Virtual Distortion Method

Author : Jan Holnicki-Szulc
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642844539

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Virtual Distortion Method by Jan Holnicki-Szulc Pdf

The theory of virtual distortions provides an efficient tool which can be used to treat many problems that differ from the physical point of view. The objective of this book is to present a general concept of the Virtual Distortion Method with the necessary theoretical background and a variety of its applications to problems of structural analysis and design. The book is focussed more on theoretical aspects of the problems than on the practical design of structurÄB. Nevertheless, a number of numerical algorithms discussed in the book has already been developed as a computational system capable to solve various problems of structural analysis.

Author : James D. Westwood
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781586034986

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Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 13 by James D. Westwood Pdf

Magical describes conditions that are outside our understanding of cause and effect. Even in modern societies, magic-based explanations are powerful because, given the complexity of the universe, there are so many opportunities to use them. The history of medicine is defined by progress in understanding the human body - from magical explanations to measurable results. To continue medical progress, physicians and scientists must openly question traditional models. For thirteen years, MMVR has been an incubator for technologies that create new medical understanding via the simulation, visualization, and extension of reality. Researchers create imaginary patients because they offer a more reliable and controllable experience to the novice surgeon. With imaging tools, reality is purposefully distorted to reveal to the clinician what the eye alone cannot see. Robotics and intelligence networks allow the healer's sight, hearing, touch, and judgment to be extended across distance, as if by magic. The moments when scientific truth is suddenly revealed after lengthy observation, experimentation, and measurement is the real magic. These moments are not miraculous, however. book.

Author : Alfredo Güemes
Publisher : DEStech Publications, Inc
Page : 1458 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1932078630

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Structural Health Monitoring 2006 by Alfredo Güemes Pdf

These proceedings of the Third European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring held at the Conference Centre in Granada, Spain, in July of 2006 includes four keynote presentations and 170 technical papers written by an international group of contributors. Papers discuss technology and activities related to damage detection and evaluation in engin

Author : Xingming Sun,Jinwei Wang,Elisa Bertino
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 851 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030578848

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Artificial Intelligence and Security by Xingming Sun,Jinwei Wang,Elisa Bertino Pdf

This two-volume set LNCS 12239-12240 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security, ICAIS 2020, which was held in Hohhot, China, in July 2020. The conference was formerly called “International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security” with the acronym ICCCS. The total of 142 full papers presented in this two-volume proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 1064 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Artificial intelligence and internet of things. Part II: Internet of things, information security, big data and cloud computing, and information processing.

Author : Simon Laflamme,Filippo Ubertini,Jian Li
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783039217588

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Smart Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring by Simon Laflamme,Filippo Ubertini,Jian Li Pdf

Smart sensors are technologies designed to facilitate the monitoring operations. For instance, power consumption can be minimized through on-board processing and smart interrogation algorithms, and state detection enhanced through collaboration between sensor nodes. Applied to structural health monitoring, smart sensors are key enablers of sparse and dense sensor networks capable of monitoring full-scale structures and components. They are also critical in empowering operators with decision making capabilities. The objective of this Special Issue is to generate discussions on the latest advances in research on smart sensing technologies for structural health monitoring applications, with a focus on decision-enabling systems. This Special Issue covers a wide range of related topics such as innovative sensors and sensing technologies for crack, displacement, and sudden event monitoring, sensor optimization, and novel sensor data processing algorithms for damage and defect detection, operational modal analysis, and system identification of a wide variety of structures (bridges, transmission line towers, high-speed trains, masonry light houses, etc.).

Author : Karen McMenemy,Robin Stuart Ferguson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781568814773

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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Virtual Reality by Karen McMenemy,Robin Stuart Ferguson Pdf

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Virtual Reality brings together under one cover all the aspects of graphics, video, audio, and haptics that have to work together to make virtual reality a reality. Like any good guide, it reveals the practical things you need to know, from the viewpoint of authors who have been there. This two-part guide covers the science, technology, and mathematics of virtual reality and then details its practical implementation. The first part looks at how the interface between human senses and technology works to create virtual reality, with a focus on vision, the most important sense in virtual reality. The second part of the book is tightly integrated with an accompanying CD, which contains the programs for more than 30 virtual reality projects, ranging in scope from a tool that simulates virtual sculpting to a suite of software for the control of a four-projector immersive virtual environment.

Author : James D. Westwood
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computer vision in medicine
ISBN : 1586034049

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Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 12 by James D. Westwood Pdf

A Prototype Virtual Reality System for Preoperative Planning of Neuro-Endovascular Interventions -- Validation of Soft Tissue Properties in Surgical Simulation with Haptic Feedback -- Comparison of CAVE and HM for Visual Stimulation in Postural Control Research -- Virtual Vision Loss Simulator -- Reaction-Time Measurement and Real-Tune Data Acquisition for Neuroscientific Experiments in Virtual Environments -- A Preliminary Study of Presence inVirtual Reality Training Simulation for Medical Emergencies -- An Ali System with Intuitive User Interface for Manipulation and Visualization of 3D Medical Data -- A Haptic Surgical Simulator for the Continuous Curvilinear Capsulorhexis Procedure During Cataract Surgery -- Haptic Rendering of Tissue Cutting with Scissors -- Increasing face validity of a vascular interventional training system -- An Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Training System for Assessment of Surgical Skill -- Acquiring Laparoscopic Manipulative Skills: A Virtual Tissue Dissection Training Module -- Novel Force Resolver Designs for a Haptic Surgery Simulator -- Author Index

