We present the preliminary results of our studies of superfluid 3He in a 0.6 μm thick slab using NMR. Below Tc the A phase is observed, and at low pressures the region of stability of the A phase extends down to the lowest temperatures reached, as described elsewhere. At pressures above 3.2 bar another, so far unidentified phase is observed at low temperatures. In this article we focus on the b...

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...

We explore the dynamics of a periodically driven Duffing resonator coupled elastically to a van der Pol oscillator in the case of 1 : 1 internal resonance in the cases of weak and strong coupling. Whilst strong coupling leads to dominating synchronization, the weak coupling case leads to a multitude of complex behaviours. A two-time scales method is used to obtain the frequencyamplitude modulat...

The response analysis of reinforced concrete (RC) structures subjected to strong earthquake motions requires material models that are able to simulate cyclic deformation and damage realistically. This paper presents the results of a study of pinching and softening behaviour in an RC frame subjected to cyclic loading. The experiment was conducted on a full-scale RC frame at Indian Institute of T...

Ferroelectric materials are attractive for use in a wide range of applications due to their unique transduction capabilities. However, taking full advantage of these capabilities requires a control design which accounts for the materials’ inherent hysteretic behavior. A common approach is to partially cancel the hysteretic effects in the system by employing an approximate inversion algorithm in...

This article introduces straightforward techniques for modeling, identification and inversion of a class of hysteretic systems. The assumed model structure consists of the parametric hysteresis operator and an input or output shaping function. The parametric hysteresis operator isolates the most general multi-valued hysteretic behavior in a well-defined operator form, while the remaining biject...

A class of RC-OTA hysteretic-chaotic oscillators has been previously reported using electronics; therefore, hysteresis is realized by an electronic circuit. To obtain a mathematical model of this RC-OTA chaotic-electronic device, hysteresis modeling turns an important issue. Here, we develop a new mathematical hysteretic model proposing a new jounce-chaotic oscillator. Chaosity test is proved u...

A disturbance rejection based control approach, active disturbance rejection control (ADRC), is proposed for hysteretic systems with unknown characteristics. It is an appealing alternative to hysteresis compensation because it does not require a detailed model of hysteresis, by treating the nonlinear hysteresis as a common disturbance and actively rejecting it. The stability characteristic of t...