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Air-Coupled Surface Wave Transmission Measurement Across A Partially Closed Surface-Breaking Crack In Concrete
Previous researchers have demonstrated that the transmission of surface waves is effective to estimate the depth of a surface-breaking crack in solids. However, most of the results were obtained using a well-defined crack (or notch) in laboratory. In fact, there is a critical gap to apply the theory to surface-breaking cracks in concrete structures subjected to external loadings where the cracks are generally ill-defined, and partially closed. In this study, the authors investigated transmission coefficients of surface waves across a partially closed surface-breaking crack in concrete subjected to monotonically increasing compressive loadings. First, a concrete beam (0.5 X 0.154 X 2.1 m(3)) having two surface-breaking cracks with various crack widths was prepared in laboratory. Second, transmission coefficients of impact-induced surface waves were measured across a surface-breaking crack in the concrete beam with increasing compressive loadings from 0 to 140kN (10% of the ultimate compressive strength of the concrete beam). External post-tensioning was used to apply the compression. For comparison purpose, sensitivity of surface wave velocity to compressive loading was also investigated. As a result, observations in this study reveal that transmission coefficient is a more sensitive acoustic parameter than phase velocity to evaluate a surface-breaking cracking in concrete subjected to compressive loadings.Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineerin
On the spectral distribution of kernel matrices related to\ud radial basis functions
This paper focuses on the spectral distribution of kernel matrices related to radial basis functions. The asymptotic behaviour of eigenvalues of kernel matrices related to radial basis functions with different smoothness are studied. These results are obtained by estimated the coefficients of an orthogonal expansion of the underlying kernel function. Beside many other results, we prove that there are exactly (k+dâ1/d-1) eigenvalues in the same order for analytic separable kernel functions like the Gaussian in Rd. This gives theoretical support for how to choose the diagonal scaling matrix in the RBF-QR method (Fornberg et al, SIAM J. Sci. Comput. (33), 2011) which can stably compute Gaussian radial basis function interpolants
Anomalous Hall effect in L10-MnAl films with controllable orbital two-channel Kondo effect
The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in strongly disordered magnetic systems has
been buried in persistent confusion despite its long history. We report the AHE
in perpendicularly magnetized L10-MnAl epitaxial films with variable orbital
two-channel Kondo (2CK) effect arising from the strong coupling of conduction
electrons and the structural disorders of two-level systems. The AHE is
observed to excellently scale with pAH/f=a0pxx0+bpxx2 at high temperatures
where phonon scattering prevails. In contrast, significant deviation occurs at
low temperatures where the orbital 2CK effect becomes important, suggesting a
negative AHE contribution. The deviation of the scaling agrees with the orbital
2CK effect in the breakdown temperatures and deviation magnitudes
Octet Baryon Charge Radii, Chiral Symmetry and Decuplet Intermediate States
We compute the octet baryon charge radii to O(1/Heavy^3) in heavy baryon
chiral perturbation theory. We examine the effect of including the decuplet of
spin-3/2 baryons explicitly. We find that it does no t improve the level of
agreement between the HBchiPT and experimental values for the Sigma^- charge
radius.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures. Uses axodraw.sty, include
Spontaneous excitation of an accelerated multilevel atom in dipole coupling to the derivative of a scalar field
We study the spontaneous excitation of an accelerated multilevel atom in
dipole coupling to the derivative of a massless quantum scalar field and
separately calculate the contributions of the vacuum fluctuation and radiation
reaction to the rate of change of the mean atomic energy of the atom. It is
found that, in contrast to the case where a monopole like interaction between
the atom and the field is assumed, there appear extra corrections proportional
to the acceleration squared, in addition to corrections which can be viewed as
a result of an ambient thermal bath at the Unruh temperature, as compared with
the inertial case, and the acceleration induced correction terms show
anisotropy with the contribution from longitudinal polarization being four
times that from the transverse polarization for isotropically polarized
accelerated atoms. Our results suggest that the effect of acceleration on the
rate of change of the mean atomic energy is dependent not only on the quantum
field to which the atom is coupled, but also on the type of the interaction
even if the same quantum scalar field is considered.Comment: 11 pages, no figure
Numerical simulations of negative-index refraction in wedge-shaped metamaterials
A wedge-shaped structure made of split-ring resonators (SRR) and wires is
numerically simulated to evaluate its refraction behavior. Four frequency
bands, namely, the stop band, left-handed band, ultralow-index band, and
positive-index band, are distinguished according to the refracted field
distributions. Negative phase velocity inside the wedge is demonstrated in the
left-handed band and the Snell's law is conformed in terms of its refraction
behaviors in different frequency bands. Our results confirmed that negative
index of refraction indeed exists in such a composite metamaterial and also
provided a convincing support to the results of previous Snell's law
experiments.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figure
PDMS/PVA composite ferroelectret for improved energy harvesting performance
This paper address the PDMS ferroelectret discharge issue for improved long- term energy harvesting performance. The PDMS/PVA ferroelectret is fabricated using a 3D-printed plastic mould technology and a functional PVA composite layer is introduced. The PDMS/PVA composite ferroelectret achieved 80% piezoelectric coefficient d33 remaining, compared with 40% without the proposed layer over 72 hours. Further, the retained percentage of output voltage is about 73% over 72 hours
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