Database indices provide a non-discriminative navigational infrastructure to localize tuples of interest. Their maintenance cost is taken during database updates. In this work we study the complementary approach, addressing index maintenance as part of query processing using continuous physical reorganization, i.e., cracking the database into manageable pieces. Each query is interpreted not onl...

ABSTRACT: Room temperature drying tests on silt slurry with free and constrained boundaries, reveal an initial phase with a significant shrinkage at full saturation. Hence, this shrinkage is linked to a mass loss of pore fluid through the external boundary. Shrinkage in the unsaturated phase is much smaller. A simultaneous porosimetry reveals a bi-modal pore size distribution with a distinct ev...

Through a systematic experimental investigation into the polishing of polycrystalline diamond composites by the dynamic friction technique, this paper identified three major regimes of polishing conditions: the regime capable of a low material removal, that enabling a safe, high removal processing, and that of an unsafe but ultra-high material removal. The study concluded that a higher polishin...

Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) is an important subtropical evergreen fruit crop of Sapindaceae family. Fruit cracking a serious problem in litchi happen during growth and its development. affect significant loss economic yield. coincides with period characterized by high day temperature (35-40°C) low relative humidity (60%). Effect water sprinkling over tree canopy on cracking, quality yield w...

• Autogenous laser welding produces concave end-crater in 17–4 PH that is prone to solidification cracking. Solidification cracking at weld causes leakage. The use of novel zigzag power ramp-down profile significantly shorter, discontinuous, and leakage free cracks. An analysis presents a problems automotive pressure sensor, caused by crater A two-beam (TBLW) was used circumferential weld, whic...

Cracking furnace system is the starting and the most critical sector of an ethylene plant where heavier components are cracked into lighter products, such as ethylene, propylene, and etc. During the production, coking can adversely affect the manufacturing performance, such that furnaces have to be decoked for some controlled time. The cracking and decoking processes both influence the plant pr...

Article history: Received: 08.10.2013. Received in revised form: 21.11.2013. Accepted: 25.11.2013. This study presents a cellular automata (CA) method to map the cracking patterns of laterally loaded masonry wall panels with openings. Firstly, the central point displacement of each CA cell is calculated from the finite element method (FEM). Then, the displacements are normalized to form the CA ...