Determining a feasible bending sequence, i.e., ensuring absence of wire self-collisions and wire-machine collisions, or even an optimal minimising time energy required to perform it, is difficult time-consuming task for complex workpieces, expert operators. Introducting algorithms the computation wire-bending sequences thus crucial increase productivity production flexibility, decrease costs. T...

It is shown that the conductance of a weakly disordered Luttinger-liquid quantum wire connected to non-interacting leads is affected by electron-electron interactions in the wire. This is in contrast to the case of a perfect wire the conductance of which is given by e2/h regardless of interactions in the wire. The disorder-induced correction to the conductance scales with temperature and/or the...

WireWarping [1] is a fast surface flattening approach, which presents a very important property of length-preservation on feature curves. The global scheme of WireWarping formulates the warping problem into an optimization in angle space and solves it by using the Newton’s method. However, some diverged examples were found in our recent tests. This technical note presents a least-norm solution ...

Kirschner wires (K-wires) are widely used for fixation of fractures and dislocations in the hand as they are readily available, reliable, and cost-effective. Complication rates of up to 18% have been reported. However, K-wire breakage during removal is rare. We present one such case illustrating a simple technique for retrieval. A 35-year-old male presented with a distal phalanx fracture of his...

The main goal of this study is the use of Lyapunov’s stability theory to a three-phase four-wire shunt active power filter (SAPF), since this method has been applied effectively to other areas of converter. The dynamic model of the SAPF is first established, after that, a combination of fuzzy tracking control and Lyapunov function is suggested in order to impose a desired transient waveform on ...

During the SPS high intensity run 2002 with LHC type beam, the breaking of several of the carbon wires in the wire scanners has been observed in their parking position. The observation of large changes in the wire resistivity and thermionic electron emission clearly indicated strong RF heating that was depending on the bunch length. A subsequent analysis in the laboratory, simulating the beam b...

We have experimentally demonstrated that fast electrons emitted from a metallic wire irradiated by a 5 × 10(18) W/cm(2) laser pulse can be collimated along the wire, and that their intensity is significantly enhanced in the axial direction of the wire. As the wire length is increased up to 30 mm from the laser focal spot, the angular divergence of the emitted electrons with energies of hundreds...

Continuing VLSI technology scaling raises several deep submicron (DSM) problems like relatively slow interconnect, power dissipation and distribution. and signal integrity. Those problems are encountered particularly on long wires for global interconnect. As clockfrequencies increase, scaled wires become relatively slowe1; and on-chip communication will be the limiting performance factor of fut...

The currently high price of gold wire has led to the development of bonding wire made from palladium-coated-copper as a lower cost alternative. Increasing the uniformity of the Pd distribution in free-air balls, formed by melting the wire end with an electric spark, is of interest as it can influence the uniformity of process and reliability. To study this Pd distribution, free-air balls are ma...