Orientador: Fábio Roberto Chavarette / Resumo: Uma das formas de eliminar as vibrações excessivas em uma estrutura é através de um controle passivo com o uso de amortecedores de massas sintonizados (AMS), ou também denominados, absorvedores dinâmicos. Um sistema passivo típico não tem suas propriedades mecânicas modificadas, em função da excitação de entrada. O sistema passivo utiliza o movimento da estrutura para produzir um movimento relativo nos dispositivos de amortecimento, pelo qual a energia é dissipada. Neste trabalho, destaca-se que o dispositivo considerado apresenta dependência cúbica do deslocamento proporcional à sua rigidez. O problema é modelado através de equações diferenciais ordinárias não lineares que são linearizadas em torno de seu ponto de equilíbrio. Mediante simulação numérica, utilizando o software Octave, demonstra-se a eficiência de um AMS aplicado a uma estrutura sob influência de oscilações sísmicas inseridas através do modelo de Kanai-Tajimi, que simulam uma situação real, em que as propriedades de solos são introduzidas. Estas oscilações promovem alterações nas propriedades dinâmicas, causando assim uma instabilidade na estrutura, em que foram utilizados parâmetros para encontrar o comportamento caótico no sistema. Como forma de minimizar as vibrações causadas pela excitação sísmica foi proposto um controle híbrido estrutural. Basicamente o controle estrutural se dá pela adição de dispositivos e/ou forças externas que promovem alterações nas propriedades de rigidez e amortecimento da estrutu... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: One of the ways to eliminate excessive vibrations in a structure is through a passive control with the use of shock absorbers tuned mass (ATM) or also called, dynamic absorbers. A typical passive system does not have its mechanical properties modified in function of an excitation input. The passive system uses the movement of the structure to produce a relative movement in the absorbers device, where by the energy is dissipated. In this work, it is noteworthy that the considered device introduces a cubic dependence of the proportional displacement to its rigidity. The problem is modeled through out nonlinear ordinary differential equations that are linearized around their equilibrium point. By numerical simulations, using Octave software, it demonstrates the efficiency of a ATM applied to a structure under the influence of seismic oscillations inserted over Kanai-Tajimi’s model, that simulates a real situation in which the properties of the soils are introduced. These oscillations promote changes in the dynamic properties, thus causing an instability in the structure where there were used parameters to find chaotic behavior in the system. In order to minimize the vibrations caused by seismic excitation it is proposed a hybrid structural control. Basically structural control takes place by addition devices and/or external forces that promote alterations in the stiffness properties and the structure absorber. For minimize vibrations and reduce the chaotic motion of the system t... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Orientador: Marco Antonio Teixeira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T09:21:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Damacena_ThaisBorges_M.pdf: 1821590 bytes, checksum: 6b7242d4adbe1ac4b9b0dcbe04dd70b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Um campo vetorial descontínuo 3D sobre uma superfície suave de codimensão um, pode ser genericamente tangente a ambos os lados da superfície em um ponto p. Os pontos onde esse fenômeno ocorre são chamados de singularidade dobra-dobra. Nesse trabalho, estudamos a dinâmica local de um sistema dinâmico suave por partes tri-dimensional em uma dobra-dobra. Vimos que a dinâmica local depende principalmente de um único parâmetro que controla uma bifurcação. Especificamente no caso onde as dobras são ambas invisíveis, a chamada singularidade Teixeira, encontramos que o sistema pode admitir um fluxo exibindo dinâmica caótica, mas não determinística / Abstract: A 3D discontinuous vector field on a smooth surface of codimension one, can be generically tangent to both sides of the surface at a point p. The points where this phenomenon occurs are called two-fold singularities. In this project, we study the local dynamics of a three-dimensional piecewise smooth dynamical systems at a two-fold. We have seen that the local dynamics depends mainly on a single parameter that controls a bifurcation. Specifically in the case where the folds are both invisibles, the so-called singularity Teixeira, we find that the system can admit a flow exhibiting chaotic but non-deterministic dynamics / Mestrado / Matematica / Mestre em Matemática

