The recent advances in large-scale scene modeling have enabled the automatic 3D reconstruction of landmark sites from crowdsourced photo collections. Here, we address the challenge of leveraging crowdsourced video collections to identify connecting visual observations that enable the alignment and subsequent aggregation, of disjoint 3D models. We denote these connecting image sequences as video...

Some recent developments in the modeling of composite materials using the boundary element method (BEM) are presented in this paper. The boundary integral equation for 3D multi-domain elasticity problems is reviewed. Difficulties in dealing with nearly-singular integrals, which arise in the BEM modeling of composite materials with closely packed fillers or of thin films, are discussed. New and ...

Manual object digitizing is a tedious task and can be replaced by 3D scanners which provide an accurate and fast way to digitize solid objects. Since only one view of an object can be captured at once, several views have to be combined in order to obtain a description of the complete surface. In this paper a digitizing system is proposed which captures and triangulates views of a real world 3D ...

in this paper, numerical simulation of frp composite cylinder tubes progressive crushing processes is conducted using ls-dyna. details on the numerical modeling strategy are given and discussed. it is found that triggers introduced in the numerical simulation can effectively model the bevel trigger at the end of the tubular specimens. it is also found that two-layer finite element model based o...

one of the most important challenges in the development of urban railways network is the effects of railway vibrations on human and adjacent structures. although various investigations into the sources of railway vibrations have been conducted, very few research works have been reported on the influences of track geometry parameters on the level of vibrations. this is addressed in this research...

Simply supported bridges comprise the majority of bridge systems in coastal communities and are susceptible to severe damage from extreme waves induced by storms or tsunamis. However, effects oblique wave impacts have been less investigated due lack appropriate numerical models. To address this issue, study investigates incident angles on superstructures developing an advanced computational flu...

Contrast in capillary pressure of heterogeneous permeable media can have a significant effect on the flow path in two-phase immiscible flow. Very little work has appeared on the subject of capillary heterogeneity despite the fact that in certain cases it may be as important as permeability heterogeneity. The discontinuity in saturation as a result of capillary continuity, and in some cases capi...