Fatigue life and cracking characterization of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) under flexural cyclic load

This paper presents a study on cracking characterization of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) under flexural cyclic load using digital image correlation (DIC) technique. Five stress levels, namely 0.65, 0.75, 0.8, 0.85 and 0.9 of the flexural strength, were applied. Strain map at the side surface was obtained by DIC and used to drive...

Joint migration inversion: Features and challenges

Joint migration inversion is a recently proposed technology, accommodating velocity model building and seismic migration in one integrated process. Different from the widely accepted full waveform inversion technology, it uses imaging parameters, i.e. velocities and reflectivities of the subsurface, to parameterize its solution space. The...

3-D Linear Reconstruction of the Experimental Fresnel Data by the GMMV Inversion Method

In this paper, the generalized multiple measurement vectors (GMMV) linear inversion method is applied to the reconstruction of the 3-D Fresnel data, provided by the Institue Fresnel (Marseille, France). The results show that the GMMV-based method can obtain good resolution along the x- and y- axes, while poor resolution along the z-axis,...

Stochastic optimization with randomized smoothing for image registration

Image registration is typically formulated as an optimization process, which aims to find the optimal transformation parameters of a given transformation model by minimizing a cost function. Local minima may exist in the optimization landscape, which could hamper the optimization process. To eliminate local minima, smoothing the cost function...

Research Note: Near-surface layer replacement for sparse data: Is interpolation needed?

Near-surface problem is a common challenge faced by land seismic data processing, where often, due to near-surface anomalies, events of interest are obscured. One method to handle this challenge is near-surface layer replacement, which is a wavefield reconstruction process based on downward wavefield extrapolation with the near-surface...

Flexible CMOS Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Image Sensor Technology

Micro Ramps in Supersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers: An experimental and numerical study

The micro vortex generator (MVG) is used extensively in low speed aerodynamic problems and is now extended into the supersonic flow regime to solve undesired flow features that are associated with shock wave boundary layer interactions (SWBLI) such as flow separation and associated unsteadiness of the interaction system. Numerous experimental...