The use of corrugated webs in steel beams has become one the most practical ways to increase efficiency resisting loads, natural frequencies, and their resulting displacements. Such a practice benefit achieving same as with flat web greater thickness. Consequently, effect types on flexure mode shapes frequencies been investigated by analyzing 23 using finite element (FE) numerical analysis tech...

This paper presents a semi-automatic segmentation method to extract the liver volume from CT scans, based on discrete deformable surfaces with both a priori shape and intensity information. A shape model of the liver, represented as a triangular mesh, is built and is manually located in the region of interest, to be iteratively deformed in function of the image intensity and edges. In the defor...

Abstact Point/feature matching in 2D images has been well studied in the computer vision community. With the huge advancement in shape scanning and acquisition technology, feature matching has recently found usefulness in 3D shape matching and searching. We study the general problem of feature correspondence in 3D shapes represented by triangular meshes. This project is a survey and comparison ...

We investigate surfaces which interpolate given boundary curves. We show that the discrete bilinearly blended Coons patch can be defined as the solution of a linear system. With the goal of producing better shape than the Coons patch, this idea is generalized, resulting in a new method based on a blend of variational principles. We show that no single blend of variational principles can produce...

Obolopteryx truncoangulata n. sp., Barrientos-Lozano & Rocha-Sánchez, and a field collected conspecific gynandromorph are described, both from the northern Mexico's Highland. O. truncoangulata n. sp., may be separated from congeneric O. brevihastata based on morphological characters. The male's pronotum is more constricted mesally, and the tegmina are shorter. The disto-dorsal abdominal tergite...

This paper presents a normed G1 space and a weakened weak (W2) formulation of a cellbased smoothed point interpolation method (CS-PIM) for 2D solid mechanics problems using three-node triangular cells. Displacement fields in the CS-PIM are constructed using the point interpolation method (polynomial PIM or radial PIM) and hence the shape functions possess the Kronecker delta property facilitati...

The inferior colliculus (IC) of the bank vole is made up of 3 nuclei: the external and pericentral nucleus, which are located on the outer border of the IC, and the central nucleus, which is the largest part of IC and shows a laminated structure. On the basis of various morphological criteria 5 types of neurons have been distinguished in the bank vole IC: 1. The rounded cells (perikarya 10-15 m...

In this report, we observed the growth mechanism and the shape transformation from spherical nanoparticles (diameter ~6 nm) to triangular nanoprisms (bisector length ~100 nm). We used a simple direct chemical reduction method and provided evidences for the growth of silver nanoprisms via a coalescence process. Unlike previous reports, our method does not rely upon light, heat, or strong oxidant...

The shape of a weightless spinning liquid droplet is governed by the balance between the surface tension and centrifugal forces. The axisymmetric shape for slow rotation becomes unstable to a nonaxisymmetric distortion above a critical angular velocity, beyond which the droplet progresses through a series of 2-lobed shapes. Theory predicts the existence of a family of 3- and 4-lobed equilibrium...

This paper presents the magnetoelectric (ME) effect in trilayered Ni/PZT/Ni composites which is related to their size and shape. The ME composites with the same interfacial areas but different geometrical shapes have different ME voltage coefficients. Longitudinal resonant modes in the rectangular and triangular trilayered ME composites were studied. One should choose optimized size, shape and ...