Entre os objetivos da engenharia geotécnica está a busca pelo entendimento e previsão do comportamento mecânico dos solos. Para isso, existem basicamente duas abordagens: ensaios de laboratório ou ensaios de campo. Em cada obra o Engenheiro Geotécnico deve julgar quais são os métodos e procedimentos mais indicados de investigação, que resultarão em parâmetros confiáveis de projeto. Os ensaios de campo foram desenvolvidos baseados nos solos argilosos e arenosos em virtude dos comportamentos distintamente bem definidos, especialmente em termos de drenagem. O mesmo ocorre para o ensaio DMT, cuja execução e interpretação são influenciadas pelo tipo de solo e pelas condições de drenagem. O grande desafio, neste caso, está na interpretação dos ensaios em solos cuja solicitação ocorre sob condição de drenagem parcial, como nos casos de barragens de rejeito de mineração, ou em depósitos naturais de solos siltosos, onde esta condição pode levar a erros de interpretação. No DMT, a ocorrência de drenagem parcial influencia tanto na etapa de cravação da lâmina, quanto na etapa de expansão da membrana. Neste sentido, o foco deste trabalho está no problema da dissipação de poropressão durante a expansão da membrana, apresentando procedimentos especiais para realização do ensaio DMT. Serão apresentados dois métodos de interpretação de resultados, visando compensar os erros de interpretação causados pela dissipação parcial de poropressão: Método de Dissipação Completa e, Método de Dissipação Incompleta. Este trabalho foi desenvolvido baseado na realização de ensaios de campo, com uma campanha executada em solo brasileiro argiloso, que serviu de base à interpretação, sendo complementada por 6 ensaios realizados em diferentes sítios na Itália. Os resultados dos ensaios realizados pelo Método de Dissipação Completa foram interpretados através de duas abordagens: Método da Igualdade (analítico) e Método Simplificado. Enquanto a interpretação do Método de Dissipação Incompleta é permitida apenas através de procedimento simplificado. A análise paramétrica apresentou comportamentos similares entre ambas abordagens, demonstrando que a taxa de dissipação é o fator que mais influencia nos resultados. Ao final, os métodos foram aplicados e validados em diferentes locais, apresentando resultados adequados e compatíveis com o comportamento previamente definido através de outros ensaios. / Among the geotechnical engineering goals are the understanding and prediction of soil behavior. For this, there are basically two approaches: laboratory or in situ tests. In this case, the Geotechnical Engineer must judge the most appropriate investigation methods and procedures that will result in reliable design parameters. In situ tests were developed for clay and sand given to the fact that the behavior of these soils is well-defined and drainage conditions are properly controlled. The DMT is no exception, with test and interpretation methods influenced by the drainage conditions. The challenge resides in the interpretation of tests carried out in soils under partial-drainage conditions, such as tailings dams or natural deposits of silty soils, where partial-drainage conditions are taking place around the DMT blade leading to errors on its interpretation. The partial drainage condition influences both the DMT blade penetration phase and the membrane expansion phase. In this sense, this work focus on the problem of the pore pressure dissipation taking place simultaneously to membrane expansion. A non-standard procedure is proposed to sounding the DMT in silts that include two methods for DMT interpretation in order to compensate the errors caused by the partial pore pressure dissipation: Method of Complete Dissipation Curve and Method of Incomplete Dissipation Curve. This work was developed based on tests carried out in Brazilian clay soils to develop the proposed approach that was validated latter in non-standard tests carried out in different Italian sites. The results of the tests performed by the complete dissipation method were interpreted through two approaches: Equality Method (analytical) and Simplified Method, while the interpretation of the incomplete dissipation method is possible only through simplified procedure. The parametric analysis showed that these approaches yield similar results, demonstrating that the dissipation rate is the most important factor in the analysis. At the end, the methods were applied and validated at different sites, showing results that are compatible to previously defined behavior of the soils.