Author : P. Thoft-Christensen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642838286

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Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems ’88 by P. Thoft-Christensen Pdf

The present book contains 30 papers presented at the 2nd Working Conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems. The purpose of the Working Group was - to promote modern structural system optimization and reliability theory, - to advance international cooperation in the field of structural system optimization and reliability theory, - to stimulate research, development and application of structural system optimization and reliability theory, - to further the dissemination and exchange of information on reliability and optimization of structural system optimization and reliability theory, - to encourage education in structural system optimization and reliability theory.

Author : Fabio Casciati,Michele Giordano
Publisher : DEStech Publications, Inc
Page : 1425 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781605950242

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Fifth European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring 2010 by Fabio Casciati,Michele Giordano Pdf

Author : Thomas Heinzeller,James H. Nebelsick
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1576 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0415390370

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Echinoderms: Munchen by Thomas Heinzeller,James H. Nebelsick Pdf

Since 1972, scientists from all over the world working on fundamental questions of echinoderm biology and palaeontology have conferred every three years to exchange current views and results. The 11th International Echinoderm Conference held at the University of Munich, Germany, from 6-10 October 2003,continued this tradition. This volume comprises 95 submitted papers and 96 abstracts covering a wide spectrum from innovative student contributions to the lessons learnt from experienced specialists. The content of the contributions ranges from original research results to the latest synopses concerning a variety of topics, including visual sensing, larval cloning, mutable collagenous tissues, sea urchin aqua-culture, deuterostome phylogeny, palaeobiology and taphonomy.

Author : A. Der Kiureghian,P. Thoft-Christensen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642843624

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Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems ’90 by A. Der Kiureghian,P. Thoft-Christensen Pdf

This proceedings volume contains papers presented at the Third Scientific Meeting of the IFIP Working Group on "Reliabilty and Optimization of Structural Systems". The contributions reflect recent developments in the field of modern structural systems optimization and reliability theory and point out directions for further research. Also perspectives for the education in this field were discussed.

Author : B. Culshaw,Peter T. Gardiner,Alaster McDonach,European Optical Society,Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers,Institute of Physics (Great Britain)
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0750302224

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First European Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, Proceedings of the INT Conference held in Glasgow, 12-14 May 1992 by B. Culshaw,Peter T. Gardiner,Alaster McDonach,European Optical Society,Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers,Institute of Physics (Great Britain) Pdf

First European Conference on Smart Structures and Materials provides a detailed review of developments and applications in the exciting area of smart structures and materials. Topics covered include polymer chemistry, materials research, advanced sensor technology, signal processing, and innovative approaches to control and actuation. These invited, contributed, and poster papers are written by many of the leading international researchers in this rapidly developing area. This book will be invaluable reading for researchers in all aspects of smart materials and structures, a subject encompassing aerospace technology, civil and mechanical engineering, biomedicine, and component manufacture.

Author : Bob Fisher,Kenneth Dawson-Howe,Carol O'Sullivan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447103370

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Virtual and Augmented Architecture (VAA’01) by Bob Fisher,Kenneth Dawson-Howe,Carol O'Sullivan Pdf

This book focuseson the use of computer visionand graphics in architecture. It arose from a convergenceof several hot topics: 1. visualization of built environments for engineering, historical and other purposes, 2. virtual reconstruction of architecture from visual data of existing struc tures, whether via photogrammetric or range sensing techniques, and 3. augmentation of video data of architecture with useful information. The focus here is on architecture and howto present it, enhance it's abilities, make it easier to understand and make it accessibleto a larger public. Collective interest in this topic led to the International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture, whose papers are contained in this book. As editors, we were very pleased about how well the different papers chosen gavea nice focus to the topic and conference.It is clear that there are many different research approaches still active in this area - this makes it an exciting time. Wehope that this book captures that excitement and succeeds in bringing it to you.

Author : Jan Holnicki-Szulc,Jacek T. Gierlinski
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0471956562

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Structural Analysis, Design and Control by the Virtual Distortion Method by Jan Holnicki-Szulc,Jacek T. Gierlinski Pdf

This book presents the general concept of the Virtual Distortion Method with the necessary theoretical background and a number of its applications to problems of structural analysis and design. The approach presented allows for the development of efficient computational methods for the numerical analysis of problems where, e.g., local failures, the temperature field or permanent plastic deformations are described by virtual distortions. On the other hand, properly modelled (fictitious) virtual distortions can be used to simulate structural modifications such as material redistribution applicable in the optimal redesign process. Finally, virtual distortions can be used to mimic the behaviour of actuators in active structural control problems: shape, stress or vibration control. A number of numerical algorithms are developed, enabling one to solve various problems of structural analysis, design and control.

Author : Louis Jezequel
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000443745

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Active Control in Mechanical Engineering by Louis Jezequel Pdf

The introduction of active control in structural dynamics has led to a number of developments over wide-ranging industrial domains. This work investigates this area and examines a number of topics including: smart materials and structures; new strategies of active control and its applications.