This paper examines the role of structural change in explaining aggregate productivity growth in the manufacturing sector of four Asian countries over the period 1963–1993. The conventional shift-share analysis is used to measure the impact of shifts in both labour and capital inputs. The results do not support the structural-bonus hypothesis, which states that during industrial development, fa...

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Sardar Raja College of Engineering, Alangulam, Tirunelveli 627 808, India Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli 627 007, India Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi 630 002, India Structural Analysis and Testing Group, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Triva...

This work presents some of the most recent advances in the technologies which could enable accurate assessment of useful life for composite aircraft fatigue-critical, flight-critical components and structure. Such technology advances include: (1) nondestructive subsurface measurement shift from just detection of defects to three-dimensional measurement of defect location and size; (2) material ...

This paper out l ines a formalism fo r conversat ional analysis that captures mul t ip le in te rac t iona l patterns of m i x e d i n i t i a t i v e and f i x the h i s to r i ca l skeleton of a dialogue. The formalism, composed by a grammar of dialogues (syntax and semantic component) and a co l l ec t i on of attached scenarios (pragmatic component), is wr i t ten in Prolog and implemented ...

The martensitic transformation and the solidification structures of Mn49.3Ni43.7Sn7.0 alloy ribbons prepared by melt-spinning were investigated by means of scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry. In those experiments special attention was given to melt spinning processing parameters such as the linear surface speed of the copper wheel rotating, the...

In the paper a new concept of modeling uncertainty is presented, based on the theory of fuzzy random variables. By this means, a super-ordinate uncertainty model is made available which includes the models developed so far, based on random variables and fuzzy variables as special cases. The fuzzy random variables are accounted for as input values in the fuzzy probabilistic structural analysis a...

Structural analysis is a powerful tool for early determination of detectability/isolability possibilities. It is shown how different levels of knowledge about faults can be incorporated in a structural fault-isolability analysis and how they result in different isolability properties. The results are evaluated on the DAMADICS valve benchmark model. It is also shown how to determine which faults...