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The continuing drive within high technology industries to push dimensional tolerances to still smaller values motivates the use of surface measuring techniques
The availability of low-cost computational power is enabling development of increasingly sophisticated CAD software. Automation of design and manufacturing
Manufacturing features and feature-based representations have become an integral part of research on manufacturing systems, largely due to their ability to
ALARM, Alternative Life Safety Analysis for Retrofit Cost Minimization, is a personal computer software tool that helps building managers and fire safety
Nelson P. Bryner, Erik L. Johnsson, William M. Pitts
The formation of carbon monoxide during room or compartment fires has been investigated using natural gas fires burning within a reduced-scale enclosure (RSE)
After some discussion of wall fires, the effects that a ceiling has on a wall fire are analyzed and discussed qualitatively. There are two kinds of effects
H Liu, Tsai H. Hong, Martin Herman, Rama Chellappa
Traditional optical flow algorithms assume local image translational motion and apply simple image filtering. Recent studies have taken two separate approaches
William D. Davis, Glenn P. Forney, Richard W. Bukowski
The rapid activation of fire detection and suppression systems in response to a growing fire is one of the important factors required to provide for life safety
Anthony P. Hamins, D. Baghdadi, P. Borthwick, M Glover, William L. Grosshandler, D L. Lowe, L Melton, Cary Presser
The engine nacelle encases the jet engine compressor, combustor and turbine. A nacelle fire is typically a turbulent diffusion flame stabilized behind an
The study which is the subject of this record was carried out in two stages. The objective of the first phase was to investigate the effect of electron beam