abstract: A central concept of combinatorics is partitioning structures with given constraints. Partitions of on-line posets and on-line graphs, which are dynamic versions of the more familiar static structures posets and graphs, are examined. In the on-line setting, vertices are continually added to a poset or graph while a chain partition or coloring (respectively) is maintained. %The optima of the static cases cannot be achieved in the on-line setting. Both upper and lower bounds for the optimum of the number of chains needed to partition a width $w$ on-line poset exist. Kierstead's upper bound of $\frac{5^w-1}{4}$ was improved to $w^{14 \lg w}$ by Bosek and Krawczyk. This is improved to $w^{3+6.5 \lg w}$ by employing the First-Fit algorithm on a family of restricted posets (expanding on the work of Bosek and Krawczyk) . Namely, the family of ladder-free posets where the $m$-ladder is the transitive closure of the union of two incomparable chains $x_1\le\dots\le x_m$, $y_1\le\dots\le y_m$ and the set of comparabilities $\{x_1\le y_1,\dots, x_m\le y_m\}$. No upper bound on the number of colors needed to color a general on-line graph exists. To lay this fact plain, the performance of on-line coloring of trees is shown to be particularly problematic. There are trees that require $n$ colors to color on-line for any positive integer $n$. Furthermore, there are trees that usually require many colors to color on-line even if they are presented without any particular strategy. For restricted families of graphs, upper and lower bounds for the optimum number of colors needed to maintain an on-line coloring exist. In particular, circular arc graphs can be colored on-line using less than 8 times the optimum number from the static case. This follows from the work of Pemmaraju, Raman, and Varadarajan in on-line coloring of interval graphs. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Mathematics 2012

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:21:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTACAORafael Ragonezi.pdf: 1166394 bytes, checksum: 9a9d8ec52156e116033645a5d7ed068c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-03-03 / The aim of the study was to explore preferences and reasons for choosing or refusing prosthetic treatments in partially edentulous patients. Clinical and oral-related quality of life measures were collected from 165 patients undergoing dental treatment in undergraduate clinical activities in the School of Dentistry of the University Federal of Goiás. Reasons for choosing or refusing prosthetic treatments were investigated using an instrument containing 32 questions about the importance of these items for the patient s decisions about treatment in a 5-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 (no importance) until 5 (absolutely important). Descriptive statistics, chi-square and ANOVA were used to compare patients preferences according to clinical independent variables. Discriminant analysis was used to analyze the impact of patients reasons for choosing or refusing removable (RPD), fixed (FD) or implant (ID) prosthesis. Results showed that older patients (p<0.001) and with greater OHIP scores (p<0,05) were more likely to choose for removable partial dentures and implant prosthesis were preferred in patients with higher school levels (p<0.01). Discriminant functions reveal that the desire of having a fixed or removable appliance had great impact on patients decisions. The removal of natural teeth structure was the main reason for refusing conventional fixed dentures and cost had great impact on refusing implant dentures. Overall agreement percentages between actual patients decisions and predicted by discriminate analysis were over 90% for all types of treatment. It was concluded that acceptance or rejection of prosthodontic modalities have great variations among patients and individual perceptions are important determinants of treatment decisions. The main reasons for choosing or refusing treatments focused in this study can be used to guide shared decision making process, providing treatments that better match patients expectations and desires / Foram avaliados as preferências e os motivos determinantes na eleição ou recusa de modalidade de tratamentos protéticos em pacientes desdentados parciais. Além disso foram estudadas as características clínicas, variáveis sócio-demográficas, a influência da saúde bucal na qualidade de vida através do Oral Health Impact Profile -14 (OHIP-14), além dos motivos que determinaram a escolha ou recusa de opções de tratamento medidos pela importância de cada um de 32 itens numa escala de Likert de 5 pontos. Uma amostra 165 indivíduos parcialmente desdentados em atendimento na Faculdade de Odontologia da Universidade Federal de Goiás foi estudada. Realizou-se a análise descritiva dos dados e a comparação de variáveis de acordo com a preferência protética foi realizada pelos testes de qui-quadrado e análise de variância. O impacto dos itens do QPP (Questões sobre Preferência Protética) sobre a eleição ou recusa de tratamentos foi avaliado por meio de análise discriminante. Nos resultados a idade (p<0,001) e o escore do OHIP (p<0,05) foram significativamente maiores nos indivíduos que tiveram a prótese parcial removível como tratamento de eleição. A escolaridade mais alta (p<0,01) foi encontrada nos pacientes que optaram por prótese sobre implante. Através de análise discriminante linear, determinou-se que os principais motivos que impactaram na eleição e recusa para PPRs foram para ambas as arcadas, respectivamente, a possibilidade de se retirar a prótese para higienizar e o desejo de se ter uma prótese fixa na boca. O fato da prótese ser fixa na boca foi o principal motivo determinante na eleição da PPF, enquanto que a necessidade de se desgastar dentes naturais foi o principal motivo de recusa. Em relação à PI, o desejo de se ter dentes individualizados e de se ter uma prótese fixa foram os motivos de eleição e o maior custo do tratamento foi o motivo de recusa. O modelo final da análise discriminante teve um acerto total acima de 90% para cada uma das modalidades de tratamentos. Concluiu-se que há grande variação nas opções de eleição ou recusa de tratamentos protéticos entre os pacientes desdentados parciais e que fatores relacionados a percepções individuais dos pacientes são importantes determinantes de escolhas por tipos de tratamentos protéticos. Os motivos que apresentaram maior impacto na eleição ou recusa de tratamentos podem ser utilizados como importantes questões para o direcionamento das tomadas de decisão de tratamento em pacientes desdentados parciais

