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Stability Analysis of Elastic Bearings with Flexible Reinforcement
(2008)The multilayer elastomeric bearings used for seismic isolation are made of layers of rubber and steel reinforcing plates. The reinforcing plates increase the vertical stiffness of the bearings while leaving the horizontal unchanged. The behavior of the bearings is normally described by a beam theory that assumes plane sections to remain plane but not normal to the deformed axis. The displacement and the rotation of the cross sections are ...Conference Paper -
A hybrid ultrasonic motor and electrorheological fluid clutch actuator for force-feedback in MRI/fMRI
(2008)2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology SocietyConference Paper -
Towards flood risk management with the people at risk: from scientific analysis to practice recommendations (and back)
(2008)Flood Risk Management: Research and PracticeConference Paper -
Locally uniform anisotropic meshing
(2008)SCG '08: Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Symposium on Computational GeometryVarious definitions of so called anisotropic Voronoi diagrams have been proposed. These diagrams are typically parameterized by a metric field. Under mild hypotheses on the metric field, such Voronoi diagrams can be refined so that their dual is a triangulation, with elements shaped according to the specified anisotropic metric field. We propose an alternative approach to anisotropic mesh generation, relying on the notion of locally uniform ...Conference Paper -
Novel 42.65 Gbit/s dual gate asynchronous digital optical regenerator using a single MZM
(2008)34th European Conference on Optical Communication, 2008 : ECOC 2008 ; 21 - 25 Sept. 2008, Brussels, BelgiumConference Paper -
Relaxed Potentials and Evolution Equations for Inelastic Microstructures
(2008)IUTAM Bookseries ~ IUTAM Symposium on Theoretical, Computational and Modelling Aspects of Inelastic MediaConference Paper -
The Questioning of Selective Protectionism in Switzerland during the 1990s: Cartel Law Reform and Corporate Governance Changes
(2008)Pathbreakers : small European countries responding to globalisation and deglobalisationConference Paper -
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An all-optical grooming switch to interconnect access and metro ring networks
(2008)Proceedings of 2008 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical NetworksConference Paper