We have computed 3-D displacements induced by atmospheric pressure loading from 6-hourly surface pressure field from NCEP (National Center for Environmental Predictions) Reanalysis data for all Very Long Baseline Interferometry) and SLR (Satellite Laser Ranging) stations. We have quantitatively estimated the error budget our time series of pressure loading and found that the errors are below 15...

Single particle tracking with a wide field microscope is used to study the solid liquid interface between the viscous liquid tetrakis(2-ethylhexoxy)-silane and a silicon dioxide surface. Silicon dioxide nanoparticles (5 nm diameter) marked with the fluorescent dye rhodamine 6G are used as probes. The distributions of diffusion coefficients, obtained by mean squared displacements, reveal heterog...

A general complex variable approach is presented for anti-plane problem for a system of one anisotropic elliptic inhomogeneity embedded in an infinite anisotropic medium (matrix). The system is subject to far-field shear stresses in the matrix at infinity and eigenstrains inside the inhomogeneity. The solution is derived based on conformal mapping for the complex variable and Laurent series exp...

Digital image correlation (DIC) is an optical-numerical full-field displacement measuring technique, which is nowadays widely used in the domain of experimental mechanics. The technique is based on a comparison between pictures taken during loading of an object. For an optimal use of the method, the object of interest has to be covered with painted speckles. In the present paper, a comparison i...

We introduce error weighting functions into the perturbative Monte Carlo method for use with a hybrid ab initio quantum Ž . mechanicsrmolecular mechanics QMrMM potential. The perturbative Monte Carlo approach introduced earlier provides a means to reduce the number of full SCF calculations in simulations using a QMrMM potential by evoking perturbation theory to calculate energy changes due to d...