Effect of Railcar Wheel Tire Profiles on the Contact Stress Level in Subway Rails

Strength of Materials - The statistical analysis performed on the defectiveness of rails in the Kiev subway railway shows that the main cause of the occurrence of most defects is the contact...     

Effect of the Porous Skeletal Iron Structure on the Infiltration of Aluminum Melts

Powder Metallurgy and Metal Ceramics - The infiltration of aluminum melts into porous metal skeletons produced by powder metallurgy methods, including 3D printing, under a pressure gradient was...     

Fracture Resistance of Brittle Materials Under Local Loading by Scratching to Edge Chipping. Part. 1. Methodical Grounds of Research

Strength of Materials - Methodical aspects of experimental investigation of brittle materials under local edge loading by scratching the specimen surface with a Rockwell indenter to its edge...     

A Method of Transferring the Unit of Power of High-Intensity Laser Radiation

Measurement Techniques - A method is proposed for transferring the unit of mean power of laser radiation by means of measuring high-intensity power (kilowatts), with the possibility of constant...     

On Heating and Relaxation of the Electron—Hole-Gas Energy in the Track of a Primary Recoil Atom

Semiconductors - On the basis of the Monte Carlo algorithm, a method for calculating the energy spectrum of hot nonequilibrium electrons and holes in the track of a primary recoil atom after being...     

Pixel clustering for color image segmentation

Programming and Computer Software - Image segmentation using a hierarchical sequence of piecewise constant approximations that minimally differ from the original image in terms of the total squared...