Failure can be defined, in general, as an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose. Failure of a material component is the loss of ability to function normally. Components of a system can fail one of many ways, for example excessive deformation, fracture, corrosion, burning-out, degradation of specific properties (thermal, electrical, or magnetic), etc. Failure of components, especia...

This paper presents an algorithm for material interface reconstruction for data sets where fractional material information is given as a percentage for each element of the underlying grid. The reconstruction problem is transformed to a problem that analyzes a dual grid, where each vertex in the dual grid has an associated barycentric coordinate tuple that represents the fraction of each materia...

Marginal stability plays an important role in nonlinear elasticity because the associated minimally stable states usually delineate failure thresholds. In this paper we study the local (material) aspect of marginal stability. The weak notion of marginal stability at a point, associated with the loss of strong ellipticity, is classical. States that are marginally stable in the strong sense are l...

This paper is motivated by the growing importance of better understanding of the phenomena and consequences of high-intensity energetic particle beam interactions with accelerator, generic target, and detector components. It reviews the principal physical processes of fast-particle interactions with matter, effects in materials under irradiation, materials response, related to component lifetim...

Cork is a material whose applications have been known since Antiquity, especially in floating devices and as stopper for beverages, mainly wine, whose market, from the early twentieth century, had a massive expansion, particularly due to the development of several cork based agglomerates (Gil, 2011). Cork is closely related to the maintenance of biodiversity, the heart of sustainable developmen...

The Stardust Mission used silica aerogel as the hypervelocity particle capture and return material since silica aerogel was the most reproducible to manufacture and the most thoroughly evaluated type of aerogel at the time [1]. However, the Stardust Science Team recognized that the use of silica aerogel, while expedient, introduced limits to mission’s eventual science return. This is due to the...

Quantitative RT-PCR analysis. The following primers were used to amplify β-casein cDNA and 18S rRNA sequences: forward primer of the β-casein gene 5'-GCT CAG GCT CAA ACC ATC TC-3' and reverse primer 5'-TGT GGA AGG AAG GGT GCT AC-3'; forward primer of the 18S rRNA gene 5’-TCGGAACTGAGGCCATGATT-3’ and reverse primer 5’CCTCCGACTTTCGTTCTTGATT-3’. Fragments of β-casein gene and 18S rRNA were amplifie...

Methodology: We recruited 45 cases of Schizophrenia diagnosed by diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-IV) criteria and 41 healthy controls from general population. The body mass index, metabolic syndrome parameters, lipid parameters and high sensitive C-reactive protein were measured in both groups. Metabolic syndrome and dyslipidemia prevalence were assessed based on Nati...

The following supplementary material provides additional evaluation and methods for the paper ”TimeClassifier A Visual Analytic System for the Classification of Multi-Dimensional Time-Series Data”. Firstly we introduce the terms precision and recall which provide a quantitative measure for the success of classification algorithms in the data mining community. We then present the results of a us...