We report on experiments aimed at comparing the hysteretic response of a Cu-Zn-Al single crystal undergoing a martensitic transition under strain-driven and stress-driven conditions. Strain-driven experiments were performed using a conventional tensile machine while a special device was designed to perform stress-driven experiments. Significant differences in the hysteresis loops were found. Th...

A new neuron activation function based on a property found in physical systems--hysteresis--is proposed. We incorporate this neuron activation in a fully connected dynamical system to form the hysteretic Hopfield neural network (HHNN). We then present an analog implementation of this architecture and its associated dynamical equation and energy function.We proceed to prove Lyapunov stability fo...

This paper analyzes the possibility of using a nonlinear controller to mitigate the current ripple of an inverter system powered by a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) stack. Hybrid and fuel cell technologies need to be merged in Hybrid Power Sources (HPS) to assure high performance regarding the PEMFC energy efficiency and PEMFC life cycle. The nonlinear controller is designed bas...

Theoretical models are adapted to describe the hysteresis effects seen in the electrical characteristics of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors. The ballistic transport model describes the contributions of conduction energy sub-bands over carbon nanotube field-effect transistor drain current as a function of drain-source and gate-source voltages as well as other physical parameters of the ...

It i s emphasized t h a t a d i s t r i b u t i o n func t ion i n both the d i s l o c a t i o n loop lengths and obstac le s t rengths must be considered t o develop a q u a n t i t a t i v e theory f o r the h y s t e r e t i c d i s s i p a t i o n o f energy. That i s when d i s l o c a t i o n surmounts an undulat ing i n t e r n a l s t ress f i e l d and t h e break-away i s r e s t r i...

Applying the voltage-mode hysteretic control to multiphase Voltage Regulator Modules (VRMs) can satisfy many of the new and future generation of microprocessors and ICs powering requirements. This is because of the numerous advantages that can be obtained when both techniques are used. However, several challenges arise that include current sharing, multiphase control signals distribution, high-...

A big problem in many technical applications is the complex hysteretic characteristic of sensors and actuators, which causes a non-linear and multi-valued mapping between the output variable and the input variable of the transducer. In the last few years at the LPA a general modeling and compensator design method was developed for such complex hysteretic nonlinearities which is based on the so-...

Hysteresis is a common phenomenon in various non linear systems including piezoceramic materials. Piezoelectric bimorph devices show hysteretic behaviour, when operating as actuators. In this paper an experimental set-up to investigate the hysteretic behaviour of a PZT is described. The strategy adopted uses a resistive readout scheme and a CCD tool for the system calibration. Moreover, softwar...

In a system with hysteresis, the system response lags the excitation [16, 21] — for any excitation [10]. Hysteretic behavior is commonly depicted as loops in graphs (2D plots) of periodic (oscillatory) output vs. periodic input. In rate-dependent hysteresis, the size and shape of the hysteresis loop changes with the rate or frequency of the input. If the loop collapses to a function (e.g., a cu...