Diplomats do not think of themselves as numerical analysts. Yet every round of shuttle diplomacy, every incremental concession extracted at a Geneva side table, every calibrated escalation designed to ...

This study presents a nonlinear dynamic analysis of functionally graded half-cylinder sandwich (FGhCS) shells with elastic boundary conditions (EBCs) subjected to explosive loading (EL). An efficient ...

Aerospace Engineering is at the cutting edge of technology, understanding and applying scientific principles to the design, development and service of some of the most technologically advanced ...

Finding the closest hit of a ray segment with the scene (rtcIntersect -type functions), and determining whether any hit between a ray segment and the scene exists (rtcOccluded -type functions) are ...