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Performance of bolted steel-beam to CFST-column joints using stiffened angles in column-removal scenario
This paper presents three experimental investigations on the performance of steel-beam to CFST-column joints using stiffened angle, long bolts and fin plate under a middle column removal scenario. Three specimens were designed and tested. The failure modes and catenary action are investigated in detail. The test results show that increasing the angle plate thickness at the joint could not only improve its performance significantly, but also trigger an early formation of catenary action. Increasing the length of short-limb had influence on the deformation ability of the proposed joint, rather than the load capacity. The buckling of stiffeners could prevent the brittle failure of the joints. With the contribution of catenary action, the joint shows much higher rotation capacities than that required in DoD design guidance. The initial stiffness of the joint was calculated using an analytical model with consideration of bolt pretension. Good agreement to the test results is achieved. A numerical analysis is also carried out, whose results show that adding additional row of bolts would improve the redundancy of the joint under column loss. An equivalent dynamic response evaluation of the joints was also performed. The results show that dynamic amplification coefficient should be worked out considering catenary action under large deformation
Turbo Detection of Symbol-Based Non-Binary LDPC-Coded Space-time Signals using Sphere Packing Modulation
A recently proposed space-time signal construction method that combines orthogonal design with sphere packing, referred to here as (STBC-SP), has shown useful performance improvements over Alamouti’s conventional orthogonal design. As a further advance, non-binary LDPC codes have been capable of attaining substantial performance improvements over their binary counterparts. In this paper, we demonstrate that the performance of STBC-SP systems can be further improved by concatenating sphere packing aided modulation with non-binary LDPC codes and performing symbolbased turbo detection. We present simulation results for the proposed scheme communicating over a correlated Rayleigh fading channel. At a BER of 10?6, the proposed symbolbased turbo-detected STBC-SP scheme was capable of achieving a coding gain of approximately 26.6dB over the identical throughput 1 bit/symbol uncoded STBC-SP benchmarker scheme. The proposed scheme also achieved a coding gain of approximately 3dB at a BER of 10?6 over a recently proposed bit-based turbo-detected STBC-SP benchmarker scheme
Quantitative test of a quantum theory for the resistive transition in a superconducting single-walled carbon nanotube bundle
The phenomenon of superconductivity depends on the coherence of the phase of
the superconducting order parameter. The resistive transition in
quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) superconductors is broad because of a large
phase fluctuation. We show that the resistive transition of a superconducting
single-walled carbon nanotube bundle is in quantitative agreement with the
Langer-Ambegaokar-McCumber-Halperin (LAMH) theory. We also demonstrate that the
resistive transition below T^*_c = 0.89T_c0 is simply proportional to exp
[-(3\beta T^*_c/T)(1-T/T^*_c)^3/2], where the barrier height has the same form
as that predicted by the LAMH theory and T_c0 is the mean field superconducting
transition temperature.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Iterative Joint Channel Estimation and Symbol Detection for Multi-User MIMO OFDM
Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems have recently attracted substantial research interest. However, compared to Single-Input-Single-Output (SISO) systems, channel estimation in the MIMO scenario becomes more challenging, owing to the increased number of independent transmitter-receiver links to be estimated. In the context of the Bell LAyered Space-Time architecture (BLAST) or Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) multi-user MIMO OFDM literature, no channel estimation technique allows the number of users to be higher than the number of receiver antennas, which is often referred to as an “overloaded” scenario. In this contribution we propose a new Genetic Algorithm (GA) assisted iterative joint channel estimation and multiuser detection approach for MIMO SDMA-OFDM systems, which exhibits a robust performance in the above-mentioned overloaded scenario. Furthermore, GA-aided Multi-User Detection (MUD) techniques found in the literature can only provide a hard-decision output, while the proposed GA is capable of providing “soft” outputs, hence achieving an improved performance with the aid of channel decoders. Finally, a range of simulation results are provided to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed scheme
Constructions of free commutative integro-differential algebras
In this survey, we outline two recent constructions of free commutative
integro-differential algebras. They are based on the construction of free
commutative Rota-Baxter algebras by mixable shuffles. The first is by
evaluations. The second is by the method of Gr\"obner-Shirshov bases.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1302.004
Free Rota-Baxter algebras and rooted trees
A Rota-Baxter algebra, also known as a Baxter algebra, is an algebra with a
linear operator satisfying a relation, called the Rota-Baxter relation, that
generalizes the integration by parts formula. Most of the studies on
Rota-Baxter algebras have been for commutative algebras. Two constructions of
free commutative Rota-Baxter algebras were obtained by Rota and Cartier in the
1970s and a third one by Keigher and one of the authors in the 1990s in terms
of mixable shuffles. Recently, noncommutative Rota-Baxter algebras have
appeared both in physics in connection with the work of Connes and Kreimer on
renormalization in perturbative quantum field theory, and in mathematics
related to the work of Loday and Ronco on dendriform dialgebras and
trialgebras.
This paper uses rooted trees and forests to give explicit constructions of
free noncommutative Rota--Baxter algebras on modules and sets. This highlights
the combinatorial nature of Rota--Baxter algebras and facilitates their further
study. As an application, we obtain the unitarization of Rota-Baxter algebras.Comment: 23 page
Stability of multi-electron bubbles in liquid helium
The stability of multi-electron bubbles in liquid helium is investigated
theoretically. We find that multi-electron bubbles are unstable against fission
whenever the pressure is positive. It is shown that for moving bubbles the
Bernoulli effect can result in a range of pressures over which the bubbles are
stable.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Magnetic anisotropy and spin-spiral wave in V, Cr and Mn atomic chains on Cu(001) surface: First principles calculations
Recent ab intio studies of the magnetic properties of all 3d transition
metal(TM) freestanding atomic chains predicted that these nanowires could have
a giant magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) and might support a spin-spiral
structure, thereby suggesting that these nanowires would have technological
applicationsin, e.g., high density magnetic data storages. In order to
investigate how the substrates may affect the magnetic properties of the
nanowires, here we systematically study the V, Cr and Mn linear atomic chains
on the Cu(001) surface based on the density functional theory with the
generalized gradient approximation. We find that V, Cr, and Mn linear chains on
the Cu(001) surface still have a stable or metastable ferromagnetic state.
However, the ferromagnetic state is unstable against formation of a
noncollinear spin-spiral structure in the Mn linear chains and also the V
linear chain on the atop sites on the Cu(001) surface, due to the frustrated
magnetic interactions in these systems. Nonetheless, the presence of the
Cu(001) substrate does destabilize the spin-spiral state already present in the
freestanding V linear chain and stabilizes the ferromagnetic state in the V
linear chain on the hollow sites on Cu(001). When spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is
included, the spin magnetic moments remain almost unchanged, due to the
weakness of SOC in 3d TM chains. Furthermore, both the orbital magnetic moments
and MAEs for the V, Cr and Mn are small, in comparison with both the
corresponding freestanding nanowires and also the Fe, Co and Ni linear chains
on the Cu (001) surface.Comment: Accepted for publication in J. Phys. D: Applied Physic
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