A Bilinear Model for Temporally Coherent Respiratory Motion

Author(s):  
Frank Preiswerk ◽  
Philippe C. Cattin
2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su Young Park ◽  
Hi Jin Park ◽  
Hong Kim ◽  
Hee Jung Lee ◽  
Sung Ku Woo ◽  
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Author(s):  
Muhammad Akmal Ahmad ◽  
Seri Mastura Mustaza ◽  
Siti Salasiah Mokri ◽  
Nor Aniza Azmi ◽  
Rozilawati Ahmad ◽  
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2021 ◽  
pp. 136943322110073
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Zhang ◽  
Danni Ren ◽  
Xin Liu ◽  
Sujun Guan ◽  
Xindi Yu ◽  
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To improve the mechanical performances of joints in prefabricated construction, a type of connection structure with long-fiber and metal laminated bolts (referred to as a fiber-metal connector) is proposed and investigated by simulation and theoretical methods. The results include the following: (1) The fiber layer in bolts can form a second stiffness during rotation. This mechanical characteristic improves the bearing capacities and energy dissipation ability of the connector relative to the conventional metal connector, which are expected to effectively limit the elastoplastic rotational displacement of a structure. (2) For the reason, the fiber layer can bear load in the plastic phase due to its high-strength characteristic in the length direction. (3) A bilinear model for the bearing curve of the fiber-metal connector is proposed, and equations for optimization of fiber layer thickness are obtained with a target on bearing capacity and energy dissipation ability which are approximately higher 30% and 13% than that of the conventional metal connector, respectively. This research is expected to provide a theoretical basis for the application of this fiber-metal connector in engineering and improve the safety of prefabricated structures.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zelin Nie ◽  
Feng Gao ◽  
Chao-Bo Yan

Reducing the energy consumption of the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems while ensuring users’ comfort is of both academic and practical significance. However, the-state-of-the-art of the optimization model of the HVAC system is that either the thermal dynamic model is simplified as a linear model, or the optimization model of the HVAC system is single-timescale, which leads to heavy computation burden. To balance the practicality and the overhead of computation, in this paper, a multi-timescale bilinear model of HVAC systems is proposed. To guarantee the consistency of models in different timescales, the fast timescale model is built first with a bilinear form, and then the slow timescale model is induced from the fast one, specifically, with a bilinear-like form. After a simplified replacement made for the bilinear-like part, this problem can be solved by a convexification method. Extensive numerical experiments have been conducted to validate the effectiveness of this model.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Long Lei ◽  
Li Huang ◽  
Baoliang Zhao ◽  
Ying Hu ◽  
Zhongliang Jiang ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andoni I. Garmendia ◽  
Yongyi Yang ◽  
Chao Song ◽  
Miles N. Wernick ◽  
P. Hendrik Pretorius ◽  
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