The tensile testing machine described here is a fully open-source device designed to determine the mechanical tensile strength of test specimens. At its core, it uses a single-board computer ...

Abstract: Two challenges that affect retrieval tasks in a typical computer desktop user environment are the speed and accuracy of accessing information such as documents and media files. Generating a ...

But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...

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Abstract: Large-scale design optimization of electric machines is oftentimes practiced to achieve a set of objectives, such as the minimization of cost and power loss, under a set of constraints, such ...

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