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Insulator-Metal transition in the Doped 3d1 Transition Metal Oxide LaTiO3
The doping induced insulator-metal transition in is
studied using the ab-initio LDA+DMFT method. Combining the LDA bandstructure
for the actual, distorted structure found recently with multi-orbital DMFT to
treat electronic correlations, we find: ferro-orbital order in the Mott
insulating state without orbital degeneracy, a continuous filling
induced transition to the paramagnetic metal (PM) with , and
excellent quantitative agreement with published photoemission data for the case
of 6% doping. Our results imply that this system can be described as a
Mott-Hubbard system without orbital (liquid) degeneracy.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PR
Swimmers in thin films: from swarming to hydrodynamic instabilities
We investigate theoretically the collective dynamics of a suspension of low
Reynolds number swimmers that are confined to two dimensions by a thin fluid
film. Our model swimmer is characterized by internal degrees of freedom which
locally exert active stresses (force dipoles or quadrupoles) on the fluid. We
find that hydrodynamic interactions mediated by the film can give rise to
spontaneous continuous symmetry breaking (swarming), to states with either
polar or nematic homogeneous order. For dipolar swimmers, the stroke averaged
dynamics are enough to determine the leading contributions to the collective
behaviour. In contrast, for quadrupolar swimmers, our analysis shows that
detailed features of the internal dynamics play an important role in
determining the bulk behaviour. In the broken symmetry phases, we investigate
fluctuations of hydrodynamic variables of the system and find that these
destabilize order. Interestingly, this instability is not generic and depends
on length-scale.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, references added, typos corrected, new
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Slab cracking influence in the fatigue assessment of continuous composite decks
The paper analyzes the influence of the slab cracking in the fatigue assessment of continuous composite decks by considering the effects of slab casting sequences and the shrinkage components (thermal, endogenous and drying). A numerical procedure for the stress calculation accounting for the tension stiffening of the slab longitudinal rebars is presented. The long term effects of casting sequences and concrete shrinkage are analysed with a simplified procedure based on the application of the modular ratio method. With reference to a realistic continuous twin girder composite deck the fatigue verification of the longitudinal girders is carried out by considering three different casting modalities. The obtained results show the important role of the slab casting sequences in the stress range calculation and the remarkable influence of the slab cracking in the fatigue assessment
On the inverse energy transfer in rotating turbulence
Rotating turbulence is an example of a three-dimensional system in which an
inverse cascade of energy, from the small to the large scales, can be formed.
While usually understood as a byproduct of the typical bidimensionalization of
rotating flows, the role of the three-dimensional modes is not completely
comprehended yet. In order to shed light on this issue, we performed direct
numerical simulations of rotating turbulence where the 2D modes falling in the
plane perpendicular to rotation are removed from the dynamical evolution. Our
results show that while the two-dimensional modes are key to the formation of a
stationary inverse cascade, the three-dimensional degrees of freedom play a
non-trivial role in bringing energy to the larger scales also. Furthermore, we
show that this backwards transfer of energy is carried out by the homochiral
channels of the three-dimensional modes
A hierarchical Bayesian regression framework for enabling online reliability estimation and condition-based maintenance through accelerated testing
Thanks to the advances in the Internet of Things (IoT), Condition-based Maintenance (CBM) has progressively become one of the most renowned strategies to mitigate the risk arising from failures. Within any CBM framework, non-linear correlation among data and variability of condition monitoring data sources are among the main reasons that lead to a complex estimation of Reliability Indicators (RIs). Indeed, most classic approaches fail to fully consider these aspects. This work presents a novel methodology that employs Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) as multiple sources of data to define the impact of relevant PVs on RIs, and subsequently, plan maintenance actions through an online reliability estimation. For this purpose, a Generalized Linear Model (GLM) is exploited to model the relationship between PVs and an RI, while a Hierarchical Bayesian Regression (HBR) is implemented to estimate the parameters of the GLM. The HBR can deal with the aforementioned uncertainties, allowing to get a better explanation of the correlation of PVs. We considered a numerical example that exploits five distinct operating conditions for ALT as a case study. The developed methodology provides asset managers a solid tool to estimate online reliability and plan maintenance actions as soon as a given condition is reached.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Ship Design, Production and Operation
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