Corrosion of steel reinforcement is one the most common durability issues for reinforced concrete (RC) structures, especially when located in marine areas. The study mechanical consequences this pathology great importance to assess their performance. Experimental campaigns have been carried out on corroded structures. So far, assessing quasi-static behavior or predicting dynamic response struct...

Oscillations in the electrical parameters elicited by Li+ added to the mucosal side of frog skin in vitro were studied under different experimental conditions. The correlation between the damping coefficient and the size of the externally injected current was ascertained. The size of the overall epithelial resistance in NaCl-Ringer seems to be a good indicator of the qualitative behaviour of th...

In this paper we study to what extent the canonical equivalence and the identity of the geometric phases of dissipative and conservative linear oscillators, established in a preceeding paper, can be generalized to nonlinear ones. Considering first the 1-D quartic generalized oscillator we determine, by means of a perturbative time dependent technic of reduction to normal forms, the canonical tr...

It can be learned that the equivalent viscous damping ratio is a crucial parameter in the application of the displacement based (DBD) method. Analytical studies presented here and elsewhere indicate that the equivalent viscous damping ratio is highly dependent on the axial load level. Furthermore, the same can apply for the loading type; namely, seismic and blast loads. Based on research findin...

Transient stability problem for multi-machine infinite bus system with the generator excitation was addressed via the non-certainty equivalent nonlinear re-parameterization method. The system need not to be linearized. The damping coefficient uncertainty was considered. A non-certainty equivalent excitation controller and a novel parameter updating law were obtained simultaneously via adaptive ...

Several formalisms for computing the collision broadening of weak iron lines are compared. These include approximations to Van der Waals broadening, empirical enhancement factors, the WIDTH6 approximation, and the Anstee & O’Mara calculations. Abundances are computed for a set of red Fe I lines using solar data, to illustrate the effects of selecting one or other damping formalism. The main poi...

The effect of damping on the large-time behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the three-dimensional compressible Euler equations is studied. It is proved that damping prevents the development of singularities in small amplitude classical solutions, using an equivalent reformulation of the Cauchy problem to obtain effective energy estimates. The full solution relaxes in the maximum nor...

The magnetization dynamics of a single domain ferromagnet in contact with a thermal bath is studied by scattering theory. We recover the Landau-Liftshitz-Gilbert equation and express the effective fields and Gilbert damping tensor in terms of the scattering matrix. Dissipation of magnetic energy equals energy current pumped out of the system by the time-dependent magnetization, with separable s...

Switching of disconnectors (DS) and various faults in Gas Insulated Substation (GIS) causes number of pre-strikes and re-strikes happens. The short duration voltage collapse, traveling surges in busbar causes Very Fast Transient Over voltages (VFTO) and Very fast Transient Currents (VFTC) in the GIS substation. The main challenge is to reduce VFTO and VFTC amplitudes. Several methods have been ...