Abstract: Computation of shortest paths on free-form surfaces is an important problem in ship design, robot motion planning, computation of medial axis transforms of trimmed surface patches, terrain ...

Abstract: Developable surfaces are widely used in various engineering applications. However, little attention has been paid to implementing developable surfaces from the onset of a design. The first half ...

Abstract: A finite element model is developed for thermo-mechanical analysis of the process of metal plate forming by laser line heating. A rezoning technique is adopted to greatly reduce the simulation ...

Abstract: Despite extensive research and rapid increase of computing power, free-form object matching still remains a challenging problem in CAD/CAM areas. In this paper, various object features are ...

Abstract: The general three-dimensional linearized dynamic equations of a compliant riser, idealized as a rotationally nonuniform rod, around a nonlinear static configuration in the presence of general ...