The present paper also deals with the application of the Ritz method to the determination of the natural frequencies of a rectangular anisotropic plate with a free corner formed by the intersection of two free edges. The ...

The study of the strong ground motion is of utmost relevance because the amplitude of seismic waves and their frequency content could severely damage structures. As both the amplitude and the frequency content directly ...

Laser forming of thin metal sheet plates using a low output power CO2 laser has been successfully performed using a mirror based scanning system. Graphite coated AISI 302 stainless steel plates, 0.3 mm thick, have been ...

Several applications use robotic vision, such as a robot navigating through an unknown surrounding, can use vision as main navigate sensor. This paper focuses on studying camera calibration via stereo vision by means of ...

We apply compensated convex transforms to define a multiscale Hausdorff stable method to extract intersections between smooth compact manifolds represented by their characteristic functions or as point clouds embedded in ...

The discourses concerning the vocal technique, the regional traditions and the different ways of singing are inserted in an identity affirmation perspective. The very existence of these discourses in the academic environment ...

The existence of transport networks is vital for leaf-cutting ant foraging but may generate overcrowding, reducing the input of food into the nest. We studied how ants turn at branching points, a problematic sector for ant ...

Reliable corner detection is an important task in determining the shape of different regions within an image. Real-life image data are always imprecise due to inherent uncertainties that may arise from the imaging process ...

Motorcycles are systems with complex dynamic behaviour that can become unstable under certain driving conditions. Avoiding such instabilities from the design stage is not trivial since they depend on various interrelated ...