This study investigated relationships between marketing success, the level of external environmental complexity and turbulence, and marketing mix tactics. The literature suggested that more successful companies in simple and stable environments use stabilising marketing tactics, while more successful companies in complex and turbulent environments use destabilising tactics, regardless of industry habits, management preferences or market sector. A marketing mix model for the different environments was developed using a chaos and complexity theory perspective. The study was exploratory, using a qualitative, case study technique. Data was collected via depth interviews and document analysis from four companies in the information technology (IT) and packaging industries. These industries were identified as, respectively, the most complex and turbulent, and the simplest and most stable, South African environments. Two companies from each industry were chosen to reflect more successful and less successful companies. The more successful company in the complex/turbulent environment was found to use destabilising tactics, as did the more successful company in the simple/stable environment. Therefore, contrary to expectations, it appears that destabilising tactics contribute more to success than stabilising tactics do, regardless of the environment. It was also found, contrary to expectations, that stabilising tactics were used by both the less successful companies. The research concluded that destabilising tactics are related to more success and stabilising tactics to less success. The lack of clear differentiation between the two industries may be because the whole South African environment is complex and turbulent, because the packaging industry is not sufficiently simple and stable to differentiate it from the IT industry or because packaging industry managers perceive their industry to be complex and turbulent and act accordingly. Despite these uncertainties, the research showed the marketing mix model to be reasonably accurate for the complex/turbulent environment, and therefore of potential value to South African companies. To overcome the equivocal findings, further research is recommended in different industries, in countries with different levels of complexity and turbulence and into specific marketing mix tactics. Research into managers’ perceptions of environmental complexity and turbulence and into co-evolution of marketing tactics and external environments would also be of value.

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Orientador: Kyoko Furuya / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T01:53:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SousaJunior_DelcidesFlaviode_M.pdf: 32680218 bytes, checksum: aa259799e554166260b37c235e19a803 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1998 / Resumo:Apresentamos nesta dissertação um estudo da conexão entre a Mecânica Clássica e a Mecânica Quântica através dos diagramas de energia vs. período para as principais famílias de órbitas periódicas de um dado sistema dinâmico. O diagrama quântico é definido através do espectro do sistema quântico correspondente, que mostra cicatrizes dessas famílias no regime semiclássico. Dois sistemas hamiltonianos, com dois graus de liberdade e apresentando comportamento misto ( caótico e regular ) , são estudados. O primeiro é o pêndulo elástico, usado como paradigma de caos clássico. Aspectos essenciais da sua dinâmica são estudados e o diagrama clássico de energia vs. período com as principais famílias de órbitas periódicas é construido. O segundo sistema é o Hamiltoniano Spin-Bóson, um sistema quântico para o qual trabalhos anteriores definiram um análogo clássico, para o qual estudou-se o comportamento caótico e famílias de órbitas periódicas. Uma versão quântica deste diagrama de energia vs. período é mostrada para este modelo. As duas versões são comparadas no regime de caos misto e o ajuste no limite semiclássico discutido. Uma concordância qualitativa é obtida, com indicações de que as cicatrizes são mais acentuadas nas regiões onde ocorrem bifurcações de órbitas periódicas / Abstract:We study the connection between Classical and Quantum Mechanics using the plots of Energy VS. Period for the main families of periodic orbits of certain dynamical system .The quantum E-t plot is defined through the spectrum of the corresponding quantum system, which shows scars of the classical families in the semiclagsical regime. Two Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom both displaying mixed (chaotic and regular) behaviour are analized. The first one is the elastic pendulum, its behaviour ususally presented as a paradigm of classical chaos. Essential aspects of its dinamics are studied to some extent and the classical (E, t ) plot is shown. The second system is the Spin- Boson Hamiltonian, a quantum system for which previous works have defined a classical analogue with chaotic behaviour and compiled the main families of periodic orbits. A quantum version of the (E, t ) plot for this model is shown, and the classical and quantum plots are compared in the regime of soft chaos. The fitting in the semiclassical limit is discussed with a qualitative agreement that indicates enhancements of the scars in the regions where bifurcations of period orbits occur / Mestrado / Física / Mestre em Física

