Materials engineering topic list of research papers
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Parametric Study of Simulated Tennis Shoe Treads
Abstract We report on friction properties between simulated tennis shoe treads created in house and a hard court tennis surface approved by the International Tennis Federation. To simulate tennis shoe tread, we use the compound N70 Nitrile Butadiene ...
2016 / John Eric Goff, Daniel Ura, Luke Boswell, Matt J. Carré -
Fatigue Strength Assessment of AlSi7Cu0.5Mg T6W Castings Supported by Computed Tomography Microporosity Analysis
Abstract The fatigue strength of the casted aluminum alloy AlSi7Cu0.5Mg T6W is investigated, whereat different eutectic modifiers, Sr and Na, are used for the two fatigue testing series. The tested specimens are extracted from three different...
2016 / C. Garb, M. Leitner, F. Grün -
Manufacturing and testing of self-passivating tungsten alloys of different composition
Abstract Self-passivating tungsten based alloys for the first wall armour of future fusion reactors are expected to provide a major safety advantage compared to pure tungsten in case of a loss of coolant accident with simultaneous air ingress, due...
2016 / A. Calvo, C. García-Rosales, F. Koch, N. Ordás, I. Iturriza, et al. -
Tuning and Control Strategies for a Debutanizer Column
Abstract Various conventional control strategies was performed using Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller which have been applied for control of a debutanizer column. Tuning of PID control strategies studied are using Smith Predictor...
2016 / Nasser Mohamed Ramli -
Integrating New Technologies and Materials by Reengineering: Selected Case Study Results
Abstract Potentials of integrating new technologies, particularly carbon fiber reinforced plastics, are not fully considered conventional reengineering processes. This paper firstly addresses the benefit by integration of functions, reduction of...
2016 / Melanie Klein, Benjamin Thorenz, Christian Lehmann, Johannes Boehner, Rolf Steinhilper -
Modeling and analysis of smoothly diffused vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
Abstract Inter-diffusion in a 850 nm AlGaAs/GaAs top-emitting oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) has been modeled and analyzed. Some important VCSEL parameters such as, the threshold gain, relative confinement factor, and...
2016 / O.M. Khreis -
Integrating Smart Glasses with Question-answering Module in Assistant Work Environment
Abstract Recently, smart glasses have been applied in field work, with which a worker goes well during work by contacting a support operator from a remote location. The worker, however, cannot go well if the support operator is not there. To solve...
2016 / Ryutaro Nambu, Tatsuya Kimoto, Takeshi Morita, Takahira Yamaguchi -
New Approach of Comprehensive Shift Schedule Based on Electric Drive Automated Mechanical Transmission
Abstract According to different control objectives, shift schedules of dynamical and economical mode for electric-drive AMT vehicles is presented and a comprehensive shift schedule model is established with precise traction motor torque and speed...
2016 / Hou Rui, Zhang Junzhi, Lin Cheng -
A System Design of a Rural Hospital Operating Room
Abstract Rural hospitals have been closing their doors at record rates. This fact is distressing because small town hospitals serve 51 million Americans. Often small hospitals are the only major point of care and triage for communities they serve....
2016 / David S. Cochran, Jia Li, Kyle Vanover, Joseph T. Foley -
Design of a Compact Electromagnetic Undulator for THz Radiation Production
Abstract The goal of this research is to design a compact electromagnetic undulator. This insertion device will be installed at the PBP–CMU–LINAC system of Chiang Mai University (CMU), Thailand, to produce THz radiation. The undulator magnet is...
2016 / K. Thaijai-un, N. Chaisueb, S. Rimjaem, C. Thongbai -
Time Analysis of Dissipative Systems Elastic Response. Part 2
Abstract Based on common equations of response of dissipative system, which is presented in the form of Duhamel's integral, some particular cases of the application of this integral to the problems of dynamics of structures are considered. The...
2016 / A. Potapov -
A unified approach for performance analysis of randomly generated robotic morphologies
Summary An attempt is presented towards a unified approach to compute kinematic performance of planar manipulators with the links connected in series, in loops and in combinations of both. The motivation of this work lies in the fact that serially...
2016 / Sameer Gupta, Ekta Singla -
Function Aggregation of New Heavy Load High Voltage Circuit Breaker Based on Axiomatic Design
Abstract To unify the design process of complex products to meet higher function and performance demands, a practical implementation for a new heavy load high voltage circuit breaker is presented. This paper analyzes the function and performance of...
2016 / Aibin Zhu, Wencheng Luo, Dayong He, Yangyang Liu -
Adaptive Learning Rate for Visual Tracking Using Correlation Filters
Abstract Visual tracking is a difficult problem in computer vision due to illumination, pose, scale, appearance variations of object. Most of the trackers use either gray scale/color information or gradient information for image description. However ...
2016 / C.S. Asha, A.V. Narasimhadhan -
Reactant Control System for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell
Abstract The Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) has been a focus in many fuel cell studies for tremendous commercialization. It generates an efficient and reliable power with a suitable system to ensure its electrochemical reaction operates...
2016 / R.E. Rosli, A.B. Sulong, W.R.W. Daud, M.A. Zulkifley, M.I. Rosli, et al. -
Heterogeneity: The key to failure forecasting2015 / Jérémie Vasseur, Fabian B. Wadsworth, Yan Lavallée, Andrew F. Bell, Ian G. Main, et al.
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Initial wet web strength of paper2016 / Jürgen Belle, Jürgen Odermatt
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Ratcheting Strain Accumulation Due to Asymmetric Cyclic Loading of Zircaloy-2 at Room Temperature
Abstract Asymmetric stress cycling leads to accumulation of plastic strain which is called as ratcheting strain. The problem is generally associated with nuclear fuel cladding materials used in nuclear power plants and in pressurized pipe lines. In...
2016 / R.S. Rajpurohit, N.C. Santhi Srinivas, Vakil Singh -
On possibility of unloading control at leg orthotics
Abstract In earlier papers the idea was formulated of programmed control of the limb unloading coefficient (CU) through change of the brace lateral compression when tightening. With regard to the shin the hypothesis was that due to circumferential...
2016 / Il’ya N. Dashevskiy -
Efficiency Criteria and Comparative Analysis of Combined Energy Plants Utilizing LNG Cold Energy
Abstract A decent grow in cold energy use is detected during recent years. Authors suggest different schemes and energy plants using the LNG cold energy, which raise a question of the correct comparison of their efficiency. Traditional ways of...
2016 / E.V. Blagin, A.A. Shimanov, A.I. Dovgyallo, D.A. Uglanov