Quasi-periodic Pedestal Burst Instabilities (PBIs), featuring alternative turbulence suppression and bursts, have been clearly identified by various edge diagnostics during I-mode to H-mode transition in the EAST Tokamak. The radial distribution of phase perturbation caused PBI shows that is localized pedestal. Prior each PBI, a significant increase density gradient close pedestal top can be di...

There are few experimental results to date describing the crack-propagation threshold behavior of short fatigue cracks under multiaxial loading conditions. To address this need, in the present study, the variation in mixed-mode, high-cycle fatigue-crack growth thresholds with crack size and shape are reported for a Ti-6Al-4V turbine blade alloy, heat treated to two widely different microstructu...

Apart from resources, such as memory and processors, parallel computations also require file I/O. There exist a number of interesting file I/O modes, depending on the specific application. One particularly interesting file I/O mode is serial-append, described in [5]. In this mode the file output of a parallel computation, executed on any number of processors, is “the same” as the output of the ...

We continue our study of the exact solutions for steady-state cracks in ideally brittle viscoelastic lattice models by focusing on mode I in a triangular system. The issues we address include the crack velocity versus driving curve as well as the onset of additional bond-breaking, signaling the emergence of complex spatio-temporal behavior. Somewhat surprisingly, the critical velocity for this ...

Reinforced concrete is a composite material consisting in a rebar embedded in a concrete matrix. The structural equilibrium depends of the quality of bond between the two materials as well as the intrinsic quality of each of the components. When the structure is submitted to heating, cracking can occur due to the difference in thermal expansion properties between the two materials. In the prese...

As a part of an ongoing program to explore the signature of p-modes in solar-like stars by means of high-resolution absorption line spectroscopy, we have studied four stars (α CMi, η Cas A, ζ Her A and β Vir). We present here new results from two-site observations of Procyon A acquired over twelve nights in 1999. Oscillation frequencies for l=1 and 0 (or 2) p-modes are detected in the power spe...

The mode-specific vibrational energy relaxation of the amide I' and amide II' modes in NMA-d(1)/(D(2)O)(n) (n = 0-3) clusters were studied using the time-dependent perturbation theory at the B3LYP/aug-cc-pvdz level. The amide modes were identified for each cluster based on the potential energy distribution of each mode. The vibrational population relaxation time constants were derived for the a...

Motor imagery requires that actual movements are prevented (i.e., inhibited) from execution. To investigate at what level inhibition takes place in motor imagery, we developed a novel action mode switching paradigm. Participants imagined (indicating only start and end) and executed movements from start buttons to target buttons, and we analyzed trial sequence effects. Trial sequences depended o...