Neste trabalho, estudamos as Singularidades das folheações mutuamente ortogonais, numa variedade orientada M^3 de dimensão 3, cujas folhas são as curvas integrais dos campos de direções de curvatura principal associadas a uma imersão : M^3 R^4. Damos aqui continuidade às contribuições de R. Garcia referente ao estudo das singularidades genéricas das folheações principais. Apresentamos as configurações principais numa vizinhança dos pontos parcialmente umbílicos de codimensão 1, ou seja, as singularidades das folheações principais que aparecem genericamente em famílias a 1 parâmetro de hipersuperfícies imersas em R^4, e os diagramas de bifurcação pertinentes. Enfraquecendo a condição de genericidade, da maneira mais simples possível, encontramos oito tipos genéricos: D_1^ 1, D^1_ 2, D^1_ 3, D^1_, D^1_{1h,p}, D^1_{1h,n}, D^1_p e D^1_c , definidos ao longo do trabalho. Nesta tese consubstanciamos matematicamente a seguinte conclusão: As singularidades das folheações principais, que aparecem genericamente em famílias a 1 parâmetro de hipersuperfícies imersas em R^4, são os pontos parcialmente umbílicos D_1^ 1, D^1_ 2, D^1_ 3, D^1_, D^1_{1h,p}, D^1_{1h,n}, D^1_ e D^1_ , cujas definições e propriedades serão apresentados aqui. A parte central desta tese é estabelecer, analítica e geometricamente, a configuração principal destes pontos incluindo seus diagramas de bifurcação. / In this work we study the mutually ortogonal foliations, in oriented three dimensional manifolds M^3, whose leaves are the integral curves of the principal curvature direction fields associated to immersions : M^3 R^4. We focus on behavior of these foliation around singularities. Here we extend the contributions of R. Garcia concerning the study of generic singularities. To this end we establish the principal configurations in a neighborhood of partially umbilic points of codimension one. These are the singularities which appear generically in one parameter families of hypersurfaces and give their bifurcation diagrams. We express the condition of genericity by minimally weakening those given by R. Garcia and by adding instead new higher order ones. This procedure leads to the novel generic types: D^1_1, D^1_2, D^1_3, D^1_, D^1_{1h,p}, D^1_{1h,n}, D^1_p and D^1_c , studied in this work. The central part of this thesis is to establish, analitically and geometrically, the local principal configurations at these points, including their bifurcations diagrams.

This project is aimed at making comparison between current existing Internet- of-Things (IoT) platforms, SensibleThings (ST) and Global Sensors Networks (GSN). Project can be served as a further work of platforms’ investigation. Comparing and learning from each other aim to contribute to the improvement of future platforms development. Detailed comparison is mainly with the respect of platform feature, communication and data present-frequency performance under stress, and platform node scalability performance on one limited device. Study is conducted through developing applications on each platform, and making measuring performance under the same condition in household network environment. So far, all these respects have had results and been concluded. Qualitatively comparing, GSN performs better in the facets of node’s swift development and deployment, data management, node subscription and connection retry mechanism. Whereas, ST is superior in respects of network package encryption, platform reliability, session initializing latency, and degree of developing freedom. In quantitative comparison, nodes on GSN has better data push pressure resistence while ST nodes works with lower session latency. In terms of data present-frequency, ST node can reach higher updating frequency than GSN node. In the aspect of node sclability on one limited device, ST nodes take the advantage in averagely lower latency than GSN node when nodes number is less than 15 on limited device. But due to sharing mechanism of GSN, on one limited device, it's nodes shows more scalable if platform nodes have similar job.

