The first sentence of Leo Tolstoy’s (1875–1877/2001) novel Anna Karenina is: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Here, Tolstoy means that for a family to be happy, several key aspects must be given (e.g., good health of all family members, acceptable financial security, and mutual affection). If there is a deficiency in any one or more of these key as...

We use Noether's theorem to derive energy-momentum tensors for a simple elastic material, a nonsimple elastic material of grade two, a simple elastic dielectric and a nonsimple elastic dielectric of grade two. The technique is easily extendable to a nonsimple elastic dielectric of any grade. Introduction The concept of the force acting on a defect, e.g., an impurity, vacant lattice site, disloc...

One of the common misconceptions about stuck-at fault model is that it does not model a physical defect accurately and therefore is not adequate for testing defects in the advancing technologies. Stuck-at fault model can be described as anything but a physical defect model. You can call it Abstract, Logical, Boolean, Symbolic, Functional, or Behavioral model, but don’t call it a physical defect...

Recently, the ambiguity and deficiency of a given bijective mapping F over a finite abelian group G were introduced by Panario et al. [PSS+13, PSSW11] to measure the balancedness of the derivatives DaF (x) = F (x+a)−F (x) for all a ∈ G\{0}. Fundamental properties and cryptographic significance of these measures were further studied in [PSSW11, PSS+13]. In this paper, we extend the study of the ...

Software defect content estimation is important, to control and ensure software quality. One possible method to achieve this is by applying capturerecapture methods. This type of methods can be applied on data collected from reviews, and it can be used to estimate the remaining number of defects after a review. This paper focuses on replicating a previous study made by other researchers. The re...

This article addresses the low Weissenberg asymptotic analysis (Newtonian limit) of some macroscopic models of viscoelastic fluid flows in the framework of global weak solutions. We investigate the convergence of the corotational Johnson-Segalman, the FENE-P, the Giesekus and PTT models. Relying on a priori bounds coming from energy or free energy estimates, we first study the weak convergence ...

We analyze coupled optical defect cavities realized in finite one-dimensional Photonic Crystals. Viewing these as open systems where waves are permitted to leave the structures, one obtains eigenvalue problems for complex frequencies (eigenvalues) and Quasi-Normal-Modes (eigenfunctions). Single defect structures (photonic crystal atoms) can be viewed as elementary building blocks for multiple-d...

A part-scale thermal modeling concept is implemented to predict defect distributions in additively manufactured components. Utilizing the principle of superposition, complete history builds can be simulated within time frame required for real physical builds, without spatial or temporal coarsening. Demonstrating on a component with typical laser powder bed fusion parameters, simulations show th...

More and more attention has been paid to the invariant texture analysis, because the training and testing samples generally have not identical or similar orientations, or are not acquired from the same viewpoint in many practical applications, which often has negative influences on texture analysis. Local binary pattern (LBP) has been widely applied to texture classification due to its simplici...