The models that were analyzed using FLAC version 4.0 (FLAC, 2000) are shown on Figure 5.1. The models have different soil types: loose silty sand with 20% fines content (Figures 5.1a and 5.1b), soft clay (Figure 5.1c), and silt (Figure 5.1d). Hence, the determination of the parameters is different for each model. The following sections discuss the determination of the parameters used in the ana...

The main goal of this research is to identify the system parameters of the dynamics of Rotor/Active Magnetic Bearing (Rotor/AMB) system employed in turbo molecular pumps (TMPs). The identification approach adopted in this work is based on experimental analysis and the application of Fuzzy Logic Adaptive ControlExtended Kalman Filter (FLAC-EKF). The estimation error for either system state or sy...

Deformation of quay walls is one of the main sources of damage to port facility while liquefaction of backfill and base soil of the wall are the main reasons for failures of quay walls. During earthquakes, the most susceptible materials for liquefaction in seashore regions are loose saturated sand. In this study, effects of enhancing the wall width and the soil improvement on the behavior of gr...

We present a method for detecting anomalies in vibration signals of wind turbine components. The predominant characteristics of wind turbine vibration signals are extracted by applying a time-frequency feature extraction method based on Fourier local autocorrelation (FLAC) features. For anomaly detection, one-class classification based on an unsupervised clustering approach is applied in consid...

A series of 102 transfer-deficient (tra(-)) mutants of Flac (84 of which have been previously described) were classified as carrying frameshift, amber, ochre, UGA, and nonsuppressible mutations. Techniques were evolved for using cultures of F prime strains as efficient recipients in matings, for measuring the number of (F'/F') heterozygote cells in transient populations, and for measuring compl...