Binary Linking Schemes (BLS) for digital time-stamping 3] provide (1) relative temporal authentication to be performed in logarithmic time, and (2) time-certiicates of reasonable size, which together with the data published in a widely available medium enable the veriier to establish their relative temporal positions, even if the database held by the Time-Stamping Service (TSS) ceases to exist....

The drawbeads in stamping tools are usually designed based on experience from the forming of steel. However, aluminium alloys display different forming behaviour to steels, which is not reflected in the drawbead design for tools used for stamping aluminium. This paper presents experimental results from different semi-circular drawbead geometries commonly encountered in automotive dies and compa...

Optical incremental encoders are extensively used for position measurements in motion systems. The position measurements suffer from quantization errors. Velocity and acceleration estimations obtained by numerical differentiation largely amplify the quantization errors. In this paper, the time stamping concept is used to obtain more accurate position, velocity and acceleration estimations. Time...

Binary Linking Schemes (BLS) for digital time-stamping [3] provide (1) relative temporal authentication to be performed in logarithmic time, and (2) time-certi cates of reasonable size, which together with the data published in a widely available medium enable the veri er to establish their relative temporal positions, even if the database held by the Time-Stamping Service (TSS) ceases to exist...

A discrete-cosine-transformation (DCT) based decomposition method is proposed for modeling part form error, which decomposes the error field into a series of independent error modes. Compression, which ensures a compact model, is achieved by correlation reduction or mode truncation based on good energy compaction property of DCT. The part error related to assembly process (rigid body modes) and...

Direct stamping of functional materials has been developed for cost-effective and process-effective manufacturing of nano/micro patterns. However, there remain several challenging issues like the perfect removal of the residual layer and realization of high aspect ratio. We have demonstrated facile fabrication of flexible strain sensors that have microscale thick interdigitated capacitors with ...

Boron steels are used in hot stamping process due to their good mechanical properties. During the stamping process, the dies are exposed to aggressive conditions including adhesive wear, abrasion, thermal stresses and fatigue. In the present work, QRO 90 and UNIMAX slid against 22MnB5 steel in four conditions: with and without hardening treatment and, with and without Al–10%Si coating, in order...

Depiction of temporal information and examination of temporal knowledge are essential for effective temporal reasoning in medical analysis systems which are attaining significance recently. These temporal representation models afford attributes for temporal rules mining through association rule extraction which are necessary to perform detective inference in medical expert systems. Existing tem...