The closed-form solutions of surface roughness parameters for a theoretical profile consisting of elliptical arcs are presented. Parabolic and simplified approximation methods are commonly used to estimate the surface roughness parameters for such machined surface profiles. The closed-form solution presented in this study reveals the range of errors of approximation methods for any elliptical a...

In this paper the effect of composite hoop-wrapped on stress intensity factor for semi-elliptical external crack which located in spherical pressure vessel, were investigated through the Finite Element Analysis. In order to find the effect of some parameters such as composite thickness and width, internal pressure and crack geometry, comparisons between different cases were done and discussed i...

Identification of the last effective boll population allows informed decisions for termination of insecticide and application of harvest aids. However, the current COTMAN cutout reference (i.e., NAWF=5) indicates physiological cutout (Oosterhuis et al., 1999) may need to be changed for ultra-narrow-row (UNR) cotton. This study is part of a multi-state project the overall objective of which is t...

A Non-light-of-sight (NLOS) mitigation approach based on GBSBEM was proposed in this paper. The main idea is to model the NLOS errors to the elliptical model and mitigate them with a novel method. At the first step, the semi-minor of GBSBEM is estimated, then a way to restrain the NLOS errors with the help of the semi-minor is used. When the semi-minor can not be estimated, an optimization meth...

The tightness of the observed colour-magnitude and Mg2velocity dispersion relations for elliptical galaxies has often been cited as an argument against a picture in which ellipticals form by the merging of spiral disks. A common view is that merging would mix together stars of disparate ages and produce a large scatter in these relations. Here I use semi-analytic models of galaxy formation to d...

We describe a scheme for the formation of globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies using a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. Operating within a ΛCDM cosmology, we assume that metal-poor globular clusters are formed at high-redshift in pre-galactic fragments, and that the subsequent gas-rich merging of these fragments leads to the formation of metal-rich clusters. We compare our re...

Previous research of the authors pointed out that side-resonators can be applied to reduce fan noise. However, the noise reduction capabilities of most resonator geometries, e.g. tube resonators, cylindrical resonators (cylindrical air layers) and circular resonators (disc shaped air layers), are relatively narrow banded. This is disadvantageous in case resonators are used in combination with a...

-This paper presents an overview of the finite element alternating technique for the analysis of interacting cracks. To illustrate the ease and accuracy of this method the technique is used to analyse several problems associated with both widespread fatigue and multi-site damage, a problem which is attracting worldwide attention. Whilst this paper presents an overview of the technique for both ...