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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
551

Failure analysis of a quasi-isotropic laminated composite plate with a hole in compression

Iyengar, Nirmal 10 July 2009 (has links)
The ability to predict failure of laminated composites in compression has been doggedly pursued by researchers for many years. Most have, to a limited extent, been able to predict failure for a narrow range of laminates. No means, as yet, exist for predicting the strength of generic laminates under various load conditions. Of primary concern has been the need to establish the mode at failure in compression. Even this has been known to vary for fiber and matrix dominated laminates. This study has been carried out to analyze the failure of specimens with a hole made of laminates with various quasi-isotropic stacking sequences. Different stacking sequences are achieved by rotating a [±45/90/0]s stacking sequence laminate as a whole with respect to the loading axis of the specimens. Two- and three-dimensional finite element models, using commercial packages, were generated to evaluate the stresses in the region of the hole. Two different compressive failure prediction techniques based on distinctly different failure modes have been used. The validity of these techniques was measured against experimental data of quasi-isotropic specimens tested. To investigate the applicability of the failure criteria for different laminated composite plates, analyses were repeated for specimens with different stacking sequences resulting from the rotation of the laminate. The study shows the need for the use of three-dimensional analysis of the stress state in the vicinity of the hole in order to be able to accurately predict failure. It also shows that no one mode of failure is responsible for limiting the strength for all laminate orientations but rather the mode changes with change in stacking sequence. The failure of the laminate with a hole was seen to be very sensitive to the stacking sequence. Experimental data presented also shows that the peak strength obtainable from the laminate analyzed, [±45/90/0]s, is going to be in the off-axis configuration rather than on-axis placement of the stacking sequence with respect to the loading direction. / Master of Science
552

Étude comparative de la performance en laboratoire de matériaux granulaires stabilisés utilisés comme surfaces de roulement pour les chaussées non revêtues

Pelletier, Laurent 12 April 2018 (has links)
Le projet de maîtrise présenté consiste en l'étude comparative de la performance en laboratoire de matériaux granulaires (MG) stabilisés. Les travaux ont été réalisés en laboratoire à l'aide d'essais de cisaillement direct et indirect par compression non confiné sur un MG-20B. Les paramètres variés lors de l'étude sont la concentration, la teneur en eau, la proportion et le pourcentage de particules fines. Les matériaux stabilisant expérimentés proviennent de trois familles de produits : agents d'agglomération de particules (ciment type-GU), agents de cohésion chimiques (CaCb et saumure naturelle) et autres agents (polymères). Les essais ont permis de définir une matrice de produits stabilisants qui sera utilisée pour les essais à l'aide du Simulateur climatique et mécanique. Elle comprend les deux types de produits soit les produits abat-poussières (CaCh, saumure naturelle et polymère) et les produits stabilisants (ciment, polymère). Cette matrice servira lors des prochains essais en laboratoire et sur le terrain.
553

Compression of Cartoon Images

Taylor, Ty 03 May 2011 (has links)
No description available.
554

Effects of Intermittent Pneumatic Compression on Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) in Long Distance Runners

