Evaluating existing flexible pavement condition is a pre-requisite to choose improvement technique that has to be adopted to enhance its quality. To evaluate existing pavements, non-destructive testing methods are desirable. Benkelman Beam and 5th Wheel Bump Integrator are used to conduct non-destructive tests like deflection and roughness surveys on the existing pavement of 4 lane divided carr...

Title of the Master-Thesis Development of a Surgical Assistant System for Needle Adjustment in Prostate Brachytherapy Author: 1. Examiner: 2. Examiner: Semester: Thomas Lehmann Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Vondenbusch, Hochschule Furtwangen University Mahdi Tavakoli, PhD, University of Alberta BME 3 Abstract: The prototype of a robotic surgical assistant system was developed for prostate brachythera...

in this paper deflection and free vibration of sandwich panel is studied. the core of sandwich panels is made of hexagonal honeycomb and faces are made of two different materials of carbon fiber reinforced plastic and k-aryl/epoxy covering. the governing equations are deduced from the first order sheer deformation theory (fsdt) and they are solved using generalized differential quadrature metho...

In noncommutative QED photons present self-interactions in the form of triple and quartic interactions. The triple interaction implies that, even though the photon is electrically neutral, it will deflect when in the presence of an electromagnetic field. If detected, such deflection would be an undoubted signal of noncommutative space-time. In this work we derive the general expression of the d...

In this work, the optical multi-stability is utilized in a deflection sensor element. We have found that a simple sensor, which consists of two cascaded Fabry-Perot resonators, has a novel memory property, besides having the ability to obtain instant deflection measurements. The essential operation of this device is conducted by an optically nonlinear refractive index change in the second reson...

To control the alignment of prestressed concrete bridge during construction, it is reasonable to treat the prediction of the deflection as an uncertainty. This paper presents a Bayesian updating approach to predict the deflection of prestressed concrete girders. A prior distribution is developed by using Monte Carlo stimulation with a proposed deterministic model under a variety of prestressing...

In this paper deflection and free vibration of sandwich panel is studied. The core of Sandwich panels is made of hexagonal honeycomb and faces are made of two different materials of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic and K-aryl/epoxy covering. The governing equations are deduced from the First order Sheer Deformation Theory (FSDT) and they are solved using Generalized Differential Quadrature Metho...