This research was conducted to determine the impact bending strength and dynamic bending strength of Norway spruce wood from Slovenia. An accelerometer was added to the impact pendulum in order to capture the material’s response to an instantaneous load. Impact bending strength of specimens were determined by standard method measuring the height of pendulum before and after the break. While mea...

Layout, in the context of diagram editors, is the positioning of diagram components on the screen. Editor users enjoy automatic layout, but they usually like to control the layout at runtime, too. Our pattern-based layout approach allows for automatic and user-controlled layout at the same time: The diagram editor may automatically apply layout patterns to diagram parts based on syntactic rules...

The typical description of a VLSI layout is the geometrical description of masks. Layout verification [4] is the testing of a layout to see if it satisfies design and layout rules. An important problem in layout verification is layout device extraction, which involves detection of capacitors, resistors, transistors etc. from the geometrical description of masks. The layout extraction process st...

In this study, the effects of heat treatment of aluminum alloy on the tube bending process were investigated in the rotary draw bending process. As two experimental and numerical simulation methods were used to determine the wall-thinning, ovality, and spring back for extruded, annealed, and aged AA6063 aluminum alloy tubes in different bending angles and bend radii. Numerical simulations were ...

this paper is about discrete sensitivity analysis. a triangular bending element with constant moment and six degrees of freedom is used. the required derivatives for sensitivity analysis are calculated explicitly. these formulations, finite element method and sequential linear programming are utilized to find shape optimization of plate bending structures. the numerical examples, which show the...

Nucleic acids are highly charged polyanionic molecules; thus, the ionic conditions are crucial for nucleic acid structural changes such as bending. We use the tightly bound ion theory, which explicitly accounts for the correlation and ensemble effects for counterions, to calculate the electrostatic free energy landscapes for DNA helix bending. The electrostatic free energy landscapes show that ...

Layout generation in the late analog CMOS design is challenging by its increasing layout constraints and performance requirements. However, iterative refinement on manual design damages the productivity of analog layout. Therefore, it is more efficient to enroll the know-how from existing design instead of generating a new one. To contend with time-consuming analog layout for more possibilities...

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Creating multiple layout alternatives for graphical user interfaces to accommodate different screen orientations for mobile devices is labor intensive. Here, we investigate how such layout alternatives can be generated automatically from an initial layout. Providing good layout alternatives can inspire developers in their design work and support them to create adaptive layouts. We performed an ...