Transforming decades' old methodology, electromechanical reshaping (EMR) may someday replace traditionally destructive surgical techniques with a less invasive means of cartilage reshaping for reconstructive and esthetic facial surgery. Electromechanical reshaping is essentially accomplished through the application of voltage to a mechanically deformed cartilage specimen. While the capacity of ...

The research described in this paper focuses on the application of modal strain techniques on a multi-girder bridge superstructure with the objectives of identifying the presence of damage and detecting false damage diagnosis for such structures. The case study is a one-third scale model of a slab-on-girder composite bridge superstructure, comprised of a steel-free concrete deck with FRP rebars...

A Sarvate–Beam Triple System SB(v, 3) is a set V of v elements and a collection of 3–subsets of V such that each distinct pair of elements in V occurs in i blocks, for every i in the list 1, 2, . . . , ( v 2 ) . In this paper, we completely enumerate all Sarvate-Beam Triple Systems for v = 5 and v = 6. (In the case v = 5, we extend a previous result of R. Stanton [8].) 1 Sarvate–Beam Designs Th...

niques is now the world champion computer program in the game of Contract Bridge. As reported in The New York Times and The Washington Post, this program—a new version of Great Game Products’ BRIDGE BARON program—won the Baron Barclay World Bridge Computer Challenge, an international competition hosted in July 1997 by the American Contract Bridge League. It is well known that the game tree sear...