Nowadays the automobile industry is becoming more and more demanding as far as quality is concerned. Within the wide variety of processes in which this quality must be ensured, those regarding the squeezing of the auto bodywork are especially important due to the fact that the quality of the resulting product is tested manually by experts, leading to inaccuracies of all types. In this paper, an...

Current mobile computing systems can automatically sense and communicate detailed data about a person’s location. Location privacy is an urgent research issue because concerns about privacy are seen to be inhibiting the growth of mobile computing. This paper investigates a new technique for safeguarding location privacy, called obfuscation, which protects a person’s location privacy by degradin...

The high efficiency of monocoque cylindrical shells in carrying axial loads is curtailed by their extreme sensitivity to imperfections. For practical applications, this issue has been alleviated by introducing closely stiffened shells which, however, require expensive manufacturing. Here we present an alternative approach that provides a fundamentally different solution. We design symmetry-brea...