This Letter presents a unified approach for the fundamental relationship between structure and function in flow networks by solving analytically the voltages in a resistor network, transforming the network structure to an effective all-to-all topology, and then measuring the resultant flows. Moreover, it defines a way to study the structural resilience of the graph and to detect possible commun...

We obtain the Paris law of fatigue crack propagation in a disordered solid using a fuse network model where the accumulated damage in each resistor increases with time as a power law of the local current amplitude. When a resistor reaches its fatigue threshold, it burns irreversibly. Over time, this drives cracks to grow until the system is fractured in two parts. We study the relation between ...

A voltage-dependent diffused resistor model has been developed using conventional voltage controlled current sources (VCCS’s) defined by a two-dimensional polynomial for simulations of mixed-signal circuits. The polynomial coefficients can be defined by a simple firstorder polynomial which can be a function of geometry and process variables to accurately reflect the manufacturing process. Alter...

As part of an ongoing effort by the ministry of Social Affairs and Employment of The Netherlands a research project is being undertaken to construct a causal model for the most commonly occurring scenarios related to occupational risk. This model should provide quantitative insight in the causes and consequences of occupational accidents. The results should be used to help selecting optimal str...

There are two dynamics issues in vision chips: (i) The temporal! dynamics issue due to the parasitic capacit,ors in a CMOS chip, and (ii) the spatial dynamics issue due t,o the regular array of processing elements in a chip. These issues are discussed in [l: 2, 31 for the resistor network with only associated parasitic capacitances. However, in this paper we consider also parasitic inductances ...

Electric brain stimulations such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS), and transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) electrophysiologically modulate brain activity and as a result sometimes modulate behavioral performances. These stimulations can be viewed from an engineering standpoint as involving an artificial electric sour...

We demonstrate an innovative multifunctional artificial material that combines exotic metamaterial properties and the environmentally responsive nature of phase change media. The tunable metamaterial is designed with the aid of two interwoven coordinatetransformation equations and implemented with a network of thin film resistors and vanadium dioxide (V O2). The strong temperature dependence of...

Piezoelectric-based shunt dampers are developed in recent years because of simplicity in comparison with other methods. In these methods, a part of converted mechanical energy is stored in the internal el...