A distinctive component of cloud-based applications is the elasticity control. This component facilitates the adaptation necessary for an application to maintain service quality in the presence of fluctuating demand. Elasticity control achieves this adaptation at runtime by managing the expansion and contraction of resource capacity in response to demand. How to design the rules of elasticity c...

-In this paper, an attempt has been made to establish a market mechanism for primary and secondary frequency regulation services in the restructured power system environment. The concept of elasticity of offer price and elasticity of offer quantity has been proposed. Such a design of offer structure helps the providers to respond to the system requirements based on the market price variations i...

Transplantation of microencapsulated cells has been proposed as a cure for many types of endocrine disorders. Alginate-based microcapsules have been used in many of the feasibility studied addressing cure of the endocrine disorders, and different cancer types. Despite years of intensive research it is still not completely understood which factors have to be controlled and documented for achievi...

The prevalence of dynamic-content web services, exemplified by search and online social networking, has motivated an increasingly wide web-facing front end. Horizontal scaling in the Cloud is favored for its elasticity, and distributed design of load balancers is highly desirable. Existing algorithms with a centralized design, such as Join-the-Shortest-Queue (JSQ), incur high communication over...

Often, time dependent and dissipative material behaviour is observed simultaneously with load depending stiffness reduction. For example, filled elastomers and biological tissues belong to this class of materials. Both phenomena, i.e. viscoelasticity and damage, are incorporated into a formulation of finite strain elasticity. The phenomena either can be used together or one or the other feature...

2 Elasticity problems with known theoretical solutions .......................................2 1 2.1 Smooth rigid strip footing on elastic soil...........................................................2 1 2.2 Strip load on elastic Gibson oil........................................................................2 3 2.3 Bending of beams.............................................................

We analyze a thin elastic, homogeneous strip under a smooth load and several different types of boundary conditions. The strip is assumed to obey either a plane strain or a plane stress type deformation of linear theory of elasticity. We characterize the 2D solution and consider dimension reduction of arbitrary order n. Both interior and global energy estimates for the reduction error are derived.

In this study, the free vibration behavior of orthotropic rectangular graphene sheet embedded in an elastic medium under biaxial pre-load is studied. Using the nonlocal elasticity theory, the governing equation is derived for single-layered graphene sheets (SLGS). Differential quadrature method (DQM) has been used to solve the governing equations for various boundary conditions. To verify the a...