The conformation and structure of an atypical crista found in a small percentage of the mitochondria in root tip cells of Phaseolus vulgaris L. have been studied electron microscopically in material fixed in glutaraldehyde followed by osmium tetroxide. In its transformation into an atypical crista, a normal crista elongates, broadens, and flattens, and the inner leaflets of its apposed unit mem...

Squamophis, a new genus of brittle star is described. Two species are included in the genus: Squamophis amamiensis (Okanishi & Fujita, 2009) from south-western Japan and Squamophis albozosteressp. n. from north-western Australia. Squamophisgen. n. is distinguished from the other genera of the family Asteroschematidae by the following characters: each radial shield is single-layered and is compl...

This paper addresses modeling of guided-wave excitation by surface-bonded piezoelectric wafer transducers in multi-layered composite plate structures. Each of the individual layers is assumed to have unidirectional fibers in an epoxy matrix and is modeled as being transversely isotropic. The piezoelectric actuators are modeled as causing shear traction along their edges on the plate surface and...

In this study we address the feasibility and main properties of a positron emission tomograph (PET) based on RPCs. The concept, making use of the converter-plate principle, takes advantage of the intrinsic layered structure of RPCs and its simple and economic construction. The extremely good time and position resolutions of RPCs also allow the TOF-PET imaging technique to be considered. Monte-C...

Abaqus/Standard simulation of Lamb waves in smart composite plates is investigated for detecting delamination type damage. Composite plates typical of aerospace structures are used and a PZT actuator is surface bonded to excite Lamb waves. Abaqus model of composite plate uses layered solid elements. Piezoelectric (PZT-5H) actuator is modeled using piezoelectric elements that have both displacem...

Abstract: The optimal control problems and a weight minimization problem are considered for elastic three-layered plate with inner obstacle and friction condition on a part of the boundary. The state problem is represented by a variational inequality and the design variables influence both the coefficients and the set of admissible state functions. We prove the existence of a solution to the ab...

A new eddy-current system based on low-noise magnetoresistive sensors has been developed to detect cracks and corrosion in thick, multi-layer metal structures. The new instrument has detected narrow slots as short as 6.3 mm, in the lowest layer of a stack of three aluminum plates totaling 25 mm in thickness. These flaws were detected through 19 mm of overlying aluminum, in spite of the presence...

In this paper, a method to recognize characters of vehicle license plate in Malaysia by using a neural network based threshold method is presented. Vehicle license plate recognition is one of important techniques that can be used for the identification of vehicles all over the world. There are many applications such as entrance admission, security, parking control, airport or harbor cargo contr...

in this study, forced-vibration analysis of a coupled system of single layered graphene sheets (slgss) subjected to the moving nano-particle is carried out based on nonlocal elasticity theory of orthotropic plate. two slgss are coupled with elastic medium which is simulated by pasternak and visco-pasternak models. using hamilton’s principle, governing differential equations of motion are derive...