propagação de ondas de ultra-som na direção longitudinal. As espécies adotadas foram: Cerejeira (Torresea sp), Perobinha (Paratecoma peroba) , Cabreúva-vermelha (Myroxylon peruiferum), Angico-preto (Anadenanthera macrocarpa), Garapeira (Apuleia leiocarpa), Eucalipto grandis ( Eucalyptus grandis) e Pinus elliotti (Pinus elliottii). Todos os corpos-de-prova foram ensaiados com aproximadamente 12% de umidade e os ensaios foram realizados em ambiente controlado (21° C ± 1°C). Os resultados permitiram concluir que a hipótese foi verdadeira para todas as espécies estudadas quando se considera a tensão de ruptura
Abstract: Most of the exported wood in Brazil is unprocessed, without any aggregated value. To change this scenario technology for wood processing and qualification are required. One of the problems faced by the furniture industry refers to the non classification of the wood, which cause difficulties to projects elaboration and quality certification of the furniture made from this material. In this context the Brazilian Industries of furniture seek for parameters to certificate its products, and the NBR 7190/97 standard ¿Project of Structures of Wood " is, nowadays, the only instrument for the characterization of wood properties. However, for the furniture industry it is very difficult to obtaining the dimensions specified by the standard. This research had as main objective to verify if the means values of the modulus of elasticity and rupture in compression parallel to the grain can be considerate statistically equal, when smaller specimen are used, if the proportionality is maintained. For that it was adopted, as alternative to the specimen proposed by NBR 7190/97, the dimension 0.03 x 0.03 x 0.09 m. For the experiments there were used 7 different species with varied densities. The secondary objective was to evaluate the influence of the specimen size and of the transducer frequency in the speed of ultrasound wave propagation in the longitudinal direction. The adopted species were: Cerejeira (Amburana cearensis), Perobinha (Paratecoma peroba), Cabreúva vermelha (Myroxylon peruiferum), Angico-preto (Anadenanthera macrocarpa), Garapeira (Apulleia leiocarpa), Eucalyptus grandis, (Eucalyptus grandis) and Pinus ellioti (Pinus elliottii). All specimens were tested with approximately 12% moisture content and were accomplished in controlled atmosphere (21° C ± 1°C). The results allowed concluding that the hypothesis was true for all the studied species when the rupture in compression parallel to the grain was considered. For the module of elasticity this hypothesis was not confirmed for two species, from the seven evaluated (garapeira e eucalipto). Although, the mean difference between the results obtained in the tests using both specimens size was 10%, smaller then the maximum allowed variability in mechanical tests (18%). For the ultrasonic velocity propagation four species did not presents statistical variation with the modification of the size of the specimens - cerejeira, garapeira, pinus and eucalyptus while for the perobinha, angico and cabreúva the ultrasonic wave velocity propagation could not be considered statistically equal when the dimension of the specimens was modify. On average (considering all the studied species) the relationship among the ultrasonic wave velocity propagation (VLL) in normalized specimen and in proposed specimen was 0.99, being respectively the maximum and the lower relationships of 1.02 and 0.93. The velocity of wave propagation presents larger variations for values of length of wave percolation/wave length (L/?) up to 3, being more constant above that limit. It was also possible to verify, for the studied species, that the velocity of wave propagation increases with the increase of the transducer frequency. Key words: modulus of elasticity of wood; compression strength parallel to the fiber; ultrasonic wave velocity; dynamic constant
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Koskela, P. (Pekka). "Energy-efficient solutions for wireless sensor networks." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2018. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526217611.
