TIPS AND TRICKS FOR CHARACTERIZING SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY WIRE: PART 4 – THERMO-MECHANICAL COUPLING

Disclaimer: The full description of the procedures used in this paper requires the identification of a certain commercial equipment. The inclusion of such information should in no way be construed as indicating that such a product is endorsed or recommended by NIST or that it is necessarily the best for the purposes described. Editor's Note: This ET feature series is intended as an introduction to this exciting area of experimental mechanics. It aims to increase awareness of active materials and to promote their consistent characterization by disseminating best practices from leading researchers in the field. Each article in the series will address the characterization of one commercially significant active material. Series editors: Nilesh D. Mankame and Paul W. Alexander.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/79294/1/j.1747-1567.2010.00619.x.pd

TIPS AND TRICKS FOR CHARACTERIZING SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY WIRE: PART 3-LOCALIZATION AND PROPAGATION PHENOMENA

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TIPS AND TRICKS FOR CHARACTERIZING SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY WIRE: PART 1—DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY AND BASIC PHENOMENA

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Fresnel polarisation of infra-red radiation by elemental bismuth

We revisit the classical problem of electromagnetic wave refraction from a lossless dielectric to a lossy conductor, where both media are considered to be non-magnetic, linear, isotropic and homogeneous. We derive the Fresnel coefficients of the system and the Poynting vectors at the interface, in order to compute the reflectance and transmittance of the system. We use a particular parametrisation of the referred Fresnel coefficients so as to make a connection with the ones obtained for refraction by an interface between two lossless media. This analysis allows the discussion of an actual application, namely the Fresnel polarisation of infra-red radiation by elemental bismuth, based on the concept of pseudo Brewster’s angle.We acknowledge helpful discussions with M. Vasilevskiy, P. Alpuim, J. Caridad and B. Figueiredo. The authors thank the European Structural and Investment Funds in the FEDER component, through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalization (COMPETE 2020) [under the Project GNESIS -Graphenest's New Engineered System and its Implementation Solutions; Funding Reference: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-033566], European Regional Development Fund. This work was also supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in the framework of the Strategic Funding UID/FIS/04650/2019

Basic Module Theory over Non-Commutative Rings with Computational Aspects of Operator Algebras

The present text surveys some relevant situations and results where basic Module Theory interacts with computational aspects of operator algebras. We tried to keep a balance between constructive and algebraic aspects.Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of the AADIOS 2012 conference, to be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Scienc