A novel multi-functional plate-like lamination that combines a thermal energy storage capability with a structural capability is described. The lamination consists of a paraffin impregnated porous graphitic core (the energy storage volume) encapsulated between rigid graphite/epoxy composite plates and ribs to form a twodimensional box structure. Heat storage is via solidliquid phase transition ...

The article develops a system of local holomorphic coordinates for the space of hyperbolic 3–manifolds with the fundamental group of a surface. These coordinates depend on the choice of a geodesic lamination on the surface, and are a complexified version of Thurston's shear coordinates for Teichmüller space. The imaginary part of these coordinates measures the bending of a pleated surface reali...

Automobile light weight structural composites are subjected to the various loadings in their service lives. Honeycombs are increasingly used as core structures in automobile light weight structures as energy absorbers. In this paper the energy absorption of honeycomb panels under impact of cylindrical projectile is numerically and experimentally studied. The effect of the core materials and cro...

We consider the family of harmonic measures on a lamination L of a compact space X by locally symmetric spaces L of noncompact type, i.e. L ∼= ΓL\G/K. We establish a natural bijection between these measures and the measures on the associated lamination by G-orbits, Ò L , which are right invariant under a minimal parabolic (Borel) subgroup B < G. In the special case when G is split, these measur...

For f an entire transcendental map with univalent Baker domain U of hyperbolic type I, we study pinching deformations in U , the support of this deformation being a lamination in the grand orbit of U . We show that pinching along a lamination that contains the geodesic λ∞ (See Section 3.1) does not converges. However, pinching at a lamination that does not contains such λ∞, converges and conver...

We prove that the set of leaves of a holomorphic lamination of codimension one that are tangent to a germ of a holomorphic map is discrete. Let F be a holomorphic lamination of codimension one in an open set V in a complex Banach space B. In this paper, this means that V = W × C, where W is a neighborhood of the origin in some Banach space, and the leaves Lλ of the lamination are disjoint graph...

Cell polarity during eye development determines the normal retinal lamination and differentiation of photoreceptor cells in the retina. In vertebrates, blood vessel epicardial substance (Bves) is known to play an important role in the formation and maintenance of the tight junctions essential for epithelial cell polarity. In the current study, we generated a transgenic zebrafish Bves (zbves) pr...