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20100310128 | System and Method for Remote Measurement of Displacement and Strain Fields - A computer-implemented method for measuring full field deformation characteristics of a deformable body. The method includes determining optical setup design parameters for measuring displacement and strain fields, and generating and applying a dot pattern on a planar side of a deformable body. A sequence of images of the dot pattern is acquired before and after deformation of the body. Irregular objects are eliminated from the images based on dot light intensity threshold and the object area or another geometrical cutoff criterion. The characteristic points of the dots are determined, and the characteristic points are matched between two or more of the sequential images. The displacement vector of the characteristic points is found, and mesh free or other techniques are used to estimate the full field displacement based on the displacement vector of the characteristic points. Strain tensor or other displacement-derived quantities can also be estimated using mesh-free or other analysis techniques. | 12-09-2010 |
20130055825 | Recursive Hexapod System and Method for Multiaxial Mechanical Testing - A recursive hexapod testing machine for mechanical testing of deformable material specimens under six degrees of freedom multiaxial loading. The machine includes a fixed base, a movable base connected to the fixed base at by a hexapod arrangement of six linearly extendable actuator linkages, with an end of each linkages attached to the movable base and the other end of the linkage attached to the fixed base. Each actuator linkage includes a hydraulic cylinder and piston, a digitally-controlled electro-hydraulic servo-valve for actuating the hydraulic cylinder in response to a digital command string, a load cell in line between the piston and the universal joint attached to the movable base, a linear variable displacement transducer for measuring extension of the piston, and a magneto-resistive position transducer for measuring a position of the piston. The servo-valves extend each hydraulic cylinder a predetermined amount to effect a desired motion of the material specimen. | 03-07-2013 |
20130063570 | System and Method for Remote Full Field Three-Dimensional Displacement and Strain Measurements - A method and system for measuring full field deformation characteristics in three dimensions of a body upon which a pattern of visible marks has been applied. The method includes receiving images of the pattern of marks from at least two digital video cameras as the specimen deforms. A computer processor identifies the centroids of each of the two camera images of the body in a first frame, matches the centroids of the marks in the two images, and generates a three-dimensional representation of the centroids based on the two images, and repeats these steps for the images from the two cameras in a subsequent frame. The computer processor calculates the displacement vector between a three dimensional representation of the centroids and the subsequent three dimensional representation of the centroids, and calculates full field displacement and strain fields based on the displacement vector. | 03-14-2013 |
20140025353 | Algorithm and a Method for Characterizing Fractal Volumes - A computer implemented method for obtaining an analytical representation of an internal structure and spatial properties distribution of a selected physical domain includes identifying d-dimensional correspondences of measured spatial properties or field distributions; and applying an inverse algorithm to the d-dimensional spatial properties or field distributions to calculate the Weierstrass-Mandelbrot (W-M) fractal model to thereby determine parameters defining an analytical and continuous Weierstrass-Mandelbrot (W-M) representation. | 01-23-2014 |
20140037217 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIRECT STRAIN IMAGING - A method and system for measuring and determining the full-field spatial distributions of strain tensor field components in a two or three-dimensional space, as a consequence of deformation under generalized loading conditions. One or more digital cameras may be used to acquire successive images of a deforming body with optically distinctive features on its surface. A method for determining the location of characteristic points of the surface features and another one for tracking these points as deformation occurs. Elongations between neighboring points on the vicinity of a location of interest are computed. The elongation between points is calculated even though discontinuities may exist between them. Strain tensor fields are directly calculated as a tensor approximation from these elongations without determining or using the displacement vector distributions. | 02-06-2014 |
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20100124249 | TEMPERATURE UNIFORMITY MEASUREMENT DURING THERMAL PROCESSING - Methods and systems for determining a radial differential metrology profile of a substrate heated in a process chamber is provided. Methods and systems for determining an angular or azimuthal differential metrology profile of a rotating substrate in a processing chamber are also provided. The radial and azimuthal differential metrology profiles are applied to adjust a reference metrology profile to provide a Virtual metrology of the process chamber. The virtual metrology is applied to control the performance of the process chamber. | 05-20-2010 |
