Por décadas, a qualidade de produtos é determinada por testes em ambientes de laboratório, como testes de acelerados de vibração, ciclagem térmica, choque mecânicos ou térmicos, entre outros. Porém, mais recentemente um novo tipo de técnica tem adquirido a confiança de pesquisadores e projetistas. As técnicas conhecidas como HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) e HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening), ou seja, testes acelerados e amplificados que submetem produtos a condições severas, têm mostrado sua importância e eficiência no âmbito da detecção de falha em produtos ainda na fase de produção. Este trabalho tem por objetivo desenvolver e implementar um algoritmo de controle baseado em métodos heurísticos para ser usado em ensaios acelerados usando um Shaker eletrodinâmico. Este controlador deve ser robusto o suficiente para se adequar a possíveis efeitos de ressonância do shaker que podem vir a alterar a dinâmica do sistema, inviabilizando controles tradicionais com parâmetros fixos. Os resultados obtidos através de vários ensaios mostraram que ambos os sistemas de controle são eficientes, pois o erro entre o sinal desejado (tensão mecânica ou aceleração) e os medidos experimentalmente, tendem rapidamente a zero não apresentando sobressinais consideráveis ou erro em regime permanente, tanto para frequência fixa quanto para varredura de frequência. A comparação entre o controlador tradicional PID e o controle heurístico baseado em Lógica Fuzzy, que foram aplicados no shaker eletrodinâmico, comprova que, para mudanças na amplitude do sistema, o controle Fuzzy apresentou menor sobressinal, o que é mais favorável do ponto de vista mecânico. Logo, a metodologia proposta pode ser aplicada para ensaios HALT/HASS com o intuito de obter grandes vibrações e, por conseguinte tensões, para identificar possíveis falhas de projeto e então, poder corrigi-las. / For decades, product quality is determined by environmental tests, such as accelerated vibration tests, thermal cycling, mechanical or thermal shock, and others. However, more recently a new type of test has gained the trust of researchers and designers. Known techniques such as HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) and HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening), or accelerated and amplified testing that submit products to severe conditions have shown their importance in the efficiency and fault detection in products still in production phase. This study aims to develop and implement a control algorithm based on heuristic methods in order to be used in a system of accelerated tests in an electrodynamic shaker. This controller must be robust enough to fit the resonance effects of the shaker that it can change the system dynamic, invalidating traditional controls with fixed parameters. The results obtained through tests showed both control systems are efficient, because the error between desired signal (mechanical stress and acceleration) and the experimentally measured tend rapidly to zero, there aren’t overshoots or steady state errors, both for constant frequency and for sweep frequency. Comparing the PID traditional control and the Logic Fuzzy control, applied in electrodynamic shaker, we proved that to change system amplitude, the fuzzy control presented lower overshoot, that is favorable from the standpoint of mechanical. Therefore, the methodology proposed can be applied to HALT/HASS tests in order to obtain large vibrations and, consequently stress, to identify possible flaws in the design and correct them.

