This paper outlines an experimental investigation carried out for the analysis of failure mechanisms in fibrous laminated composite plates containing stress raisers, in the form of cutouts, under static biaxial planar compressive loadiing. A specially designed biaxial loadiing frame was used to test a series of 48 ply graphite/epoxy composite laminated plates with centrally located circular hol...

This paper presents a method which extends the use of genetic programming (GP) to a complex domain, texture segmentation. By this method, segmentation tasks are performed by texture classifiers which are evolved by GP. Small cutouts sampled from images of various textures are used for the evolution. The generated classifiers directly use pixel values as input. Based on these classifiers an algo...

The handedness recognition of visually perceived body parts engages motor representations that are constrained by the same biomechanical factors that limit the execution of real movements. In the present study, we used small plastic cutouts that represented the human hand to investigate the properties of mental images generated during their haptic exploration. Our working hypothesis was that an...

The LCLS photocathode rf gun requires a solenoid immediately downstream for proper emittance compensation. Such a gun and solenoid have been operational at the SSRL Gun Test Facility (GTF) for over eight years. Based on magnetic measurements and operational experience with the GTF gun solenoid multiple modifications are suggested for the LCLS gun solenoid. The modifications include adding dipol...

We describe the development of a Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) matching technique using the current technology available through the Virtual Observatory. We outline the making of a detailed workflow technique that can take observational data of objects from various astronomical data archives and matches them to models generated through various model codes available. The result of running t...