A new continuous-discontinuous strategy to describe failure of quasi-brittle materials is presented. For the early stages of the failure process, a gradient-enhanced model based on smoothed displacements is employed. As ...

This paper aims at presenting a new countermeasure against Side-Channel Analysis (SCA) attacks, whose implementation is based on a hardware-software co-design. The hardware architecture consists of a microprocessor, which ...

At then_TOFexperimentatCERNadedicatedsingle-crystalchemicalvapordeposition(sCVD)Diamond Mosaic-Detectorhasbeendevelopedfor(n,α) cross-sectionmeasurements.Thedetector,characterized by anexcellenttimeandenergyresolution, ...

A new non-local damage model is presented. Non-locality (of integral or gradient type) is incorporated into the model by means of non-local displacements. This contrasts with existing damage models, where a non-local strain ...

Recent improvements in computation and algorithmic research, together with the rising era of Big Data, have allowed Artificial Intelligence increase its popularity within masses. The recent publication of the Deep Q-Network ...

In this paper we study distributions on k-ary trees, which from the point of doing statistics on trees, they behave in a more realistic way than the usual uniform distribution. In particular, we choose a distribution for ...

A macroscopic model based on a double-porosity approach is proposed to simulate the swelling caused by the subdivision of particles and aggregates that occurs when bentonites are hydrated under a high water content and low ...

The discrete element method (DEM) is increasingly gaining acceptance as a modelling tool for engineering problems of direct geotechnical relevance. One area for which the method seems naturally well adapted is that of ...