In this paper a method is presented for torsional analysis of non-homogeneous tubes with arbitrarily shaped cross-sections. A previously presented method based on Bredt’s theory is extended to achieve formulas for torsional analysis. Shear modulus varies through the thickness according to a power law distribution. To validate the accuracy of the presented formulas for angle of twist and shear s...

Antenna reflector losses may play an important role in the calibration budget for a microwave radiometer. If the losses are small they are difficult to measure by traditional means. However, they can be assessed directly by radiometric means using the sky brighmess temperature as incident radiation. The paper describes how such measurements are carried out as well as a suitable experimental set...

A novel method of squeezing with optical pulses in a fiber ring reflector is demonstrated experimentally. Squeezing of greater than 5 +/- 0.3 dB has been observed. The pump is separated from the squeezed radiation with a fiber ring reflector and can be reused, in principle fully, as the local oscillator. The detection is at low frequencies (35-85 kHz) and is unaffected by guided-acoustic-wave B...

The gravity deformations of the ATCA main reflector, as well as the displacements in the sub-reflector and feed, have been surveyed at a set of elevations by VMS (AT 39.3/109). In this report, I quantify these deformations and displacements and examine their effects on the antenna performance at 90 GHz. I have computed the far-field radiation pattern at each of the survey elevations and the ele...

A novel idea of a realization a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system combining a reflector antenna with a digital feed array was suggested for the first time in [1]. The new digital beam-forming (DBF) SAR architecture has better overall system performance while being of lower complexity level as compared to the planar antenna based architecture [2]. This innovative idea has driven intensive st...

In this paper, a wireless power transfer system (WPT) with magnetically coupled resonators is studied. The idea to use a reflector to enhance the coupling coefficient and the transfer efficiency is proposed and analyzed. Perfect magnetic conductor (PMC) was used in numerical calculations in order to study the performance of a reflector. In the WPT system we studied, efficiency is increased from...

The height of the unwelded root part in T and X welds whose length exceeds the sound-beam width at the contact point between the sound and the reflector can according to methods known today only be estimated by applying the tandem technique with two ultrasonic transverse probes from one single access area, or two access areas, the latter usually not possible in practice. However, with sheets ha...

Interferometric telescopes made of close-packed antenna elements are an important tool for imaging extended radio sources, specifically structures that have angular sizes comparable to or even greater than the FWHM of the beams of the antennas. They have proved useful in observations of cosmic microwave background anisotropies that require high brightness-sensitivity. However, the visibilities ...

in this paper, a general solution for torsion of hollow cylinders made of functionally graded materials (fgm) was investigated. the problem was formulated in terms of prandtl’s stress and, in general, the shear stress and angle of twist were derived. variations in the material properties such as young’s modulus and poisson’s ratio might be arbitrary functions of the radial coordinate. various m...

We study twist-three effects in spin, charge, and azimuthal asymmetries in deeply virtual Compton scattering on a spin-zero target. Contributions which are power suppressed in 1/Q generate a new azimuthal angle dependence of the cross section which is not present in the leading twist results. On the other hand the leading twist terms are not modified by the twist three contributions. They may g...