Understanding of dynamic behaviour of offshore wind floating substructures is extremely important in relation to design, operation, maintenance and management of floating wind farms. This paper presents assessment of nonlinear signatures of dynamic responses of a scaled tension-leg platform (TLP) in a wave tank exposed to different regular wave conditions and sea states characterized by the Bre...

Gas exchange, tissue water relations, and leaf/root dry weight ratios were compared among young, container-grown plants of five temperate-zone, deciduous tree species (Acer negundo L., Betula papyrifera Marsh, Malus baccata Borkh, Robinia pseudoacacia L., and Ulmus parvifolia Jacq.) under well-watered and water-stressed conditions. There was a small decrease (mean reduction of 0.22 MPa across s...

Pressure-volume curves were determined for black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) trees from four full-sib families. During the first two years, trees were measured from a plantation on a dry site. In the third year, trees were sampled from the dry site and a wet site. Diurnal measurements of shoot water potential allowed in situ shoot turgor to be estimated in addition to standard water rela...

Most scientific and digital signal processing (DSP) applications are recursive or iterative. The execution of these applications on a chip multiprocessor (CMP) encounters two challenges. First, as most of the digital signal processing applications are both computation intensive and data intensive, an inefficient scheduling scheme may generate huge amount of Write operation, cost a lot of time, ...

Most of the thread-level parallelism (TLP) being successfully exploited so far has been primarily from scientific application programs, in particular, floating-point programs. General-purpose applications, especially those written in C or C++, such as the benchmarks in SPECint2000, have primarily been exploiting only instruction-level parallelism (ILP). A lot of research has been done recently ...

This paper addresses the evaluation of a passive RFID system under a continuous flow of tag arrivals and departures, for instance, in a conveyor belt installation. In such configuration, the main operational variable is the Tag Loss Probability (TLP). Since tags stay in the coverage area of the reader for a finite amount of time, it is possible that some tags leave the area unidentified if many...

Capstone projects have been an established vehicle of student–industry engagement in a university setting. In engineering, capstone are point transition from student to professional, as engineers gain practical work experience and apply their technical skills knowledge for industry-proposed design, research, and/or development challenge. this paper, we report on supplementary program—the Techni...

tension-leg platform (tlp) is a vertically moored floating structure. the platform is permanently mooredby tendons. surge equation of motion of tlp is highly nonlinear because of large displacement and it should be solved with perturbation parameter in time domain. this paper compare the dynamic motion responses of a tlp in regular sea waves obtained by applying three method in time domain usin...

Trim loss minimization is the most common problem that arises during the cutting process, when products with variable width or length are to be produced in bulk to satisfy customer demands from limited available/ stocked materials. The aim is to minimize inevitable waste material. Under various environmental and physical constraints, the trim loss problem is highly constrained, non convex, nonl...