We report on a detailed experimental study of capillary condensation-evaporation processes of N(2) in ordered mesoporous SBA-15 silica. We have carried out measurements of boundary hysteresis loops, reversal curves, and subloops in order to test whether this material behaves as an assembly of independent cylindrical pores open at both ends. With these data, we come to the conclusion that, where...

We study the overdamped motion of a Brownian particle in a driven doublewell system to understand various physical phenomena observed experimentally. These phenomena include hysteresis, stochastic resonance, and net unidirectional motion in a symmetric periodic system. We argue that the area of the hysteresis loop so defined is a good measure of synchronization (with respect to the applied fiel...

In order to exhaustively exploit the high-level capabilities of shape memory alloys (SMAs), they must be applied in control systems applications. However, because of their hysteretic inherent, dilatory response, and nonlinear behavior, scientists are thwarted in their attempt to design controllers for actuators of such kind.  The current study aims at developing a micro-position control system ...

Tilt vibrations inevitably have negative effects on some precise engineering even after applying horizontal and vertical vibration isolations. It is difficult to adopt a traditional passive isolation (PVI) scheme realize tilt isolation. In this paper, we present develop active (AVI) device using pendulum (VP) tiltmeter piezoelectric transducer (PZT). The potential resolution of the VP dependent...

Aiming to the effect of hysteresis characteristics of giant magnetostrictive materials on the giant magnetostrictive actuator, the actuator’s model is divided into four separate segments. Then, based on the Preisach theory, a model which can describe hysteresis characteristics for the actuator is established. Based on this, feedforward is combined with feedback, and a PID closed-loop feedback c...

We study by using Monte Carlo simulations the hysteresis in unzipping and rezipping of a double stranded DNA (dsDNA) by pulling its strands in opposite directions in the fixed force ensemble. The force is increased at a constant rate from an initial value g(0) to some maximum value g(m) that lies above the phase boundary and then decreased back again to g(0). We observed hysteresis during a com...

A non-linear thermodynamic analysis of ferroelectric systems with localized space charges for monolithic and compositionally graded materials is described wherein the electrostatic interlayer interactions are specifically accounted for. The electrostatic coupling is established through the built-in polarization due to the space charges and the intrinsic polarization variations between the ferro...

Magnetic shape memory alloys (MSM alloys), a new kind of smart materials, have become a potential candidate in many engineering fields. MSMs have the advantage of bearing a huge strain, much larger than other materials. In addition, they also have fast response. These characteristics make MSM a good choice in micro engineering. However, MSMs display the obvious hysteresis phenomenon of nonlinea...

Analysis of hydrochemical behaviour during storm events can provide new insights into the process controls on nutrient transport in catchments. The examination of storm behaviours using hysteresis analysis has increased in recent years, partly due to the increased availability of high temporal resolution data sets for discharge and water quality parameters. A number of these analyses involve th...

Using the rate constants obtained on the basis of independent transient measurements and density functional theory calculations, we perform Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of the bistable kinetics of the N2O-CO reaction on Pd(110) at 450 K. In the absence of lateral interactions, the MC technique predicts a wide hysteresis loop in perfect agreement with the mean-field analysis. With attractive sub...