Reliability assessment of reciprocating equipment piston rod leads to nonlinear elastic-plastic deformation analysis of rod with initial imperfection under axial dynamic load. In this paper a new and effective model and analytical simulation method are presented to evaluate dynamic deformation and elastic-plastic stress of reciprocating machine piston rod. This new method has capability to acco...

In this paper, we present a theory of elastic images deformation and matching. Our theory is based on the physical theory of elastic deformation of a continuum, and is very general: it applies to matching n-dimensional images with n-dimensional templates. We derive the variational formulation of the optimal deformation problem, and the Euler-Lagrange equations to solve it. Also, we address the ...

Temper rolling or skin pass rolling is one of cold rolling processes composed of a horizontal pass cold rolling mill stand. In this process, the thick strip is subjected to very light reduction (0.5–4%) in thickness in the presence of high friction amplitudes. One of the basic parameters of strip rolling processes is temper rolling force. A new rolling force model has been proposed for temper r...

A thin elastic rod embedded in an elastic medium buckles into an exponentially decaying short wavelength profile under compressive loading beyond a critical value. In this study, we report a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the buckling profile of a thin elastic rod embedded in an elastic gelatin biopolymer network when fracture of the network happens. Prior models have pr...

We introduce a novel approach for non-parametric non-rigid image registration using generalized elastic nets. The concept behind the algorithm is to adapt an elastic net in spatial-intensity space of one image to fit the second image. The resulting configuration of the net, when it achieves its minimum energy state, directly represents correspondence between images in a probabilistic sense and ...