This manuscript present my research activities in the field of statistical mechanics ofdisordered systems, in particular mean-field models with finite connectivity. These modelsexhibit several phase transitions in the thermodynamic limit, with applications both for thephysics of glasses and for their links with optimization problems from theoretical computerscience. Their behavi...

Introduction A Virtual Reality (VR)-based medical simulation requires accurate organ geometry, fast computation algorithms, and mechanical properties of the soft tissue. However, the material properties’ characterization has not been sufficiently investigated due to the difficulty of testing and modeling the complexities of nonlinearity and time dependency of the soft tissue. Several research g...

A sequential three-dimensional hybrid molecular dynamics (MD)/finite-element (FE) code to perform continuum and atomistic multi-scale modeling and computation, has been parallelized using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) library. A master-slave divide-and-conquer approach, emphasizing the functionality and robustness of the code, is implemented through loop parallelism and has reduced execut...

This work deals with the modeling of the material flow in Friction Stir Welding (FSW) processes using particle tracing method. For the computation of particle trajectories, three accurate and computationally efficient integration methods are implemented within a FE model for FSW process: the Backward Euler with Substepping (BES), the 4-th order Runge-Kutta (RK4) and the Back and Forth Error Com...

A recently developed Finite-Element (FE) model for the precise computation of electrostatic driven MEMS (Micro-ElectroMechanical-Systems) is presented. Thereby, we fully take geometric nonlinearity, contact in the snap-in mode, nonlinear electrostatic coupling forces as well as the moving of charged thin membrane-plate structures (electrodes) in an electric field into account. Furthermore, sinc...

The structure and stability of the adduct formed in the reaction between Auoxo3, a dinuclear gold(iii) compound, and the model protein hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL) are investigated by X-ray crystallography, UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy and circular dichroism (CD). It is found that Auoxo3 breaks down completely, undergoes reduction and produces reactive gold(i) species able to bind the protei...

Hydrogenase [hydrogenase: (acceptor) oxidoreductase, EC 1.12. . -1 is present in many bacteria. It is one of the enzymes having potential use in the biophotolysis of water (Weaver et al.. 1980). When we began our research on hydrogenase in 1977, two types of enzymes were known: (i) enzymes containing 12 Fe atoms and an equivalent amount of acid-labile S atoms and (ii) enzymes containing only fo...

OBJECTIVE The aims of the study are to assess the marginal accuracy of base metal and titanium alloy casting and to evaluate the effect of repeated ceramic firing on the marginal accuracy of base metal and titanium alloy castings. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty metal copings were fabricated with each casting material. Specimens were divided into 4 groups of 10 each representing base metal alloy...

Exclusive measurements of twoand three-body events were performed for the system Sn+ ' Mo at 19.1 MeV/nucleon. Most ternary events are consistent with sequential processes in which one of the two deep-inelastic fragments fissions. For such events large diA'erences are found between the fission probabilities of projectilelike and targetlike fragments of a given mass, this probability being large...