The article provides an analysis of the improvement methods for calculating leaf spring suspensions in retrospect; features modern calculation and own experience developing a suspension design medium-tonnage truck with gross weight 6 tons.

berthing force is a critical dynamic lateral force in the design of berthing structures, having equal relevance when compared to seismic forces. besides, the construction cost of berthing structures is very high which can be optimized by calculating precise design berthing energy on fender and selecting optimum fender system. in the present study, design berthing energy of bulk carriers having ...

A recent survey (Williams, 1995) indicated that over 1.7 million tons of liquid feed were manufactured in the 1994-95 production year. An estimated 45% (708,000 tons) of this liquid feed was used in feedlot diets and 55% (960,000 tons) was specified as non-feedlot and presumably most of this was fed to cattle on forage based diets. Past estimates of liquid feed tonnage indicate it has grown an ...

Diagnostic feature extraction with consideration of interactions between variables is very important, but has been neglected in most diagnostic research. In this paper, a new feature extraction methodology is developed to consider variable interactions by using a fractional factorial design of experiments (DOE). In this methodology, features are extracted by using principal component analysis (...

Assessment of bone quality is an emerging solution for quantifying the effects of bone pathology or treatment. Perhaps one of the most important parameters characterising bone quality is the toughness behaviour of bone. Particularly, fracture toughness, is becoming a popular means for evaluating bone quality. The method is moving from a single value approach that models bone as a linear-elastic...

We propose a novel method for curve structure extraction of cartoon images. Our method handles two types of cartoon curves, decorative curves and boundary curves, in a uniform way. The method consists of two steps. First, we calculate curve points by applying non-maximal suppress on secondary derivative of cartoon images. Second, these curve points are linked together to form structure curves w...