The ductile fracture of crystalline materials is a classical subject in mechanics of materials which still presents important challenges. It is driven by the process of growth and coalescence of voids and thus calls for constitutive models of the plastic response of porous crystalline materials. In this context, the consideration of the anisotropy, related to the single crystal response and the...

Clinical pathways are used to guide clinicians provide a standardised delivery of care. Because their standardisation, the aim clinical is reduce variation in both care process and patient outcomes. When learning from data through mining, it common practice represent each pathway as string corresponding movements activities. Clustering techniques popular methods for therefore this paper focuses...

Biological sequence alignment is one of the most important problems in computational biology. Given two sequences of varying length are aligned such that the alignment score is maximum. The alignment score is calculated based on the number of matches, mismatches and gaps in the alignment suggested. The basic sequence alignment algorithms are Needleman-Wunsch (NW) algorithm and Smith-Waterman (S...

The initiation and propagation of adiabatic shear bands (ASBs) in functionally graded materials (FGMs) deformed at high strain rates in plane-strain tension have been studied. An ASB is a narrow region, usually a few micrometers wide, of intense plastic deformation that forms after softening of the material due to its being heated up and the evolution of damage in the form of porosity has overc...

The available stock of the material is very often insuffi cient to machine conventional specimens and conduct tests according to ASTM Standards. Specially, it is diffi cult to meet the specimen size requirements, such as thickness or planar width, and estimate fracture toughness of high strength materials by means of KIc, JIc, or CTOD. A Local Approach to Fracture is an alternative methodology ...