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20090208679 | MATERIAL INTENDED FOR FORMING OR PRINTING IMAGES AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD - The present invention relates to a material intended for forming or printing images, comprising a support and at least one hydrophilic binder-based layer, and its manufacturing method, said method enabling the gelation process of the hydrophilic binder to be controlled. The material according to the invention is characterized in that in at least one of said hydrophilic binder-based layers, said hydrophilic binder is gelated by complexation with a complexing agent present on a heat-sensitive polymer or copolymer, that is hydrophobic at temperatures higher than its lower critical solution temperature LCST to protect the complexing agent, and water-soluble at temperatures less than its LCST to make the complexing agent accessible, the LCST of the heat-sensitive (co)polymer being higher than the setting temperature of said hydrophilic binder. The material according to the invention can be used as photographic material or as material taking aqueous ink compositions applied by the inkjet printing technique. | 08-20-2009 |
20100063223 | COPOLYMER GRAFTED WITH POLYAMIDE, MATERIAL COMPRISING IT, PREPARATION PROCESS AND USES - The invention relates to a graft copolymer composed of a block copolymer of general formula B-(A) | 03-11-2010 |
20100190894 | GRAFT POLYMER AND THERMOREVERSIBLY CROSS-LINKED BITUMEN COMPOSITION COMPRISING SAID GRAFT POLYMER - The disclosure relates to a bitumen/polymer composition comprising at least one bitumen and at least one graft polymer, the grafts enabling the bitumen/polymer compositions to be thermoreversibly cross-linked. The disclosure also relates to the use of said bitumen/polymer compositions in fields of application relating to roads, especially in the production of asphalt binders, and in industrial fields of application. The disclosure further relates to the method for producing said thermoreversibly cross-linked bitumen/polymer compositions. | 07-29-2010 |
20100197835 | THERMOREVERSIBLY CROSSLINKED BITUMEN/POLYMER COMPOSITION - The disclosure relates to a bitumen/polymer composition comprising at least one bitumen and at least one graft polymer, the grafts enabling the bitumen/polymer compositions to be thermoreversibly cross-linked. The disclosure also relates to the use of said bitumen/polymer compositions in fields of application relating to roads, especially in the production of asphalt binders, and in industrial fields of application. The disclosure further relates to the method for producing said thermoreversibly cross-linked bitumen/polymer compositions. | 08-05-2010 |
20120059094 | GRAFT POLYMER AND THERMOREVERSIBLY CROSS-LINKED BITUMEN COMPOSITION COMPRISING SAID GRAFT POLYMER - The disclosure relates to a bitumen/polymer composition comprising at least one bitumen and at least one graft polymer, the grafts enabling the bitumen/polymer compositions to be thermoreversibly cross-linked. The disclosure also relates to the use of said bitumen/polymer compositions in fields of application relating to roads, especially in the production of asphalt binders, and in industrial fields of application. The disclosure further relates to the method for producing said thermoreversibly cross-linked bitumen/polymer compositions. | 03-08-2012 |
20130237646 | THERMOREVERSIBLY CROSS-LINKED GRAFT POLYMERS - A graft polymer PG includes a polymer backbone P and at least one side graft G linked to the polymer backbone, the graft G having the general formula (1): in which R | 09-12-2013 |
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20150073094 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THICK NANOSTRUCTURED FILMS OBTAINED FROM A BLOCK COPOLYMER COMPOSITION - The present invention relates to a process for producing nanostructured films obtained from block copolymers exhibiting a dispersity index of between 1.1 and 2, limits included, without nanostructuring defects, on a surface, in order for this treated surface to be able to be used as masks for applications in microelectronics. | 03-12-2015 |
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20100222230 | DIAGNOSTIC AND PROGNOSTIC METHODS FOR RENAL CELL CARCINOMA - The present invention provides methods for diagnosis and prognosis of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) using expression analysis of one or more groups of genes, and a combination of expression analysis from a biological sample from the subject. The methods of the invention provide a method for superior detection accuracy for RCC as compared to any other currently available method for RCC diagnostic or prognosis. The invention also provides kits for diagnosis and prognosis of RCC using expression analysis. | 09-02-2010 |
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20130331432 | METABOLIC GENE, ENZYME, AND FLUX TARGETS FOR CANCER THERAPY - A novel pathway in cancer cell metabolism is identified. Targeting of any gene, protein, or enzyme that modulates activity or flux through this pathway, including, but not limited to IDH1, isocitrate dehydrogenase 2 (IDH2), aconitase 1 (ACO1), aconitase 2 (ACO2), glutaminase (GLS), glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) and transaminase, provides effective means of inhibiting tumor growth. | 12-12-2013 |
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