Landslide is a type of mass movement that causes damage in many areas. The evolving remote sensing technology in producing high resolution images may help in landslide studies. However, the problem in detecting small size landslides is still challenging when suitable image resolution of the area being analyzed is not available. In this paper, a novel method based on elastic image registration, ...

The trend to weight-optimization of complex structures and machines leads to problems like resonance, noise or damage which are not predictable by analyzing the behavior of the single bodies only. In the present paper we combine existing techniques from multibody systems and from numerical analysis in order to contribute to the field of 3D deformable multibody dynamics. Two different approaches...

Deformation is the direct cause of heritage object collapse. It is significant to monitor and signal the early warnings of the deformation of heritage objects. However, traditional heritage object monitoring methods only roughly monitor a simple-shaped heritage object as a whole, but cannot monitor complicated heritage objects, which may have a large number of surfaces inside and outside. Wirel...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of the deformational behaviour of articular cartilage in vivo is required to understand the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis and the mechanical target environment of prospective cartilage transplant recipients. OBJECTIVES To study the in vivo deformational behaviour of patellar and femorotibial cartilage for different types of physiological activities; and to test the hypot...

One practical excavation support system is the inclined struts connected to adjacent buildings. This method is very common in small excavations, because of simplicity and minimum cost, when soil is cohesive and depth of excavation is less than stability depth (Hcr) but adjacent structures is at risk of damage due to weakness, old age or lack of proper skeleton frame. Although this method ...