Soft Walls

Soft Walls

From soft walls to infrared branes

Five-dimensional warped spaces with soft walls are generalizations of the standard Randall-Sundrum compactifications, where instead of an infrared brane one has a curvature singularity (with vanishing warp factor) at finite proper distance in the bulk. We project the physics near the singularity onto a hypersurface located a small distance away from it in the bulk. This results in a completely ...

Domain-growth kinetics of systems with soft walls.

The Nonlinear Effect of Infill Walls Stiffness to Prevent Soft Story Col- lapse of RC Structures

Experimental or theoretical tests show that dramatically changes of infill area causes soft story mechanism. "Soft story" mechanism is the most frequent failure mode of reinforced concrete (R.C.) structures. This phenomenon is caused by the fact that the overall shear force applied to the building by an earthquake is higher at the base floor. If the lower story is not originally weakened, it is...

Mechanism of chirality reversal for planar interface domain walls in exchange-coupled hard/soft magnetic bilayers