Search results for "PHASE"

Failures to act responsibly: The role of firm’s competitiveness in the post-scandal phase

2016

Linear ViscoElastic (LVE) Behaviour of Pure Bitumen via Fractional Model

2012

AbstractBy fitting experimental data from static creep/recovery carried out on pure bitumen, it is shown that the fractional model proposed enables the description of both creep and recovery behaviour with fewer parameters than those needed by other models in the literature. In particular, the model is fitted to experimental data of complex modulus |G*| and phase angle δ° obtained from Dynamic Mechanical Analysis. Lastly, it is demonstrated that when the fractional model is used, complex modulus isotherms for a range of frequencies can be created simply starting from isochronals at f = 1Hz.

Shift-Invariant Canonical Polyadic Decomposition of Complex-Valued Multi-Subject fMRI Data with a Phase Sparsity Constraint

2020

Canonical polyadic decomposition (CPD) of multi-subject complex-valued fMRI data can be used to provide spatially and temporally shared components among groups with both magnitude and phase information. However, the CPD model is not well formulated due to the large subject variability in the spatial and temporal modalities, as well as the high noise level in complex-valued fMRI data. Considering that the shift-invariant CPD can model temporal variability across subjects, we propose to further impose a phase sparsity constraint on the shared spatial maps to denoise the complex-valued components and to model the inter-subject spatial variability as well. More precisely, subject-specific time …

Density functional/molecular dynamics simulations of phase-change materials

2013

THE PERFORATED BUILDING’S ENVELOPE: GUIDING THE EARLY DESIGN PHASES

In passato gli involucri edilizi perforati sono stati talvolta ricondotti ad alcuni elementi architettonici tradizionali (come, ad esempio, la ‘Mashrabiyya’), in cui gli elementi forati acquisiscono quasi significati archetipici, nell’assumere ruoli tecnologici e ambientali che rispecchiano i valori della comunità, le condizioni socio-economiche e le esigenze ambientali degli occupanti. Oggi, invece, l’involucro edilizio perforato costituisce una tendenza architettonica che ha iniziato a manifestarsi a livello globale all’inizio del nuovo millennio, alla quale ha contribuito l’emergere della tecnologia digitale con i suoi effetti sull’innovazione di tecniche, materiali, realizzazioni, prest…

A strong electroweak phase transition from the inflaton field

2016

We study a singlet scalar extension of the Standard Model. The singlet scalar is coupled non-minimally to gravity and assumed to drive inflation, and also couple sufficiently strongly with the SM Higgs field in order to provide for a strong first order electroweak phase transition. Requiring the model to describe inflation successfully, be compatible with the LHC data, and yield a strong first order electroweak phase transition, we identify the regions of the parameter space where the model is viable. We also include a singlet fermion with scalar coupling to the singlet scalar to probe the sensitivity of the constraints on additional degrees of freedom and their couplings in the singlet sec…

High-Pressure Properties of Wolframite-Type ScNbO4

2022

In this work, we used Raman spectroscopic and optical absorption measurements and first-principles calculations to unravel the properties of wolframite-type ScNbO4 at ambient pressure and under high pressure. We found that monoclinic wolframite-type ScNbO4 is less compressible than most wolframites and that under high pressure it undergoes two phase transitions at ∼5 and ∼11 GPa, respectively. The first transition induces a 9% collapse of volume and a 1.5 eV decrease of the band gap energy, changing the direct band gap to an indirect one. According to calculations, pressure induces symmetry changes (P2/c–Pnna–P2/c). The structural sequence is validated by the agreement between phonon calcul…

Single crystal X-ray diffraction studies on [(CH3)nNH4–n]3[Sb2Cl9] (2,3) chloroantimonates(III) in their low-temperature ferroelectric phases—structu…

2005

The structures of two ferroic chloroantimonates(III): [(CH3)2NH2]3[Sb2Cl9] (DMACA) and [(CH3)3NH]3[Sb2Cl9] (TMACA) were determined in their low-temperature phases. The structure of DMACA was investigated at 100 and 15 K, and TMACA at 15 K. The structures consist of two-dimensional inorganic layers and organic cations bound together by the N(C)–H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds. All of the organic cations in both compounds at all studied temperatures are ordered. There is no indication of the structural phase transition in the structure of DMACA below 242 K. The geometry and distortions of the [SbCl6]3– octahedra in both compounds is discussed.

Structure and phase transitions in ethylenediammonium dichloride and its salts with antimony trichloride

2000

During the mixing of ethylenediammonium dichloride and antimony trichloride except of reported earlier [NH3(CH2)2NH3]5(Sb2Cl11)2 · 4 H2O a new salt [NH3(CH2)2NH3](SbCl4)2 was obtained. The crystals are monoclinic at 295 K, space group C2/m, a = 13.829(3), b = 7.408(1), c = 7.588(2) Å; β = 103.18(3)°; V = 756.9(3) Å3; Z = 2; dc = 2.585, dm = 2.56(2) g · cm–3. The structure consists of anionic sublattice built of Sb2Cl82– units composed of two SbCl52– square pyramids connected by edge. The ethylenediammonium cations are located in anionic cavities. The cations are disordered. Each methylene carbon atom is split between two positions. The X‐ray diffraction, DSC, TGA and dilatometric methods we…

Tuning the Photoresponse of Nano‐Heterojunction: Pressure‐Induced Inverse Photoconductance in Functionalized WO 3 Nanocuboids

2019

S.R. and S.S. contributed equally to this work. This work was mainly supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11874076), National Science Associated Funding (NSAF, Grant No. U1530402), and Science Challenging Program (Grant No. TZ2016001). D.E. thanks the financial support from Spanish MINECO under Grant No. MAT2016-75586-C4-1-P and from Generalitat Valenciana under Grant Prometeo/2018/123, EFIMAT. The X-ray diffraction measurements were performed at the BL15U1 station, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) in China. The HP XAS measurements were performed at 20 ID-C, APS, ANL. APS is supported by DOE-BES, under contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357. The authors grat…