Two case studies are summarized using anisotropic plasticity and the Weibull weakest link failure model to predict the behavior of wood and wood composites. The linear elastic orthotropic model normally used for wood is shown to be insufficient for the prediction of ultimate strength in wood. Non-linear, non-recoverable behavior in compression in each of the orthogonal material directions is of...

The density-matrix renormalization-group [1, 2] (DMRG) is one of the most appropriate techniques to study static properties of the one-dimensional systems at zero temperature (for a review see, for example, Refs. 3 and 4). It is also possible to calculate dynamic properties [3–7] and work at finite-temperature through the DMRG [8–10]. The main advantage of DMRG, compared with the Lanczos exact ...

A parallel constrained coding scheme is considered where p blocks of raw data are encoded simultaneously into q tracks such that the contents of each track belong to a given constraint S It is shown that as q increases there are parallel block decodable encoders for S whose coding ratio p q converges to the capacity of S Examples are provided where parallel coding allows block decodable encoder...

This paper describes a data-interlacing architecture with two-dimensional (2-D) data-reuse for full-search block-matching algorithm. Based on some cascading strategies, the same chips can be flexibly cascaded for different block sizes, search ranges, and pixel rates. In addition, the cascading chips can efficiently reuse data to decrease external memory accesses and achieve a high throughput ra...

In this paper, a novel device architecture called the fully depleted silicon-on-insulator field-effect transistor with block oxide (bFDSOI-FET) is proposed to investigate the influence of block oxide height (HBO) on the electrical characteristics. According to the two-dimensional (2-D) simulation results, the characteristics of the proposed structure are similar to those of the ultra-thin (UT) ...

We study the inhomogeneous generalization of a 1-dimensional AKLT spin chain model. Spins at each lattice site could be different. Under certain conditions, the ground state of this AKLT model is unique and is described by the Valence-Bond-Solid (VBS) state. We calculate the density matrix of a contiguous block of bulk spins in this ground state. The density matrix is independent of spins outsi...

In this paper we consider the following robust twoblock problem that arises in est,imation and in fullinformation control: minimize the worst-case H” norm of a two-block transfer matrix whose elements contain H”-norm-bounded modeling errors. We show that, when the underlying systems are single-input/singleoutput, and if the modeling errors are “small enough”, then t,he robust, two-block problem...

Hyperspectral images are generated by collecting hundreds of narrow and contiguously spaced spectral bands of data producing a highly correlated long sequence of images. In this study, we investigate and compare the performance of several three-dimensional embedded wavelet algorithms for compression of hyperspectral images. They are 3D-SPIHT, AT3DSPIHT, 3D-SPECK (Three-Dimensional Set Partition...

To separate out the noise behaviour from color image several approaches has been identified, adaptive filter which is extension of LMS filter is one of them to achieve higher signal to noise ratio. In this paper, comparison of adaptive filter with different structure and two dimensional block processing for color image noise abolition is proposed. Simulations for different block size as well as...

 This paper proposes a method to remove blocking and ringing artifacts in low bit-rate block-based video coding. The proposed deblocking filter has 2 separate filtering modes, which are selected by pixel behavior around the block boundary. In each mode, proper one-dimensional filtering operations are performed across the block boundary along horizontal and vertical directions, respectively. Ev...