Estimation of true dihedral angles and relative grain boundary energies in polycrystals using the disector

Relative grain boundary energies can be simply related to true dihedral angles, which are the angles between grain boundary planes meeting at triple edges in polycrystals. Some limited efforts in the measurement of true dihedral angles have used the technique of serial sectioning, which is usually cumbersome and time consuming. In this study the three‐dimensional probe called the ‘disector’ has been employed to evaluate true dihedral angles. This probe, combined with automated image processing, introduces precision as well as efficiency, overcomes the disadvantages of the two‐dimensional probe and is far less tedious and less complicated than serial sectioning. It is shown that the technique is relatively simple and therefore can be applied to obtain a significantly large and accurate statistical sample of true dihedral angles. The application of this method is demonstrated by evaluating the triple junction geometry and the associated relative grain boundary energies in polycrystalline 316L austenitic stainless steel.     

拉远基站与系统设备的互联互通

随着3G牌照发放日期的逐步临近,人们对第3代移动通信(3G)的认识也更加清晰.2G与3G将融合发展,平滑过渡.2G业务增长的数据显示,2G还有很大的发展空间,2G与3G的过渡将是一个长期的过程.3G将首先在一些热点地区、业务量大的地方优先使用,在开始的时候没有必要大规模铺网,只需采用一些拉远基站就可以解决这些地区的3G覆盖问题.文章从网络应用的角度论述了拉远基站在未来3G组网中的重要作用,分析了目前部署3G拉远基站可能存在的问题,对互联互通、站址和网管等问题的解决方法提出了建议.     

BANDC——一种适合于从遥感图象识别地理环境的分类器

本文所提出的新算法 BANDC 是 BAyes Normal Dynamic Clustering 的缩写。这个算法的目的是从遥感图象识别地理环境。它的优点是:能由机器自动按照图象估算出分类器的参数;作为一种特殊的 Bayes 分类器,它能够依靠计算机估算出{wi}的先验概率,于是能剔除野点,提高分类器的鲁棒性。这个算法的关键是应用拟合法从灰度等级直方图估算出参数。     

电荷耦合图像传感器在细线直径测控系统中的应用

文中给出了一个以氟化氪固体激光器做光源，以电荷耦合图像传感器为光屏，应用夫朗禾费衍射原理，实现对细丝直径在线检测自动控制。该方案对相关企业质量控制的自动化是有意义的。     

机载扫描成象系统的技术发展

叙述了机载扫描成象系统的发展,基本结构,特点及其应用.     

不用专门相移装置的三维面形测量

提出一种不需要专用相移装置实现相移，主要利用数字图像处理技术实现三维面形测量的方法，研究结果表明，用原干涉图像及1幅以上的移值条纹图主可能实现物体三维面形的测量。     

Cortney S. Warren: Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award.

Provides the biography of Cortney S. Warren and announces that she has received the APA Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award (2004) for an outstanding research paper whose findings examine the potential for ethnicity to protect against body image disturbance by moderating the relationships between awareness and internalization of a thin physical ideal and body dissatisfaction. A selected bibliography is also provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Evidence of thermally induced borehole elongation: a case study at Soultz, France

When they occur, borehole breakouts are considered strong markers of principal stress directions at depth. An innovative processing method for automatically identifying breakouts from ultrasonic borehole wall images has been developed. It has been applied to data sets from two deep, sub-vertical wells (GPK1 and GPK2) at the Soultz geothermal site in eastern France. In well GPK1, below 3 km depth, compression breakouts, with a 95°±7° azimuth, increasingly occur with depth. They result from time dependent compression failure at sub-critical stress levels and are indicators of the minimum horizontal principal stress orientation. However, in the uppermost logged section of well GPK2 (1.6–2.9 km depth), continuous borehole elongations share roughly the same azimuth with so called drilling-induced fractures (164°±18° and 175°±17° azimuth, respectively). Both features concomitantly vanish with depth, together with the amplitude of the thermal perturbation induced by drilling. It is proposed that these latter borehole elongations result from a pervasive, cooling-induced, tensile micro-cracking process prior to macroscopic failure localization. They are termed thermal elongations and are indicators of the maximum horizontal principal stress orientation. Had a simple logging caliper tool been used for this work, these thermal elongations might have been confused with classical compression breakouts. A simple criterion for differentiating compression breakouts from thermal elongation is proposed.     

基于小波分析的车型识别

本文论述了用小波分析提取车辆图像边缘信号的方法，得到了连续、光滑的边缘图像，并将其应用于公路车辆车型的检测与识别系统中，实验表明识别过程准确、速度快，具有较好的应用前景。     

A new methodology to appraise the physical characteristics of maize silage by image processing: effect of the ensiling process

We present a new computer vision method for measuring the physical characteristics of maize silages based on the extraction of image textural features, namely five Haralick features, the moments of order 1 and 2 on the grey levels of the image, and a fractal parameter. To show the effectiveness of these features for characterising the physical properties of the maize silage, a trial was performed on three maize cultivars (Zea mays L, a mid–early hybrid and an early hybrid) to study the effects of the ensiling process. The features could discern effects of the ensiling process on the physical properties of the maize silage. These effects were neither significant by comparing particle size distributions, nor with chemical compositions, whereas a biological response (degradation in the rumen) to the ensiling process exists. Thus image textural features seemed to give new and interesting measurements of the physical properties of the silage, explaining the biological response better than other methods. Furthermore, the ensiling effect was not the same with all the maize types and varied with the proportion of large particles in the silages. Linear relations between features before and after the ensiling process made it possible to predict a measure on a silage knowing its value on the parent forage. Copyright © 2004 Society of Chemical Industry