the susceptibility to terbacil of six randomly selected strawberry cultivars (‘aromas’, ‘chambly’, ‘harmonie’, ‘kent’, ‘la clé des champs’ and ‘seascape’) was analysed using chlorophyll florescence (cf) in comparison with visual observation, in an attempt to develop a method for use in a breeding programme to select herbicide-resistant strawberry lines. terbacil was applied at one of five rates...

In this paper, we study cost efficient multi-copy spraying algorithm for routing in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN) in which source-to-destination path does not exist most of the time. We present a novel idea and the corresponding algorithm for achieving the average minimum cost of packet transmission while maintaining the desired delivery rate by the given deadline. The number of message copies ...

The paper proposes a methodology for reliable design and maintenance of wind turbine rotor blades using a condition monitoring approach and a damage tolerance index coupling the material and structure. By improving the understanding of material properties that control damage propagation it will be possible to combine damage tolerant structural design, monitoring systems, inspection techniques a...

A paramount challenge in materials science is to design damage-tolerant glasses. Poisson's ratio is commonly used as a criterion to gauge the brittle-ductile transition in glasses. However, our data, as well as results in the literature, are in conflict with the concept of Poisson's ratio serving as a universal parameter for fracture energy. Here, we identify the electronic structure fingerprin...

A fault-tolerant distributed classification system employing the fault-tolerant fusion rule approach was proposed in [1]. Code matrix design is essential for the design of such systems. Two efficient code matrix design algorithms are proposed in this paper. The relative merits of both algorithms are also studied. Performance evaluation of the DCFECC (distributed classification fusion using erro...

Space applications require image sensors that are tolerant to the harsh radiation conditions outside the earth’s atmosphere. This paper reports about an ongoing optimization experiment for radiation tolerant 4T pixels. The experiment is conducted in a 0.18μm CMOS image sensor process and involves optimization of both the layout and the process technology. The purpose of the experiment is to min...

To improve the reliability of the motion control system for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), sensor fault tolerant control based on replace control was talked about. This paper analyzed the decoupling controller and the sensor system firstly, and proposed a fault tolerant control strategy based on the ideas of replacing the fault sensor outputs by the sliding-mode observer outputs (also ...

One of the major issues from a structural integrity point of view of the aircraft structure is an appropriate health monitoring technology delivery for the damage tolerant philosophy. This paper presents a development of a system for fatigue crack growth monitoring and early damage detection in the PZL – 130 ORLIK TC II turbo-prop military trainer aft structure. The maintenance system of the ai...