Por décadas, a qualidade de produtos é determinada por testes em ambientes de laboratório, como testes de acelerados de vibração, ciclagem térmica, choque mecânicos ou térmicos, entre outros. Porém, mais recentemente um novo tipo de técnica tem adquirido a confiança de pesquisadores e projetistas. As técnicas conhecidas como HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) e HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening), ou seja, testes acelerados e amplificados que submetem produtos a condições severas, têm mostrado sua importância e eficiência no âmbito da detecção de falha em produtos ainda na fase de produção. Este trabalho tem por objetivo desenvolver e implementar um algoritmo de controle baseado em métodos heurísticos para ser usado em ensaios acelerados usando um Shaker eletrodinâmico. Este controlador deve ser robusto o suficiente para se adequar a possíveis efeitos de ressonância do shaker que podem vir a alterar a dinâmica do sistema, inviabilizando controles tradicionais com parâmetros fixos. Os resultados obtidos através de vários ensaios mostraram que ambos os sistemas de controle são eficientes, pois o erro entre o sinal desejado (tensão mecânica ou aceleração) e os medidos experimentalmente, tendem rapidamente a zero não apresentando sobressinais consideráveis ou erro em regime permanente, tanto para frequência fixa quanto para varredura de frequência. A comparação entre o controlador tradicional PID e o controle heurístico baseado em Lógica Fuzzy, que foram aplicados no shaker eletrodinâmico, comprova que, para mudanças na amplitude do sistema, o controle Fuzzy apresentou menor sobressinal, o que é mais favorável do ponto de vista mecânico. Logo, a metodologia proposta pode ser aplicada para ensaios HALT/HASS com o intuito de obter grandes vibrações e, por conseguinte tensões, para identificar possíveis falhas de projeto e então, poder corrigi-las. / For decades, product quality is determined by environmental tests, such as accelerated vibration tests, thermal cycling, mechanical or thermal shock, and others. However, more recently a new type of test has gained the trust of researchers and designers. Known techniques such as HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) and HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening), or accelerated and amplified testing that submit products to severe conditions have shown their importance in the efficiency and fault detection in products still in production phase. This study aims to develop and implement a control algorithm based on heuristic methods in order to be used in a system of accelerated tests in an electrodynamic shaker. This controller must be robust enough to fit the resonance effects of the shaker that it can change the system dynamic, invalidating traditional controls with fixed parameters. The results obtained through tests showed both control systems are efficient, because the error between desired signal (mechanical stress and acceleration) and the experimentally measured tend rapidly to zero, there aren’t overshoots or steady state errors, both for constant frequency and for sweep frequency. Comparing the PID traditional control and the Logic Fuzzy control, applied in electrodynamic shaker, we proved that to change system amplitude, the fuzzy control presented lower overshoot, that is favorable from the standpoint of mechanical. Therefore, the methodology proposed can be applied to HALT/HASS tests in order to obtain large vibrations and, consequently stress, to identify possible flaws in the design and correct them.

Este trabalho foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de estudar a aplicação, para sistema de frenagem veicular, de uma máquina elétrica sem escovas, de armadura toroidal, e fluxo magnético axial produzido por ímãs permanentes de terras raras, a chamada máquina Torus. A máquina foi construída no LMEAE e estudada inicialmente como motor em outro trabalho. Mas, para que se possa avaliar seu funcionamento em sistema de frenagem, o foco é do ponto de vista da máquina como gerador. São realizados testes dinâmicos e estáticos experimentalmente e modelo numérico pelo método dos elementos finitos com um formato de ímãs permanentes de seção setorial, possibilitando o comparativo com a versão anterior da máquina que empregou ímãs de seção quadrada. Mudanças físicas e no sistema de acionamento da máquina, e ensaios de frenagem dinâmica foram realizados. Modelagem analítica para indução magnética foi desenvolvida utilizando-se da técnica de Transformação Conforme. O trabalho busca apresentar as características da máquina e justificativas que demonstram o seu potencial de aplicabilidade em um subsistema veicular sob frenagem regenerativa e a capacidade de fornecimento de energia a um sistema de armazenamento com uma parte de energia cinética, ou seja, baterias e supercapacitores. / This work is carried out with the aim to study the application, by a vehicular braking system, of a brushless electrical machine with a toroidal armature core, and axial magnetic flux delivered by rare earth permanent magnets, the so-called Torus machine. The machine was built in the LMEAE, and previously studied as a motor by other work. However, in order to assess its performance in a braking system, the focus is the point of view of the machine as a generator. Static and dynamic tests are implemented as well as a numerical model by means of the finite element method, in order to compare the machine with sector poles permanent magnets and with square magnet poles. Physical changes and on the driving system of the machine, and dynamic braking tests are performed. The analytical modelling for the magnetic induction was developed using the technique of conformal transformation. The study aims to present the features of the machine and demonstrates its potential applicability to a vehicular subsystem under regenerative braking and the ability to supply an energy storage system with part of the kinetic energy, i.e. batteries and super capacitors.

