Today, cloud computing applications are rapidly constructed by services belonging to different cloud providers and service owners. This work presents the inter-cloud elasticity framework, which focuses on cloud load balancing based on dynamic virtual machine reconfiguration when variations on load or on user requests volume are observed. We design a dynamic reconfiguration system, called inter-...

One of the efficient techniques to improve the behavior of the paved road under traffic loads is implementing the geosynthetic material in the sub-base or the soil under the road. In the past years, many researches have been done about this topic, but the study on the effect of soil/load conditions on the performance of the rehabilitated paved road by geogrid in order to investigate the effecti...

(the prime indicates differentiation with respect to x). P(x) and Q(x) (positive downward) are the live load per unit length and the dead load of the roadway, cable, and hangers per unit length. E and / (assumed constants) are the modulus of elasticity and moment of inertia of the roadway and H (constant) is the horizontal dead-load tension in the cable. The term h (constant), the induced live-...

The buckling of hyperelastic incompressible cylindrical shells of arbitrary length and thickness under axial load is considered within the framework of nonlinear elasticity. Analytical and numerical methods for bifurcation are obtained using the Stroh formalism and the exact solution of Wilkes [Q. J. Mech. Appl. Math. 8:88–100, 1955] for the linearized problem. The main focus of this paper is t...

In this paper, using energy method, small scale effects on the buckling analysis of a double-walled carbon nanotube (DWCNT) under external radial pressure is studied. The constitutive equations derived for a DWCNT using the nonlocal theory of elasticity which Eringen are presented for the first time. By minimizing the second variation of the total energy for a DWCNT, hence, the value of the non...

NoSQL databases store a huge amount of data generated by modern web applications. To improve scalability, a database is partitioned and distributed among the different nodes called as a scale out. However, this scale out feature of the NoSQL database is oblivious to the data access pattern of the web applications, which results in poorly distributed data across all the nodes. Therefore, the cos...

Generation of force and movement by actomyosin cross-bridges is the molecular basis of muscle contraction, but generally accepted ideas about cross-bridge properties have recently been questioned. Of the utmost significance, evidence for nonlinear cross-bridge elasticity has been presented. We here investigate how this and other newly discovered or postulated phenomena would modify cross-bridge...

The control design for decentralized active damping of large-scale manipulators with hydraulic actuation is considered in a distributedparameter framework. The concepts of modern light-weight construction enable the production of machines like mobile concrete pumps or maritime crane systems with extended operating range and less static load. However, due to the reduced weight the elasticity of ...