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Bistable Buckled Beam-Like Structures by One-Dimensional Hierarchical Modeling
In the last few years, great interest has been shown in harnessing bistability, or more generally multistability, as a source of energy and motion in engineering applications, both at micro-scale (such as swit...
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Multiscale Nonlinear Analysis of Beam Structures by Means of the Carrera Unified Formulation
This chapter addresses a multi-scale analysis of beam structures using the Carrera Unified Formulation (CUF). Under the framework of the ...
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A static analysis of three-dimensional functionally graded beams by hierarchical modelling and a collocation meshless solution method
In this paper, a mesh-free strong-form solution is used to investigate the static response of beams made of functionally graded materials. Thanks to a compact notation, the a priori expansion order of the thre...
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Open AccessBenchmark analysis of forecasted seasonal temperature over different climatic areas
From a long-term perspective, an improvement of seasonal forecasting, which is often exclusively based on climatology, could provide a new capability for the management of energy resources in a time scale of j...
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Analysis of nano-plates by atomistic-refined models accounting for surface free energy effect
This work presents several higher-order atomistic-refined models for the static and free vibration analysis of nano-plates. Stemming from a two-dimensional approach and thanks to a compact notation for the a p...
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Hierarchical closed form solutions for plates bent by localized transverse loadings
3D and 2D closed form plate models are here applied to static analysis of simply supported square isotropic plates. 2D theories are hierarchically classified on the basis of the accuracy of the displacements a...
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A Grid Computing Based Virtual Laboratory for Environmental Simulations
The grid computing technology permits the coordinate, efficient and effective use of (geographically spread) computational and storage resources with the aim to achieve high performance throughputs for intensi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Stochastic Static Analyses of FE Models by means of Newton’s series expansions
A deterministic design approach is not always profitable, and sometimes not even suitable, when adopted in frontier engineering fields that lead to high technology level and high performances products. “A back...
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Reference Architecture and Framework
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Methods and Tools for the Development of Adaptive Applications
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Engineering of a Single Chain Variable Fragment Antibody Specific for the Citrus tristeza virus and its Expression in Escherichia coli and Nicotiana tabacum
Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) is one of the most destructive citrus virus diseases in the world. The construction of an engineered antibody, EMBL accession number AJ278109, able to specifically recognize its antig...
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A comparison of numerical methods for solving diffusion-reaction equations in air quality models
In this paper we analyze the efficiency of some stiff ode solvers, applied to the coupled solution of vertical turbulent diffusion and chemical kinetics in Air Quality Models. We consider four general-purpose ...
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Parallel Numerical Simulation of Air Pollution In Southern Italy
In this paper we present the Parallel Naples Airshed Model (PNAM),a parallel software package for the numerical simulation of air pollution episodes on urban scale domains, using MIMD distributed-memory machines....
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Coastal Evolution of the Upper Adriatic Sea due to Sea Level Rise and Natural and Anthropic Land Subsidence
The Upper Adriatic basin has experienced in recent times continuous changes due to the precarious setting of the coastal environment and the low ground elevation above m.s.l. of many coastal areas. Major event...
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Prediction of Land Subsidence Due to Groundwater Withdrawal along the Emilia-Romagna Coast
After the Second World War the Romagna coastal stretch between the Po river delta and Cattolica has experienced a dramatic land settlement mainly due to the water withdrawal which has characterized the economi...
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Numerical Modeling of Natural Land Subsidence over Sedimentary Basins Undergoing Large Compaction
The natural compaction driven by unsteady groundwater flow in an accreting isothermal sedimentary basin is investigated by a new numerical compaction model. We assume a process of continuous vertical sedimenta...
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Structure in protein solution changing the pH
In this paper we present a small-angle neutron scattering measurement on concentrated aqueous solutions of lysozyme. The ranges for the pH and for the ionic strength of the solutions are chosen in order to match ...
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Defect Sizing in Ceramic Materials by High-Frequency Ultrasound Techniques
Determination of defect sizes of small pores or inclusions in engineering ceramics is a requirement for the prediction of component strength and reliability. Many authors have developed experimental procedures...
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Characterization of Pressureless Sintered Alpha SiC by Advanced Techniques of Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Diffraction
Sintered alpha-SiC has been investigated by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM] and X-Fay diffraction (XRD]. By using channeling contrast effects produced when SEM is operating with low beam energy and high cur...
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Morphological aspects of silicon carbide chemically vapour-deposited on graphite
The morphological features of silicon carbide coatings, deposited on graphite from SiCl4, C3H8 and H2 mixtures, were investigated. Based on preliminary thermodynamic calculations, the experiments were performed a...