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Abstract Wireless sensors play a bigger and bigger role in our everyday life and they have become a part of our life in homes, vehicles, traffic, food production and healthcare, monitoring and controlling our activities. Low-cost and resource-efficient solutions are an essential part of this development. The aim of the study was to develop solutions, which improve the energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks yet still fulfil the requirements of monitoring applications. In the study, five new solutions were developed to save energy in wireless sensor networks and all the solutions were studied and verified with test bed implementations. The developed solutions are: 1. Energy-efficient medium access control (MAC), namely revive MAC (R-MAC) for duty-cycling networks with a long sampling interval (many minutes) 2. Wake-up radio solution for on-demand sampling networks, which uses the main radio as the wake-up transmitter 3. Energy-efficient internet of things (IoT) routing solution for wake-up routing with a routing protocol for low-Power and lossy networks (RPL) 4. Energy-efficient IoT compression solution: robust header compression (ROHC) compression with constrained application protocol (CoAP) 5. Data analysis solution based on an energy-efficient sensor node, where filter clogging is forecast from analysis of the vibration data at the node. All the developed solutions were promising and can be utilized in many domain areas. The solutions can be considered as proofs of concept, which need to be developed further for use in final productsTiivistelmä Langattomat sensoreilla on yhä suurempi osuus jokapäiväisessä arjessa, jossa langattomat sensorit ovat tulleet osaksi kodin, autojen, ruuantuotannon sekä terveyden valvonta- ja seurantajärjestelmiä. Oleellisena osana tätä kehitystä ovat sekä edulliset että energia- ja resurssitehokkaat ratkaisut. Työn päämääränä oli kehittää ratkaisuja, jotka parantavat langattoman sensoriverkon energia tehokkuutta niin, että edelleen täytetään monitorointi sovellutusten asettamat vaatimukset. Työssä kehitettiin viisi uutta ratkaisua säästää energiaa langattomissa sensoriverkoissa ja kaikki ratkaisut tutkittiin ja varmennetiin työssä tehdyillä testi alustoilla. Kehitetyt ratkaisut ovat: 1. Energiatehokas alempi siirtoyhteyskerroksen protokolla (medium access control, MAC), nimittäin heräävä MAC (Revive MAC, R-MAC) jaksoittain toimiville (duty-cycling) verkoille, joissa on pitkät mittausvälit (useita minuutteja). 2. Heräteradioratkaisu (wake-up) pyynnöstä toimiville (on-demand) verkoille, joissa pääradiota käytetään heräte signaalin lähettämiseen. 3. Energiatehokas esineiden internetin (Internet of Things, IoT) reititysratkaisu herätereititykseen käyttäen matalatehoisille ja häviöllisille verkoille suunniteltua reititysprotokollaa (Routing protocol for low-Power and Lossy networks, RPL). 4. Energiatehokas IoT-pakkausratkaisu: varmatoiminen otsakkeen pakkausprotokolla (Robust Header Compression, ROHC) yhdessä rajoitettujen sovellusten protokollan (Constrained Application Protocol, CoAP) kanssa. 5. Energiatehokas sensorilaite perusteinen data prosessointi ratkaisu suodattimen tukkeutumisen ennustamiseen värähtelymittauksia käyttäen. Kaikki kehitetyt ratkaisut olivat lupaavia ja niitä voidaan käyttää useilla sovellutusalueilla. Ratkaisut ovat soveltuvuusselvityksiä (proof of concept), joita pitää kehittää edelleen loppu tuotteiden käyttöön
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MAHMOUD, TAREK IBRAHIM. "Evaluation of the degradation process of cement-based materials exposed to aggressive environment by using ultrasonic techniques and physical characterisation." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/27550.
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El hormigón armado compuesto de cemento Portland fue inventado hace algo más de un
siglo aproximadamente y se ha convertido en el material más utilizado en la construcción.
La durabilidad de este hormigón es una de las consideraciones más importantes a ser
tenidas en cuenta en el diseño de nuevas estructuras y en la evaluación estructural de las
ya existentes. Cuando un hormigón sujeto a un ambientes o cargas que puede degradarlo,
como puede ser su uso en puentes y ambientes marinos o si contiene grandes cantidades
de alúmina o áridos reciclados, el conocimiento o predicción de su durabilidad es una
aspecto crítico para su comportamiento en servicio.
Los ensayos no destructivos se han mostrado como unos de los ensayos preceptivos con
una importancia económica y social más relevante desde que se han aplicado para la
auscultación de la durabilidad de las estructuras de hormigón pertenecientes a la
ingeniería civil, donde estos materiales son ampliamente utilizados. En cualquier caso, el
uso de las técnicas no destructivas en estos materiales no está suficientemente
implementado, hecho este motivado por las características heterogéneas de su
microestructura. De todos los métodos no destructivos aplicables para el hormigón, el uso
de pulsos ultrasónicos es de gran interés para la caracterización de la microestructura y las
propiedades de materiales heterogéneos.
El objetivo del presente trabajo es obtener un procedimiento de evaluación del ciclo de
vida del hormigón preparado y puesto en servicio para ambientes marinos. Además, será
estudiado y analizado la incorporación de varias metodologías (destructivas y non
destructivas) para caracterizar el proceso de degradación de morteros y hormigones
expuestos a disolución de sulfato de sodio y a exposición en disolución de nitrato amónico.
Con esta finalidad, una integración adecuada de diferentes técnicas será usada para la
caracterización de propiedades y el seguimiento del proceso de degradación que afectan al
hormigón.
