The compound strip method (CSM) for plates is an expansion of the finite strip method (FSM) and was developed to incorporate the effects of the support elements in the analysis of linear elastic plate systems. In this paper the CSM is further expanded to analyze structures such as stiffened plates under loads in the plane of the plate or the so called plane-stress condition. Examples of these t...

The two-dimensional strip packing is a special case of “Cutting and Packing” problems that arises in many applications. The problem seeks to pack a given set of rectangles into a strip of given width in order to minimize its length. Some applications in which the strip packing problem arises are: Cutting pieces from wooden boards, cutting pieces from glass or steel sheets, optimal layout of ind...

hyrcanian (caspian) forest in northern iran with many endemic and endangered species is a rich area for biodiversity. the use of ground-based skidding is well accepted practice for the extraction of timber from the forest, but this has tended to cause the greatest environmental problems. the aim of the study was to evaluate and comparison of environmental impacts, residual stand damage, regener...

The capacitance between a single sensor strip and the backplane Csb=1.5 pF, bias resistor from the strip implant to the bias rail Rb=1.4 M, decoupling capacitance between the implant and Al readout strip Cdec=120 pF. Two sensors connected to a hybrid have an external capacitance between their backplanes and the ground Cbp=50 nF and a series resistor between this capacitance and the voltage sou...

Developable strip is commonly used in product design due to its ease of manufacture. This paper proposes an algorithm for geometric design of strip using developable Bézier patches. It computes an aggregate of triangular and quadrilateral patches interpolate two given space curves defining a strip. The computation process selects optimal solutions in terms of surface assessment criteria specifi...

Nucleic acid lateral flow (NALF) test strip is currently a promising method in biomedical applications for point-of-care diagnostic tests. Generally, biotin-labelled probe is commonly used in making the test lines and control lines, and the entire processes require long periods of incubation time with the probe and streptavidin. In this study, we use non-labelled oligonucleotides that have been...

seed germination, is a new alternative to no-till in areas where poorly drained soils are dominant. Where soil moisture conditions are suitable, strip-tillage creates narrow-width tilled strips, traditionally in the fall, to increase early spring soil evaporation and soil temperature in the top 2 inches. This is particularly effective in poorly drained wet soils, where slightly raised soil stri...

Differential growth processes play a prominent role in shaping leaves and biological tissues. Using both analytical and numerical calculations, we consider the shapes of closed, elastic strips which have been subjected to an inhomogeneous pattern of swelling. The stretching and bending energies of a closed strip are frustrated by compatibility constraints between the curvatures and metric of th...

It is shown that a vortex trapped in one of the banks of a planar edge-type Josephson junction in a narrow thin-film superconducting strip can change drastically the dependence of the junction critical current on the applied field, IcðHÞ. When the vortex is placed at certain discrete positions in the strip middle, the pattern IcðHÞ has zero at H 1⁄4 0 instead of the traditional maximum of ‘0-ty...