The vibratory behavior of a lab facility located in Building 401 of the Advanced Photon Source site at Argonne National Laboratory is summarized. Measurements of ambient vibration indicate that acceptable displacement levels are usually maintained (rms value below 0.1 microns) for the measured frequency range, above 0.2 Hz. An exception occurs when strong wind conditions excite a horizontal bui...

A half-precast concrete slab system (HPCSS) is reported to exhibit excellent structural performance when compared with traditional slab systems. However, there is a lack of extant research examining the construction issues of an HPCSS. Thus, in this study, we analyze the construction process and productivity of applying an HPCSS by using a simulation method with the data collected from an actua...

The energy performance of radiant slab cooling relative to conventional air systems to be clarified for climates from cold and dry to very hot and humid. EnergyPlus simulations were used to compare the energy performance of 1) radiant slab cooling combined with a dedicated outdoor air system and 2) a variable air volume system. Simulation results show that the radiant slab system provided 10% t...

Linearized augmented plane wave (LAPW) calculations are performed for periodic (001) and (111) slabs of BaTiO3 to understand the effects of surfaces on ferroelectric BaTiO3. The (111) slab is found to be much less stable than the (001) slab. The average surface energies are respectively 3700 erg/cm and 1600 erg/cm. The depolarization field is sufficiently large in the ideal unrelaxated slab to ...

This article studies the transient heat conduction in a slab when passing through various sections of the furnace, and focuses on the thickness of the scale layer formed on the slab. The transient heat conduction behavior of a slab in various sections of the heating furnace is analyzed using the Laplace transformation method, including the pre-heating zone, the first heating zone, the second he...

An effective mass theory of sub-surface STM is developed. Sub-surface structures such as quantum dots embedded into a semiconductor slab are considered. States localised around sub-surface structures match on to a tail that decays into the vacuum above the surface. It is shown that the lateral variation of this tail may be found from a surface envelope function provided that the effects of the ...

An analytic approach combining the effect of equilibrium diamagnetic flows and the finite ion-sound gyroradius associated with electron-ion decoupling and kinetic Alfvén wave effects is derived to study resistive drift instabilities in a plasma slab. Linear numerical computations using the NIMROD code are performed with cold ions and hot electrons in a plasma slab with a doubly periodic box bou...

In this paper, Spike-and-Slab Dirichlet Process (SS-DP) priors are introduced and discussed for non-parametric Bayesian modeling and inference, especially in the mixture models context. Specifying a spike-and-slab base measure for DP priors combines the merits of Dirichlet process and spike-and-slab priors and serves as a flexible approach in Bayesian model selection and averaging. Computationa...

A hexagonal ferrite-based millimeter wave notch filter was demonstrated. The filter consists of an M-type BaFe12O19 BaM slab sitting on top of a stripline. The band-stop filtering response originates from the ferromagnetic resonance absorption in the BaM slab. The BaM slab has an in-plane uniaxial anisotropy field of 17 kOe. This anisotropy field facilitates the operation of the filter beyond 5...

We study one- and two-dimensional transmission of electromagnetic waves through a finite slab of a dielectric material with negative refraction. In the case when the dielectric slab possesses an intensitydependent nonlinear response, we observe the nonlinearity-induced wave transmission through an opaque slab accompanied by the generation of spatiotemporal solitons. We solve this problem numeri...