Apresenta-se um estudo analítico e experimental do fenômeno de interação entre excitadores eletrodinâmicos e a estrutura em ensaios de vibração e discutem-se causas e efeitos desta interação na qualidade dos resultados obtidos. Inicialmente, realizam-se simulações numéricas que contemplam as características mecânicas e eletromagnéticas do excitador. Definido o modelo para o excitador, realizam-se simulações de teste com estruturas, dos quais obtêm-se as forças de entrada e funções de resposta em freqüência (FRFs) estimadas que serão comparadas às FRF reais da estrutura. Posteriormente, considera-se a inclusão de graus de liberdade rotacionais aos modelos do excitador e da estrutura. Finalmente, as simulações de testes com múltipla excitação têm como objetivo principal o de observar os fenômenos de queda de força de excitação e seus efeitos sobre as FRFs estimadas. Com os resultados experimentais verificam-se os principais fenômenos da interação excitador / estrutura observados nas simulações numéricas tais como a queda da força de excitação e a influência da dinâmica do conjunto excitador / amplificador na resposta da estrutura. Através dos resultados experimentais obtidos com uma viga metálica observam-se os principais efeitos previstos pelas simulações. Ainda, comparam-se as alterações nos dados obtidos com outros métodos de excitação tais como, martelo impulsivo e excitação em malha fechada. Testes realizados com diferentes estruturas, como um pneumático e um chassi tubular, vêem complementar os dados obtidos até então para excitação com um único excitador. Os testes realizados com a finalidade de validar os modelos que incluem graus de liberdade rotacionais mostram que tais grandezas não podem ser negligenciadas, principalmente no que se referem aos testes com excitação via base, em que o item de teste é montado diretamente sobre o excitador. Ainda, verificam-se os resultados obtidos com diversos estimadores de FRFs em ensaios com acréscimo de ruído aos sinais de entrada e saída. Os resultados experimentais realizados com dois excitadores mostram os mesmos efeitos observados nas simulações, em geral uma redução na queda da força de excitação e uma melhor distribuição de energia pela estrutura. / An analytical and experimental study of the interaction between electrodynamic exciters and the structure under test is presented, and the causes and effects of this interaction on the obtained data quality are discussed. Initially, some numerical simulations are performed concerning the shaker\'s mechanical and electrical features. Once the shaker model is defined, some tests with structures were simulated in order to obtain the input forces and the estimated frequency response functions to be compared with the measured FRFs. Afterwards, the rotational degrees of freedom were included in the shaker and structure models. Ending this section, tests with multiple input forces were simulated. The experimental results confirm most of the phenomena observed in the simulation section, such as the input force drop-off and the influence of the shaker / power amplifier assembly on the structure\'s response. The tests conducted with a steal beam confirmed the effects predicted by the simulations. Therefore, these results are compared with others, obtained from alternative methods such as impact test and closed loop shaker tests. Tests with structures like a truck tyre and a tubular chassis complement the assessment of single input tests. The tests performed with the objective of validating the models considering rotational degrees of freedom show that these quantities cannot be neglected, mainly when base driven tests are concerned. Also, the efficiency of FRF estimators applied to shaker tests, in the presence of noise on the input and output channels is verified experimentally. The multiple input tests corroborate the effects observed in the simulations, in general, a reduction of the droopoff on the force and an improvement on the input energy distribution on the structure.

