During the last two years, progress has been made in the field of de-icing technology as a result of the development of a new very simple technique in which an overhead cable is de-iced by twisting. With this new mechanical method, the iced cable is rotated in the elastic domain of deformation at one end, while fixed at the other extremity. The ice bond is broken at the ice/cable interface by t...

We present the results of the computation of a twisting type N solution to vacuum Einstein equations following an iterative approach. Our results show that the higher order terms fail to provide a full exact solution with non-vanishing twist. Nevertheless, our fourth-order solution still represents a regular and twisting type N solution. • Present address [email protected] ⋆ pleban@...

The construction of link polynomials associated with finite dimensional representations of ribbon quasi-Hopf algebra is discussed in terms of the formulation of an appropriate Markov trace. We then show that this Markov trace is invariant under twisting of the quasi-Hopf structure, which in turn implies twisting invariance of the associated link polynomials.

We propose and analyze a two-state valence-bond model of non-equilibrium solvation effects on the excited-state twisting reaction of monomethine cyanines. Suppression of this reaction is thought responsible for environment-dependent fluorescence yield enhancement in these dyes. Fluorescence is quenched because twisting is accompanied via the formation of dark twisted intramolecular charge-trans...

The Drosophila wing consists of a transparent wing membrane supported by a network of wing veins. Previously, we have shown that the wing membrane cuticle is not flat but is organized into ridges that are the equivalent of one wing epithelial cell in width and multiple cells in length. These cuticle ridges have an anteroposterior orientation in the anterior wing and a proximodistal orientation ...

In this study the centre manifold is applied for reduction and limit cycle calculation of a highly nonlinear structural aeroelastic wing. The limit cycle is arisen from structural nonlinearity due to the large deflection of the wing. Results obtained by different orders of centre manifolds are compared with those obtained by time marching method (fourth-order Runge-Kutta method). These comparis...

in this paper, a new smooth second order sliding mode control is proposed. this algorithm is a modified form of super twisting algorithm. the super twisting guarantees the asymptotic stability, but the finite time stability of proposed method is proved with introducing a new particular lyapunov function. the proposed algorithm which is able to control nonlinear systems with matched structured u...