An orthogonal drawing of a plane graph G is a drawing of G in which each edge is drawn as a sequence of alternate horizontal and vertical line segments. In this paper we give a linear-time algorithm to find an orthogonal drawing of a given 3-connected cubic plane graph with the minimum number of bends. The best known algorithm takes time O(nT/4o~/I'd'~) for any plane graph of n vertices.

For the measurements 19 samples of building materias used in construction activities in this region of India were collected from various sites. In the present investigations radon exhalation rates from some building materials like fly ash, cement, slag, Bottom ash, Sand, Bazari, Badarpur and flooring tiles have been estimated using sealed can technique. It can be observed that Radon activity, R...

Recently, triboelectric energy nanogenerators (TENGs) have been paid the most attention by many researchers to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy. TENGs usually have a simple structure and a high output voltage. However, their high internal resistance results in low output power. In this work, we propose a flexible triboelectric energy nanogenerator with the double-side tribologic...

This paper presented an improved algorithm using digitally synthesized excitation signal sources for efficient and accurate measurement of the E/M impedance for structural health monitoring with PWAS (piezoelectric wafer active sensor) transducers. Instead of using a sinusoidal excitation to measure the structural E/M impedance at a single frequency at a time, the digitally synthesized signal s...

In this paper we describe a system which we have developed to measure cat ear canal specific acoustic impedance Zsp, magnitude and phase, as a function of frequency, for frequencies between 200 Hz and 33 kHz, and impedance magnitude between 4.0 to 4.0×105 [Rayles] (MKS). The object to be measured is placed at the end of a 3.5 mm diameter sound delivery tube. After a simple calibration procedure...

This paper reports the preliminary results of a newly developed method for measuring dynamic modulus of thermoplastic materials at a given ultrasonic frequency. In the method, a material specimen is squeezed at the tip of the horn of a conventional ultrasonic welding machine. The mechanical impedance of the material specimen under loading is then deduced by processing the input electrical imped...

Optical nanoantennas have been studied as a means to manipulate nanoscale fields, local field enhancements, radiative rates, and emissive directional control. However, a fundamental function of antennas, the transfer of power between a coupled load and far-field radiation, has seen limited development in optical antennas owing largely to the inherent challenges of extracting impedance parameter...

This paper proposes an adaptive trajectory generation strategy of using on-line ZMP information with an impedance control method. During walking, since the robot experiences various disturbances like pulling or pushing forces, the walking mechanism should have the robustness against those disturbances, and it requires an on-line adaptation ability. If sensed ZMP goes out of the preset ZMP bound...

With the increasing demand for multi-function and highly integrated space-borne microwave products, a three-dimensional heterogeneous integration based on special substrates other systems-in-package has difficulty with meeting requirements of high reliability in space. Through simulation, thermal-deformation resistance traditional interconnections meets reliability, but its transmission perform...