The existence of a deformation and magnetization minimizing the magnetostrictive free energy is given. Mathematical challenges are presented by a free energy that includes elastic contributions defined in the reference configuration and magnetic contributions defined in the spatial frame. The one-to-one a.e. and orientation-preserving property of the deformation is demonstrated, and the satisfa...

Given a smooth surface, a ridge is a curve along which one of the principal curvatures has an extremum along its curvature line. Ridges are curves of extremal curvature and therefore encode important informations used in segmentation, registration, matching and surface analysis. Surprisingly, no method developed so far to report ridges from a mesh approximating a smooth surface comes with a car...

Electroadhesive surface haptic touchscreens can help augment user experiences by providing tactile effects. The electrode layout in current commercialized designs has separated electrodes for the sensing and actuating functions. During regular use, it is observed that fingerprint residue preferentially deposits on far more than electrodes, which makes underlying pattern apparent highly undesira...

Iron-filled magnetorheological polymers, when cured in the presence of a magnetic field, result in having a transversely isotropic structure with iron particles forming chains along the direction of applied magnetic induction. In this work, we model the magneto-viscoelastic deformation (and magnetization) process of such polymers. Components of the deformation gradient and the applied magnetic ...

The existence of a deformation and magnetization minimizing the magnetostrictive free energy is given. Mathematical challenges are presented by a free energy that includes elastic contributions defined in the reference configuration and magnetic contributions defined in the spatial frame. The one-to-one a.e. and orientation-preserving property of the deformation is demonstrated, and the satisfa...

-We propose an improved method for eye-feature extraction, descriptions, and tracking using deformable templates. Some existing algorithms are exploited to locate the initial position of eye features and then deformable templates are used for extracting and describing the eye features. Rather than using original energy minimization for matching the templates, the region-based approach is propos...

We present an image editing tool that allows to deform and composite image regions using an intuitive sketch-based interface. Users simply draw the outline of the source image region and sketch a new boundary shape onto the location where this region is to be pasted. The deformation optimizes a shape distortion energy, and we use Poisson cloning for subsequent compositing. Since the corresponde...

Nanocrystalline nc materials are known to deform via mechanisms not accessible to their coarse-grained counterparts. For example, deformation twins and partial dislocations emitted from grain boundaries have been observed in nc Al and Cu synthesized by severe plastic deformation SPD . This paper further develops an earlier dislocation-based model on the nucleation of deformation twins in nc fac...

Iron-filled magnetorheological polymers, when cured in the presence of a magnetic field, result in having a transversely isotropic structure with iron particles forming chains along the direction of applied magnetic induction. In this work, we model the magneto-viscoelastic deformation (and magnetization) process of such polymers. Components of the deformation gradient and the applied magnetic ...

Car body deformation modeling plays a very important role in crash accident analyses, as well as in safe car body design. The determination of the energy absorbed by the deformation and the corresponding Energy Equivalent Speed can be of key importance, however their precise determination is a very difficult task. Although, using the results of crash tests, intelligent and soft methods offer an...