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We investigate chaotic ionization of highly excited hydrogen atom in crossed electric and magnetic fields (Rydberg atom) and intra-molecular relaxation in planar carbonyl sulfide (OCS) molecule. The underlying theoretical framework of our studies is dynamical systems theory and periodic orbit theory. These theories offer formulae to compute expectation values of observables in chaotic systems with best accuracy available in given circumstances, however they require to have a good control and reliable numerical tools to compute unstable periodic orbits. We have developed such methods of computation and partitioning of the phase space of hydrogen atom in crossed at right angles electric and magnetic fields, represented by a two degree of freedom (dof) Hamiltonian system. We discuss extensions to a 3-dof setting by developing the methodology to compute unstable invariant tori, and applying it to the planar OCS, represented by a 3-dof Hamiltonian. We find such tori important in explaining anomalous relaxation rates in chemical reactions. Their potential application in Transition State Theory is discussed.

With the rapid development of optical communications and the increasing amount of data exchanged, it has become utterly important to provide effective ar- chitectures to protect sensitive data. The use of chaotic optoelectronic devices has already demonstrated great potential in terms of additional computational security at the physical layer of the optical network. However, the determination of the security level and the lack of a multi-user framework are two hurdles which have prevented their deployment on a large scale. In this thesis, we propose to address these two issues. First, we investigate the security of a widely used chaotic generator, the external cavity semiconductor laser (ECSL). This is a time-delay system known for providing complex and high-dimensional chaos, but with a low level of security regarding the identification of its most critical parameter, the time delay. We perform a detailed analysis of the influence of the ECSL parameters to devise how higher levels of security can be achieved and provide a physical interpretation of their origin. Second, we devise new architectures to multiplex optical chaotic signals and realize multi-user communications at high bit rates. We propose two different approaches exploiting known chaotic optoelectronic devices. The first one uses mutually cou- pled ECSL and extends typical chaos-based encryption strategies, such as chaos-shift keying (CSK) and chaos modulation (CMo). The second one uses an electro-optical oscillator (EOO) with multiple delayed feedback loops and aims first at transpos- ing coded-division multiple access (CDMA) and then at developing novel strategies of encryption and decryption, when the time-delays of each feedback loop are time- dependent.

When statistical assumptions do not hold and coherent structures are present in spatially extended systems such as fluid flows, flame fronts and field theories, a dynamical description of turbulent phenomena becomes necessary. In the dynamical systems approach, theory of turbulence for a given system, with given boundary conditions, is given by (a) the geometry of its infinite-dimensional state space and (b) the associated measure, that is, the likelihood that asymptotic dynamics visits a given state space region. In this thesis this vision is pursued in the context of Kuramoto-Sivashinsky system, one of the simplest physically interesting spatially extended nonlinear systems. With periodic boundary conditions, continuous translational symmetry endows state space with additional structure that often dictates the type of observed solutions. At the same time, the notion of recurrence becomes relative: asymptotic dynamics visits the neighborhood of any equivalent, translated point, infinitely often. Identification of points related by the symmetry group action, termed symmetry reduction, although conceptually simple as the group action is linear, is hard to implement in practice, yet it leads to dramatic simplification of dynamics. Here we propose a scheme, based on the method of moving frames of Cartan, to efficiently project solutions of high-dimensional truncations of partial differential equations computed in the original space to a reduced state space. The procedure simplifies the visualization of high-dimensional flows and provides new insight into the role the unstable manifolds of equilibria and traveling waves play in organizing Kuramoto-Sivashinsky flow. This in turn elucidates the mechanism that creates unstable modulated traveling waves (periodic orbits in reduced space) that provide a skeleton of the dynamics. The compact description of dynamics thus achieved sets the stage for reduction of the dynamics to mappings between a set of Poincare sections.

Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Many variations of Systems Development Life Cycle models have evolved over the last fifty years of systems engineering and software science, yet not enough knowledge is available to better understand these as Complex Adaptive Systems by studying chaos and complexity theories. The primary application domain of the thesis is focused on the development of electronic hardware and software products. There is a great need for innovation to reach all corners of the development ecosystem; however a large cognitive distance exists between the concept of systematic product development and that of value creation. Instruments are needed to aid process agility, for defusing imminent problems as they mount, and for making effective decisions to sustain maximum productivity. Many of these objectives are neglected in systems development practices. As with so many management fads, it appears that no single one of these models lived up to all of the expectations and in many cases ended up being recipes for disaster. The statistics available on failed projects are concerning but has not stopped the scientific and engineering communities from trying over, and over again, to make progress. The goal of the thesis is therefore to identify the most viable model that supports the sustainability of systems development team performance. The research draws insights from extant literature, by applying a knowledge management theory based analysis on the various models with specific attention given to complexity theory. The dominant metric discovered is to measure the Value Velocity of a Systems Development Team. This metric is determined by two independent variables, being Value Created and Delivery Delay. Complex Adaptive Systems simply requires a guiding vision and a carefully selected set of generative rules for increasing and sustaining the Value Velocity. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Menige variasies van stelselsontwikkelingsmodelle het ontwikkel oor die afgelope vyftig jaar in stelselsingenieurswese en sagtewarewetenskap, en steeds is daar nie genoegsame kennis beskikbaar om beter begrip te kry oor hoe hierdie stelsels as Komplekse Aanpassende Sisteme bestudeer kan word nie, ten einde die bestuur daarvan te verbeter. Die primêre toepassingsgebied in die tesis is gespits op die ontwikkeling van rekenaarhardeware en - sagteware. Die behoefte vir innovasie moet al die fasette van die ontwikkelingsekosisteem bereik. Die bewusheidsgaping tussen sistemiese produkontwikkeling en waardeskepping, is te wyd. Instumentasie word benodig om te help met ratsheid in prosesuitvoering, om dreigende probleme te ontlont, en effektief besluitneming toe te pas, en sodoende produktiwiteit op ‘n maksimum vlak te hou. Hierdie doelwitte word tot ’n meerdere mate in die huidige praktyk verontagsaam. Net soos somige bestuursadvies oneffektief is, blyk dit dat daar nog steeds geen stelselsmodelle is wat alle verwagtinge bevredig nie. In baie gevalle eindig die toepassing daarvan in waan en mislukking. Die statistiek beskikbaar op mislukte projekte is onrusbarend, tog het dit nie vooruitgang gekelder nie, en die behoefte na verbetering bestaan steeds. Die doelwit van die tesis is dus om die mees lewensvatbare model wat die voortbestaan van stelselsontwikkelingsgroepe sal kan handhaaf, uit te sonder. Die navorsing neem insigte uit hedendagse literatuur en is gebasseer op ’n analiese van verskeide kennisbestuursteorieё teenoor die bestaande stelselsontwikkelingsmodelle. Die fokus is meer spesifiek toegespits op kompleksiteitsteorie. Die hoofmaatstaaf is om die Waardesnelheid van ’n stelselsontwikkelingspan te bepaal. Hierdie maatstaaf word gepyl deur twee onafhanklike veranderlikes, naamlik die Waarde Geskep en die Afleweringsvertraging. Ten slotte, vereis Kompleks Aanpassende Sisteme slegs die aanwesigheid van 'n leidende visie tesame met 'n goeddeurdagte stel ontwikkelingsreëls, wat aanleiding sal gee tot die verhoging en behoud van die Waardesnelheid.