This paper describes an instrument capable of detecting flaws in "green-state" (prior to sintering) powder metallurgy (P/M) parts. The instrument uses a matrix of impedance measurements from a multiprobe array which contacts the surface of the P/M part. The array of measured data is processed to not only detect the presence of flaws, but also determine their location, size, and orientation. Exp...

Complement to standard E2611-09 of the American Society for Testing and Materials [Standard Test Method for Measurement of Normal Incidence Sound Transmission of Acoustical Materials Based on the Transfer Matrix Method (American Society for Testing and Materials, New York, 2009)] is proposed in order to measure normal incidence sound transmission loss of materials in a modified impedance tube u...

The design and necessity of corrosion-resisting nanocarbon nanocomposites have been investigated for cutting-edge aerospace applications. In this regard, nanofillers, especially carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanodiamond, etc. used to fill in various polymeric matrices (thermosets, thermoplastics, conducting polymers) develop anti-rusting space-related nanocomposites. This review fundamentally emp...

In order to analyse the maximum velocity of parallel maniprdators in operational space, a graphical method based on the analysis of the algebraic inequalities describing the constraints on the kinematics mode[ is presented. We consider a general 6 d. of parallel manipulator and assume that all articrdar velocities are bounded by the same limit. The method is then applied to the Conventional Ste...

This paper extends the generalized Hamiltonian method (GHM) (Zhang et al., 2009; Zhang and Wong, 2010) and its half-size variant (HGHM) (Zhang and Wong, 2010) to their -parameter counterparts (called S-GHM and S-HGHM, respectively), for testing the passivity of -parameter descriptor-form models widely used in high-speed circuit and electromagnetic simulations. The proposed methods are capable o...

We consider the problem of determining material loss due to corrosion in a plate. Eddy current data are collected on one side of the plate with corrosion damage occurring on the opposite side. Our work is based on linearizing the relationship between eddy current loop impedance change with the loss profile. In this context, we show that eddy current data are sufficient to uniquely determine the...

The AC impedance of the isolated perineurium of the frog sciatic nerve was examined at frequencies from 2 Hz to 100 kHz. A Nyquist plot of the imaginary and real components of the impedance demonstrated more than 1 capacitative element, and a DC resistance of 478 +/- 34 (SEM, n = 27) omega cm2. Transperineurial potential in the absence of externally applied current was 0.0 +/- 0.5 mV. The imped...

Models for acoustic transducers, such as loudspeakers, mastoid bone-drivers, hearing-aid receivers, etc., are critical elements in many acoustic applications. Acoustic transducers employ two-port models to convert between acoustic and electromagnetic signals. This study analyzes a widely-used commercial hearing-aid receiver ED series, manufactured by Knowles Electronics, Inc. Electromagnetic tr...

We show that surface normal information allows to significantly improve the accuracy of a spatio-temporal multi-view reconstruction. On one hand, normal information can improve the quality of photometric matching scores. On the other hand, the same normal information can be employed to drive an adaptive anisotropic surface regularization process which better preserves fine details and elongated...

The Restricted Isometric Property (R.I.P.) is a very important condition for recovering sparse vectors from high dimensional space. Traditional methods often rely on R.I.P or its relaxed variants. However, in real applications, features are often correlated to each other, which makes these assumptions too strong to be useful. In this paper, we study the sparse recovery problem in which the feat...