In the present era, there is more demand for high-rise buildings. The growing de- mand buildings brings new difficulties and comes up with safety precautions. With an increase in height of structure, its rigidity reduces, making it difficult to withstand earthquake wind effects, hence some preventative structural systems must be used. Some them are bracings, shear walls, outrig- ger belt truss ...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>This paper is concerned with finding Fokker-Planck equations in <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ \mathbb{R}^d $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> the fastest exponential decay towards a given equilibrium. For prescribed, anisotropic Gaussian we determine non-symmetric equation linear drift that shows highest r...

Peritrichous bacteria exploit bundles of helical flagella for propulsion and chemotaxis. Here, changes in the swimming direction (tumbling) are induced by a change of the rotational frequency of some flagella. Employing coarse-grained modeling and simulations, we investigate the dynamical properties of helical flagella bundles driven by mismatched motor torques. Over a broad range of distances ...

One of the problems of autonomous mobile systems is the continuous tracking of position and orientation. In most cases, this problem is solved by dead reckoning, based on measurement of wheel rotations or step counts and step width. Unfortunately dead reckoning leads to accumulation of drift errors and is very sensitive against slippery. In this paper an algorithm for tracking position and orie...

Multi-exposure image fusion algorithms are used for enhancing the perceptual quality of an image captured by sensors of limited dynamic range by rendering multiple images captured at different exposure settings. One practical problem overlooked by existing algorithms is the compensation required for image deregistration due to possible multi-dimensional camera shake that results within the time...

For the elastodynamic simulation of a geometrically exact beam [1], an asynchronous variational integrator (AVI) [2] is derived from a PDE viewpoint. Variational integrators are symplectic and conserve discrete momentum maps and since the presented integrator is derived in the Lie group setting (SO (3) for the representation of rotational degrees of freedom), it intrinsically preserves the grou...

We commence a fundamental re-examination of the kinetic theory of charged particle swarms in molecular gases, focusing on collisional excitation of molecular rotational and ro-vibrational states by electrons. Modern day analysis of electron swarms has been based upon the kinetic equation of Wang-Chang et al, which simply treats all processes as scalar energy excitations, and ignores angular mom...

In existing European recommendations the drift capacity of unreinforced masonry (URM) piers is estimated as a function of the failure mode, aspect ratio and/or axial load ratio. The empirical relationships are based on a set of results from quasi-static cyclic tests on single URM piers, which were tested simulating either double-fixed or cantilever boundary conditions. In modern URM structures,...

This paper investigates the properties of unstable single-spiral wave solutions arising in the Karma model of two-dimensional cardiac tissue. In particular, we discuss how such solutions can be computed numerically on domains of arbitrary shape and study how their stability, rotational frequency, and spatial drift depend on the size of the domain as well as the position of the spiral core with ...

The problem of reconstruction of the pulsar magnetospheres nearby the light cylinder surface is studied. It is shown that, on the basis of the Euler, continuity and induction equations, there is a possibility of parametrically excited rotational energy pumping process into the drift modes. As a result, the toroidal component of the magnetic field increases very rapidly. The increment is analyze...