Visualizing the crack driving force through fluid analogy

Fluid penetration through a crack in a pressure gradient

We investigate invasion percolation fingers in'a quenched medium in which the randomness has a gradient following a power law both in the direction of the flow and perpendicular to it. The first gradient corresponds to a pressure gradient, the second one to the density of microcracks that arises in a self-organized way around a large crack. We, give an argument for the value of the fractal dime...

What Is The Driving Force Behind Industrial Development In Iran? Rent Seeking And Labor Exploitation As The Driving Force Of Industrial Growth

Fracture Energies and Crack Driving Forces

Many advanced technologies center on devices of small feature sizes made of diverse materials. Internal stresses that arise in the devices during fabrication and use can result in fracture. Fracture of an individual feature in such a device may impair the function of the device.The materials surrounding the feature have a constraining effect on the elastic energy available to drive the fracture...

A driving force.

Paul B. MacCready has a knack for knowing the difference between the impossible and that which is merely extremely difficult. In the late 1980s, MacCready, founder and CEO of AeroVironment, a company that consults on pollution management and wind energy, figured that a battery-powered automobile could be practical , provided the entire machine was optimized for efficiency. It would have to be e...

VisualBackProp: visualizing CNNs for autonomous driving

This paper proposes a new method, that we call VisualBackProp, for visualizing which sets of pixels of the input image contribute most to the predictions made by the convolutional neural network (CNN). The method heavily hinges on exploring the intuition that the feature maps contain less and less irrelevant information to the prediction decision when moving deeper into the network. The techniq...