Industrial vessels used in high temperature processes of steel and cement production are protected by refractory linings built with mortarless joints. These dry joints, formed stacked bricks have a crucial importance on the mechanical behaviour lining. The stiffness consequently stresses generated thermal elongation reduced due to present article presents results experimental numerical tests th...

Ionomers are generally described by copolymers having either acrylic or methacylic acid as one component and the other component is mostly either ethylene or styrene. The objective of this research was to study the thermal behaviour and stability of ionomers of styrene with some alkali metal acrylates. These materials have been synthesized by neutralization of the respective copoly...

EDITORIAL article Front. Neurosci., 14 July 2023Sec. Perception Science Volume 17 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1225308

The trend towards larger wind turbines and remote locations of farms fuels the demand for automated condition monitoring strategies that can reduce operating cost avoid unplanned downtime. Normal behaviour modelling has been introduced to detect anomalous deviations from normal operation based on turbine’s SCADA data. A growing number machine learning models turbine subsystems are being develop...

: investigating the mechanical behaviour of a healthy human ankle shows that it can be simulated by a mechanism composed of simple elements such as spring, and actuator. hence, appropriate design of this mechanism can be resulted to an artificial ankle that can help amputees properly. researches show that whatever the biomechanical behaviour of artificial ankle is similar to that of natural ank...

This paper examines Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in Noun Plurals (e.g. 'tooth/teeth') and Past Tense formation (e.g. 'sing/sang') according to the signoriented theory of the Columbia School (CS) in general and the theory of Phonology as Human Behavior (PHB) in particular. Today, these IVA forms are considered to be "irregular", and are vestiges of former prevalent and productive processes i...

The ability of aquatic vertebrates to maintain their position requires integration of visual and vestibular sensory information. To understand better how aquatic animals integrate such information, we measured the optomotor behaviour of Xenopus laevis tadpoles raised in growth chambers in microgravity (< 10(-3)g), normal gravity (1 g), hypergravity (3 g) and on a slowly rotating clinostat (simu...

This paper presents how the function–behavior–structure (FBS) ontology can be used to represent processes despite its original focus on representing objects. The FBS ontology provides a uniform framework for classifying processes, and includes higher level semantics in their representation. We show that this ontology supports a situated view of processes based on a model of three interacting wo...

We present a compositional network proof theory to specify and verify safety properties of fault tolerant distributed systems. In this proof theory we abstract from the precise nature and occurrence of faults, but mode1 their effect on the externally visible input and output behaviour. To this end we formalize a fault hypothesis as a reflexive relation between the normal behaviour (i.e. the beh...