This dissertation is in two parts, each of three chapters. In Part 1, I shall prove some results concerning variants of the 'secretary problem'. In Part 2, I shall bound several generalizations of the acyclic chromatic number of a graph as functions of its maximum degree. I shall begin Chapter 1 by describing the classical secretary problem, in which the aim is to select the best candidate for the post of a secretary, and its solution. I shall then summarize some of its many generalizations that have been studied up to now, provide some basic theory, and briefly outline the results that I shall prove. In Chapter 2, I shall suppose that the candidates come as ‘m’ pairs of equally qualified identical twins. I shall describe an optimal strategy, a formula for its probability of success and the asymptotic behaviour of this strategy and its probability of success as m → ∞. I shall also find an optimal strategy and its probability of success for the analagous version with ‘c’-tuplets. I shall move away from known posets in Chapter 3, assuming instead that the candidates come from a poset about which the only information known is its size and number of maximal elements. I shall show that, given this information, there is an algorithm that is successful with probability at least ¹/e . For posets with ‘k ≥ 2’ maximal elements, I shall prove that if their width is also ‘k’ then this can be improved to ‘k-1√1/k’ and show that no better bound of this type is possible. In Chapter 4, I shall describe the history of acyclic colourings, in which a graph must be properly coloured with no two-coloured cycle, and state some results known about them and their variants. In particular, I shall highlight a result of Alon, McDiarmid and Reed, which bounds the acyclic chromatic number of a graph by a function of its maximum degree. My results in the next two chapters are of this form. I shall consider two natural generalizations in Chapter 5. In the first, only cycles of length at least ’l’ must receive at least three colours. In the second, every cycle must receive at least ‘c’ colours, except those of length less than ‘c’, which must be multicoloured. My results in Chapter 6 generalize the concept of a cycle; it is now subgraphs with minimum degree ‘r’ that must receive at least three colours, rather than subgraphs with minimum degree two (which contain cycles). I shall also consider a natural version of this problem for hypergraphs.

abstract: The accurate monitoring of the bulk transmission system of the electric power grid by sensors, such as Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs), is essential for maintaining the reliability of the modern power system. One of the primary objectives of power system monitoring is the identification of the snapshots of the system at regular intervals by performing state estimation using the available measurements from the sensors. The process of state estimation corresponds to the estimation of the complex voltages at all buses of the system. PMU measurements play an important role in this regard, because of the time-synchronized nature of these measurements as well as the faster rates at which they are produced. However, a model-based linear state estimator created using PMU-only data requires complete observability of the system by PMUs for its continuous functioning. The conventional model-based techniques also make certain assumptions in the modeling of the physical system, such as the constant values of the line parameters. The measurement error models in the conventional state estimators are also assumed to follow a Gaussian distribution. In this research, a data mining technique using Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is proposed for performing a high-speed, time-synchronized state estimation of the transmission system of the power system. The proposed technique uses historical data to identify the correlation between the measurements and the system states as opposed to directly using the physical model of the system. Therefore, the highlight of the proposed technique is its ability to provide an accurate, fast, time-synchronized estimate of the system states even in the absence of complete system observability by PMUs. The state estimator is formulated for the IEEE 118-bus system and its reliable performance is demonstrated in the presence of redundant observability, complete observability, and incomplete observability. The robustness of the state estimator is also demonstrated by performing the estimation in presence of Non-Gaussian measurement errors and varying line parameters. The consistency of the DNN state estimator is demonstrated by performing state estimation for an entire day. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Electrical Engineering 2020

In this study, parameters related to material properties, geometry, and external stimuli were examined individually to determine their influence on multi-story, partially grouted, perforated (openings), masonry shear walls using a finite element software FormWorks. The parameters studied were: the strength of grouted masonry prisms f'm,grouted; the strength of un-grouted (hollow) masonry prisms f'm,ungrouted; the ratio of mortar shear strength to masonry compressive strength; vertical and horizontal reinforcement ratios in terms of size and spacing of reinforcement; axial load; aspect ratio; and openings that were vertically and horizontally altered. To perform this study, finite element models were validated against the response of three experimental walls of two unique types that were built ½ scale and tested in a lab. The validated finite element models were designated as "base models" which accurately predicted the maximum strength of each wall within a tolerance of 5.9%, 3.3%, and 1.8%. Following validation, each parameter in question was varied individually to identify and quantify the sensitivity of the parameter and to observe the changes in shear capacity and deflection for this unique configuration of masonry shear walls. To capture the impact of these parameters, 38 different shear wall models were built and tested. The results were compared against the Masonry Standards Joint Committee (MSJC) (2013) code predictions using the applicable shear strength equations. Results of this study are specific to cantilever type masonry shear walls with large aspect ratios and openings in every story. Shear wall capacity was considered sensitive to the following parameters: compressive strength of grouted masonry; compressive strength of un-grouted masonry; joint strength ratio; vertical reinforcement ratio; axial stress; aspect ratio; and opening width. Shear wall capacity was considered not sensitive to the following parameters: horizontal reinforcement ratio; vertical reinforcement spacing; and horizontal reinforcement spacing. The sensitivity of shear wall capacity to opening height was determined inconclusive. The sensitivities were determined by fitting trend lines to the results of shear capacity vs. each parameter individually. Each MSJC (2013) code prediction un-conservatively over-predicted the shear wall capacity except one wall configuration that had a joint strength ratio of 0.045.

