The objective of this research is to develop an experimental-theoretical analysis about the influence of the cooling medium and the geometry of the welding bead profile in fatigue life and the associated parameters with structural integrity of welded joints. A welded joint with cruciform geometry is considered using SMAW (Shielded Metal ArcWelding), plates in structural steel ASTM A36 HR of 8 m...

Ready-made building components and joining systems are generally unfit for existing building structures with irregular shapes. Therefore, unplanned and immediate manual work is dominantly practiced as measuring and manufacturing of the customized joining system is not supported. In this respect, by obtaining 3-D shapes of the existing building components and using them for the customization of ...

Due to interconnected informational society of the world, there is a need for authentication and identification of individuals. Biometric based authentication is the most reliable solution since it provides real time recognition of individuals. There are various biometric technologies and systems for authentication. The human hand contains a wide variety of measurable characteristics that can b...

Soft tissue damage has been observed in hip joints with pathological geometries. Our primary goal was to study the relationship between morphological variations of the bony components of the hip and resultant stresses within the soft tissues of the joint during routine daily activities. The secondary goal was to find the range of morphological parameters in which stresses are minimized. Computa...

Reconfiguration of Stewart platform for varying tasks accentuates the importance for determination of optimum geometry catering to the specified task. The authors in their earlier work (Satheesh et al., 2008) have indicated the non availability of an efficient holistic methodology for determining the optimum geometry. Further, they have proposed a solution using the variable geometry approach t...

Reconfiguration of Stewart platform for varying tasks accentuates the importance for determination of optimum geometry catering to the specified task. The authors in their earlier work (Satheesh et al., 2008) have indicated the non availability of an efficient holistic methodology for determining the optimum geometry. Further, they have proposed a solution using the variable geometry approach t...

Reconfiguration of Stewart platform for varying tasks accentuates the importance for determination of optimum geometry catering to the specified task. The authors in their earlier work (Satheesh et al., 2008) have indicated the non availability of an efficient holistic methodology for determining the optimum geometry. Further, they have proposed a solution using the variable geometry approach t...

the rank-k numerical range has a close connection to the construction of quantum error correction code for a noisy quantum channel. for noisy quantum channel, a quantum error correcting code of dimension k exists if and only if the associated joint rank-k numerical range is non-empty. in this paper the notion of joint rank-k numerical range is generalized and some statements of [2011, generaliz...

This is the Foreword to the book Explicit birational geometry of 3-folds, edited by A. Corti and M. Reid, CUP Jun 2000, ISBN: 0 521 63641 8. Papers by K. Altmann, A. Corti, A. R. Iano-Fletcher, J. Kollár, A. V. Pukhlikov and M. Reid. One of the main achievements of algebraic geometry over the last 20 years is the work of Mori and others extending minimal models and the Enriques–Kodaira classifi...

The recent controversy of applicability of quantum formalism to brain dynamics has been critically analyzed. PELLIONISZ and LLINÁS (1982) proposed a functional geometry to understand the internal representation of the events associated to the spacetiming of moving objects in the external world. The joint representation of space and time associated to an event as understood by the brain is shown...