Some brittle materials have found wide applications because of their excellent thermal, chemical, and wear resistance characteristics. Impeding the use of these brittle materials in precision engineering applications is the fact that currently it is very difficult for them to be machined in a way that ensures high precision in form and to a good surface finish. A non-traditional or unconvention...

In the original version of book, following belated correction has been incorporated: The affiliation “Department: School Mechanical Science and Technology” authors “Wei Bai Ronglei Sun” changed to “School Engineering”. book updated with change.

An important step in automatic reassembly of 2D fragments is to find candidate matching pairs for adjacent fragments. In this paper, we propose a new partial curve matching method to find the candidate matches. In this method, the fragment contours are represented by their turning functions. The matching segments between two fragment contours are found by analyzing the difference curve between ...

swimming C. elegans 3 4 Nikhil Srivastava (1), Damon A. Clark (1), Aravinthan D.T. Samuel (1) 5 6 Department of Physics and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, 7 MA 8 9 Running Head: Turns in swimming worms 10 11 Corresponding author: 12 Aravinthan Samuel 13 17 Oxford Street 14 Cambridge, MA 02138 15 e-mail: [email protected] 16 17 18 19 Articles in PresS. J Neurop...

in the present study, vibration of cylindrical laminates with different layers and angles were studied. in order to actuate and polarize in radial direction, a piezoelectric layer was located at outer surface of composite shell. laminates were assumed long enough so that plane strain state analysis in 2d can be used properly. in order to satisfy the boundary conditions, variables in terms of fo...