The authors have been developing a pipe bender which fabricates pipes of three-dimensional complex shapes from straight pipes based on the penetration bending method. This bender is composed of a movable die supported by a drive mechanism, a fixed die and a pipe feeder. A 3-RPSR parallel mechanism was employed as the movable-die drive mechanism, and its kinematic design was figured out under th...

Many crystalline materials exhibit twinned microstructures, where well-defined orientation relationships define the special symmetry between different, elastically anisotropic twin variants. When such twins are subjected to external loading, additional internal stresses necessarily occur at the twin boundaries in order to maintain compatibility. These compatibility stresses are constant inside ...

In this paper we present a new one-dimensional shape matching technique based on elastic deformation of a model or template. Deformations of the given template are introduced as a way to improve the matching with the image data. A trade-o is made between the amount of deformation and a gure of merit that accounts for the match. This approach yields a new optimization functional so that the opti...

In this paper, we present an adaptive approach for simulating elastic deformation of homogeneous and inhomogeneous objects based on continuum mechanics. In typical adaptive simulation approaches, the deforming elastic object is usually subdivided to form a tree structure on the fly. However, they are not directly applicable for inhomogeneous elastic deformation, since the elasticity matrix, whi...

The finite-element method is used to perform an accurate numerical study of the normal indentation of an elastic-plastic half-space by a rigid sphere. The effects of elasticity and strain-hardening rate of the half-space are explored, and the role of friction is assessed by analysing the limiting cases of frictionless contact and sticking friction. Indentation maps are constructed with axes of ...

temper rolling or skin pass rolling is one of cold rolling processes composed of a horizontal pass cold rolling mill stand. in this process, the thick strip is subjected to very light reduction (0.5–4%) in thickness in the presence of high friction amplitudes. one of the basic parameters of strip rolling processes is temper rolling force. a new rolling force model has been proposed for temper r...

Internal stability of isotropic nonlinear elastic materials under homogeneous deformation is studied. Results provide new insight into various intrinsic stability measures, first proposed elsewhere, for generic nonlinear elastic solids. Three intrinsic stability criteria involving three different tangent elastic stiffness matrices are considered, corresponding to respective increments in strain...

In this paper, we show that using microwave measurements at different frequencies and ultrasound localized perturbations to create local changes in the medium it is possible to extend the method developed by Ammari et al. in [3] to problems in the form { ∇ · (a∇u) + k2qu = 0 in Ω, u = φ on ∂Ω, and to reconstruct reliably both the real-valued functions a and q from the internal energies a|∇u|2 a...

One of reasons that researchers in recent years have tried to produce ultrafine grained materials is producing lightweight components with high strength and reliability. There are disparate methods for production of ultra-fine grain materials,one of which is severe plastic deformation method. Severe plastic deformation method comprises different processes, one of which is Parallel tubular chann...