Studies on deformation characteristics of early-age Jointed Plain Concrete Pavements (JPCP) due to environmental effects have drawn significant interest over the years. However, the complex nature of the problem arising from interacting environmental factors has resulted in difficulties in predicting the JPCP deformation characteristics. This study introduces a simplified approach for predictin...

Deformation monitoring with total stations, while superior in accuracy, suffers from the poor spatial resolution obtainable by this measurement method within the limited time on a tunnel construction site, and deformation can only be detected at previously marked target points. Due to its high speed in obtaining unstructured point clouds from all surfaces within the field of view terrestrial la...

In this study, the effect of tensile test temperature (148 to 673 K) on the microstructural evolutions and the mechanical properties of high manganese twinning induced plasticity (TWIP) steel with the chemical composition of Fe- 31Mn-3Al-3Si (wt. %) was investigated. XRD, SEM and TEM were used to study the microstructural evolutions. Stacking fault energy (SFE) of the alloy was also calculated ...

A mathematical theory of time-dependent dislocation mechanics of unrestricted geometric and material nonlinearity is reviewed. Within a ‘small deformation’ setting, a suite of simplified, but interesting, models, namely a nonlocal Ginzburg Landau, a nonlocal level set, and a nonlocal generalized Burgers equation are derived. In the finite deformation setting, it is shown that an additive decomp...

Digital image correlation and tracking (DIC) is an optical method that employs tracking and image registration techniques for accurate 2D and 3D measurements of changes in images. This is often used to measure deformation, displacement, strain. Intensity Integration Technique and Line summation method are one of DIC Techniques. The purpose of this research is to identify the similarities betwee...

Frontier-based exploration is the most common approach to exploration, a fundamental problem in robotics. In frontierbased exploration, robots explore by repeatedly detecting (and moving towards) frontiers, the segments which separate the known regions from those unknown. A frontier detection sub-process examines map and/or sensor readings to identify frontiers for exploration. However, most fr...

In this work, we extend a previously demonstrated entropy based groupwise registration method to include a free-form deformation model based on B-splines. We provide an efficient implementation using stochastic gradient descents in a multi-resolution setting. We demonstrate the method in application to a set of 50 MRI brain scans and compare the results to a pairwise approach using segmentation...

It has been recently discovered by Bell, Heinle and Levandovskyy that a large class of algebras, including the ubiquitous G-algebras, are finite factorization domains (FFD for short). Utilizing this result, we contribute an algorithm to find all distinct factorizations of a given element f ∈ G, where G is any G-algebra, with minor assumptions on the underlying field. Moreover, the property of b...

In the present work, effects of loading scheme and strain reversal on structure evolution are studied by using high pressure torsion (HPT) and twist extrusion (TE) techniques. High purity aluminum (99.99%) was processed at room temperature up to a total average equivalent strain of ~4.8 by TE and HPT with two deformation modes: monotonic and reversal deformation with a step of 12 ̊ rotation. It ...