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Stability Analysis Of A More General Class Of Systems With Delay-Dependent Coefficients, Chi Jin, Keqin Gu, Islam Boussaada, Silviu-Iulian Niculescu May 2019

Stability Analysis Of A More General Class Of Systems With Delay-Dependent Coefficients, Chi Jin, Keqin Gu, Islam Boussaada, Silviu-Iulian Niculescu

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This paper presents a systematic method to analyse the stability of systems with single delay in which the coefficient polynomials of the characteristic equation depend on the delay. Such systems often arise in, for example, life science and engineering systems. A method to analyze such systems was presented by Beretta and Kuang in a 2002 paper, but with some very restrictive assumptions. This work extends their results to the general case with the exception of some degenerate cases. It is found that a much richer behavior is possible when the restrictive assumptions are removed. The interval of interest for the …


Tailoring Materials Behavior Using Geometry, Hessein Ali, Hossein Ebrahimi, Ranajay Ghosh Jan 2019

Tailoring Materials Behavior Using Geometry, Hessein Ali, Hossein Ebrahimi, Ranajay Ghosh

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Many applications require materials whose response can be tuned such as morphing wings for supermaneuverable vehicles, soft robotics and space structures. Nature achieves this objective using external dermal features – skin, furs, tooth, feathers. These nonlinearities are generated using the geometry and topology of the scales The scales provide distinct structural advantages such as protection and tailorable response from scales contact Scales also aid in highly dynamic life functions – such as locomotion, anti-fouling, flapping flights, swimming. Material to structural correlations are highly nonlinear due to scale topology. We aim to reveal structure-property-architecture correlations for automated 3D printed designs.