Two-impulse trajectories as well as mixed invariant-manifold and low-thrust efficient transfers to the Moon are discussed. Exterior trajectories executing ballistic lunar capture are formalized through the definition of special attainable sets. The coupled restricted threebody problems approximation is used to design appropriate first guesses for the subsequent optimization. The introduction of...

S U M M A R Y In many regions of the world characterized by a relatively low rate of seismicity, the determination of local and regional seismic source parameters is often restricted to an analysis of the first onsets of P waves (or first motion analysis) due to incomplete information about Earth structure and the small size of the events. When rare large earthquakes occur in these regions, the...

 Protective relays work in concert with sensing and control devices to accomplish their function. Under normal power system operation, a protective relay remains idle and serves no active function. But when fault or undesirable condition arrives Relay must be operated and function correctly.  A Power System consists of various electrical components like Generator, transformers, transmission l...

Fault tolerant control for uncertain systems with time varying state-delay is studied in this paper. Based on sliding mode controller design, a fault tolerant control method is proposed. By means of the feasibility of some linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), delay dependent sufficient condition is derived for the existence of a linear sliding surface which guarantees quadratic stability of the r...

Testing static random access memories (SRAM’s) for all possible failures is not feasible. We have to restrict the class of faults to he considered. This restricted class is called a fault model. A fault model for SRAM’s is presented based on physical spot defects, which are modeled as local disturbances in the layout of an SRAM. Two linear test algorithms are proposed, that cover 100% of the fa...

[1] We carry out long‐period surface wave centroid moment tensor (CMT) inversions using various global tomographic models and two different forward modeling techniques for 32 large earthquakes previously studied using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data. Since InSAR methods provide an alternative and independent way of locating and characterizing shallow continental earthquake...

GeoFEM is parallel FE software challenging for wide range of solid earth problems as well as various practical issues in engineering and sciences. Linear equation solver, one of the key technologies of GeoFEM, has been successfully parallelized and vectorized to make the best use of GS40, which will be available in March, 2002. Also, some solid earth applications have been explored such as stre...

This paper describes the localization of deformation acceleration in the period prior to dynamic failure in hornblende schist rock under triaxial compression using acoustic emission (AE) monitoring. Rather than stabilize the failure process by controlling axial stress to maintain a constant rate of AE (for monitoring AE hypocenters) as in previous works [e.g., Lockner et al., 1991], we have ins...