| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/47005 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_117_121.pdf |
| Author | Shirosaki, Yuki| Tsuru, Kanji| Hayakawa, Satoshi| Osaka, Akiyoshi| Takashima, Seisuke| |
| Abstract | γ-Methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane (γ-MPS) was grafted to silicone due to emulsion polymerization to induce Si-OH groups, in order to provide silicone with bioactivity spontaneous deposition of apatite in body fluid and to improve cytocompatibility. Apatite deposited on the grafted silicone within 7 days of soaking in 1.5 times as concentrated as the Kokubo solution. Osteoblastic cells (MC3T3-E1) were cultured on the specimens up to 7 days. After 5 days of culture, the number of MC3T3-E1 cells on the grafted specimen was much greater than that on the original specimen. These results indicated that the biocompatibility of silicone elastomer was improved by the grafting γ-MPS. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 117 |
| End Page | 121 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003497031 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/47004 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_107_116.pdf |
| Author | Kanatani, Kenichi| Ohta, Naoya| |
| Abstract | We present a new method for automatically detecting circular objects in images: we detect an osculating circle to an elliptic arc using a Hough transform, iteratively deforming it into an ellipse, removing outlier pixels, and searching for a separate edge. The voting space is restricted to one and two dimensions for efficiency, and special weighting schemes are introduced to enhance the accuracy. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method using real images. Finally, we apply our method to the calibration of a turntable for 3-D object shape reconstruction. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 107 |
| End Page | 116 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80012855284 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/47003 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_091_106.pdf |
| Author | Kanatani, Kenichi| Ohta, Naoya| |
| Abstract | We present a theoretically optimal linear algorithm for 3-D reconstruction from point correspondences over two views. We also present a similarly constructed optimal linear algorithm for 3-D reconstruction from optical flow. We then compare the performance of the two algorithms by simulation and real-image experiments using the same data. This is the first impartial comparison ever done in the sense that the two algorithms are both optimal, extracting the information contained in the data to a maximum possible degree. We observe that the finite motion solution is always superior to the optical flow solution and conclude that the finite motion algorithm should be used for 3-D reconstruction. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 91 |
| End Page | 106 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003497029 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/47002 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_079_090.pdf |
| Author | Kanatani, Kenichi| |
| Abstract | We first present an improvement of Kanatani's subspace separation [8] for motion segmentation by newly introducing the affine space constraint. We point out that this improvement does not always fare well due to the effective noise it introduces. In order to judge which solution to adopt if different segmentations are obtained, we present two criteria: one is the standard F test; the other is model selection using the geometric AIC of Kanatani [7] and the geometric MDL of Matsunaga and Kanatani [13]. We test these criteria doing real image experiments. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 79 |
| End Page | 90 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003497028 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/47001 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_059_077.pdf |
| Author | Kanatani, Kenichi| |
| Abstract | Contrasting "geometric fitting", for which the noise level is taken as the asymptotic variable, with "statistical inference", for which the number of observations is taken as the asymptotic variable, we give a new definition of the "geometric AIC" and the "geometric MDL" as the counterparts of Akaike's AIC and Rissanen's MDL. We discuss various theoretical and practical problems that emerge from our analysis. Finally, we show, doing experiments using synthetic and real images, that the geometric MDL does not necessarily outperform the geometric AIC and that the two criteria have very different characteristics. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 59 |
| End Page | 77 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80012855281 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/47000 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_051_057.pdf |
| Author | Vaillancourt, Chico| |
| Abstract | This is a brief essay on using kinesthetic approaches to learning English as a second language. In the essay, I briefly discuss teaching philosophy and 2 small-scale Technical Engineering projects that I have introduced and completed with my 4(th) year engineering students in the spring of 2001. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 51 |
| End Page | 57 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003497026 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46999 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_041_049.pdf |
| Author | Totsuji, Hiroo| Kishimoto, Tokunari| Totsuji, Chieko| Tsuruta, Kenji| |
| Abstract | The ground state of spherical clusters of charged particles of one species confined by the three-dimensional parabolic potential is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations with the system size from N = 5000 to N = 1.2 × 10(5) . The cohesive energy per particle is compared between the shell-structured clusters and spherical finite bcc lattices with relaxed surfaces, the former and the latter being the ground states for small systems and for the large enough systems, respectively. It is shown that, when N > N(c)(N(c) > N), finite bcc lattices with relaxed surfaces (the shell structures) have stronger cohesion than the shell structures (finite bcc lattices with relaxed surfaces) and the critical value of the transition N(c) is estimated to be 10(4) < N(c) < 1.4 × 10(4) . The nucleation of the bcc lattice in the shell-structured cluster of 2 × 10(4) ions is observed. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 41 |
| End Page | 49 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80015112663 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46998 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_029_039.pdf |
| Author | Imai, Jun| Wada, Kiyoshi| |
