Silicon carbide (SiC) is an important orthopedic material due to its inert nature and superior mechanical and tribological properties. Some of the potential applications of silicon carbide include coating for stents to enhance hemocompatibility, coating for prosthetic-bearing surfaces and uncemented joint prosthetics. This study is the first to explore nanomechanical response of single crystal ...

We investigate both drainage and spontaneous imbibition processes at the pore scale using a combination of microfluidic experiments and lattice-Boltzmann (LB) flow calculations. First, we have fabricated a range of specifically designed etched micro-models to investigate the role of pore shape and throat width on fluid displacement. These designs include junctions with both equal and unequal ch...

In this paper, a rate-distortion framework is proposed to define a jointly optimal displacement vector field estimation ( DVFE ) and quadtree segmentation technique for stereo video coding. This technique achieves maximum reconstructed image quality under the constraint of a target bit rate for the coding of the displacement vector field, quadtree segmentation information, and the residual sign...

A 3-dimensional (3D) optical flow program that includes a multi-resolution feature has been developed and applied to 3D anatomical structure and gross tumor volume (GTV) contour mapping for 4-dimensional (4D) CT data. The study includes contour mapping for 3 real patient CT data sets, and also for a thoracic phantom in which the displacement for each voxel is known. Of the real patient CT data ...

Digital Image Correlation (DIC) is an easy to use yet powerful approach to measure displacement and strain fields. While the method is robust and accurate for a variety of applications, standard DIC returns large error and poor correlation quality near displacement discontinuities such as cracks or shear bands. This occurs because the subsets used for correlation can only capture continuous def...

Fully automatic Face Recognition Across Pose (FRAP) is one of the most desirable techniques, however, also one of the most challenging tasks in face recognition field. Matching a pair of face images in different poses can be converted into matching their pixels corresponding to the same semantic facial point. Following this idea, given two images G and P in different poses, we propose a novel m...

One of the more challenging aspects of hybrid permanent magnet undulator design is end-field termination. Klaus Halbach provided indication of correct excitation patterns for tapered wigglers, but implementation on hybrid undulators has proven more difficult. Initial results on APS undulators achieved complete passive gap dependence of both total residual angle and trajectory through the device...

Adhesive strength between microsized SU-8 components and Si substrate is evaluated to clarify effects of heat curing. Micro-sized cylindrical shape is employed as a micro-sized adhesive test specimen to properly apply the load onto the specimen and to simply convert applied load to stress. Micro-sized cylindrical specimens of epoxy type photoresist, SU8, were fabricated on a silicon wafer using...

Sudden excursions of unusually large magnitude 1 m , “giant pop-ins,” have been observed in the force-displacement curve for high load indentation of crystalline germanium Ge . A range of techniques including Raman microspectroscopy, focused ion-beam cross sectioning, and transmission electron microscopy, are applied to study this phenomenon. Amorphous material is observed in residual indents f...

This article discusses development of the "Polymer flooding" module for distributed information system of oil fields development analysis. This module is designed to simulate displacement of oil using polymer injection method for 1532 Timur Imankulov et al. enhanced oil recovery and based on modern mathematical model that considers influence of salt and polymer concentrations on viscosity of in...