In this paper, a design of an unequal split Wilkinson power divider (WPD), with high power split ratio, using non-uniform transmission lines (NTLs) is presented. The design is based on using NTLs in each branch of the divider instead of the conventional uniform ones. Besides the achievement of high power split ratio, the size of the designed WPD is reduced. The design procedure is presented for...

Pruned tree-structured scalar quantizers are a form of non-uniform scalar quantizer that are named due to being designed via pruning a tree-structured scalar quantizer [1]. If designed via pruning a uniform tree-structured scalar quantizer, such a quantizer may be mapped to a piecewise linear compandor. An algorithm has been developed for mapping a piecewise linear compandor onto a a tree-struc...

The current design rules for cold-formed steel studs used in wall systems subject to non-uniform elevated temperature distributions are complicated with iterations and different section properties. This paper first investigates the accuracy of effective width method (EWM) direct strength (DSM) based equations, then simplifies calculation process without compromising calculating load ratios (ele...