determination of the deformation length is one of the first steps in roll forming design. roll forming industries are very interested in explicit simple relationsfor prediction the deformation length without using trail-and-error methods at workshop or time consuming finite element simulations. in this paper, elastic properties and work-hardening behaviour of the strip are considered in additio...

In th i s paper we present a novel improvement to existing schemes for a b r u p t shot change detection. Existing schemes declare a shot change whenever t h e f rame to f rame histogram difference (FFD) value is above a particular threshold. In such a n approach, a high value for t h e threshold results in a small number of false a larms a n d a large number of missed detections while a low va...

Skinning geometry effectively continues to be one of the more challenging and time consuming aspects of character setup. While anatomic and physically based approaches to skinning have been investigated, many skinned objects have no physical equivalents. Geometric approaches, which are more general and provide finer control, are thus predominantly used in the animation industry. Free-form defor...

We present a new approach to surface tracking applied to 3D medical data with a deformable model. It is based on a parametric model composed of a superquadric t followed by a Free-Form Deformation (FFD), that gives a compact representation of a set of points in a 3D image. We present three diierent approaches to track surfaces in a sequence of 3D cardiac images. From the tracking, we infer quan...

This paper is a summary of the results we presented at the Feature Panel Session of the 1997 ASME Computers in Engineering Conference. Five participating groups submitted a total of nine test parts for feature recognition. To these test parts, we have applied our feature recognition method using a convex decomposition method called Alternating Sum of Volumes with Partitioning (ASVP). By applyin...

In this paper, a nonlinear theory applicable to the design of nanotube based devices is presented. The role of finite kinematics for a doubly clamped nanotube device is investigated. In particular, we analyze the continuous deformation and instability (pull in) of a clamped-clamped nanotube suspended over an electrode from which a potential differential is imposed. The transformation of an appl...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the performance trade off with MSK, BPSK and QAM_64 modulation techniques. Investigations have been reported to compare the performance and tradeoffs of MSK, BPSK and QAM_64 modulation schemes. Here modulation schemes have been identified which gives significant performance improvement over the other based on energy consumption and power recept...

Introduction 1. How to Solve the Deformation Equation 2. Deformations of Singularities 3. Smoothing Components of Curves 4. The Versal Deformation of L14 5. Remarks References Acknowledgement Electronic Availability In recent years I have computed versal deformations of various singularities, partly by hand, but mostly with the program Macaulay. I explain here how to do these computations. As a...

Directional long drilling on the roof is an effective gas control measure in goaf, but there little research stability of surrounding rock. In this study, geological conditions #4 coal seam Tingnan Coal Mine, Shaanxi Province, China taken as application background, and deformation characteristics boreholes under four typical rock were first analyzed based Universal Distinct Element Code (UDEC) ...

An analysis has been presented of the effect of elastic foundation and uniform in-plane peripheral loading on the natural frequencies and mode shapes of circular plates of varying thickness exhibiting bi-directional functionally graded characteristics, on the basis of first order shear deformation theory. The material properties of the plate are varying following a power-law in both the radial ...