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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Détermination numérique des propriétés de résistance de roches argileuses / Numerical determination of the resistance properties of claystones

Pham, Anh Tu 21 December 2017 (has links)
Les capacités de résistance de l'argilite Callovo-Oxfordian (COx), qui est une roche hôte potentielle pour le dépôt souterrain profond de déchets radioactifs de haute activité en France, sont étudiées. À une échelle microscopique, des micros pores peuvent être observés dans la matrice. Une première étape d'homogénéisation a été réalisée afin d'évaluer le critère de résistance de la matrice. L'analyse microstructurale de ce matériau à quelques centaines d'échelle, référencée échelle échelle mésoscopique, montre une matrice argileuse et une distribution aléatoire d'inclusions minérales (quartz et calcite).Dans le but de déterminer le domaine de résistance à l'argilite COx, un premier outil numérique a été développé dans le contexte du comportement élastoplastique de la matrice. Plusieurs modèles morphologiques du volume élémentaire représentatif ont été considérés, et soumis à un chargement incrémental dans des conditions périodiques jusqu'à la charge limite. A la suite de ce calcul élastoplastique, un point de la frontière du domaine de résistance est obtenu. Ce dernier est alors obtenu par des calculs élastoplastiques successifs.Une alternative aux simulations élastoplastique directes, des approches cinématiques et statiques du calcul à la rupture sont réalisées. Une méthode du type éléments finis basée sur la construction d'un champ de contrainte (dans l'approche statique) et d'un champ de vitesse (dans l'approche cinématique) est développé dans un outil numérique permettant de calculer une limite inférieure et une limite supérieure de domaine de résistance / The strength capacities of Callovo-Oxfordian (COx) argillite which is a potential host rock for the deep underground repository of high-level radioactive waste in France are investigated. At a micro-scale, micro-pores can be observed in the matrix. A first strength homogenization step has been performed in order to evaluate the matrix strength criteria. The microstructure analysis of this material at some hundreds of micromet scale, referred at meso-scale, shows a clay matrix and a random distribution of mineral inclusions (quartz and calcite).Aiming to the determination of COx argillite strength domain, an FEM numerical tool has been developed in the context of the elastoplastic behavior of the matrix. Several morphological patterns of the representative elementary volume have been considered and subjected to an incremental loading in periodic conditions until collapse occurs. As a result of such elastoplastic calculation, one point of the boundary of the strength domain is obtained. The latter then could be reached by successive elastoplastic calculations.As an alternative to direct elastoplastic simulations, kinematic and static approaches of limit analysis are performed. The stress-based (static approach) and the velocity-based (kinematic approach) finite element method are used to develop a numerical tool able to derive a lower bound and upper bound of strength domain, respectively
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Localization algorithms for passive sensor networks

Ismailova, Darya 23 January 2017 (has links)
Locating a radiating source based on range or range measurements obtained from a network of passive sensors has been a subject of research over the past two decades due to the problem’s importance in applications in wireless communications, surveillance, navigation, geosciences, and several other fields. In this thesis, we develop new solution methods for the problem of localizing a single radiating source based on range and range-difference measurements. Iterative re-weighting algorithms are developed for both range-based and range-difference-based least squares localization. Then we propose a penalty convex-concave procedure for finding an approximate solution to nonlinear least squares problems that are related to the range measurements. Finally, the sequential convex relaxation procedures are proposed to obtain the nonlinear least squares estimate of source coordinates. Localization in wireless sensor network, where the RF signals are used to derive the ranging measurements, is the primary application area of this work. However, the solution methods proposed are general and could be applied to range and range-difference measurements derived from other types of signals. / Graduate / 0544 / ismailds@uvic.ca

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