Thesis advisor: Gabor Kalman / Complex plasma systems have been studied for a long time. In this thesis we focus on a quasi-2D layer system. In fact, most experimental studies of complex plasmas are based on 2D systems, because it is easy to use camera to record the in-plane movement of particles. Unfortunately, due to the finite confining strength, the system is not a strictly 2D layer, it is a quasi-2D layer. We firstly studied the density profile of such a quasi-2D system by density functional theory(DFT). From the density profile research result, we found that the system can form a trilayer structure with proper parameters. Then we studied the dynamical properties of a trilayer system, and for simplicity, we only studied an ideal three layer model, both in liquid and lattice case. In lattice case, we firstly searched the stable lattice structure at different inter-layer distance. Then we used lattice sites summation to construct the dynamical matrix and solve the dispersion relation. For liquid case, we did the theoretical prediction for the collective dispersion by quasi localized charge approximation(QLCA), then we extracted the collective mode information from the molecular dynamics(MD) simulation. The QLCA and MD results were compared and discussed. The reason for the previous gap discrepancy problem is discovered. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2019. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Physics.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlational and casual connection between identity and intimacy development in later adolescents using lagged data and multiple measures of each construct. Developmental paths were hypothesized from four theoretically based models and designed to investigate gender and sex role orientation differences in the relationship of identity and intimacy formation. Identity was measured by the Revised Version of the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status. Both identity and intimacy were assessed by the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory and the Inventory of Psychosocial Development. The Bem Sex Role Inventory and the Questionnaire Measure of Emotional Empathy were used to assess sex role orientation. Using a two-wave cross-lag panel design, the pattern of correlational dominance between identity and intimacy was examined and directionality inferred. The results indicate that when examining gender differences, with sex role identification removed from the assessment of identity and intimacy, identity appears to be a dominant precursor to intimacy for both sexes. However, sex role orientation does appear to mediate the identity/intimacy relationship, where for males femininity enhances the identity/intimacy association but does not change the general male pattern of identity predicting intimacy. For females, a masculine sex role orientation results in a pattern similar to either masculine or feminine males, while femininity is associated with a more fused connection between identity and intimacy

Ces travaux de thèse sont dédiés à la mesure de formes 3D, de champs cinématiques 3D surfaciques et à l'identification de paramètres mécaniques à partir de mesures par corrélation d'images. Cette méthode optique se base sur l'utilisation de caméras comme support de la mesure. Pour cette raison, une étude des différents modèles de caméra classiquement utilisés est effectuée, puis le passage d'un formalisme continu pour la description des images à une approche discrète utilisant la notion de pixel est décrit. Une attention particulière est portée aux distorsions optiques et une approche utilisant la corrélation d'images pour les évaluer est développée. Une nouvelle méthode de mesure de forme 3D et de champs de déplacements 3D surfaciques par stéréo-corrélation d'images est introduite. Elle utilise un modèle numérique de l'objet observé comme support pour la corrélation. Cette méthode mène à une formulation globale de la stéréo-corrélation. Elle peut être écrite dans le cas général et particularisée à des surfaces NURBS (non-uniform rational B-splines). Le champ de déplacement est également exprimé dans un formalisme NURBS complètement cohérent avec le modèle géométrique utilisé pour définir la forme observée. Des mesures sont validées en utilisant des mouvements imposés à un carreau de Bézier usiné. La faisabilité de la technique dans plusieurs cas industriels est également étudiée avec, par exemple, la mesure des déplacements d'une pièce composite de train d'atterrissage chargée mécaniquement. Enfin, à partir de cette formulation isogéométrique de la mesure de champs, une étude de la caractérisation de propriétés élastiques est effectuée. Deux méthodes inspirées d'approches existantes sont ainsi proposées, utilisant des mesures de champs et des calculs numériques dans un formalisme isogéométrique pour identifier des paramètres de loi de comportement élastique isotrope sur un cas test numérique et pour un essai de traction uniaxiale. / This thesis is dedicated to measurement of 3D shapes, 3D kinematic fields on surfaces and identification of mechanical properties from digital image correlation measurements. This optical method uses cameras as measurement tools. For this reason, a study of the classical camera models used is performed and the description of the digitalization of an image from a continuous to a discrete formalism using the pixel is described. A specific work is dedicated to optical distortions and a method based on digital image correlation to evaluate these distortions is developped.A new method for 3D shapes and 3D displacement fields on surfaces using stereo-correlation is introduced. A numerical description of the observed object is used as a support to perform the correlation. This method lead to a global approach to stereo-correlation. It can be rewrite in a generic case or in particular to be applied to NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) surfaces. The displacement fields is therefore expressed in a NURBS formalism which is completely consistent with the geometrical model used to described the observed shape. Measurements are validated using prescribed motions on a Bezier patch. The feasibility of such a technique in several industrial cases is then studied with for example the measurement of the displacement of a composite part of a landing gear under mechanical loading.Finally, from this isogeometric formulation of full-field measurement, a study of the identification of elastic properties is performed. Two methods inspired from existing approaches are proposed, using full-field measurement and numerical simulations in a common isogeometric formalism to identify parameters of an isotropic linear elastic constitutive law on a both a numerical test case and a uniaxial tensile test.

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