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Organoclay modification is receiving attention as a nano-modifier for asphalt binders. Nanoparticles are able to effectively mend the damaged sites of the nanocomposite without external intervention. Particle-polymer interaction results in packing particles into developed cracks, thereby mending the cracks during patch formation. This study investigates the rheological properties of organoclay modified binders with a focus on their fatigue properties. To this end, the dissipated energy concept, the ratio of dissipated energy change and plateau value (PV) energy were examined during fatigue tests using a dynamic shear rheometer. The effects of strain level, frequency and temperature on unaged... 

The labels mathematician, engineer, and physicist have all been used in reference to Balthazar van der Pol. The van der Pol oscillator, which we study in this paper, is a model developed by him to describe the behavior of nonlinear vacuum tube circuits in the relatively early days of the development of electronics technology. Our study in this paper will be based entirely on numerical solutions. The rigorous foundations for the analysis (e.g., the proof that the equation has a limit cycle solution which is a global attractor) date back to the work of Lienard in 1928, with later more general analysis by Levinson and others  

The model of emotional masks is a newly developed AI paradigm based on Minsky's model of emotional mind in his recent book "The emotion machine". The model takes a resource management approach toward modeling the mind and views different processes of mind as resources that need to be managed. In the present work an intelligent controller (SCELIC) is developed based on the model of emotional masks. SCELIC is a model free controller which advantages from several learning tasks. Multiple learnings and adaptive structure make it a powerful adaptive and self-learning tool that performs the tasks of system identification and control in parallel. Although the test-bed considered here is a nonlinear... 

Coupled continuous quadratic knapsack problems (CCK) are introduced in the present study. The solution of a CCK problem is equivalent to the projection of an arbitrary point onto the volume constrained Gibbs N-simplex, which has a wide range of applications in computational science and engineering. Three algorithms have been developed in the present study to solve large scale CCK problems. According to the numerical experiments of this study, the computational costs of presented algorithms scale linearly with the problem size, when it is sufficiently large. Moreover, they show competitive or even superior computational performance compared to the advanced QP solvers. The ease of...