Como objetivos adicionales, destaca que fueron estudiadas las relaciones entre los
parámetros destructivos y no destructivos, así como la relación entre los distintos
parámetros no destructivos entre sí. Muchos de los estudios anteriores que han usado la
inspección ultrasónica las cuáles fueron utilizadas para determinar la relación
agua/cemento del mortero, de la pasta de cemento y del hormigón, o para monitorizar los
cambios estructurales, para diferentes relaciones a/c, en el proceso de curado. En este
trabajo de investigación fue analizado el efecto que tiene para diferentes relaciones a/c en
los parámetros ultrasónicos durante el proceso de degradación.
Para este objetivo, se utilizaron un Cemento Portland tipo II A L 42.5 (LPC), y otro
sulforresistente tipo I 42.5R/SR (SRPC) que fueron usados en la fabricación de dos marcos
de hormigón, los cuales fueron utilizados como hormigón en servicio (caso real). Para el
estudio del efecto de la variación de a/c en los parámetros ultrasónicos durante la
degradación se utilizaron muestras de mortero con deferentes relaciones agua cemento
0.525- 0.45- 0.375 and 0.30 a partir de LPC para obtener diferentes niveles de degradación.
Para monitorizar el proceso de degradación se utilizó la inspección por pulso/eco (1 y 3.5
MHz) para la obtención del parámetro del área del perfil de atenuaciones (APA) el cual fue
estimado por L Vergara et al., 2003 y usado por Fuente et al, 2004.
Para seguir el proceso de curado de pasta de cemento y morteros, este parámetro ha
demostrado una alta sensibilidad para caracterizar los cambios microestructurales de
materiales derivados del cemento a lo largo de su curado. El método de transmisión se ha
utilizado para la determinación de las velocidades de ondas longitudinales con la
frecuencia de 1MHz y transversales con la frecuencia de 500 kHz. La velocidad ultrasónica
también ha demostrado la capacidad para seguir los cambios microestructurales de un
modo sencillo porque dicho parámetro está relacionado con la variación de las propiedades
mecánicas, y bajo ciertas premisas, con la variación de la porosidad. El análisis con la
imagen ultrasónica con 2 MHz fue también usada para la consecución de los mismos
objetivos.
Como métodos destructivos, los ensayos de resistencia a la compresión y flexión fueron los
utilizados para determinar la pérdida de actividad resistente de morteros y hormigones, y la porosidad conectada al agua para analizar los cambios en la matriz porosa por el efecto
de la difusión de elementos agresivos que penetran en el material provocando su
degradación.
La porosimetría de mercurio (MIP) fue usada para observar las variaciones del volumen y
tamaño de poro y, por último, la microscopía electrónica de barrido (MEB) que fue utilizada
para cuantificar y detectar los cambios en la microestructura por el ataque de elementos
agresivos.
Los resultados obtenidos muestran que, la degradación producida por exposición a sulfato
de sodio, tiene dos etapas, en la primera etapa se forma la etringita que llena los poros pero
que no produce microfisuración. En esta etapa se observó una variación en los parámetros
obtenidos por ejemplo, incremento de la velocidad de la onda ultrasónica, de las
resistencias a compresión y a la flexión o la disminución de la porosidad. Esta variación en
los parámetros podría indicar una mejora en las prestaciones mecánicas del material
objeto de la investigación, pero en realidad esto no es cierto porque los poros están llenos
de etringita, provocando una expansión, que es la causa de la degradación en la segunda
etapa. En dicha segunda etapa, se produce una microfisuración generalizada por la
expansión de la etringita e incrementando su volumen dentro de los poros. Este hecho
produjo un cambio en los parámetros medidos que contrastan con la evolución en la
primera etapa, disminución de la velocidad de las ondas ultrasónicas, y de las resistencias
mecánicas y consecuentemente un aumento de la porosidad. Por otro lado, la degradación
por ataque de nitrato amonio tiene una única etapa debida al proceso de descalificación
que comienza desde el principio del proceso de exposición y es lineal durante todo el
periodo de exposición. Para ambos casos, la integración de las diversas técnicas se revela
como satisfactoria para el seguimiento del proceso de degradación, encontrando buenas
correlaciones entre los parámetros no destructivos y los parámetros destructivos de
técnicas de análisis físico-químico.Mahmoud, TI. (2013). Evaluation of the degradation process of cement-based materials exposed to aggressive environment by using ultrasonic techniques and physical characterisation [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/27550
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Balasubramanian, Sidharth. "STUDIES ON HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERSION." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1376333781.
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Rilöv, Sara, and Frida Brunosson. "Enkomponentsbehandling bestående av sömnrestriktion-sömnkomprimering jämfört med multikomponent KBT för insomni : En benchmark, non-inferiority studie." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för psykologi (PSY), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-84893.