Draper, Shane N. 19 August 2014 (has links)
No description available.
555

The Effect of Compression Recovery Pants on Cycling Performance

Thorp, George January 2015 (has links)
No description available.
556

Behavior of plain and steel fiber reinforced concrete under multiaxial stress

Tawana, Siyd S. January 1995 (has links)
No description available.
557

Behaviour of soil, soil-cement and soil-cement-fiber under multiaxial test

Limprasert, Tawan January 1995 (has links)
No description available.
558

Modeling Sticking Force in Compression Glass Molding Systems

Fischbach, Kyle David 23 August 2010 (has links)
No description available.
559

Arithmetic bit recycling data compression

Al-Rababa'a, Ahmad 24 April 2018 (has links)
Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2015-2016 / La compression des données est la technique informatique qui vise à réduire la taille de l'information pour minimiser l'espace de stockage nécessaire et accélérer la transmission des données dans les réseaux à bande passante limitée. Plusieurs techniques de compression telles que LZ77 et ses variantes souffrent d'un problème que nous appelons la redondance causée par la multiplicité d'encodages. La multiplicité d'encodages (ME) signifie que les données sources peuvent être encodées de différentes manières. Dans son cas le plus simple, ME se produit lorsqu'une technique de compression a la possibilité, au cours du processus d'encodage, de coder un symbole de différentes manières. La technique de compression par recyclage de bits a été introduite par D. Dubé et V. Beaudoin pour minimiser la redondance causée par ME. Des variantes de recyclage de bits ont été appliquées à LZ77 et les résultats expérimentaux obtenus conduisent à une meilleure compression (une réduction d'environ 9% de la taille des fichiers qui ont été compressés par Gzip en exploitant ME). Dubé et Beaudoin ont souligné que leur technique pourrait ne pas minimiser parfaitement la redondance causée par ME, car elle est construite sur la base du codage de Huffman qui n'a pas la capacité de traiter des mots de code (codewords) de longueurs fractionnaires, c'est-à-dire qu'elle permet de générer des mots de code de longueurs intégrales. En outre, le recyclage de bits s'appuie sur le codage de Huffman (HuBR) qui impose des contraintes supplémentaires pour éviter certaines situations qui diminuent sa performance. Contrairement aux codes de Huffman, le codage arithmétique (AC) peut manipuler des mots de code de longueurs fractionnaires. De plus, durant ces dernières décennies, les codes arithmétiques ont attiré plusieurs chercheurs vu qu'ils sont plus puissants et plus souples que les codes de Huffman. Par conséquent, ce travail vise à adapter le recyclage des bits pour les codes arithmétiques afin d'améliorer l'efficacité du codage et sa flexibilité. Nous avons abordé ce problème à travers nos quatre contributions (publiées). Ces contributions sont présentées dans cette thèse et peuvent être résumées comme suit. Premièrement, nous proposons une nouvelle technique utilisée pour adapter le recyclage de bits qui s'appuie sur les codes de Huffman (HuBR) au codage arithmétique. Cette technique est nommée recyclage de bits basé sur les codes arithmétiques (ACBR). Elle décrit le cadriciel et les principes de l'adaptation du HuBR à l'ACBR. Nous présentons aussi l'analyse théorique nécessaire pour estimer la redondance qui peut être réduite à l'aide de HuBR et ACBR pour les applications qui souffrent de ME. Cette analyse démontre que ACBR réalise un recyclage parfait dans tous les cas, tandis que HuBR ne réalise de telles performances que dans des cas très spécifiques. Deuxièmement, le problème de la technique ACBR précitée, c'est qu'elle requiert des calculs à précision arbitraire. Cela nécessite des ressources illimitées (ou infinies). Afin de bénéficier de cette dernière, nous proposons une nouvelle version à précision finie. Ladite technique devienne ainsi efficace et applicable sur les ordinateurs avec les registres classiques de taille fixe et peut être facilement interfacée avec les applications qui souffrent de ME. Troisièmement, nous proposons l'utilisation de HuBR et ACBR comme un moyen pour réduire la redondance afin d'obtenir un code binaire variable à fixe. Nous avons prouvé théoriquement et expérimentalement que les deux techniques permettent d'obtenir une amélioration significative (moins de redondance). À cet égard, ACBR surpasse HuBR et fournit une classe plus étendue des sources binaires qui pouvant bénéficier d'un dictionnaire pluriellement analysable. En outre, nous montrons qu'ACBR est plus souple que HuBR dans la pratique. Quatrièmement, nous utilisons HuBR pour réduire la redondance des codes équilibrés générés par l'algorithme de Knuth. Afin de comparer les performances de HuBR et ACBR, les résultats théoriques correspondants de HuBR et d'ACBR sont présentés. Les résultats montrent que les deux techniques réalisent presque la même réduction de redondance sur les codes équilibrés générés par l'algorithme de Knuth. / Data compression aims to reduce the size of data so that it requires less storage space and less communication channels bandwidth. Many compression techniques (such as LZ77 and its variants) suffer from a problem that we call the redundancy caused by the multiplicity of encodings. The Multiplicity of Encodings (ME) means that the source data may be encoded in more than one way. In its simplest case, it occurs when a compression technique with ME has the opportunity at certain steps, during the encoding process, to encode the same symbol in different ways. The Bit Recycling compression technique has been introduced by D. Dubé and V. Beaudoin to minimize the redundancy caused by ME. Variants of bit recycling have been applied on LZ77 and the experimental results showed that bit recycling achieved better compression (a reduction of about 9% in the size of files that have been compressed by Gzip) by exploiting ME. Dubé and Beaudoin have pointed out that their technique could not minimize the redundancy caused by ME perfectly since it is built on Huffman coding, which does not have the ability to deal with codewords of fractional lengths; i.e. it is constrained to generating codewords of integral lengths. Moreover, Huffman-based Bit Recycling (HuBR) has imposed an additional burden to avoid some situations that affect its performance negatively. Unlike Huffman coding, Arithmetic Coding (AC) can manipulate codewords of fractional lengths. Furthermore, it has attracted researchers in the last few decades since it is more powerful and flexible than Huffman coding. Accordingly, this work aims to address the problem of adapting bit recycling to arithmetic coding in order to improve the code effciency and the flexibility of HuBR. We addressed this problem through our four (published) contributions. These contributions are presented in this thesis and can be summarized as follows. Firstly, we propose a new scheme for adapting HuBR to AC. The proposed scheme, named Arithmetic-Coding-based Bit Recycling (ACBR), describes the framework and the principle of adapting HuBR to AC. We also present the necessary theoretical analysis that is required to estimate the average amount of redundancy that can be removed by HuBR and ACBR in the applications that suffer from ME, which shows that ACBR achieves perfect recycling in all cases whereas HuBR achieves perfect recycling only in very specific cases. Secondly, the problem of the aforementioned ACBR scheme is that it uses arbitrary-precision calculations, which requires unbounded (or infinite) resources. Hence, in order to benefit from ACBR in practice, we propose a new finite-precision version of the ACBR scheme, which makes it efficiently applicable on computers with conventional fixed-sized registers and can be easily interfaced with the applications that suffer from ME. Thirdly, we propose the use of both techniques (HuBR and ACBR) as the means to reduce the redundancy in plurally parsable dictionaries that are used to obtain a binary variable-to-fixed length code. We theoretically and experimentally show that both techniques achieve a significant improvement (less redundancy) in this respect, but ACBR outperforms HuBR and provides a wider class of binary sources that may benefit from a plurally parsable dictionary. Moreover, we show that ACBR is more flexible than HuBR in practice. Fourthly, we use HuBR to reduce the redundancy of the balanced codes generated by Knuth's algorithm. In order to compare the performance of HuBR and ACBR, the corresponding theoretical results and analysis of HuBR and ACBR are presented. The results show that both techniques achieved almost the same significant reduction in the redundancy of the balanced codes generated by Knuth's algorithm.
560

