Title of Dissertation: DEVELOPMENT OF MOIRÉ INTERFEROMETRY FOR REAL-TIME OBSERVATION OF NONLINEAR THERMAL DEFORMATIONS OF SOLDER AND SOLDER ASSEMBLY Seungmin Cho, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation Directed By: Associate Professor Bongtae Han, Department of Mechanical Engineering An experimental apparatus using moiré interferometry is developed to characterize the thermo-mechanical behavio...

JT-60SA tokamak is equipped with an ECRF system since the beginning of its operational phase. Starting from two gyrotrons units during Integrated Commissioning, applicable for core heating, assisted breakdown and Wall Conditioning, capabilities will be progressively extended Initial Research phase wider applications. The development full current plasma H mode scenario 2 (inductive, type I ELM, ...

a total of 12 species of marine gastropods, among which two taxa are new, is reported for the first time from the miocene deposits of khavich section, south of sirjan, kerman. gastropods assemblage in khavich area indicates deposition in shallow, warm ramp-type carbonate platform. the miocene and even oligocene gastropod assemblages, relatively similar to khavich section, reported from the othe...

[1] Extremely low frequency/very low frequency (ELF/VLF) radio waves are difficult to generate with conventional antennas. Ionospheric high frequency (HF) heating facilities generate ELF/VLF waves via modulated heating of the lower ionosphere. HF heating of the ionosphere changes the lower ionospheric conductivity, which in the presence of natural currents such as the auroral electrojet creates...

Traffic congestion usually occurs at freeway merges due to the inequality of lane numbers upstream and downstream. The entry, defined as on-ramp, is main cause this irregularity in order clarify its effect, three are investigated study with macroscopic flow parameters where a variety geometric properties present. In each merge, when capacity achieved downstream, on-ramp flows determined relatio...

Minimizing the binary classification error with a linear model leads to an NP-hard problem. In practice, surrogate loss functions are used, in particular loss functions leading to large margin classification such as the hinge loss and the ramp loss. The intuitive large margin concept is theoretically supported by generalization bounds linking the expected classification error to the empirical m...

The effects of prior moderate- and prior heavy-intensity exercise on the subsequent metabolic response to incremental exercise were examined. Healthy, young adult subjects (n = 8) performed three randomized plantar-flexion exercise tests: 1) an incremental exercise test (approximately 0.6 W/min) to volitional fatigue (Ramp); 2) Ramp preceded by 6 min of moderate-intensity, constant-load exercis...