the hot compression tests were carried on x45crniw189 valve steel (x45) in the temperature rangeof 1000– 1200 °c and the strain rate range of 0.004 – 0.5 s-1 in order to study the high temperaturesoftening behavior of this steel. for the exact prediction of flow stress, the effective stress-effectivestrain curves were obtained from experiments under various conditions. on the basis of experimen...

This study targets the behavior of shear buildings equipped with tuned liquid column dampers (TLCD) which attenuate dynamic load-induced vibrations. TLCDs are a passive damping system used in tall buildings. This kind of damper has proven to be very efficient, being an excellent alternative to mass dampers. A dynamic analysis of the structure-damper system was made using the software DynaPy, de...

We have previously developed an adsorption-limited model to describe the exchange of lung surfactant and its fractions to and from an air-liquid interface in oscillatory surfactometers. Here we extend this model to allow for diffusion in the liquid phase. Use of the model in conjunction with experimental data in the literature shows that diffusion-limited transport i.s important for characteriz...

The piezo tutorial "Actuators for dynamic applications" or Actuator 2 describes dynamic applications, where dynamics (acceleration, damping) can be neglected. However, in many applications, dynamics play an important role and have to be taken into account in the design process. The tutorial gives an introduction to dynamic applications. Also the Mason model used to model, analyze and estimate t...

We define generalized extensive-form games which allow for asymmetric awareness of actions. We extend Pearce’s (1984) notion of extensive-form (correlated) rationalizability to this setting, explore its properties, and prove existence.

We consider a conceptual and quantitative modeling approach for investigating dynamic behavior change. While the approach is applicable to behavior change in eating disorders, smoking, substance abuse and other behavioral disorders, here we present our novel dynamical systems modeling approach to understand the processes governing an individual’s behavior in the context of problem drinking. Rec...

The bullwhip effect has been well known since many years and often takes place in supply chains. It is caused by wrong order policy in real systems. The bullwhip effect can be demonstrated easily through the beer game. It was developed by the MIT in the 60s. All stages of the supply chain operate independently. The only decisions that can be taken in the particular stages of this simulation gam...

| The Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (idct) is used in almost all video-decoders, like mpeg and hdtv. In de process of video decoding, the idct is a computationally heavy part. One of the performance characteristics is the power consumption , which is related to the dynamic behavior of the hardware. In this paper the signal transitions that occur in the multipliers are analyzed with vhdl, wh...