Por décadas, a qualidade de produtos é determinada por testes em ambientes de laboratório, como testes de acelerados de vibração, ciclagem térmica, choque mecânicos ou térmicos, entre outros. Porém, mais recentemente um novo tipo de técnica tem adquirido a confiança de pesquisadores e projetistas. As técnicas conhecidas como HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) e HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening), ou seja, testes acelerados e amplificados que submetem produtos a condições severas, têm mostrado sua importância e eficiência no âmbito da detecção de falha em produtos ainda na fase de produção. Este trabalho tem por objetivo desenvolver e implementar um algoritmo de controle baseado em métodos heurísticos para ser usado em ensaios acelerados usando um Shaker eletrodinâmico. Este controlador deve ser robusto o suficiente para se adequar a possíveis efeitos de ressonância do shaker que podem vir a alterar a dinâmica do sistema, inviabilizando controles tradicionais com parâmetros fixos. Os resultados obtidos através de vários ensaios mostraram que ambos os sistemas de controle são eficientes, pois o erro entre o sinal desejado (tensão mecânica ou aceleração) e os medidos experimentalmente, tendem rapidamente a zero não apresentando sobressinais consideráveis ou erro em regime permanente, tanto para frequência fixa quanto para varredura de frequência. A comparação entre o controlador tradicional PID e o controle heurístico baseado em Lógica Fuzzy, que foram aplicados no shaker eletrodinâmico, comprova que, para mudanças na amplitude do sistema, o controle Fuzzy apresentou menor sobressinal, o que é mais favorável do ponto de vista mecânico. Logo, a metodologia proposta pode ser aplicada para ensaios HALT/HASS com o intuito de obter grandes vibrações e, por conseguinte tensões, para identificar possíveis falhas de projeto e então, poder corrigi-las. / For decades, product quality is determined by environmental tests, such as accelerated vibration tests, thermal cycling, mechanical or thermal shock, and others. However, more recently a new type of test has gained the trust of researchers and designers. Known techniques such as HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) and HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening), or accelerated and amplified testing that submit products to severe conditions have shown their importance in the efficiency and fault detection in products still in production phase. This study aims to develop and implement a control algorithm based on heuristic methods in order to be used in a system of accelerated tests in an electrodynamic shaker. This controller must be robust enough to fit the resonance effects of the shaker that it can change the system dynamic, invalidating traditional controls with fixed parameters. The results obtained through tests showed both control systems are efficient, because the error between desired signal (mechanical stress and acceleration) and the experimentally measured tend rapidly to zero, there aren’t overshoots or steady state errors, both for constant frequency and for sweep frequency. Comparing the PID traditional control and the Logic Fuzzy control, applied in electrodynamic shaker, we proved that to change system amplitude, the fuzzy control presented lower overshoot, that is favorable from the standpoint of mechanical. Therefore, the methodology proposed can be applied to HALT/HASS tests in order to obtain large vibrations and, consequently stress, to identify possible flaws in the design and correct them.

We have extended the HOLA molecular dynamics (MD) code to run slider-on-block friction experiments for Al and Cu. Both objects are allowed to evolve freely and show marked deformation despite the hardness difference. We recover realistic coefficients of friction and verify the importance of cold-welding and plastic deformations in dry sliding friction. Our first data also show a mechanism for decoupling between load and friction at high velocities. Such a mechanism can explain an increase in the coefficient of friction of metals with velocity. The study of the effects of currents on our system required the development of a suitable electrodynamic (ED) solver, as the disparity of MD and ED time scales threatened the efficiency of our code. Our first simulations combining ED and MD are presented. / text

L’étude des organismes vivants, la biologie, s’étend sur de nombreux domaines et notamment s’applique à comprendre le fonctionnement des êtres vivants. Les organismes les plus complexes comme les êtres Humains possèdent plusieurs niveaux d’organisation : ils sont constitués successivement d’organes, de tissus, de cellules, de biomolécules. On trouve plusieurs types de biomolécules dont les protéines, qui sont comme des minuscules outils qui permettent aux cellules de vivre et d’interagir avec leur environnement. Pour cela, les protéines doivent entrer en contact les unes avec les autres de manière très précise et déterminée. Cette thèse teste l’existence de forces électrodynamiques de longue portée qui leur permettraient d’interagir de manière rapide et guidée, via l’étude de l’absorption ou l’émission de ce type d’onde par des protéines, puis la diffusion de ces protéines en solution pour observer leur comportement. / The study of living organisms, biology, extends over many fields and in particular, applies to understanding the functioning of living beings. The most complex organisms, such as human beings, have several levels of organization: they are made up successively of organs, tissues, cells, and biomolecules. There are several types of biomolecules including proteins, which are like tiny tools that allow cells to live and interact with their environment. To do this, proteins must come into contact with each other in a very precise and determined way. This thesis tests the existence of long-range electrodynamic forces which would allow them to interact in a rapid and guided way, by studying the absorption or emission of this type of wave by proteins, then the diffusion of these proteins in solution to observe their behavior.