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Insomni är ett vanligt problem och det finns behov av ökad tillgänglighet till kostnadseffektiva behandlingar. Syftet var att undersöka om en enkomponentsbehandling (EK), bestående av sömnrestriktion/sömnkomprimering, var non-inferior till en multikomponent (MK) KBT- behandling vid insomni och om det fanns en skillnad i symtomreduktion. Gränsvärden för non- inferiority var d = 0.8, utifrån tidigare forskning, respektive en strängare gräns d = 0.4. Data från en forskningsstudie där deltagarna erhöll EK (n = 193) jämfördes mot en riktlinje i form av en KBT-behandling i reguljärvården, MK (n = 289). Båda grupper erhöll behandling via samma internetplattform, och Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) användes som utfallsmått. Resultaten visade att EK inte kunde bekräftas som non-inferior till MK direkt efter behandling eller vid 1-årsuppföljning när en sträng gräns användes. När en liberal gräns användes kunde EK bekräftas som non-inferior direkt efter behandling men inte ett år senare. Direkt efter behandling och vid 1-årsuppföljningen visade båda grupperna en signifikant minskning av insomnisymtom, men vid 1-årsuppföljningen visade MK en större minskning. Ett stort bortfall vid 1-årsuppföljning och mer terapeutstöd för MK kan ha påverkat resultaten. Fler RCT-studier med långtidsuppföljningar behövs inom området, och även studier på andra populationer. MK är att föredra, men vid begränsade resurser kan EK erbjudas med god effekt på både kort och lång sikt.Insomnia is a common problem and there is a need for increased accessibility to cost-effective treatments. The purpose was to examine if an one-component treatment (EK), consisting of sleep-restriction/sleep-compression, were non-inferior to a multi-component (MK) CBT treatment for insomnia and if there was a difference in symptom reduction. The prestated margins for non-inferiority were d = 0.8, based on previous research, and a stricter margin of d = 0.4. Data from a research study where participants received EK (n = 193) was compared to a benchmark consisting of a CBT treatment in regular health care (MK) (n = 289). Both groups received treatment at the same Internet platform, and Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) was used as outcome measurement. The results showed that EK could not be confirmed as non-inferior to MK directly after treatment or at the one-year follow up when using a strict limit. When a liberal limit was used, EK could be confirmed as non-inferior directly after treatment but not one year later. Directly after treatment and at the one-year follow up both groups showed a significant symptom reduction, but at the one-year follow up MK showed a greater reduction. A large number of missing data at the one-year follow up and more therapeutic support in MK may have affected the results. More RCT-studies with longterm follow ups are needed in the area, and also studies of other populations. MK is preferable, but with limited resources EK can be offered with good effect both short term and long term.
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Carbol, Ladislav. "Měření akustických vlastností stavebních materiálů pomocí pseudonáhodné sekvence." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-355599.
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The thesis deals with research of pulse compression of the acoustic signal in terms of applications in civil engineering. Based on the study and analysis of these methods, automated measuring equipment for non-destructive testing with pseudorandom sequence of maximum length and automated signal analysis, have been designed and implemented. In a single test cycle are obtained three parameters that characterize the linear and nonlinear behavior of the sample. A nonlinear parameter, Time of Flight of ultrasonic wave in the sample is further in the work compared with the conventional pulse measuring, and spectral analysis is compared with the method impact-echo. Functionality and optimization of the testing method was performed on a total of three sets of test pieces made of various building materials. The experiments proved simple result interpretation, and high sensitivity to structural damage associated with temperature loading. The results were correlated with conventional nondestructive methods and by destructive testing was measured change in compressive strength and flexural strength. This work also includes continual measurement of fundamental frequency influenced by moisture on a mortar sample. Use of pulse compression signal is in the civil engineering quite unusual. Only in recent years this topic is discussed in scientific articles with increasing frequency. Great potential lies in the association of three test methods into a single. Beneficial is high test speed and measurement reproducibility, but also theoretical possibility of testing massive test elements.
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Baumgarten, Lars. "Gesteinsmechanische Versuche und petrophysikalische Untersuchungen – Laborergebnisse und numerische Simulationen." Doctoral thesis, Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg Universitaetsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola", 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-qucosa-202612.
