in this study, the vibration of cracked plates is investigated using the differential quadrature method and experimental modal analysis. the crack, which is assumed to be open, is modeled by the extended rotational spring. with its finite length, the crack divides the plate into six segments. then, the differential quadrature is applied to the governing differential equations of motion and the ...

in the present work, a hybrid of fourier transform and homotopy perturbation method is developed for solving the non-homogeneous partial differential equations with variable coefficients. the fourier transform is employed with combination of homotopy perturbation method (hpm), the so called fourier transform homotopy perturbation method (fthpm) to solve the partial differential equations. the c...

this paper presents a class of theoretical and iterative method for linear partial differential equations. an algorithm and analytical solution with a initial condition is obtained using the reduced differential transform method. in this technique, the solution is calculated in the form of a series with easily computable components. there test modeling problems from mathematical mechanic, physi...

in this paper, we introduce a hybrid approach based on neural network and optimization teqnique to solve ordinary differential equation. in proposed model we use heyperbolic secont transformation function in hiden layer of neural network part and bfgs teqnique in optimization part. in comparison with existing similar neural networks proposed model provides solutions with high accuracy. numerica...

BACKGROUND In cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), quadripolar (QUAD) left ventricular (LV) leads are less prone to postoperative complications than non-QUAD leads. Some studies have suggested better clinical outcomes. METHODS AND RESULTS Clinical events were assessed in 847 patients after CRT-pacing or CRT-defibrillation using either QUAD (n=287) or non-QUAD (n=560), programmed to single...

This thesis paper describes QUaD, a millimetric polarimeter designed to precisely measure the temperature and polarization anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. QUaD was built and integrated between 2000 and 2004, and commissioned at the south pole in the austral summer of 2004/2005. First light was achieved in February 2005, and QUaD acquired a full austral winter of...

PURPOSE Because of the importance of hamstrings (HAM) and quadriceps (QUAD) strength for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention and the high incidence of ACL injury in ski racing, HAM and QUAD maximal and explosive strength were assessed in ski racers with and without ACL reconstruction (ACL-R). METHODS Uninjured (n = 13 males, n = 8 females) and ACL-R (n = 3 males, n = 5 females,...

In this paper, we describe an image database system that can retrieve images that are similar to a query image. The query image is processed to extract information that is matched against an index to provide pointers to similar images. The salient feature of the system is that the index is developed from the jpeg-compressed images without rst having to uncompress them. We use a similarity measu...

Quad-rotors have been a very popular topic for research in the current literature because of its capability to perform different tasks autonomously. This paper focuses on the modeling of a quad-rotor aircraft dynamics based on experimental data. It will be demonstrated that a linear model could represent its dynamics despite of quadrotor's strong nonlinearities. Also, it will be shown how a qua...