Nanoindentation is a technique commonly used for measuring thin film mechanical properties such as hardness and stiffness. In this study, we used the finite element method to investigate the effect of substrate and pileup on hardness and stiffness measurements of thin film systems. We define a substrate effect factor and construct a map that may be useful in the interpretation of indentation me...

forest classification on the basis of satellite images is a promising technique both for primary map production and for map updating and forest monitoring. for accurate for-est classification into three classes, using mapping by canopy cover density “high spatial resolution satellite images have to be used in order to obtain the required spatial detail” [schneider, 1999]. at the same time, the ...

the subgroups of symplectic groups which fix a non-zero vector of the underlying symplectic space are called affine subgroups., the split extension group $a(4)cong 2^7{:}sp_6(2)$ is the affine subgroup of the symplectic group $sp_8(2)$ of index $255$‎. ‎in this paper‎, ‎we use the technique of the fischer-clifford matrices to construct the character table of the inertia group $2^7{:}o^{-}_{6}(2...

In a recent project the Ada language turned out to be not as flexible as we expected it to be. This forced us to model our application in a way that was less elegant, less maintainable and less efficient. In this paper we propose to add a language construct to the language that would enable us to do what we were missing. The extension is based on finite unions with dispatching and can quite eas...

A hyperbolic bration is set of q ?1 hyperbolic quadrics and two lines which together partition the points of PG(3; q). The classical example of a hyperbolic bration comes from a pencil of quadrics; however, several other families are known. In this paper we construct a new family of hyperbolic brations for odd prime powers q. As an application of hyperbolic brations, we note that they can be us...

a chaos control method suggested by erjaee has been reviewed. it has been shown that thistechnique can be applied in various evolutionary systems of 2-dimensional types. the method has beenapplied for cases of the henon map, as well as burger’s map. the limitations of the control techniquehave also been discussed by considering the standard map and the gumowski-mira map. the resultsobtained thr...