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Dreiaxiale Druckprüfungen können als Einstufenversuche, als Mehrstufenversuche oder als Versuche mit kontinuierlichen Bruchzuständen ausgeführt werden. Bei der Anwendung der Mehrstufentechnik ergeben sich insbesondere Fragestellungen hinsichtlich der richtigen Wahl des Umschaltpunktes und des optimalen Verlaufs des Spannungspfades zwischen den einzelnen Versuchsstufen. Fraglich beim Versuch mit kontinuierlichen Bruchzuständen bleibt, ob im Versuchsverlauf tatsächlich Spannungszustände erfasst werden, welche die Höchstfestigkeit des untersuchten Materials repräsentieren. Die Dissertation greift diese Fragestellungen auf, ermöglicht den Einstieg in die beschriebene Thematik und schafft die Voraussetzungen, die zur Lösung der aufgeführten Problemstellungen notwendig sind. Auf der Grundlage einer umfangreichen Datenbasis gesteinsmechanischer und petrophysikalischer Kennwerte wurde ein numerisches Modell entwickelt, welches das Spannungs-Verformungs-, Festigkeits- und Bruchverhalten eines Sandsteins im direkten Zug- und im einaxialen Druckversuch sowie in dreiaxialen Druckprüfungen zufriedenstellend wiedergibt. Das Festigkeitsverhalten des entwickelten Modells wurde in Mehrstufentests mit unterschiedlichen Spannungspfaden analysiert und mit den entsprechenden Laborbefunden verglichen.
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Dreon, John W. Jr. "Controlled diffusion compressor blade wake measurements." Thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/21743.
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Fernandez, Christy Ann. "Computational spectral microscopy and compressive millimeter-wave holography." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/2406.
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This dissertation describes three computational sensors. The first sensor is a scanning multi-spectral aperture-coded microscope containing a coded aperture spectrometer that is vertically scanned through a microscope intermediate image plane. The spectrometer aperture-code spatially encodes the object spectral data and nonnegative
least squares inversion combined with a series of reconfigured two-dimensional (2D spatial-spectral) scanned measurements enables three-dimensional (3D) (x, y, λ) object estimation. The second sensor is a coded aperture snapshot spectral imager that employs a compressive optical architecture to record a spectrally filtered projection
of a 3D object data cube onto a 2D detector array. Two nonlinear and adapted TV-minimization schemes are presented for 3D (x,y,λ) object estimation from a 2D compressed snapshot. Both sensors are interfaced to laboratory-grade microscopes and
applied to fluorescence microscopy. The third sensor is a millimeter-wave holographic imaging system that is used to study the impact of 2D compressive measurement on 3D (x,y,z) data estimation. Holography is a natural compressive encoder since a 3D
parabolic slice of the object band volume is recorded onto a 2D planar surface. An adapted nonlinear TV-minimization algorithm is used for 3D tomographic estimation from a 2D and a sparse 2D hologram composite. This strategy aims to reduce scan time costs associated with millimeter-wave image acquisition using a single pixel receiver.
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"Computational spectral microscopy and compressive millimeter-wave holography." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/2406.
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Camacho-Padrón, Beatriz Ivette. "Effect of particle cementation on the stifness of uniform sand as measured with stress wave velocities." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/23936.
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Evaluation of the effect of particle cementation on the stiffness of uniform sand was carried out by measuring compression wave velocities (VP) and shear wave velocities (VS) on both clean and artificially cemented specimens. Piezoelectric transducers (PT) were used to perform the majority of the measurements. Shear wave velocity (VS), shear moduli (G) and material damping ratio (D) of clean and artificially cemented specimens were also determined using resonant column (RC) testing. Linear (shearing strains ≤ 0.001%) and nonlinear (shearing strains > 0.001%) behavior of the specimens were evaluated in the resonant column tests. The sand selected for this investigation is commonly known as Hickory sand, from the Hickory formation, western Llano uplift, Texas. This material was selected for its grain geometry and gradation; it consists of uniformly graded sand with rounded particles. The sand specimens were artificially cemented with a solution of hydrated sodium silicate and water. Sodium silicate is an alkaline compound obtained from the reaction of sodium hydroxide and silica. All artificially cemented specimens and uncemented hickory sand specimens were formed by pluviation through air. The microstructure of the specimens was visually assessed with images obtained from both optical and scanning electron (SEM) microscopes. These images confirmed that the procedure used to form artificially cemented specimens provides cementation around the contacts while some grain-to-grain contact appears to be preserved. Seismic and drained strength measurements on Hickory sand specimens were obtained from different cement concentrations and compared with results from clean sand specimens. Among the findings of this investigation are: (1) the procedure to artificially cement sand specimens in the laboratory was successful, (2) the slopes (nP and nS) obtained from the relationships between compression and shear wave velocities with effective isotropic confining pressure in log-log scale decrease as the cement content increases, and (3) as increasing amounts of cement are added to the sand particles, the nonlinearity of the specimens increases up to certain amount of cement, after which the nonlinearity of the specimen decreases and tends towards rock-like behavior.text