Erdem Yavuz^1,∗, Rıfat Yazıcı², Mustafa Cem Kasapba¸sı², Turgay Tugay Bilgin¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.34, No.6, pp. 339-355, 2019, DOI:10.32604/csse.2019.34.339

Abstract This study proposes an efficient algorithm for improving flattening result of triangular mesh surface patches having a convex shape. The proposed approach, based on barycentric mapping technique, incorporates a dynamic virtual boundary, which considerably improves initial mapping result. The dynamic virtual boundary approach is utilized to reduce the distortions for the triangles near the boundary caused by the nature of convex combination technique. Mapping results of the proposed algorithm and the base technique are compared by area and shape accuracy metrics measured for several sample surfaces. The results prove the success of the proposed approach More >

Linhong Deng^1,*, Yang Jin², Mingzhi Luo¹

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, Suppl.2, pp. 80-80, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07370

Abstract Airway smooth muscle cells (ASMCs) exists within the bronchial airway wall in a form of spirally winding bundles [1]. This pattern emerges early during embryonic development and is involved in airway branching [2], providing the airway appropriate contractile capacity and resistance to circumferential tension in health or causing excessive airway narrowing in disease such as asthma. Despite its importance, the cause of ASMCs self-organization remains largely a mystery. Previously, we have demonstrated in 2D that ASMCs can sense the curvature in their microenvironment and change behaviors in differentiation, orientation and migration accordingly [3]. Here we… More >

Huaxi Lu^1,*, Zhicheng Gao¹, Luyao Xu¹, Bitao Wu¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.118, No.1, pp. 177-205, 2019, DOI:10.31614/cmes.2019.04169

Abstract The railway environmental vibration caused by high-speed railways is harmful to the human health, the structural safety of adjacent buildings, and the normal use of precision instruments. At the same time, it occurs frequently. In this case, the railway environmental vibration has drawn much attention with the rapid development of high-speed railways. Studies in Earthquake Engineering show that a convex topography has a great impact on ground vibrations, however, there is no consideration about the convex topographic effect in the study of the railway environmental vibration when the convex topography is near the roadway. In… More >

Sifan Long¹, Ming Zhao^2,*, Xinfu He³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.3, pp. 727-760, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04454

Abstract With the development of society and the exhaustion of fossil energy, researcher need to identify new alternative energy sources. Nuclear energy is a very good choice, but the key to the successful application of nuclear technology is determined primarily by the behavior of nuclear materials in reactors. Therefore, we studied the radiation performance of the fusion material reduced activation ferritic/martensitic (RAFM) steel. The main novelty of this paper are the statistical analysis of RAFM steel data sets through related statistical analysis and the formula derivation of the gradient descent method (GDM) which combines the gradient… More >

Jianhui Wu^1,2, Feng Huang^1,2, Wenjing Hu²,Wei He^1,2, Bing Tu^1,2, Longyuan Guo^1,2, Xianfeng Ou^1,2,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.33, No.5, pp. 327-334, 2018, DOI:10.32604/csse.2018.33.327

Abstract Face detection is very important in video surveillance of public safety. This paper proposed a face detection method based on the best optimization convex grouping to detect the face regions from different face shape images at actual conditions. Firstly, the basic principle of convex grouping was discussed, the main rules of convex and the structure of the convex polygons was described. And then the best optimization convex grouping algorithm of the convex polygons was designed. At last, all of the algorithms, which used the best optimization convex grouping to detect the face region on the… More >

Somayeh Ezadi^a, Tofigh Allahviranloo^b

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.24, No.1, pp. 217-221, 2018, DOI:10.1080/10798587.2017.1367146

Abstract Many practical applications, under the definitive evolutionary state of the nature, the consequences of the decisions, mental states of a decision maker are required. Thus, the need is for a new concept in the analysis of decision-making. Zadeh has introduced this concept as the Z-number. Because the concept is relatively new, Z-number in fuzzy sets, hence, its basic theoretical aspects are yet undetermined. This paper presents a method for ranking Z-numbers. Hence, we propose a new method for ranking fuzzy numbers based on that of hyperbolic tangent function and convex combination. Then, using the same More >

V. Venkatachalam^{1, *}, D. Prabhakaran¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.114, No.3, pp. 321-334, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2018.114.321

Abstract This paper presents, using Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional technique combined with reciprocal convex lemma is considered for a networked control temperature control system with additive time-varying-delays. In the stability analysis, a new LK functional is assumed, and take the time-derivative of the (LK) functional, using reciprocal convex combination technique was employed to obtain less conservative stability criteria. Finally, the proposed stability analysis culminates into a stability criterion in the LMI (linear matrix inequalities) framework. The results obtained are in accordance with the theoretically obtained in the temperature control system and they are closer to the standard benchmark More >

Wenxiang Xu^1,2,3,4, Ganquan Yang⁵, Peng Lan², Huaifa Ma¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.52, No.1, pp. 25-40, 2016, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2016.052.025

Abstract Understanding the excluded volume of anisotropic particle is of great importance in the evaluation of continuum percolation and random packing behaviors of soft/hard particle systems in heterogeneous disordered media. In this work, we obtain the excluded volumes of several anisotropic convex particles including prolate spheroids, oblate spheroids, spherocylinders, and Platonic particles, using theoretical and numerical approaches. According to the second virial coefficient, we first present a theoretical scheme for determining the excluded volumes of anisotropic particles. Also, the mean tangent diameters of anisotropic convex particles are formulated by the quantitative stereology. Subsequently, Monte Carlo simulations… More >

Marcin Maździarz¹, Marcin Gajewski²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.105, No.2, pp. 123-150, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2015.105.123

Abstract In this paper, the choice and parametrisation of finite deformation polyconvex isotropic hyperelastic models to describe the behaviour of a class of defect-free monocrystalline metal materials at the molecular level is examined. The article discusses some physical, mathematical and numerical demands which in our opinion should be fulfilled by elasticity models to be useful. A set of molecular numerical tests for aluminium and tungsten providing data for the fitting of a hyperelastic model was performed, and an algorithm for parametrisation is discussed. The proposed models with optimised parameters are superior to those used in non-linear More >

Fangyi Li^1,2, Zhen Luo³, Jianhua Rong¹, Lin Hu¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.95, No.6, pp. 453-482, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2013.095.453

Abstract This paper aims to propose a non-probabilistic reliability-based multiobjective optimization method for structures with uncertain-but-bounded parameters. A combination of the interval and ellipsoid convex models is used to account for the different groups of uncertain parameters, in which the interval model accounts for uncorrelated parameters, while the ellipsoid model is applied to correlated parameters. The design is then formulated as a nested double-loop optimization problem. A multi-objective genetic algorithm is used in the out loop optimization to optimize the design vector for evaluating the objectives, and the Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) algorithm is applied in… More >