| Abstract | A procedure for control-oriented modeling is proposed for large flexible structures with unknown modal parameters. Techniques on quantification of errors in modal truncated nominal models are developed for the case where a finite number of upper and lower bounds of the unknown modal parameters are given. A feasible set of systems matching the conditions is introduced, and then error bounds covering the feasible set are established in the frequency domain. The bounds are easily checked using linear programming for any user-specified frequency. The feasibility of the proposed scheme is illustrated by numerical study on an ideal flexible beam example. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 29 |
| End Page | 39 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80012887118 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46997 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_017_028.pdf |
| Author | Endo, Shinichiro| Konishi, Masami| |
| Abstract | Small Scale Hydroelectric Power Generation is made using the water drop caused by the gradient difference between that of the river and that of the penstock. The water flow in this system apt to vary with time. Especially, at the time of the flood or that of the dry, the flow in the water stream varies largely. To realize the stable generation, it is necessary to maintain the water level in the head tank located in the mid way in the stream channel at a constant level. In this paper, variation of water level is forecasted using two-tank model for the penstock and the head tank and the water level control algorithm is proposed by deadbeat control. The effectiveness of the algorithm is evaluated beforehand using the simulation program of the water environment for the hydroelectric generation system. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 17 |
| End Page | 28 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003497023 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46996 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_007_016.pdf |
| Author | Li, Yan| Abe, Takeji| Tada, Naoya| Kanazawa, Masanori| |
| Abstract | The change in the surface morphology of polycrystalline titanium during tensile plastic deformation is studied, using the scanning probe microscope as well as the laser scanning microscope. The observation shows that the slip occurs mainly near grain boundary at the strain range of ε < 0.05. The slip develops with the applied strain, and the slip on the second slip system or the crossing of slip lines appear. The surface roughness increases linearly with the applied strain. The height difference between the grain boundary area and the inner grain area also increases with the applied strain, though the increase rate becomes low after the applied strain of about 0.3. The nano-scale height difference of the surface step of slip lines increases with the applied strain, though it remains almost constant after the applied strain of 0.4. The averaged surface roughness measured with the scanning probe microscope is in good agreement with that measured with the laser scanning microscope. |
| Keywords | Plasticity Polycrystalline Titanium Tensile Deformation Surface Morphology Slip Twin Probe Scanning Microscope Laser Scanning Microscope |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 7 |
| End Page | 16 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80012831215 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46995 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_001_006.pdf |
| Author | Kondou, Ryouji| Abe, Takeji| Tada, Naoya| Shimizu, Ichiro| |
| Abstract | Change in crystal orientation and strain of individual grains during tensile plastic deformation are studied to clarify on the microscopic deformation behavior of polycrystalline copper. The orientation of grain is measured by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) technique in the scanning electron microscope. The principal strain of grain is also measured by obtaining the approximated ellipse of strain distribution. The deformation of grains dependent on their initial orientation and the rotation of the principal strain during uniaxial tension are clarified. |
| Keywords | Polycrystalline Copper Plastic Deformation SEM EBSD Method Grain Orientation Crystal Orientation Map |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 1 |
| End Page | 6 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003497021 |
| Author | Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University| |
|---|---|
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Content Type | Others |
| Author | Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University| |
|---|---|
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Content Type | Others |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46983 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_089_097.pdf |
| Author | Iokibe, Kengo| Toyota, Yoshitaka| Wada, Osami| Koga, Ryuji| |
| Abstract | Aerosol extinction coefficients of clouds and dust were continuously measured in the year of 2002 with a polarized Mie-scattering lidar controlled by an automatic and remotely operating system utilizing internet services. Measured cloud extinctions were greater than 1.0 km(-1) below the altitude 6 km, 0.17 - 1.0 km(-1) between 6 and 10 km, and 0.091 - 0.3 km(-1) beyond 10km. Extinction of dust were 0.10 and 0.20 km(-1) for Asian dust and 0.057 km(-1) for urban dust. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 89 |
| End Page | 97 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003457336 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46982 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_073_087.pdf |
| Author | Nogami, Yasuyuki| Morikawa, Yoshitaka| |
| Abstract | Public key cryptosystem has many uses, such as to sign digitally, to realize electronic commerce. Especially, RSA public key cryptosystem has been the most widely used, but its key for ensuring sufficient security reaches about 2000 bits long. On the other hand, elliptic curve cryptosystem(ECC) has the same security level with about 7-fold smaller length key. Accordingly, ECC has been received much attention and implemented on various processors even with scarce computation resources. In this paper, we deal with an elliptic curve which is defined over extension field F(p2c) and has a prime order, where p is the characteristic and c is a non negative integer. In order to realize a fast software implementation of ECC adopting such an elliptic curve, a fast implementation method of definition field F(p2c) especially F(p8) is proposed by using a technique called successive extension. First, five fast implementation methods of base field F(p2) are introduced. In each base field implementation, calculation costs of F(p2)-arithmetic operations are evaluated by counting the numbers of F(p)-arithmetic operations. Next, a successive extension method which adopts a polynomial basis and a binomial as the modular polynomial is proposed with comparing to a conventional method. Finally, we choose two prime numbers as the characteristic, and consider several implementations for definition field F(p8) by using five base fields and two successive extension methods. Then, one of these implementations is especially selected and implemented on Toshiba 32-bit micro controller TMP94C251(20MHz) by using C language. By evaluating calculation times with comparing to previous works, we conclude that proposed method can achieve a fast implementation of ECC with a prime order. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 73 |
