The paper considers the visco-elastic response of ice cover in a channel under an external load moving with constant speed along center line. has rectangular cross-section finite depth and width. fluid is inviscid incompressible its motion potential. covered by thin sheet frozen to walls. thickness varies linearly symmetrically across channel, being lowest at highest Ice deflections strains are...

This study was to investigate the nanomechanical and nanotribological properties of polyether ether ketone (PEEK)-based composites for biomedical applications and to gain a fundamental understanding of the effects of carbon fibers in carbon-fiber-reinforced PEEK (CFRPEEK) on the mechanical properties and wear performance in a microscale. Nanoindentation tests with a Berkovich indenter and nanos...

one of the most important fuel cells (fcs) is proton exchange membrane fuel cells (pemfcs). the outputvoltage of this fc depends on current loads. this paper tries to introduce, implement and control the voltage ofpemfc, during load variations. the output voltage of fuel cell should be constant during load variation. toachieve this goal, a controller should be designed. here, the lead-lag contr...

(the prime indicates differentiation with respect to x). P(x) and Q(x) (positive downward) are the live load per unit length and the dead load of the roadway, cable, and hangers per unit length. E and / (assumed constants) are the modulus of elasticity and moment of inertia of the roadway and H (constant) is the horizontal dead-load tension in the cable. The term h (constant), the induced live-...

OBJECTIVE To describe the kinetics of metabolic gas exchange at the onset and offset of low level, constant work exercise in patients with chronic heart failure. SETTING Tertiary referral centre for cardiology. PATIENTS 10 patients with chronic heart failure and 10 age matched controls. METHODS Each subject undertook maximum incremental exercise testing with metabolic gas exchange measure...

this paper studies the use of unscented kalman filters (ukf) to estimate nonlinear dynamics and, specifically, adaptive determination of scaling parameters in these filters. due to lack of analytic solution and use of numerical methods instead, the computational load of these filters increases drastically. in this paper, a new method is proposed based on interactive multiple models (imm) which ...

This paper proposes an index for nodal market power detection in power market under locational marginal pricing (LMP). This index is an ex-ante technique to detect the market power. More precisely, this criterion detects the potential of exercising market power regardless of detecting the actual market power. Also it is obvious that pricing and market clearing method affect the potential of exe...