Polymer behaviour and fracture models in dynamic

Behaviour of Humans and Behaviour of Models in Dynamic Space

This paper addresses new trends in quantitative geography research. Modern social science research – including economic and social geography – has in the past decades shown an increasing interest in micro-oriented behaviour of actors. This is inter alia clearly reflected in spatial interaction models (SIMs), where discrete choice approaches have assumed a powerful position. This paper aims to p...

Dynamic Models Of Maintenance Behaviour

This position paper considers the problem of understanding the dynamic behaviour of software systems and in particular from a maintenance perspective. One approach is to consider the dynamics, in particular feedback loops, of such systems. We briefly report on the limited work in the area to date [1, 2] and then describe a case study derived from an information systems for a multi-national orga...

Peridynamic models for dynamic brittle fracture

Adviser: Florin Bobaru Damage and failure in composite materials under dynamic loading has been extensively studied in experiments for several decades. Composite materials exhibit various damage and failure patterns under different loading rates, such as splitting and branching. Classical models cannot directly be applied to problems with discontinuous fields. A new nonlocal continuum model, pe...

Dynamic Behaviour of Piers Under Waves and Earthquakes

Dynamic Behaviour of Piers Under Waves and Earthquakes