In order to develop FeCrAl-based ODS alloy tubing with the coarse, high aspect ratio, appropriately oriented grain structures likely to deliver enhanced high temperature (1100C) hoop creep strength compared to conventionally formed ODS alloy tubing, flow forming techniques were explored in a European funded programme. The evolution of microstructure in PM2000 alloy tubing formed by warm flow fo...

Race Rocks is a small archipelago located just Southwest of Victoria, British Columbia in the Juan de Fuca Strait. An important Beacon for Coastal Navigation in this busy area is located on Race Rocks, which is also home to a stunning variety of marine mammals and birds. The Race Rocks site has become Canada's first Marine Protected environment and is now carefully managed by a group of interes...

In this paper we investigate the use of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR) processing for the 3D reconstruction of radar targets. A major source of reconstruction error is induced by multiple scattering responses in a resolution cell, giving rise to height errors. We present a model for multiple scattering centers and analyze the errors that result using traditional IFSAR height e...

We present an approach for robust shape retrieval from databases containing articulated 3D shapes. We represent each shape by the eigenvectors of an appropriately defined affinity matrix, obtaining a spectral embedding. Retrieval is then performed on these embeddings using global shape descriptors. Transformation into the spectral domain normalizes the shapes against articulation (bending), rig...

Residual stresses and strains in as-cast and annealed aluminum engine blocks were mapped in the main web area above the bearing split using diffraction. Automated coordinate-mapping of the surface and bulk strains was accomplished with X-ray and neutron diffraction, respectively. LabVIEW-based software was developed for improved efficiency, flexibility and quality of data analysis. In the hoop ...

The Oligocene to Quaternary succession encountered in CRP-2/2A is divided into twelve recurrent lithofacies (some of which have been subdivided further), reflecting a range of marine, glacimarine and possibly subglacial environments of sediment accumulation. A cyclical vertical arrangement of lithofacies was noted throughout the core, and is used as the basis for a sequence stratigraphic analys...

Appropriate descriptions of turbulence are important in predicting sediment transport and seabed evolution. We use here a three-dimensional model to investigate the impacts of sediment-induced stratification, erosion parameterization, and turbulence closures on sediment transport and morphological simulations. The model is implemented in the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Coastal Ocean Model...

In this paper we propose a robust image and sensor based approach for automatic 3d model acquisition of sewer shafts from survey videos captured by a downward-looking fisheye-lens camera while lowering it into the shaft. Our approach is based on Structure from Motion adjusted to the constrained motion and scene, and involves shape recognition in order to obtain the geometry of the scene appropr...

Citation: Petras D, Koester I, Da Silva R, Stephens BM, Haas AF, Nelson CE, Kelly LW, Aluwihare LI and Dorrestein PC (2017) High-Resolution Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Enables Large Scale Molecular Characterization of Dissolved Organic Matter. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:405. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00405 High-Resolution Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Enables Large Sca...

A novel method which entirely resides inside conformal geometric algebra (CGA) is presented estimating the pose of a camera from one image of a known object. At first, subproblems covering only three feature points are solved and globally assessed. The object model is accordingly pruned and rigidly fitted to corresponding projection rays by evaluating a succinct CGA expression which emerged fro...