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Optimal passive-damping design using a decentralized velocity-feedback H-infinity approach
2012
In this work, a new strategy to design passive energy dissipation systems for vibration control of large structures is presented. The method is based on the equivalence between passive damping systems and fully decentralized static velocity-feedback controllers. This equivalence allows to take advantage of recent developments in static output-feedback control design to formulate the passive-damping design as a single optimization problem with Linear Matrix Inequality constraints. To illustrate the application of the proposed methodology, a passive damping system is designed for the seismic protection of a five-story building with excellent results. Peer Reviewed
Free energy and states of fractional-order hereditariness
2014
AbstractComplex materials, often encountered in recent engineering and material sciences applications, show no complete separations between solid and fluid phases. This aspect is reflected in the continuous relaxation time spectra recorded in cyclic load tests. As a consequence the material free energy cannot be defined in a unique manner yielding a significative lack of knowledge of the maximum recoverable work that can extracted from the material. The non-uniqueness of the free energy function is removed in the paper for power-laws relaxation/creep function by using a recently proposed mechanical analogue to fractional-order hereditariness.
Collective excitations of 3He clusters
1991
Collective excitations of3He clusters are studied by treating the cluster as a quantum liquid drop. We have used the Random-Phase Approximation sum rules technique within a Density Functional Formalism. Results forL=2 to 10 surface modes and theL=0 volume mode are presented.
Vibrating temporal soliton pairs
2007
The study of temporal multisoliton complexes in dissipative systems is of potential interest for the development of new schemes of optical data transport and processing. In the present work, we thus consider pulsations of a soliton pair that consist mainly in the oscillations of the temporal separation and phase relationship between the two pulses, so that the relative motion of the two bound solitons resembles a vibrational motion.
Dissipative Solitons: present understanding, applications and new developments
2009
Dissipative solitons form a new paradigm for the investigation of phenomena involving stable structures in nonlinear systems far from equilibrium. Basic principles can be applied to a wide range of phenomena in science. Recent results involving solitons and soliton complexes of the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg–Landau equation are presented.
Spatiotemporal optical solitons in nonlinear dissipative media: From stationary light bullets to pulsating complexes
2007
Nonlinear dissipative systems display the full (3+1) D spatiotemporal dynamics of stable optical solitons. We review recent results that were obtained within the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation model. Numerical simulations reveal the existence of stationary bell-shaped (3+1) D solitons for both anomalous and normal chromatic dispersion regimes, as well as the formation of double soliton complexes. We provide additional insight concerning the possible dynamics of these soliton complexes, consider collision cases between two solitons, and discuss the ways nonstationary evolution can lead to optical pattern formation. © 2007 American Institute of Physics.
Vibrating and shaking soliton pairs in dissipative systems
2007
We show that two-soliton solutions in nonlinear dissipative systems can exist in various forms. As with single solitons, they can be stationary, periodic or chaotic. In particular, we find new types of vibrating and shaking soliton pairs. Each type of pair is stable in the sense that the bound state exists in the same form indefinitely. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Pulsating Dissipative Light Bullets
2009
Finding domains of existence for (3+1)D spatio-temporal dissipative solitons, also called “dissipative light bullets”, by direct numerical solving of a cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) is a lengthy procedure [1,2]. Variational approaches pave the way for quicker soliton solution mapping, as long as tractable trial functions remain suitable approximations for exact solutions [3,4].
Regions of Existence and Transformations of (3+1)-D Dissipative Optical Solitons
2006
We demonstrate the existence of stable optical light bullets in nonlinear dissipative media featuring both normal and anomalous chromatic dispersion. Beyond the domain where stable bullets are found, unstable bullets can be transformed into "rockets".
Interactions and transformations of dissipative optical bullets
2007
Nonlinear dissipation provides distinctive dynamical properties to optical bullets. According to the system parameters, the dynamical properties of single bullets range from fully stable to pulsating and instable bullets. We are here interested in the following stage, namely the interaction between several optical bullets.