Glass fiber-reinforced composites are commonly employed as structural materials in many fields. In addition, glass frequently used with metals, particularly the automotive and aerospace industry. this context, tensile strengths of simple hybrid single-lap joints having similar (i.e., aluminum/aluminum composite/composite) dissimilar aluminum/composite) plates were investigated experimentally st...

Matthieu Dubreuil, Philippe Babilotte, Vinicius N. H. Silva, Sylvain Rivet, Bernard Le Jeune and Laurent Dupont Université Européenne de Bretagne, 5 boulevard Laennec 35000 Rennes, France Université de Brest, Laboratoire de Spectrométrie et Optique Laser (EA 938), 6 avenue Le Gorgeu, C.S. 93837, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France Département d'Optique (UMR CNRS 6082), Telecom Bretagne, Technopôle Bres...

I describe the current status of MCnet tools for validating the performance of event generator simulations against data, and for tuning their phenomenological free parameters. For validation, the Rivet toolkit is now a mature and complete system, with a large library of prominent benchmark analyses. For tuning, the Professor system has recently completed its first tunes of Pythia 6, with substa...

Character segmentation is an important step in License Plate Recognition (LPR) system. There are many difficulties in this step, such as the influence of image noise, plate frame, rivet, the space mark, and so on. This paper presents a new algorithm for character segmentation, using Hough transformation and the prior knowledge in horizontal and vertical segmentation respectively. Furthermore, a...

Self-piercing riveting (SPR) is a suitable technology to join various materials and has attracted more attention in the automotive industry. In this work, effects of forming parameters on qualities mechanical properties B1500HS steel/AA5052 aluminum alloy SPR joints were analyzed. The results show that sheet stack sequence little influence peak tensile load rigidity joints. When steel placed sh...