Abstract: This technical note shows some results of a small-scale field experiment on Boccotti’s submerged caisson breakwater, which absorbs wave energy and is able to defend a coast with a very small environmental impact. The ...

Abstract: The redundancy resolution schemes based on the optimization of an integral performance index are investigated from the topological point of view. The topological notions of self-motion manifold, C-path-homotopy and extended ...

Abstract: The control of electrostatically actuated microsystems with openloop strategies has the potential to reduce the switching time with immediate benefits on device performances and, on the other hand, to reduce the impact ...

Abstract: Observations of alongwind dispersion of clouds were collected from 11 field sites and from one wind tunnel and were used to test simple similarity relations. Because most of the observations consist of concentration time ...

Abstract: The relative dispersion process for clouds of contaminant in generic atmospheric flow is considered. The properties of the separation distance for pairs of particles are simplified by implicitly averaging over the spatial ...

Abstract: Some simplified 1-degree-of-freedom (1-dof) constitutive models suitable for the simulation of high damping rubber bearings are analyzed. The well-known equivalent elastic and bilinear models are ...

Abstract: The joining techniques between carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) and metal are of great importance in many areas of structural mechanics where the optimization of weight, rigidity, and strength is a necessity (such ...

Abstract: A continuum mathematical model with sharp interface is proposed for describing the occurrence of patterns in initially circular and homogeneous bacterial colonies. The mathematical model encapsulates the evolution of the ...