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Understanding Simulations of Thin Accretion Disks by Energy Equation
We study the fluctuations of standard thin accretion disks by linear analysis
of the time-dependent energy equation together with the vertical hydrostatic
equilibrium and the equation of state. We show that some of the simulation
results in Hirose et al. (2009b), such as the time delay, the relationship of
power spectra, and the correlation between magnetic energy and radiation
energy, can be well understood by our analytic results.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure, accepted for publication in Ap
Identification of the Most Fragile Component for a Typical RC Bridge Using Seismic Fragility Curves
This paper identifies the most fragile component of a typical reinforced concrete (RC) continuous girder bridge through the seismic fragility analysis. The typical bridge, Liang-Zi River bridge located in Shandong Province of China, is taken as the case study. The Cloud analysis approach is adopted to construct the probabilistic seismic demand models (PSDMs). Both of the record-to-record uncertainty in ground motions and the structural model uncertainty are considered in the PSDMs by using several approaches such as the selection of real ground motion records from the NGA-West2 database and the Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) approach. The damage limit states defined refer to piers and bearings which are commonly regarded as the fragile components. Furthermore, the seismic fragility curves of components and the bridge system are developed. Results show that the middle piers are more fragile than the side piers; the bearings are more fragile than piers; it is different from experiences that the fixed bearings at the top of the middle pier are not always more fragile than sliding bearings at both of the transverse and longitudinal loading conditions
Anharmonic effect on lattice distortion, orbital ordering and magnetic properties in Cs2AgF4
We develop the cluster self-consistent field method incorporating both
electronic and lattice degrees of freedom to study the origin of ferromagnetism
in CsAgF. After self-consistently determining the harmonic and
anharmonic Jahn-Teller distortions, we show that the anharmonic distortion
stabilizes the staggered x-z/y-z orbital and
ferromagnetic ground state, rather than the antiferromagnetic one. The
amplitudes of lattice distortions, Q and Q, the magnetic coupling
strengthes, J, and the magnetic moment, are in good agreement with the
experimental observation.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
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