A nominally at penny-shaped crack is subjected to a static loading. A perturbation method is developed for calculating the stress-intensity factors, based on an asymptotic analysis of the governing hypersingular boundary integral equation for the crack-opening displacement. Comparisons with known exact solutions for an inclined at elliptical crack and for a crack in the shape of a spherical cap...

A segmentation technique basically divides the spatial domain, on which the image is defined in ‘meaningful’ parts or regions. The current approaches involving Genetic Algorithms (GAs) segment the regular-shaped images. In the proposed method, this drawback is overcome by applying GA to images containing circular and elliptical objects. The GA generated the initial population set randomly where...

In the present research, the elastic buckling of composite cross-ply elliptical cylindrical shells under axial compression is studied through finite element approach. The formulation is based on shear deformation theory and the serendipity quadrilateral eight-node element is used to study the elastic behavior of elliptical cylindrical shells. The strain-displacement relations are accurately acc...

PURPOSE This study was performed to investigate the course of the mandibular canal on panoramic radiography and the visibility of this canal on both panoramic radiography and cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). MATERIALS AND METHODS The study consisted of panoramic radiographs and CBCT images from 262 patients. The course of the mandibular canal, as seen in panoramic radiographs, was classi...

We discuss the properties of the H I in low-luminosity earlytype galaxies. The morphology of the H I is more regular than that of the H I in many more-luminous early-type galaxies. The H I is always distributed in a disk and is more centrally concentrated. The central H I surface densities are higher than in luminous early-type galaxies and are high enough for star formation to occur. 1. Why st...

A range of elliptical undulators (EU) has recently been constructed at ELETTRA, whose main parameters are listed in Table 1 below. They are all based on the APPLE-II scheme [1], but two different terminations have been used due to specific installation requirements. Also, one of them (EU12.5) features a quasi-periodic field to suit special beamline needs. The minimum magnetic gap corresponds to...

In this study, efficient methods for optimal sensor placement (OSP) based on a new geometrical viewpoint for damage detection in structures is presented. The purpose is to minimize the effects of noise on the damage detection process. In the geometrical viewpoint, a sensor location is equivalent to projecting the elliptical noise on to a face of response space which is corresponding to the sens...