[pt] Entalhes e trincas são normalmente tratados como problemas bi-dimensionais na maioria das análises e projetos, com o emprego de soluções limites 2D obtidas de teorias de elasticidade plana para avaliar a severidade dos efeitos de concentração de tensão e deformação próximo à sua ponta. Contudo, devido à restrição por deformações de Poisson induzidas pelos gradientes de tensão em torno da ponta, estas regiões podem sofrer efeitos tridimensionais importantes em seus campos de tensão e deformação, os quais, se negligenciados, podem levar a predições não conservadoras de dano e vida. A iniciação de trincas por fadiga, estimativas de tamanho e formato de zona plástica e dominância de estado plano de tensão ou deformação em campos controlados por K são exemplos típicos de problemas sensíveis a tais efeitos. Técnicas de Elementos Finitos Linear Elásticos são utilizadas na simulação de efeitos 3D ao longo da frente de entalhes, tais como a influência da razão espessura-raio-de arredondamento sobre os campos de tensão e deformação que a cercam. A influência de tais efeitos 3D é examinada do ponto de vista de projeto estrutural. Então, a versátil técnica da submodelagem é empregada no estudo de efeitos 3D similares ao longo da frente de trincas curtas e longas. Finalmente, uma rotina de remalhamento passo-a-passo é utilizada para demonstrar como uma trinca inicialmente reta deve se curvar conforme propaga por fadiga. / [en] Notches and cracks are usually treated as two-dimensional problems in most structural design and analysis tasks, employing 2D limit solutions obtained from plane elasticity theories to evaluate the severity of stress/strain concentration effects around their tips. However, due to restrictions to the Poisson strains induced by the stress gradients around such tips, these regions may be affected by important three-dimensional effects that can affect their stress/strain fields and possibly lead to non-conservative damage and life predictions if neglected. Fatigue crack initiation, plastic zone size and shape estimation, and plane stress/plane strain dominance issues on K-controlled fields are typical examples of problems sensible to such effects. Linear Elastic Finite Element techniques are used to simulate 3D effects along notch fronts, such as how the thicknessto-notch root radius Beta/Rho affects the stress and strain fields that surround them. The inuence of such 3D effects is evaluated from the structural design point of view. Then versatile submodeling techniques are used to study similar 3D effects along the fronts of short and long cracks. Finally, a stepwise remeshing routine is used to show how an initially straight crack must slightly curve its front during its propagation by fatigue.

The aim of this master’s theses was a designing of duplexer working in non license frequency band 5.6GHz. The theses is concerning with selection of suitable concept for a given duplexer, with creating a model in software for simulation of distribution of electromagnetic field and with subsequent implementation of duplexer and verifying its parameters.

PURPOSE: To determine, under flow conditions, whether reduced connections between Schlemm’s canal (SC) inner wall (IW) and juxtacanalicular tissue (JCT) cells play a role in giant vacuole (GV) formation; and whether decreased amount of cell margin overlap between adjacent IW cells promotes paracellular pore formation using serial block-face scanning electron microscopy (SBF-SEM). METHODS: Normal human eyes were immersion-fixed (0 mmHg, N=2) or perfusion-fixed (15 mmHg, N=1). Frontal and radial sections of SC were processed for SBF-SEM. IW and JCT cells, GVs, and pores were 3D-reconstructed. In each IW cell, total number of connections with underlying JCT cells/matrix was determined. Total cell margin length (TCML) and zero-overlap length (ZL) of each IW cell were measured to calculate percent zero-overlap length (PZL=ZL/TCML). All data were compared between the eyes fixed at 0 and 15 mmHg. RESULTS: Total number of IW/JCT connections in individual IWs significantly decreased in the eye fixed at 15 mmHg (33±5, N=5 cells) compared to those fixed at 0 mmHg (189±12, N=4 cells, p<0.001). The summed GV volume in individual cells significantly increased in the eye fixed at 15mmHg (218.03±19.65 μm3) compared to those fixed at 0 mmHg (82.33±27.22 μm3, p=0.0043). PZL increased 26.68% (p=0.001) in the eye fixed at 15mmHg vs. those fixed at 0mmHg, and all paracellular pores were found only in regions where the overlap length was 0 μm. CONCLUSIONS: Cellular connections between IW/JCT and IW/IW cells play a role in GV and pore formation in normal human eyes under flow conditions. Our results provide a baseline for future comparison with primary open angle glaucoma eyes.

