Three-layered electrode structures are often employed in multiple-electrode capacitive position sensors. Even when advanced algorithms and well-designed guarding electrodes are used, the electric-field-bending effect is still one of the major contributors to the nonlinearity of capacitive position sensors. In this paper, the effects of electric-field bending on linearities of five capacitive li...

In this paper we analyze different models of deformable linear objects (DLOs) in terms of efficient computation and preciseness. Our approach is to minimize the potential energy (computed as the sum of gravitational and bending energy) of the DLO. To model our DLOs, we approximate the bending of the DLO using a weighted sum of approximation functions. Our objective is to identify the optimal ty...

The change in the energy level structure of a bent molecule as it starts to sample linear geometries has been discussed in terms of monodromy found in simple two-dimensional model problems. Infrared spectra of hot (T 3000 K) water are analysed for transitions involving states with high bending excitation which can sample linear HOH geometries. One hundred and thirty four new experimental energy...

The simple unification scheme of powerful radio galaxies and quasars, based entirely on the orientation dependent effects, has been confronted with the observed radio structures for 152 radio galaxies and 173 steep spectrum quasars. Contrary to the scheme's prediction, the cosmological evolution of geometrical parameters describing the large scale structure of these two types of radio sources a...

Aleksandrov and Pogorelov used bending fields (the velocity fields of continuous isometric deformations) to show infinitesimal rigidity of some classes of surfaces ([2] and [12]). Bending fields (and the rigidity matrix) were also successfully employed in the study of infinitesimal rigidity of polyhedra and tensegrity frameworks (see [7]). We will use these tools to re-derive a previously known...

Stability aMlysis 0/ lambuUed composite columns with bending-mension coupling is pr~. sented. PnVioIU work by other authors considered tluzt the stability 0/ th~ colum" is govemedby a symmetric bifurcation andusedG " redueed bending stil/ness. " A p~rturbation tUUJlysLt is employed in this work to investigau 1M primary equilibrium path using linear, fUtUlratie, and cubk tlpproxinUltions. Equili...

Modifications in scattering strength of and local field enhancement by retardation-based plasmonic nanoantennas when being transformed from straight nanorods to split-ring resonators are investigated experimentally. Scattering properties are characterized with linear reflection and extinction spectroscopy of nanoantenna arrays, whereas local field enhancements are evaluated for individual nanoa...

[1] A new algorithm for retrieving the relative ionospheric satellite-to-satellite total electron content during Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultations is proposed. The algorithm consists of a linear combination of the L1 and L2 excess phase data using precise orbit information of the transmitter and receiver. The combination eliminates the effects of refractive bending and dispersi...

We present results of numerical N-body simulations of a galactic stellar disk embedded into a spherical dark halo. The non-linear dynamics of bending instabilities developing in the disk is studied. The bending modes, axisymmetric and not, are considered as main factors increasing the disk thickness. The relation between the disk vertical scale height and the halo+bulge-to-disk mass ratio is in...

Through the molecular dynamics simulation method, we demonstrate that long semi-flexible polymer chains can serve as an effective soft elastic medium for manipulating the ordered structures of small numbers of building blocks, which can be easily controlled by the chain bending stiffness. For two spherical particles in a polymer-particle mixture, three types of local organization are identified...