Combining recent techniques giving non-perturbative re-summed estimates of the damping and conservative parts of the two-body dynamics, we describe the transition between the adiabatic phase and the plunge, in coalescing binary black holes with comparable masses moving on quasi-circular orbits. We give initial dynamical data for numerical relativity investigations, with a fraction of an orbit l...

The Swedish nuclear waste will be stored in copper canisters and kept isolated deep under ground for at least 100,000 years. To ensure reliable sealing of the canisters, friction stir welding is utilized. To repetitively produce high quality welds, it is vital to use automatic control of the process. A decentralized solution is designed based on an already existing temperature controller and a ...

Australasian gannets (Morus serrator), like many other seabird species, locate pelagic prey from the air and perform rapid plunge dives for their capture. Prey are captured underwater either in the momentum (M) phase of the dive while descending through the water column, or the wing flapping (WF) phase while moving, using the wings for propulsion. Detection of prey from the air is clearly visua...

In nature, several seabirds (e.g., gannets and boobies) dive into water at up to 24 m/s as a hunting mechanism; furthermore, gannets and boobies have a slender neck, which is potentially the weakest part of the body under compression during high-speed impact. In this work, we investigate the stability of the bird's neck during plunge-diving by understanding the interaction between the fluid for...

Observations of shear-wave splitting in the Northeastern US Appalachians and in the foredeep of the Urals vary signiicantly with the back azimuth and incidence angle of the incoming phase. These variations suggest two or more layers within the upper mantle with diierent anisotropic properties. Synthetic seismograms for simple multilayered anisotropic structures show that shear-wave splitting pa...

Strain distributions are crucial criteria of cross-beams six-axis force/torque sensors. The conventional method for calculating the criteria is to utilize Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to get numerical solutions. This paper aims to obtain analytical solutions of strains under the effect of external force/torque in each dimension. Genetic mechanical models for cross-beams six-axis force/torque s...