an attempt has been made to explore the general trends in the seismic response of planasymmetric structures when subjected to near-fault and far-fault ground motions. systems with structural wall elements in both orthogonal directions considering actual and common nonlinear behavior under bi-directional excitation were studied. idealized single-storey models with uni-axial eccentricity were emp...

[1] We perform numerical simulations of spontaneous dynamic rupture governed by a slip-weakening law along a bimaterial interface (fault) with off-fault damage in the form of Coulomb plastic yielding. Off-fault plastic yielding stabilizes the wrinkle-like slip pulse in terms of a decreasing rate of slip velocity growth. With a variety of model parameters, ruptures on the fault are bilateral, wh...

The accumulator-based compaction (ABC) technique uses an accumulator to generate a composite fault signature for a circuit under test. The error coverage for this method has been previously analyzed using Markov chains. We describe an alternative technique for calculating the error coverage of ABC using the asymmetric error model. This technique relies on the central limit theorem of statistics...

ÐIn a fault-tolerant distributed system, it is often necessary for nonfaulty processes to agree on the value of a shared data item. The criterion of Approximate Agreement does not require processes to achieve exact agreement on a value; rather, they need only agree to within a predefined numerical tolerance. Approximate Agreement can be achieved through convergent voting algorithms. Previous re...

The crowbar protection is commonly used for wind turbines with a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) to enhance the low-voltage ride-through capability of the wind turbines. Thus, the fault-current characteristics of DFIG with the crowbar protection under symmetricand asymmetric-fault states are studied in this paper. Firstly, a DFIG dynamic model in the stator stationary reference frame is d...

Telecommunication companies have received a great deal of research attention, which have many advantages such as low cost, higher qualification, simple installation and maintenance, and high reliability. However, the using of technical maintenance approaches in Telecommunication companies could improve system reliability and users' satisfaction from Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) ser...

This paper introduces the problem of fault-tolerant topology control for all-to-one and one-to-all communication in static wireless networks with asymmetric wireless links. This problem is important in both theoretical and practical aspects. We investigate two approaches, namely, the minimum-weight-based approach and the augmentation-based approach, to address this problem. Furthermore, we prov...

We develop a scheme for fault-tolerant quantum computation based on asymmetric Bacon-Shor codes, which works effectively against highly biased noise dominated by dephasing. We find the optimal Bacon-Shor block size as a function of the noise strength and the noise bias, and estimate the logical error rate and overhead cost achieved by this optimal code. Our fault-tolerant gadgets, based on gate...