A heuristic method for reducing message redundancy in a file transfer environment

Bodwell, William Robert January 1976 (has links)
Intercomputer communications involves the transfer of information between intelligent hosts. Since communication costs are almost proportional to the amount of data transferred, the processing capability of the respective hosts might advantageously be applied through pre-processing and post-processing of data to reduce redundancy. The major emphasis of this research is development of the Substitution Method which minimizes data transfer between hosts required to reconstruct user JCL files, Fortran source files, and data files. The technique requires that a set of user files for each category of files be examined to determine the frequency distribution of symbols, fixed strings, and repeated symbol strings to determine symbol and structural redundancy. Information gathered during the examination of these files when combined with the user created Source Language Syntax Table generate Encoding/Decoding Tables which are used to reduce both symbol and structural redundancy. The Encoding/Decoding Tables allow frequently encountered strings to be represented by only one or two symbols through the utilization of table shift symbols. The table shift symbols allow less frequently encountered symbols of the original alphabet to be represented as an entry in a Secondary Encoding/Decoding Table. A technique is described which enables a programmer to easily modify his Fortran program such that he can take advantage of the Substitution Method's ability to compress data files by removing both informational and structural redundancy. Each user file requested to be transferred is preprocessed at cost, C[prep], to reduce data (both symbol and structural redundancy) which need not be transferred for faithful reproduction of the file. The file is transferred over a noiseless channel at cost, C[ptran]. The channel consists of presently available or proposed services of the common-carriers and specialized common-carriers. The received file is post-processed to reconstruct the original source file at cost, C[post]. The costs associated with pre-processing, transferring, and post-processing are compared with the cost, C[otran], of transferring the entire file in its original form. / Ph. D.

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