Abstract By means of additive manufacturing, especially laser powder bed fusion, particle dampers can be integrated locally into structural components and thus significantly reduce component vibrations. However, detailed design recommendations for additively manufactured do not yet exist. The research question in this paper is: How the effect damping described as a function excitation force, ca...

Abstract Topology optimization is increasingly applied to design consumer products, for which aesthetics plays an important role acceptance. In industrial design, it known that preferences or taste judgement obey certain rules principles. These principles are not directly quantifiable, but can qualitatively predict and explain aesthetic responses. this paper, we empirically evaluate whether the...

This paper addresses the problem of speech recognition in reverberant multisource noise conditions using distant binaural microphones. Our scheme employs a two-stage fragment decoding approach inspired by Bregman’s account of auditory scene analysis, in which innate primitive grouping ‘rules’ are balanced by the role of learnt schema-driven processes. First, the acoustic mixture is split into l...