In this work, improved heat generation models are developed for straight and tapered shoulder geometries with different tool pin profiles in friction stir welding. The models are developed considering the welding process as a combination of the pure sliding and the pure sticking conditions. From the results, the amount of heat generation is directly proportional to the number of edges in the pi...

We developed a software tool (SlidingBayes) for recombination analysis based on Bayesian phylogenetic inference. Sliding-Bayes provides a powerful approach for detecting potential recombination, especially between highly divergent sequences and complex HIV-1 recombinants for which simpler methods like neighbor joining (NJ) may be less powerful. SlidingBayes guides Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC...

1 David Henry, Member, IEEE Computer Society, [email protected] 2 Yashwant K. Malaiya, Computer Science Dept., Colorado State University, [email protected] Abstract This paper shows how algorithm visualization can be used to teach sliding windows protocols. In the described approach, the student creates and visually manipulates traffic between an abstract sender/receiver pair. Thi...

In this paper, the dynamics of a DC-DC boost power converter under variable structure control is studied applying bifurcation analysis techniques. The switching hyperplane coefficients are considered as bifurcation parameters. The dynamic phenomena detected in this work suggest new types of sliding bifurcations. This analysis is relevant in the context of sliding mode control with auxiliary ada...

The turbulent flow field generated in a baffled stirred tank was computed by large eddy simulation (LED) and the flow field was developed using the Sliding Mesh (SM) approach. In this CFD study, mixing times and power number have been determined for a vessel agitated by a 6-blade Rushton turbine. The predicted results were compared with the published experimental data. The satisfactory results ...

Chatter suppression is essential for achieving high precision and surface quality in machining processes. In this paper, a control strategy is presented for chatter suppression in cutting process in the presence of tool wear and parameter uncertainties. A single-degree-of-freedom model of a turning process in the orthogonal cutting configuration is used to set up the nonlinear delay differentia...

The sliding mode control technique has long been recognized as a powerful tool to counteract matched disturbances. In the paper under discussion, the authors make a step beyond this and demonstrate that a certain degree of robustness pertains against mismatched uncertainties as well. A good job is done at specifying a class of mismatched disturbances (see Assumptions 1–5) and proving Theorem 3,...

OBJECTIVES Injury prevention is an important reason for the development of performance standards in football. Currently, there is no objective method available to classify sliding induced skin injuries, which includes the perceived sliding friendliness of football pitches. The purpose of this study was to develop a non-invasive method for quantification of the observed sliding induced skin dama...

Despite their canonical two-fold symmetry, nucleosomes in biological contexts are often asymmetric: functionalized with post-translational modifications (PTMs), substituted with histone variants, and even lacking H2A/H2B dimers. Here we show that the Widom 601 nucleosome positioning sequence can produce hexasomes in a specific orientation on DNA, providing a useful tool for interrogating chroma...