In this study, parameters related to material properties, geometry, and external stimuli were examined individually to determine their influence on multi-story, partially grouted, perforated (openings), masonry shear walls using a finite element software FormWorks. The parameters studied were: the strength of grouted masonry prisms f<&trade>m,grouted; the strength of un-grouted (hollow) masonry prisms f<&trade>m,ungrouted; the ratio of mortar shear strength to masonry compressive strength; vertical and horizontal reinforcement ratios in terms of size and spacing of reinforcement; axial load; aspect ratio; and openings that were vertically and horizontally altered. To perform this study, finite element models were validated against the response of three experimental walls of two unique types that were built ½ scale and tested in a lab. The validated finite element models were designated as œbase models which accurately predicted the maximum strength of each wall within a tolerance of 5.9%, 3.3%, and 1.8%. Following validation, each parameter in question was varied individually to identify and quantify the sensitivity of the parameter and to observe the changes in shear capacity and deflection for this unique configuration of masonry shear walls. To capture the impact of these parameters, 38 different shear wall models were built and tested. The results were compared against the Masonry Standards Joint Committee (MSJC) (2013) code predictions using the applicable shear strength equations. Results of this study are specific to cantilever type masonry shear walls with large aspect ratios and openings in every story. Shear wall capacity was considered sensitive to the following parameters: compressive strength of grouted masonry; compressive strength of un-grouted masonry; joint strength ratio; vertical reinforcement ratio; axial stress; aspect ratio; and opening width. Shear wall capacity was considered not sensitive to the following parameters: horizontal reinforcement ratio; vertical reinforcement spacing; and horizontal reinforcement spacing. The sensitivity of shear wall capacity to opening height was determined inconclusive. The sensitivities were determined by fitting trend lines to the results of shear capacity vs. each parameter individually. Each MSJC (2013) code prediction un-conservatively over-predicted the shear wall capacity except one wall configuration that had a joint strength ratio of 0.045.

Olivine is the most abundant mineral in Earth's upper mantle and is one of the major minerals discovered in extraterrestrial objects. Its physical properties govern the dynamics of the upper mantle. The most dynamic regions of the upper mantle are sites where melting and melt segregation occurs. These regions are also the most variable in terms of their oxygen fugacity. We therefore conducted piston cylinder experiments to determine the intergranular melt distribution, and explore a range of oxygen buffers. We annealed olivine aggregates in metallic and graphite capsules to determine the oxygen fugacities set by the capsule materials. These experiments show that oxygen fugacities are below their corresponding metal-oxide buffers. The oxygen fugacity in nickel80-iron20 and graphite capsules most closely represents the intrinsic oxygen fugacity of Fo90 olivine, while iron capsules are too reducing perhaps explaining the formation of "dusty" olivine in chondrites. We annealed olivine-basalt aggregates in order to determine the melt distribution. The results show that the length of olivine grain boundaries wetted by melt (grain boundary wetness) increases with increasing melt content to values well above those predicted by a simplified model which is commonly applied to this system. At fixed melt content the grain boundary wetness increases with increasing grain size. These observations emphasize that the dihedral angle of the simplified system is not adequate to characterize the melt distribution in partially molten rocks. Our observations indicate that at upper mantle grain sizes the shear viscosity of partially molten rocks is one order of magnitude lower than predicted by the simplified model. Naturally partially molten rocks exist in the form of olivine-rich troctolites or plagioclase dunites, but the conditions for their formation are not entirely clear. We therefore conducted step-cooling experiments that indicate that slow cooling of samples with a steady-state microstructure reproduces the interstitial geometry observed in natural samples. The grain boundary wetness determined from the interstitial phases is somewhat reduced during slow cooling relative to samples quenched from high temperature. The microstructural similarity of experimental and natural samples suggests that mush zones identified beneath mid-ocean ridges may have lower melt contents than previously envisioned. / 2016-11-18T00:00:00Z