One of the main issues in addressing three-dimensional packing problems is finding an efficient and accurate definition of the points where to place the items inside the bins. The performance of exact and heuristic methods is actually strongly influenced by the choice of a placement rule. We introduce the Extreme Point concept and present a new Extreme Point-based rule for packing items inside ...

The mechanical reliability of products must be assured for scaling up and production complex‐shaped components by spark plasma sintering (SPS) spray‐dried granules. evolution morphologies pores defects, which control the strength, is investigated using synchrotron X‐ray multiscale tomography during SPS alumina granules at 1300 °C. While large defects arising from hierarchical granule packing st...

Microcapsules are commonly used in applications ranging from therapeutics to personal care products due their ability deliver encapsulated species through porous shells. Here, we demonstrate a simple and scalable approach fabricate microcapsules with shells by interfacial complexation of cellulose nanofibrils oleylamine, investigate the rheological properties suspensions resulting microcapsules...

in this paper wave transformation in a submerged sloped breakwater and its hydraulic performance was simulated by developing a numerical model in fortran. the code was established by combining porous flow and a two-phase model using vof method. modified navier-stokes and k-ε equations implemented to the model to simulate the flow in porous media. cut cell method was modified to simulate fluid t...

In the present research, the aqueous suspensions of nano-sized YSZ particles were prepared using a common and available dispersant (Dolapix CE64) at different pH values and their stability were evaluated through the sedimentation height, viscosity measurement, and microstructural observation. Different amounts of dispersant were tested and the optimum percentage was examined by measuring the vi...

Bin packing is a well studied problem which has many applications. In this paper we design a robust APTAS for the problem. The robust APTAS receives a single input item to be added to the packing at each step. It maintains an approximate solution throughout this process, by slightly adjusting the solution for each new item. At each step, the total size of items which may migrate between bins mu...

A new short proof is given for Brandt and Harrington's theorem about conformal uniformizations of planar nitely connected domains as domains with boundary components of speciied shapes. This method of proof generalizes to periodic domains. Letting the uniformized domains degenerate in a controlled manner, we deduce the existence of packings of speciied shapes and with speciied combinatorics. Th...