Auditory compression was estimated at 250 and 4000 Hz by using the additivity of forward masking technique, which measures the effects on signal threshold of combining two temporally nonoverlapping forward maskers. The increase in threshold in the combined-masker condition compared to the individual-masker conditions can be used to estimate compression. The signal was a 250 or 4000 Hz tone burs...

to investigate the hot deformation behavior of 17-7 ph stainless steel, hot compression tests were carried out at the temperatures of 950, 1050 and 1150 oc and strain rates of 0.001 s-1 to 0.1 s-1. accordingly, the hot working behavior was studied by the analyses of flow stress curves, work hardening rate versus stress curves, exponent- type constitutive equations and deformed microstructures. ...

This state-of-the-art paper on the hydromechanical behavior of unsaturated soils focuses interpretation compression curves in terms effective stress, with goal understanding relative impacts suction net yield stress and slope virgin line (VCL) during a monotonic increase stress. A database was compiled for both high low plasticity fine-grained under wide range suctions, isotropic or oedometric ...

This paper proposes a new joint source and channel coder based on the BCH codes on the reals, in which the signal protection (analogous to a signal interpolation) is performed before compression. This allows a better tradeoff in high accuracy compression, since part of the distortion introduced by the compression can be corrected by the "channel decoder". Furthermore, we propose as an optimal c...

concentric bracing is one of the most common lateral load resistant systems in building frames, and areapplied to many structures due to their manufacturing simplicity and economics. an important deficiency in thebracing members is their irregular hysteretic loops under cyclic loading. in order to overcome this problem, it isadvised to restrain braces against buckling under compression, since b...

Analytical models that predict modulus degradation in cortical bone subjected to uniaxial fatigue loading in tension and compression are presented. On the basis of experimental observations, damage was modeled as self-limiting for tension but not for compression. These mechanistic uniaxial damage models were then developed into a model for flexural fatigue of cortical bone based on laminated be...

It is well known that wavelets provide good non-linear approximation of one-dimensional (1-D) piecewise smooth functions. However, it has been shown that the use of a basis with good approximation properties does not necessarily lead to a good compression algorithm. The situation in 2-D is much more complicated since wavelets are not good for modeling piecewise smooth signals (where discontinui...

The deformation of polycrystalline beryllium to strains of 60.8 pct in uniaxial tension and compression was studied by neutron diffraction and modeled using an elasto-plastic self-consistent (EPSC) model. The beryllium response is asymmetric with respect to tension and compression in both the macroscopic behavior, as displayed in the stress/strain curve, and the microscopic lattice response. Th...