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Technological advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have paved the way for the exploration and production of shale gas and shale oil, the fastest growing energy sector globally. The imaging and quantification of the geometry, sizes, network and distribution of extremely fine-grain minerals, organic matter and pores are a significant component for the macroscopic and microscopic characterisation of shale reservoirs but is also highly challenging. X-ray computed tomography (XCT) combined with 3D Electron Microscopy (EM) are used to address this challenge and give us information in 3D from multiple length scales over 3 orders of magnitudes: mesoscale (R1), microscale (R2), submicron-scale (R3), low-resolution nanoscale (R4) and high-resolution nanoscale (R5) with spatial resolutions of ~10micro metre, ~1micro metre, ~130 nm, ~50nm and ~5nm, respectively. The multi-scale imaging and quantification method was initially applied here to the Carboniferous Bowland Shale, the largest potential shale gas play in the UK. The appropriate length scales (both field of view and voxel size) of specified phases such as pores, organic matter, clay minerals and non-clay minerals were analysed. The low connectivity of pores and high connectivity of organic matter suggests that the 20 nm and larger pores imaged did not form connected flow paths, demonstrating that porous gas flow through this sample cannot be the main transport mechanism and diffusive transport through the organic matter and clay minerals must also be considered. Then, the variation of organic matter and pore distribution along a TOC gradient were analysis on Lublin gas-mature shale samples in Poland and Baltic oil-mature shale samples in Lithuania. The results show intergranular pores dominated in this series of samples, including organic interface pores and inter-mineral pores, which further confirm that organic matter is not the primary influencing factor for porosity, but the clay minerals. Finally, a novel multi-stage workflow of pore system is proposed relying on both image quantification and numerical modelling of geological features with studies in Jurassic Haynesville shale in the US. Three stages are divided according to pore variation, mineral variation and microfacies variation across four distinct length scales (R1-R4/R5), and permeability was simulated based on the upscaled pore system. The final computed porosity and permeability shows acceptable errors when compared with the helium porosity and press decay permeability. Beyond the lab measurements, the pore occurrence and size distribution were computed in the upscaling process. The combining of XCT and 3D-EM provides a powerful tool for the multi-scale imaging and quantification of microstructural information in shales, allowing the visualization of pores, organic matter and inorganic mineral phases over a range of scales over three orders of magnitude (~ 10 micro metre to ~ 5 nm), and the volume fraction of each phases shows a reasonable correlation to traditional physical and chemistry quantification data. The further studies, such as the variation of organic matter and pores, upscaling of porosity and permeability presented in this study, has verified the feasibility of the proposed multi-scale method and promises a bit potential for reservoir prediction and other challenges in geological studies.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 IcaroLLC_TESE.pdf: 6782954 bytes, checksum: cb0650b733e29c9e5e7032cef110a519 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-01-22 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / We revisit the problem of visibility, which is to determine a set of primitives potentially visible in a set of geometry data represented by a data structure, such as a mesh of polygons or triangles, we propose a solution for speeding up the three-dimensional visualization processing in applications. We introduce a lean structure , in the sense of data abstraction and reduction, which can be used for online and interactive applications. The visibility problem is especially important in 3D visualization of scenes represented by large volumes of data, when it is not worthwhile keeping all polygons of the scene in memory. This implies a greater time spent in the rendering, or is even impossible to keep them all in huge volumes of data. In these cases, given a position and a direction of view, the main objective is to determine and load a minimum ammount of primitives (polygons) in the scene, to accelerate the rendering step. For this purpose, our algorithm performs cutting primitives (culling) using a hybrid paradigm based on three known techniques. The scene is divided into a cell grid, for each cell we associate the primitives that belong to them, and finally determined the set of primitives potentially visible. The novelty is the use of triangulation Ja 1 to create the subdivision grid. We chose this structure because of its relevant characteristics of adaptivity and algebrism (ease of calculations). The results show a substantial improvement over traditional methods when applied separately. The method introduced in this work can be used in devices with low or no dedicated processing power CPU, and also can be used to view data via the Internet, such as virtual museums applications / N?s revisitamos o problema de visibilidade, que visa determinar um conjunto de primitivas potencialmente vis?veis em um conjunto de dados geom?tricos representados por uma estrutura de dados, por exemplo uma malha de pol?gonos ou de tri?ngulos, propondo uma solu??o para acelerar o processamento em aplica??es em visualiza??o tridimensional. Introduzimos uma estrutura enxuta, no sentido de abstra??o e redu??o de dados, que pode ser usada para aplica??es online e interativas. O problema de visibilidade ? especialmente importante na visualiza??o 3D de cenas representadas por grande volume de dados, em que n?o ? interessante manter todos os pol?gonos da cena em mem?ria. Isso implicaria em um maior tempo gasto na renderiza??o, ou sendo at? mesmo imposs?vel mant?-los todos em volumes imensos de dados. Nestes casos, dada uma posi??o e uma dire??o de visualiza??o, o objetivo principal ? determinar e carregar o m?nimo poss?vel de primitivas (pol?gonos) da cena, visando acelerar a etapa de renderiza??o. Para este prop?sito, nosso algoritmo executa o corte de primitivas (culling) usando um paradigma h?brido baseado em tr?s modelos conhecidos. A cena ? subdividida em c?lulas de uma grade, sendo associada a cada uma dessas c?lulas as primitivas pertencentes a elas, e finalmente determinado o conjunto de primitivas potencialmente vis?veis. A novidade ? o uso da triangula??o J a 1 para criar a subdivis?o em grade. Escolhemos esta estrutura devido ?s suas caracter?sticas relevantes de adaptatividade e algebrismo (facilidade de c?lculos). Os resultados mostram uma melhoria substancial sobre os m?todos tradicionais quando aplicados separadamente. O m?todo introduzido neste trabalho pode ser usado em dispositivos sem processador dedicado ou com baixo poder de processamento, e ainda, pode ser utilizado para visualizar dados atrav?s da Internet, tal como em aplica??es de museus virtuais