Ce mémoire présente la conception, la réalisation et la caractérisation d'un micro-haut-parleur en silicium destiné à des applications électroniques portables, telles que les tablettes et les téléphones cellulaires. L'objectif est d'évaluer le potentiel des microtechnologies pour améliorer la qualité sonore et le rendement électroacoustique, qui sont deux points faibles majeurs des micro-haut-parleurs actuels.En analysant les paramètres dont dépendent le rendement et la qualité sonore, nous montrons que le silicium monocristallin présente des propriétés particulièrement intéressantes pour réaliser la surface émissive et la suspension du transducteur. Une microstructure de la partie mobile est proposée pour satisfaire la double exigence d'une surface émissive très rigide, nécessaire à la qualité sonore, et d'une masse très faible, permettant d'augmenter le rendement. Les aimants et la bobine, qui constituent le moteur électrodynamique, sont également optimisés en utilisant conjointement des modèles analytiques et à éléments finis. La microfabrication du transducteur MEMS est étudiée, étape par étape. Elle repose sur l'utilisation d'un substrat SOI (silicium sur isolant), qui sert de base à la structuration des différents composants, et sur lequel sont rapportés des aimants massifs. La caractérisation électroacoustique des échantillons réalisés montre une très bonne qualité de reproduction sonore. Un niveau sonore de 80 dB à 10 cm est obtenu pour une puissance électrique de 0,5 W, ce qui place le rendement au niveau des micro-haut-parleurs du marché. Ces travaux montrent en outre que les technologies MEMS offrent des possibilités d'augmenter très largement le rendement. / This research work presents the conception, the development, and the characterization of a silicon-based microspeaker for portable electronic device applications, such as tablets and cellular phones. The objective is to investigate the potential of microsystem technologies with the goal of improving the sound quality and the electroacoustic efficiency, which are two main drawbacks of the today’s microspeakers.By analyzing various parameters which influence the efficiency and the sound quality, we show that the monocrystalline silicon has very interesting mechanical properties which make it the proper choice to be deployed for the membrane as well as the suspension of the transducer.A stiffening structure is proposed to satisfy both the rigidity and the lightness of the membrane, for the sake of sound quality and high efficiency respectively. The magnets and the coil, which compose the electromagnetic motor of the device, are also optimized with the help of analytical and finite element models.Afterwards, the microfabrication of the MEMS microspeaker is studied step by step. It is indeed based on a SOI (silicon on insulator) substrate which makes possible the micromachining of the different parts and the assembly of bulk permanent magnets. The electroacoustic characterization of the MEMS microspeaker samples shows a very high sound quality. A sound pressure level of 80 dB at 10 cm is measured for an electrical power of 0.5 W. This classifies the MEMS microspeaker’s efficiency among that of today’s non-MEMS microspeakers.This work presents, moreover, the possibility of increasing even more the efficiency thanks to the MEMS technology.

