Rui He's blog

 I tried to solve the problem
that a rigid disc under harmonic moments resting on a porous half-space, the
porous medium is modeled using Biot's theory, when I consider the disc as
totally impervious, I found from the numerical results that negative damping
appears when the permeability of the porous medium is very low at a small
exciting frequency. I have no idea whether this is possible, can someone give
me some suggestions? Thanks very much.  

    I'm a graduate student studying the coupled elastic vibration prolbem of structures and soils. However, I'm not very interested in that, as I think the practical coupled structure and soil vibration problem is totally inelastic, and I don't think it is of great importance to study the elastic case. 

   Is there anybody studying the vibration problem  here and can you tell me what's the importance of studying the elastic vibration problem? Are you interested in inelastic vibration prolbem?

Scientists said on Thursday they recorded particles travelling faster than light - a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's fundamental laws of the universe.

Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers, said that measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done.