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The development of computational techniques for the identification of linear and nonlinear mechanical systems subject to random excitation, part 2 Final report
Computational techniques for identifying linear and nonlinear mechanical systems subject to random excitatio
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The uncanny body: from medical to aesthetic abnormality
In this essay I explore a possibility of experiential synthesis of the medicalized abnormal body with its aesthetic images. A personal narrative about meeting extreme abnormality serves as an introduction into theorizing aesthetic abnormality. The essay builds its argument on the phenomenological grounds; I therefore approach corporeality with Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In turn, Max Ernst introduces an aesthetic frame for the subsequent examination of uncanny surreality. Two exemplars of the surreal body, Joel Witkin’s “Satiro” and Don DeLillo’s “Body Artist,” intend to substantiate the preceding theoretic. The study shows how the encounter with the abnormal embodiment may suspend normalized modes of constitution to provoke uncanny experience
Identification of linear systems. Simulation studies Final report, Feb. 1967 - Apr. 1968
Analytical development and computerized simulation of parameter estimation technique for identifying linear and nonlinear system
On the arithmetic of one del Pezzo surface over the field with three elements
We discuss the problem of existence of rational curves on a certain del Pezzo
surface from a computational point of view and suggest a computer algorithm
implementing search. In particular, our computations reveal that the surface
contains 920 rational curves with parametrizations of degree 8 and does not
contain rational curves for a smaller degree
Review of probabilistic analysis of dynamic response of systems with random parameters
The various methods that have been studied in the past to allow probabilistic analysis of dynamic response for systems with random parameters are reviewed. Dynamic response may have been obtained deterministically if the variations about the nominal values were small; however, for space structures which require precise pointing, the variations about the nominal values of the structural details and of the environmental conditions are too large to be considered as negligible. These uncertainties are accounted for in terms of probability distributions about their nominal values. The quantities of concern for describing the response of the structure includes displacements, velocities, and the distributions of natural frequencies. The exact statistical characterization of the response would yield joint probability distributions for the response variables. Since the random quantities will appear as coefficients, determining the exact distributions will be difficult at best. Thus, certain approximations will have to be made. A number of techniques that are available are discussed, even in the nonlinear case. The methods that are described were: (1) Liouville's equation; (2) perturbation methods; (3) mean square approximate systems; and (4) nonlinear systems with approximation by linear systems
Bifurcation in Rotational Spectra of Nonlinear AB Molecules
A classical microscopic theory of rovibrational motion at high angular
momenta in symmetrical non-linear molecules AB is derived within the
framework of small oscillations near the stationary states of a rotating
molecule. The full-dimensional analysis including stretching vibrations has
confirmed the existence of the bifurcation predicted previously by means of the
rigid-bender model. The formation of fourfold energy clusters has already been
experimentally verified for HSe and it has been demonstrated in
fully-dimensional quantum mechanical calculations using the MORBID computer
program. We show in the present work that apart from the level clustering, the
bifurcation produces physically important effects including molecular
symmetry-breaking and a transition from the normal mode to the local mode limit
for the stretching vibrations due to rovibrational interaction. The application
of the present theory with realistic molecular potentials to the HTe,
HSe and HS hydrides results in predictions of the bifurcation points
very close to those calculated previously. However for the lighter HO
molecule we find that the bifurcation occurs at higher values of the total
angular momentum than obtained in previous estimations. The present work shows
it to be very unlikely that the bifurcation in HO will lead to clustering
of energy levels. This result is in agreement with recent variational
calculations.Comment: latex, 19 pages including 2 figures provided as *.uu fil
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