In this paper, the effects of skin pass technique on residual stress and plastic strain fields generated in cold drawn pearlitic steel wires are analyzed. The aim is to find out optimal conditions be used design a manufacturing process for obtaining more reliable structural components terms main cause failure: hydrogen embrittlement (HE). To achieve goal, diverse numerical simulations were perf...

In this paper, a novel technique for the design of two-channel Quadrature Mirror Filter (QMF) banks with linear phase in frequency domain is presented. To satisfy the exact reconstruction condition of the filter bank, low-pass prototype filter response in pass-band, transition band and stop band is optimized using unconstrained indirect update optimization method. The objective function is form...

We study methods for drawing trees with perfect angular resolution, i.e., with angles at each node v equal to 2π/d(v). We show: 1. Any unordered tree has a crossing-free straight-line drawing with perfect angular resolution and polynomial area. 2. There are ordered trees that require exponential area for any crossing-free straight-line drawing having perfect angular resolution. 3. Any ordered t...

This paper describes a new class of maximally at lowpass recursive digital lters. The lters are realizable as a parallel sum of two allpass lters, a structure for which low-complexity low-noise implementations exist. Note that, with the classical Butterworth lter of degree N, which is retrieved as a special case, it is not possible to adjust the delay (or phase-linearity). However, with the mor...

Traditional continuous-time filters are of integer order. However, using fractional calculus, filters may also be represented by the more general fractional-order differential equations in which case integer-order filters are only a tight subset of fractional-order filters. In this work, we show that low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and all-pass filters can be realized with circuits incorporatin...

The purpose was to illustrate how system developed for measurement of the aural vital signs such as patient's heart and lung sounds in the hospital. For heart sounds measurement must operate the frequency response between 20 - 800 Hz, and lung sounds measurement must operate the frequency response between 160 - 4,000 Hz. The method was designed PZT piezoelectric ceramics for both frequency resp...