| End Page | 87 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80015999992 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46981 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_067_072.pdf |
| Author | Yamagiwa, Masashi| Sakai, Hiroshi| |
| Abstract | An active form of Cry4A is a heterodimer of the 20- and 45-kDa fragments that are derived from the 130-kDa Cry4A protoxin. To investigate the function of these two fragments, several deletion mutants were constructed and expressed in E.coli as the GST (glutathione-S-transferase) fusion proteins. The results of the bioassay against Culex pipiens larvae showed that the interaction of two fragments of Cry4A was necessary for the toxicity, and that the C-terminal 67 amino acids of the 20-kDa fragment corresponding to the helices α4 and α5 were involved in determining the insecticidal activity. Surprisingly the lack of helix α5 did not affect the toxicity to C. pipiens, suggesting that the role of helix α5 of Cry4A was different from that postulated in the case of Cry4A toxins. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 67 |
| End Page | 72 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016019143 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46980 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_061_066.pdf |
| Author | Vaillancourt, Chico| |
| Abstract | In this case study, I will analyse and discuss the results of a survey concerning motivation towards learning a second language conducted in one Danish high school. The students surveyed were between the ages of 13-18. This section, part two of the study, was conducted in Copenhagen, Denmark. This region of the world was chosen because bilingualism is quite common there and a large portion of the school-aged community is learning a second language and often a third and even a fourth. Denmark, a European country, is different than Canada (Case Study-Part 1.) because it neighbours many countries, which use different mother tongues. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 61 |
| End Page | 66 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003457333 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46979 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_045_060.pdf |
| Author | Xu, Wei| Zhao, Y.| Horikane, T.| Hayata, T.| Tosuji, H.| Kagawa, Y.| |
| Abstract | Resistivity distribution sounding of the non-homogeneous earth is important for electrical ground system design, geophysical prospecting and survey or monitoring the groundwater flow level. The previous paper presented that the direct inversion of the electric resistivity distribution in a domain is possible from the impedance data measured over the domain boundary using the dual reciprocity boundary element modelling in two-dimentional field [1]. The proposed inversion technique is extended to the distribution in three-dimensional space [2]. This technique is capable of inversion without iteration and meshing of the domain. Electric field with spatially varying conductivity is governed by Laplace equation, which is transformed into a Poisson-type expression with an inhomogeneous term involving the conductivity difference as a source term. Dual reciprocity method (DRM) is a technique for transforming the domain integral associated with the inhomogeneous term in Poisson equation into the boundary integral expression. The resistivity distribution in the field can thus be identified from the data observed over its boundary, for which some examples are demonstrated [2]. In this paper, the examination is extended to the case where only the data measured over the single surface is used for the inversion. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 45 |
| End Page | 60 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016037881 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46978 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_029_044.pdf |
| Author | Imajo, Shuya| Konishi, Masami| Imai, Jun| Nishi, Tatsushi| |
| Abstract | In hot strip rolling mills, the looper control system is automated. However, the looper's behavior tends to be unstable in threading. Therefore, human expert always intervenes and stabilizes the looper's behavior by tuning PID gains and interposing manipulation variable of looper control system. In this paper, we propose a method based on the recurrent neural network to express PID gains tuning action by human. Furthermore, we propose two methods to update the model by learning. To check the effectiveness of the proposed learning methods, numerical simulation applied to the looper height control is carried out. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 29 |
| End Page | 44 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016037880 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46977 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_013_027.pdf |
| Author | Shibuta, Taizo| Konishi, Masami| Imai, Jun| Nishi, Tatsushi| |
| Abstract | Nowadays, various kind of reactor furnaces are widely used for the production in industry. The raw materials charged into the furnace generate reaction heat produced by blowing gas. Generally speaking, the reaction heat generated in the furnace is remarkably high. Therefore the occurrence of an inappropriate temperature distribution in the furnace may make damege or serious accident of the furnace. This is the motivation of furnace control. The author is considering the application of studied results to the furnace control of Blast Furnace in steel industry. To the propose, the approximated and simplified Macro Model of the Blast Furnace is constructed which has the function of representation of qualitative characteristics of the furnace in dynamical sense. The furnace temperature, distribution greatly effects both on the producting and the product quality of the furnace. Needless to say, stable furnace operation is indispensable for the economical prosperity of the industry. In this paper, macro simulation of the furnace is developed to support the analysis and design of the furnace control. Using the simulator, the stability and the control characteristics for inner furnace temperature distribtion are analised quantitatively. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 13 |
| End Page | 27 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80015999991 |
