The present paper investigates monitoring of fatigue cracks of a metal structure using an eddy current micro sensor. Fatigue cracks tend to occur at bolt-jointed structures on an aircraft. In order to detect the damage quantitatively, a kind of change-prone micro eddy current sensor is designed and fabricated with flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) technology. A forward semi-analytical model...

Zhigang Wu 1,2,*, Yongan Huang 1,2 and Rong Chen 1,2 1 State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China; [email protected] (Y.H.); [email protected] (R.C.) 2 Flexible Electronics Research Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China * Correspondence: [email protected]...

This study’s overarching aim is to establish the areal extent and characteristics of the rapid sugarcane expansion and land use change in São Paulo state (Brazil) as a result of an increase in the demand for ethanol, using Landsat type remotely sensed data. In 2003 flex fuel automobiles started to enter the Brazilian consumer market causing a dramatic expansion of sugarcane areas from 2.57 mill...

We present a haptic simulation system with interchangeable physical constraints for studying skillful human movements. The unified haptic interface easily links different physical models with 2D and 3D static spatial constraints and graphical content related to the models. The system was tested on a variety of reaching tasks performed by human subjects. In the experiments, we analyzed motions b...

This paper proposes Relational Similarity Machines (RSM): a fast, accurate, and flexible relational learning framework for supervised and semi-supervised learning tasks. Despite the importance of relational learning, most existing methods are hard to adapt to different settings, due to issues with efficiency, scalability, accuracy, and flexibility for handling a wide variety of classification p...

We introduce a new global constraint which combines together the lexicographic ordering constraint with some sum constraints. Lexicographic ordering constraints are frequently used to break symmetry, whilst sum constraints occur in many problems involving capacity or partitioning. Our results show that this global constraint is useful when there is a very large space to explore, such as when th...

We show that in theories with radiatively induced electro-weak symmetry breaking the EDMs obey a simple approximate scaling under the transformation m0 → λm0, m 1 2 → λm 1 2 in the large μ region. In the scaling region the knowledge of a single point in the MSSM parameter space where the cancellation in the EDMs occur allows one to generate a trajectory in the m0 −m 1 2 plane where the cancella...