晶格动力学性质对钛酸锶介电行为的影响

在105 K钛酸锶(SrTiO3)发生立方-四方的反铁畸变,对量子效应的吉布斯自由能取极小值,可得到一系列方程,原则上可以确定任意系统相变时的介电性质。研究了晶格动力学性质,特别是软模的行为,对理解介电性非常重要。介电常数完全由低频的光学声子模决定,从晶格动力学的性质出发,分析了低温时的居里-外斯定律行为。

Influence of features of natural soft clay on behaviour of embankment

The influence of different features of natural soft clays,namely anisotropy,destructuration and viscosity,on modelling the time-dependent behaviour of Murro embankment was investigated.The newly developed elasto-viscoplastic models were enhanced for determining viscosity parameters in a straightforward way and adopted for the finite element analysis.The same set of common parameters determined from conventional triaxial and oedometer tests was employed for all models,with additional parameters required for representing different soil features.The finite element predictions by using models coupled with BIOT's consolidation theory were compared with each other and with field data for settlement,horizontal displacement and excess pore pressures.In addition,the stress paths under the embankment loading were also compared with each other to improve the understanding of the effect of different soil features.All simulations demonstrate that all three features significantly influence the predictions.As a consequence,accounting for soil features needs to be carefully considered when they are applied to a construction site.

Elastoplastic modeling of mechanical behavior of weak sandstone at different time scales

A unified constitutive model is proposed to describe the mechanical behavior of weak sandstone at different time scales.The instantaneous behavior of this material is characterized by the Drucker-Prager elastoplastic model,while the time-dependent deformation is described in terms of the microstructure evolution.This evolution is numerically simulated by progressive degradation of the elastic modulus and failure strength of the material.The proposed model is used to simulate the instantaneous triaxial compression and the multi-loading creep tests.Generally,good concordance is obtained between numerical simulations and experimental data.The proposed model is capable of describing the main features of these rocks,particularly irreversible deformations,pressure dependency,volumetric transition between compaction and dilatancy,and creep behavior.

SOFT CONTROL ON COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR OF A GROUP OF AUTONOMOUS AGENTS BY A SHILL AGENT

This paper asks a new question： how can we control the collective behavior of self-organized multi-agent systems？ We try to answer the question by proposing a new notion called ＇Soft Control＇ which keeps the local rule of the existing agents in the system. We show the feasibility of soft control by a case study. Consider the simple but typical distributed multi-agent model proposed by Vicsek et al. for flocking of birds： each agent moves with the same speed but with different headings which are updated using a local rule based on the average of its own heading and the headings of its neighbors. Most studies of this model are about the self-organized collective behavior, such as synchronization of headings. We want to intervene in the collective behavior （headings） of the group by soft control. A specified method is to add a special agent, called a ＇Shill＇, which can be controlled by us but is treated as an ordinary agent by other agents. We construct a control law for the shill so that it can synchronize the whole group to an objective heading. This control law is proved to be effective analytically and numerieally. Note that soft control is different from the approach of distributed control. It is a natural way to intervene in the distributed systems. It may bring out many interesting issues and challenges on the control of complex systems.

Unified analytical solutions for a circular opening based on non-linear unified failure criterion

Unified analytical solutions are presented for the predictions of the stresses and displacements around a circular opening based on nonqinear unified failure criterion and the elastic-brittle-plastic softening model. Unified analytical solutions not only involve generally traditional solutions which are based on the Hock-Brown （H-B） failure criterion or the non-linear twin-shear failure criterion, but also involve other new results. The results of the radius of plastic zone, radial displacements and stresses are obviously different using three rock masses when different values of the unified failure criterion parameter or different material behavior models are used. For a given condition, the radius of plastic zone and radial displacements are reduced by increasing the unified failure criterion parameter. The latent potentialities of rock mass result from considering the effect of intermediate principal stress. It is shown that proper choices of the failure criterion and the material behavior model for rock mass are significant in the tunnel design.

Scalably Revealing the Dynamics of Soft Community Structure in Complex Networks

Revealing the dynamics of community structure is of great concern for scientists from many fields. Specifically, how to quantify the dynamic details of soft community structure is a very interesting topic. In this paper, the authors propose a novel framework to study the scalable dynamic behavior of the soft community structure. First, the authors model the Potts dynamics to detect community structure using a "soft" Markov process. Then the soft stability of in a multiscale view is proposed to naturally uncover the local uniform behavior of spin values across multiple hierarchical levels. Finally, a new partition index is developed to detect fuzzy communities based on the stability and the dynamical information. Experiments on the both synthetically generated and real-world networks verify that the framework can be used to uncover hierarchical community structures effectively and efficiently.