We propose a novel approach that enables a comparative visual exploration of the transport variability in ensembles of 2D flow fields. To reveal when and where divergences in transport occur, we first present a new approach to analyze the time-varying pairwise dissimilarities of ensemble trajectories, by using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) to identify the distribution modes and the Mahalanobis...

This paper applies the Acoustic Emission (AE) Technique to analyze damage process in a one-meter span bridge model that was built from spaghetti sticks during loading test. The AE signals are analyzed terms of four coefficients evaluated as predictors structure failure, with frequency variation appearing be strongest indicator instability. data also compared theoretical predictions given by Bun...

We present the dynamic formulations for sliding beams that are deployed or retrieved through prismatic joints. The beams can undergo large deformation, large overall motion, with shear deformation accounted for. Until recently, the sliding beam problem has been tackled mostly under small deformation assumptions, or under quasi-static motion. Here we employ geometrically-exact beam theory. Two t...

In this paper we present that the logical models in UML can be made better in three ways. Firstly these can avoid the limited ways of using UML to overcome two deficiencies: i. the ambiguous interpretation of classes, and ii. a lack of one to one correspondence with the textual representations of the models. Secondly the models can be hierarchical based on the notions of entity, collection, rel...