The design of interior cutouts in laminated composite panels is of great importance in aerospace, automobile and structural engineering. Based on the Tsai–Hill failure criterion of the first ply, this paper presents a newly developed Fixed (FG) Grid Evolutionary Structural Optimization (ESO) method to explore shape optimization of multiple cutouts in composite structures. Different design cases...

This paper presents the Event and Situation Ontology (ESO), a resource which formalizes the pre and post conditions of events and the roles of the entities affected by an event. The ontology reuses and maps across existing resources such as Wordnet, SUMO and Framenet and is designed for extracting information from text that otherwise would have been implicit. We present the metamodel of the ont...

We used the near infrared spectrometer ISAAC at the ESO Very Large Telescope to map the velocity field of Centaurus A (NGC 5128) at several position angles and locations in the central 20 of the galaxy. The high spatial resolution (∼ 0. 5) velocity fields Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory, Paranal, Chile (ESO Program 63.P0271A) Affiliated to Space Science Depa...

We present recent results on the evolution of the colour-magnitude relation and of the star formation activity in galaxy clusters since z ∼ 0.8. Results are based on the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) an ESO large programme aimed at the study of cluster structure and cluster galaxy evolution over a significant fraction of cosmic time and are discussed in the framework of the current standa...

We discuss the observational status of the interstellar lithium isotopic ratio and its significance with respect to the galactic evolution of lithium. Based on invited talks given at: ESO/EIPC Workshop on “Light Elements Abundances”, Isola d’Elba, Italy, May 22–28, 1994 ESO Workshop on “Science with the VLT”, Garching, Germany, June 28 – July 01, 1994 IAU General Assembly, Joint Discussion 11, ...

To design a more economical structural form, it is necessary to optimize both the topology and shape of structures. To optimize topology, we propose a hybrid of Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Evolutionary Structural Optimization (ESO). This paper describes the considerations in applying the proposed method to topology structural optimization. Through numerical examples, the proposed method showed b...

We discuss the observational status of the interstellar lithium isotopic ratio and its significance with respect to the galactic evolution of lithium. Based on invited talks given at: ESO/EIPC Workshop on “Light Elements Abundances”, Isola d’Elba, Italy, May 22–28, 1994 ESO Workshop on “Science with the VLT”, Garching, Germany, June 28 – July 01, 1994 IAU General Assembly, Joint Discussion 11, ...

Ring-opening polymerization of epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) catalyzed by boron trifluoride diethyl etherate (BF3 OEt2) in methylene chloride was conducted in an effort to develop useful biodegradable polymers. The resulting polymerized ESO (PESO) were characterized using infrared (IR) spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), H NMR, C NMR, solid st...

Extrusion freeform fabrication has been used to make bars of fiber-reinforced epoxidized soybean oil (ESO)/epoxy resin. Freeform fabrication methods build materials by the repetitive addition of thin layers. The mixture of epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) and epoxy resin are modified with a gelling agent to solidify the materials until curing occurs. The high strength and stiffness composites are f...

According to the serious decoupling, uncertainty, easily disturbed and nonlinear characters of the gas mixture of butterfly valve string couplets system, an ADRC static decoupling technology and the dynamic decoupling method based on extended state observer (ESO) were proposed. In this method, coupling from other input, parameters time-varying and external disturbances are all regarded as a tot...