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Open AccessFree vibration characteristics of sectioned unidirectional/bidirectional functionally graded material cantilever beams based on finite element analysis
Advancements in manufacturing technology, including the rapid development of additive manufacturing (AM), allow the fabrication of complex functionally graded material (FGM) sectioned beams. Portions of these ...
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Analytical investigation of an energy harvesting shape memory alloy–piezoelectric beam
This work presents an analytical investigation of a cantilever shape memory alloy (SMA)/piezoelectric laminated composite beam subjected to a tip load with possible temperature variation. The beam consists of ...
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Performances of Invariant Feature Detectors in Real-Time Video Applications
This paper reviews and compares the performance of five well-known detectors, SIFT, SURF, ORB, MSER and STAR, when combined in combination of with using three common descriptors, SIFT, SURF and ORB. To validat...
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Evaluation of a commercial rRNA target amplification assay for detection ofMycobacterium tuberculosis complex in respiratory specimens
Seventy-one respiratory samples were analyzed in a new commercially available target rRNA amplification assay aimed at detectingMycobacterium tuberculosis complex directly in patient specimens. The assay (Gen-Pro...