In this paper, we have studied the strain, band-edge, and energy levels of cubic InGaAs quantum dots (QDs) surrounded by GaAs. It is shown that overall strain value is larger in InGaAs-GaAs interfaces, as well as in smaller QDs. Also, it is proved that conduction and valence band-edges and electron-hole levels are size dependent; larger QD sizes appeared to result in the lower recombination...

The damage identification study presented in this article leveraged a full-scale sub-component experiment conducted in the Charles Lee P owell Structural Research Laboratories at the University of California, San Diego. As a payload project attached to a quasi-static test of a full-scale composite beam, a high-quality set of lowamplitude vibration response data was acquired from the beam at var...

Wireless sensor nodes have many compelling applications such as smart buildings, medical implants, and surveillance systems. However, existing devices are bulky, measuring >1cm, and they are hampered by short lifetimes and fail to realize the “smart dust” vision of [1]. Smart dust requires a mm-scale, wireless sensor node with perpetual energy harvesting. Recently two application-specific impla...

This paper presents a simple method based on strain energy density criterion to study the crack initiation angle by finite element method under biaxial loading condition. The crack surface relative displacement method is used to eliminate the calculation of the stress intensity factors which are normally required. The analysis is performed using higher order four node quadrilateral element. The...

The current study focussed on analysing natural frequency and damping of laminated composite beams (LCBs) by varying fiber angle, aspect ratio, material property boundary conditions. Ritz method with displacement field based the shear normal deformable theory is used modal calculated using strain energy method. Effects symmetric angle-ply cross-ply, anti balanced quasi-isotropic lay up schemes ...

Modal strain energy (MSE) method is a widely used approximation approach for parameter calculation of damped composite structures. In this paper, iterative MSE proposed to calculate the loss factor damping structure by considering frequency dependence modulus and viscoelastic materials. The applied free spline, plate constrain plate. results show that: obtains minimum relative errors less than ...

the present paper sets out to investigate the syntactic category of persian modals, šâyad ‘perhaps’ and bâyad ‘must’. the syntactic category of the two modal elements has been viewed differently by different scholars. a number of scholars argue that both šâyad and bâyad are modal auxiliaries, while others claim that they both are modal adverbs. we propose that šâyad is a modal adverb and bâyad ...