The Metrics Group of Virginia Tech has been studying the object oriented paradigm and how it relates to software maintenance and software reusability in an attempt to make programmers more productive. Software reuse is the ...

Genetic algorithms (GAs) often require many iterations for convergence. If the cost for the analysis of each laminate is high, then GA optimization becomes infeasible due to the large amount of CPU time required. A genetic ...

CH3OD decomposition has been studied over the stoichiometric, nonpolar (111) and polar, copper_terminated (100) surfaces of Cu2O. Thermal desorption studies for monolayer coverages of methanol at 90 K show similar conversions, ...

Interatomic potentials of the embedded-atom type have been developed for H in metals. The potentials are constructed through a fitting procedure involving the thermodynamic heat of solution of H in the various metals and ...

The transient response of two thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers (a copolyester of 60 mol_% p_hydroxybenzoic acid, PHB, and 40 mol_% poly(ethylene terephthalate), PET, and a copolyester of PHB and 2_hydroxy_6_naphthoic ...

This is the biannual newsletter for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

This is the biannual newsletter for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Activation of subcombination internal resonances in transversely excited cantilever beams is investigated. The effect of geometric and inertia nonlinearities, which are cubic in the governing equation of motion, is considered. ...

We extend our original analysis begun in Tarkenton et al. [Phys. Rev. B 49, 11 794 (1994)] to include dissipative effects that are important in real cryogenic systems where nonlinear second sound exists. We present results ...