Path generation compliant mechanisms (PGCM) are flexible structures which generate some desired path and/or transmit force by undergoing elastic deformation (under some applied load) instead of through rigid linkages/joints as in rigid body mechanism. In the present work, multi-objective problem is posed for evolving of PGCM using local-search based genetic algorithm. Minimization of weight of ...

This work aims to provide standard formulations for direct minimization approaches on various types of static problems of continuum mechanics. Particularly, form-finding problems of tension structures are discussed in the first half and the large deformation problems of continuum bodies are discussed in the last half. In the first half, as the standards of iterative direct minimization strategi...

In this paper, we study the existence of least-energy nodal (sign-changing) weak solutions for a class fractional Orlicz equations given by ( − △ g ) α u + = K x f , in R N where ⩾ 3 is g-Laplace operator, while ∈ C 1 and positive continuous function. Under suitable conditions on K, prove compact embeddings result weighted Orlicz–Sobolev spaces. Next, minimization argument Nehari manifold quant...

We propose a scanline energy minimization algorithm for stereo vision. The proposed algorithm differs from conventional energy minimization techniques in that it focuses on the relationship between local match cost solution and the energy minimization solution. The local solution is transformed into energy minimization solution through the optimization of the disparity discontinuity. In this pa...

A multilength scale method based on asymptotic expansion homogenization (AEH) is developed to compute minimum energy configurations of ensembles of atoms at the fine length scale and the corresponding mechanical response of the material at the coarse length scale. This multiscale theory explicitly captures heterogeneity in microscopic atomic motion in crystalline materials, attributed, for exam...

We develop an analytical theory to explain the experimentally observed morphological transitions of quasispherical giant vesicles induced by alternating electric fields. The model treats the inner and suspending media as lossy dielectrics, and the membrane as an impermeable flexible incompressible-fluid sheet. The vesicle shape is obtained by balancing electric, hydrodynamic, bending, and tensi...

This paper defines the basis of a new hierarchical framework for segmentation algorithms based on energy minimization schemes. This new framework is based on two formal tools. First, a combinatorial pyramid encode efficiently a hierarchy of partitions. Secondly, discrete geometric estimators measure precisely some important geometric parameters of the regions. These measures combined with photo...

We present a user-guided, semi-automatic approach to completing large holes in a mesh. The reconstruction of the missing features in such holes is usually ambiguous. Thus, unsupervised methods may produce unsatisfactory results. To overcome this problem, we let the user indicate constraints by providing merely four points per important feature curve on the mesh. Our algorithm regards this input...

We have recently developed and tested an efficient algorithm for solving the nonlinear inverse elasticity problem for a compressible hyperelastic material. The data for this problem are the quasi-static deformation fields within the solid measured at two distinct overall strain levels. The main ingredients of our algorithm are a gradient based quasi-Newton minimization strategy, the use of adjo...