Attract-Integral ~uations are derived for the ~p~~nta~~on of in-plane as well as transverse displacements of shallow shells undergoing small, quasi-static or dynamic deformations. A combined boundary/interior element method for static stress, free-vibration, and transient response analyses of shallow shells, based on these integral equations, is derived. Numerical results are presented to demon...

Coronary spasm is a constriction of the epicardial coronary arteries that produces myocardial ischemia. It is considered the main mechanism of the dynamic coronary artery stenosis. The standard method for diagnosing coronary spasm is the ergonovine test during diagnostic coronary angiography. Another test currently used is stress echocardiography with intravenous ergonovine injection. We presen...

In this paper, a parallel AC/DC power system is investigated, and a nonlinear robust controller is proposed to improve transient stability of the power system and to damp out any prolonged oscillation after a fault is cleared. Lyapunov’s direct method is used to synthesize the control, and asymptotic stability of the closed loop system and improved dynamic performance are shown by both theoreti...

Explicit time-stepping methods are commonly used to solve transient, timedependent problems. For problems involving small-scale features, adaptive unstructured mesh refinement can be effective. Unfortunately, using such dynamic strategies on parallel computers can result in difficult load balancing issues because of the relatively high cost of the mesh partitioning to the time-step computation....

Complex multimode processes may have dynamic operation scenario shifts and strong transient behaviors so that the conventional monitoring methods become ill-suited. In this article, a new particle filter based dynamic Gaussian mixture model (DGMM) is developed by adopting particle filter resampling method to update the mixture model parameters in a dynamic fashion. Then the particle filtered Ba...

A simple, practical method of applying incremental dynamic computed tomography (CT) to the imaging of 20 carotid bifurcations is described. The results are compared with those obtained by conventional carotid angiography and intravenous digital subtraction angiography (DSA). Conventional angiography provided additional information about the carotid bifurcation in only one of 14 cases, while inc...

A novel semi analytical method is developed for transient analysis of single-lap adhesive joints with laminated composite adherends subjected to dynamical loads. The presented approach has the capability of choosing arbitrary loadings and boundary conditions. In this model, adherends are assumed to be orthotropic plates that pursuant to the classical lamination theory. Stacking sequences can be...

quadruped robots have unique capabilities for motion over uneven natural environments. this article presents a stable gait for a quadruped robot in such motions and discusses the inverse-dynamics control scheme to follow the planned gait. first, an explicit dynamics model will be developed using a novel constraint elimination method for an 18-dof quadruped robot. thereafter, an inverse-dynamics...