L’exploration expérimentale de l’intrication quantique est un domaine de recherche très actif actuellement. Les systèmes d’électrodynamique quantique en cavité permettent notamment de générer de l’intrication dans des ensembles de plusieurs dizaines de particules, grâce à l’interaction à longue portée fournie par un mode du champ électromagnétique. Mon travail de thèse a consisté à mettre en place un nouveau dispositif expérimental afin d’assurer le chargement rapide et fiable d’une cavité optique miniaturisée à l’intérieur de laquelle l’adressage et la détection d’atomes uniques viennent s’ajouter à l’interaction collective fournie par le mode de la cavité. La tomographie quantique des états intriqués requière l’acquisition d’un grand nombre de données expérimentales, un soin tout particulier doit donc être porté quand à la stabilité et à la rapidité de répétition de l’expérience. Pour satisfaire à ces critères, un système de lasers particulièrement compacts et robustes, a été conçu et fabriqué afin d’assurer le refroidissement et l’interaction avec les atomes. Pour permettre la rapidité de répétition de l’expérience, une source de rubidium est utilisée en mode impulsionnel dans l’unique cellule à vide. Elle permet de moduler temporellement la pression atomique en fonction des besoins de l’expérience. Un chargement prompt du piège magnéto-optique est alors possible sans réduire la durée de vie des atomes dans la cavité, au moment où se déroulent les expériences. Le transport des atomes entre leur position de capture et le centre de la cavité s’effectue grâce à un piège dipolaire, déplacé selon son axe fort de confinement à l’aide d’un déflecteur acousto-optique. Cela permet un déplacement rapide, de l’ordre de la centaine de millisecondes pour une distance de 1,5 cm. Grâce à cette combinaison de techniques, ce nouveau dispositif expérimental devrait donner accès à la physique riche des systèmes intriqués à plusieurs dizaines de particules. / The study of quantum entanglement is a very active research field. Cavity quantum electrodynamics systems are versatile tools allowing for instance entanglement in mesoscopic systems, that is to say with about a hundred particles. The purpose of the new experimental setup built during this thesis is to reach the single atom manipulation and detection level while working with mesoscopic ensembles, collectively coupled to the cavity mode. Toward this goal, three new experimental techniques have been developed to enable reliable and fast data acquisition rate, essential to reconstruct entangled states by quantum tomography means. First, robust extended cavity diode lasers have been constructed, allowing acquisitions that last for days. Then, a pulsed atomic source has been set up, it combines the advantages of fast magneto-optical trap loading and long lifetime in conservative traps by modulating the pressure inside a single vacuum chamber apparatus on a short timescale. Finally, to ensure the fast transport of cold atomic ensembles from the magneto-optical trap to the cavity position, a dipole trap moved with an acousto-optic deflector has been built. This allows a transport over few centimetres leaving the full optical access to the atomic cloud for other manipulations. Thanks to this new experimental setup, we hope to contribute to the understanding of the rich physics lying beyond multi-particle entangled systems.

Studies of the hyperfine splitting in hydrogen are strongly motivated by the level of accuracy achieved in recent atomic physics experiments, which yield finally model-independent informations about nuclear structure parameters with utmost precision. Considering the current status of the determination of corrections to the hyperfine splitting of the ground state in hydrogen, this thesis provides further improved calculations by taking into account the most recent value for the proton charge radius. Comparing theoretical and experimental data of the hyperfine splitting in hydrogen the proton-size contribution is extracted and a relativistic formula for this contribution is derived in terms of moments of the nuclear charge and magnetization distributions. An iterative scheme for the determination of the Zemach and magnetic radii of the proton is proposed. As a result, the Zemach and magnetic radii are determined and the values are compared with the corresponding ones deduced from data obtained in electron-proton scattering experiments. The extraction of the Zemach radius from a rescaled difference between the hyperfine splitting in hydrogen and in muonium is considered as well. Investigations of forbidden radiative transitions in few-electron ions within ab initio QED provide a most sensitive tool for probing the influence of relativistic electron-correlation and QED corrections to the transition rates. Accordingly, a major part of this thesis is devoted to detailed studies of radiative and interelectronic-interaction effects to the transition probabilities. The renormalized expressions for the corresponding corrections in one- and two-electron ions as well as for ions with one electron over closed shells are derived employing the two-time Green's function method. Numerical results for the correlation corrections to magnetic transition rates in He-like ions are presented. For the first time also the frequency-dependent contribution is calculated, which has to be accounted for preserving gauge invariance. One-loop QED corrections to the magnetic-dipole transition amplitude between the fine-structure levels 2p_{3/2} and 2p_{1/2} are calculated to all orders in \alpha Z. Taking into account consistently relativistic, interelectronic-interaction, and QED corrections to the magnetic-dipole transition amplitude allows for predictions of the lifetimes of the states (1s^2 2s^2 2p)^2P_{3/2} in B-like ions and (1s^2 2s 2p)^3P_2 in Be-like ions with utmost precision. The results of corresponding calculations are compared with experimental data obtained in recent measurements at the Heidelberg EBIT. Finally, for He-like ions with nonzero-spin nuclei the effect of hyperfine quenching on the lifetimes of the 2^3P_{0,2} states is investigated and again compared available experimental data.