In this paper, the consequences of filled volume on the transient lateral dynamic and stabilities boundaries displacement of an articulated vehicle carrying liquid is investigated. First, a sixteen-degrees-of-freedom nonlinear dynamic model of an articulated vehicle is developed then, using TruckSim software the model is validated. Next, the dynamic interaction of the fluid cargo with the vehic...

In this paper, the consequences of filled volume on the transient lateral dynamic and stabilities boundaries displacement of an articulated vehicle carrying liquid is investigated. First, a sixteen-degrees-of-freedom nonlinear dynamic model of an articulated vehicle is developed. Then, the model is validated by using TruckSim software. Next, the dynamic interaction of the fluid cargo with the v...

The behavior of cleavage crack fronts at grain boundaries in free-standing silicon thin films is investigated through a microtensile experiment. In addition to the crystallographic orientation, the orientation of grain boundary plane also plays a critical role. With respect to the initial crack surface, if the inclination angle is relatively small, the crack tends to penetrate across the bounda...

We study winding angles of oriented polymers with orientation–dependent interaction in two dimensions. Using exact analytical calculations, computer simulations, and phenomenological arguments, we succeed in finding the variance of the winding angle for most of the phase diagram. Our results suggest that the winding angle distribution is a universal quantity, and that the θ– point is the point ...

Improved axial spatial resolution in positron emission tomography (PET) scanners will lead to reduced sensitivity unless the axial acceptance angle for the coincidences is kept constant. A large acceptance angle, however, violates assumptions made in most reconstruction algorithms, which reconstruct parallel independent slices, rather than a three-dimensional volume. Two methods of treating the...

The effects of crystal-plasticity on the U-Th-Pb system in zircon is studied by quantitative microstructural and microchemical analysis of a large zircon grain collected from pyroxenite of the Lewisian Complex, Scotland. Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) mapping reveals a c.18 degree variation in crystallographic orientation that comprises both a gradual change in orientation and a series...

In this paper we present a method to recognize shapes by analyzing a polygonal approximation of their boundaries. The method is independent of the used approximation method since its recognition strategy does not rely on the number of segments composing the shape. Length and turning angle information are extracted from the chain of segments. The comparison method is invariant to scale, translat...

An empirical fetch-limited ocean wave spectrum has been combined with an acoustic ray-based model to predict the acoustic signal time-angle fluctuations induced by sea surface roughness. Rough sea surface realizations are generated and used as sea surface boundaries with the acoustic model. To validate this model, results are compared against experimental data collected in a fetch limited regio...

An algorithm for quality Delaunay meshing of 2D domains with curved boundaries is presented. The algorithm uses Ruppert’s “corner lopping” heuristic [MR96b:65137]. In addition to admitting a simple termination proof, the algorithm can accept curved input without any bound on the tangent angle between adjoining curves. In the limit case, where all curves are straight line segments, the algorithm...

In this paper we present a new approach to measuring similarity between two shape of object. In conventional method, centroid contour distance (CCD) is formed by measuring distance between centroid (center) and boundary of object, but this method cannot capture if an object have multiple boundary in the same angle. We develop a novel approach feature shape by measuring distance between centroid...