expansive soils show swelling and shrinkage behavior when subjected to cyclic wetting and drying. the variation in water content influence the volume change in this kind of soil. these volume changes can cause ground movement which may result in damage to the buildings and structures. to study the behavior, a number of successive wetting-drying cycles were conducted on a statically compacted ex...

Semiconductor manufacturing continues to charge down Moore’s Law of scaling. But every shrink increases the burden on lithography imaging. Traditional paths include increasing NA and reducing the illumination wavelength. However, the latest systems have maxed out NA for water-based immersion and wavelength developments are awaiting EUV systems, which are a few years away from volume production ...

Nowadays, functionally graded materials (FGM) are widely used in many industrial, aerospace and military fields. On the other hand, the interest in the use of shrink-fitted assemblies is increasing for designing composite tubes, high-pressure vessels, rectors and tanks. Although extensive researches exist on thick-walled cylindrical shells, not many researches have been done on shrink-fitted th...

Symbolic PDBs and Merge-and-Shrink (M&S) are two approaches to derive admissible heuristics for optimal planning. We present a combination of these techniques, Symbolic Merge-and-Shrink (SM&S), which uses M&S abstractions as a relaxation criterion for a symbolic backward search. Empirical evaluation shows that SM&S has the strengths of both techniques deriving heuristics at least as good as the...

Image denoising as a pre-processing stage is a used to preserve details, edges and global contrast without blurring the corrupted image. Among state-of-the-art algorithms, block shrinkage denoising is an effective and compatible method to suppress additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). Traditional NeighShrink algorithm can remove the Gaussian noise significantly, but loses the edge information i...

Abstract We show that among $$K_{k+1}$$ K k + 1 -free n -vertex graphs, the Turán graph contains most copies of any path.

we give an algorithm, called t*, for finding the k shortest simplepaths connecting a certain pair of nodes, s and t, in a acyclic digraph.first the nodes of the graph are labeled according to the topologicalordering. then for node i an ordered list of simple s − i paths iscreated. the length of the list is at most k and it is created by usingtournament trees. we prove the correctness of t* and ...

shrink fit process is a useful technique in order to introduce beneficial residual stress in compound pressure vessels. in this paper, the effects of geometrical tolerances on residual stresses have been studied for a compound shrink fitted pressure vessel, practically. three layers, which are designed based on an optimum nominal thickness and overlap dimensions and tolerances, have been fitted...