Time and Temperature Factors in Construction of Rock Strength Criteria

Using the synthesis of the kinetic concept on solid strength and the Coulomb - Mohr strength theory as the base, the failure conditions taking into account the time and temperature factors are obtained.     

A Sketch-Based Interface for Clothing Virtual Characters

This interactive system for garment creation determines a garment's shape and how the character wears it based on a user-drawn sketch. The system then uses distances between the 2D garment silhouette and the character model to infer remaining distance variations in 3D     

Problem on estimation of the content of <Superscript>131</Superscript>I in milk in the “iodine” period of the Chernobyl accident

Measurements of the beta-activity of milk, serving as the main source of information on the radioactive contamination of the environment by the iodine isotope ¹³¹I, carried out on a DP-100 radiometer in the early post-Chernobyl period (1986) in Belarus, have been mathematically simulated. The results obtained allow the conclusion that the indicated measurements should be analyzed again with consideration for all of the nuclides present in milk. __________ Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 80, No. 6, pp. 102–108, November–December, 2007.     

Optical Splitting Trees for High-Precision Monocular Imaging

In this article, we consider the design of monocular multiview optical systems that form optical splitting trees, where the optical path topology takes the shape of a tree because of recursive beam splitting. Designing optical splitting trees is challenging when it requires many views with specific spectral properties. We introduce a manual design paradigm for optical splitting trees and a computer-assisted design tool to create efficient splitting-tree cameras. The tool accepts as input a specification for each view and a set of weights describing the user's relative affinity for efficiency, measurement accuracy, and economy. An optimizer then searches for a design that maximizes these weighted priorities. Our tool's output is a splitting-tree design that implements the input specification and an analysis of the efficiency of each root-to-leaf path. Automatically designed trees appear comparable to those designed by hand; we even show some cases where they are superior. With the help of the optimizer, the system demonstrates high dynamic range, focusing, matting, and hybrid imaging implemented on a single, reconfigurable camera containing eight sensors     

拉伸试验测量不确定度的研究

分析了拉伸试验中抗拉强度Rm的影响因素，对测量不确定度的主要分量进行量化，评定了Rm的相对测量不确定度，作为生产检验中评定测量不确定度的尝试，以便为用户提供钢材性能测量结果的不确定度。     

Utilization of waste of Al - B fiber composites for obtaining new powder and sintered materials

Composite powder based on AlB has been obtained by crushing pieces of industrial-waste Al - B fiber composite material at room temperature. The original design of a high precision microhardness tester made it possible to estimate the properties of powder particles both in the near-surface layers and under them. The aluminum fraction in the powder was established to represent a new structurally nonhomogenous material with increased microhardness (1.5 GPa), which grows up to 4 GPa in the near-surface layers. This is caused by formation of defects and stable oxides on external and internal interfaces in the aluminum matrix during crushing. To optimize the process of AlB powder sintering, adhesion on clean and real Al - B and Al/Al interfaces at various temperatures was investigated. By sintering at 910 K, new ceramic materials have been obtained with a density of 2200 kg/m³ and a strength of 90 MPa.     

Method for the Microwave Measurement of Carrier Lifetime in Lightly Doped Silicon Ingots

A further investigation is conducted into a new microwave method for evaluating bulk lifetime in silicon ingots