3D visualization of the material flow in friction stir welding process

The material flow in friction stir welded 2014 Al alloy has been investigated using a marker insert technique （MIT）. Results of the flow visualization show that the material flow is asymmetrical during the friction stir welding （FSW） process and there are also significant differences in the flow patterns observed on advancing side and retreating side. On advancing side, some material transport forward and some move backward, but on retreating side, material only transport backward. At the top surface of the weld, significant material transport forward due to the action of the rotating tool shoulder. Combining the data from all the markers, a three-dituensional flow visualization, similar to the 3D image reconstruction technique, was obtained. The three-dimensional plot gives the tendency chart of material flow in friction stir welding process and from the plot it can be seen that there is a vertical, circular motion around the longitudinal axis of the weld. On the advancing side of the weld, the material is pushed downward but on the retreating side, the material is pushed toward the crown of the weld. The net result of the two relative motions in both side of the advancing and the retreating is that a circular motion comes into being. Comparatively, the material flow around the longitudinal axis is a secondary motion.

Scattering simulation and reconstruction of a 3D complex target above an underlying surface using SIMO radar with plane array

A SIMO(single input and multiple output) system of a step-frequency(SF) radar is used.It works in downward-looking spotlight mode and moves within a 2D synthetic plane array.A 3D(three-dimensional) matrix of bistatic scattering fields is produced in both the amplitude and phase from a 3D complex-shaped electric-large target above background surface.In numerical simulation,the bidirectional analytic ray tracing(BART) method is applied to calculate bistatic scattering in the SIMO observations from a volumetric target above background rough surface.An improved 3D RMA(range migration algorithm) is then utilized to make the imaging.Its 3D imaging is applied to reconstruct the target profile.As validation and comparison,the scattering fields of some simple targets are computed with comparisons of the BART and FEKO software.The SIMO techniques of imaging and reconstruction for a 3D target,such as a tank-like model over rough surface,are presented.

3D corrective nose reconstruction from a single image

There is a steadily growing range of applications that can benefit from facial reconstruction techniques,leading to an increasing demand for reconstruction of high-quality 3D face models.While it is an important expressive part of the human face,the nose has received less attention than other expressive regions in the face reconstruction literature.When applying existing reconstruction methods to facial images,the reconstructed nose models are often inconsistent with the desired shape and expression.In this paper,we propose a coarse-to-fine 3D nose reconstruction and correction pipeline to build a nose model from a single image,where 3D and 2D nose curve correspondences are adaptively updated and refined.We first correct the reconstruction result coarsely using constraints of 3D-2D sparse landmark correspondences,and then heuristically update a dense 3D-2D curve correspondence based on the coarsely corrected result.A final refinement step is performed to correct the shape based on the updated 3D-2D dense curve constraints.Experimental results show the advantages of our method for 3D nose reconstruction over existing methods.