Mechanical engineering topic list of research papers
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Discussion on Influencing Factors of Free-flow Travel Time in Road Traffic Impedance Function
Abstract Road traffic impedance is an important part of traffic assignment and has a direct impact on the urban transportation planning, especially on the optimization of urban road network. The BPR function has been the classical traffic impedance...
2013 / Nan He, Shengchuan Zhao -
Condition Monitoring for Early Failure Detection. Frognerparken Pumping Station as Case Study
Abstract A case study has been carried out to investigate how process data from Frognerparken Pumping Station can be used more efficiently to get an early detection of degradation or failures of the pump systems. The technical condition is described ...
2014 / S.P. Berge, B.F. Lund, R. Ugarelli -
Interval Criterion of Robust Stability for Nonlinear System and Its Application to Flight Control
Abstract Robust stability for a series of nonlinear systems is presented in this paper. Through different region descriptions, the problem of stability for a complex nonlinear system is transformed into ones of the robust stabilities of several...
2011 / Zhong-ke SHI -
Discovery of Breathing Phenomena in Continuously Rotating Detonation
Abstract As is generally thought, continuously rotating detonation should keep going around the combustor regularly and has a fixed period. However, from the figures gotten by the data acquisition system, two kinds of breathing phenomena, Low...
2014 / Y.H. Wang, J.P. Wang, T.Y. Shi, Y.S. Liu, Y.S. Li, et al. -
Decision-making Model of Roadside Safety Improvement on Two-lane Highway
Abstract In order to meet the needs of scientific decision-making of roadside safety improvement project, a decision-making model of two-lane highway roadside safety improvement is proposed which based on Game Theory analysis. Firstly, roadside...
2013 / Yong Fang, Zhongyin Guo -
Mixed-fidelity Efficient Global Optimization Applied to Design of Supersonic Wing
Abstract Multidisciplinary design optimizations are practical key technology for the efficient design of a supersonic transport (SST). However, the computational cost should be expensive with high fidelity flow solver. Thus, the surrogate models...
2014 / M. Kanazaki, H. Takagi, Y. Makino -
Optimizing Battery Electric Bus Transit Vehicle Scheduling with Battery Exchanging: Model and Case Study
Abstract In China, a significant amount of activity is focused on electric vehicles (EV) in recent years. Propelled by the national government, electric buses powered by installed lithium-ion batteries are operating on some metropolitan streets of...
2013 / Zhu Chao, Chen Xiaohong -
Experimental Analysis of Optimal Operation Mode of a Ground Source Heat Pump System
Abstract This paper presents experimental data and modeling of a ground source heat pump (GSHP) with variable speed compressor, variable speed water pumps and variable speed fans in the coils, installed at Hiref Spa (Italy) in the framework of the...
2014 / Davide Del Col, Marco Azzolin, Giacomo Benassi, Mauro Mantovan -
Influence of Experience on Users’ Behaviour: A Day-to-Day Model for Route Choice Updating
Abstract The performance of a transportation network is the consequence of users’ choices and the interaction of these choices. Several aspects influence users’ choices. For the analyst of the transportation system, being able to forecast users’...
2013 / Maria Luisa De Maio, Antonino Vitetta, David Watling -
Influence of Fuselage Plug-in on the Empennage Flutter Characteristics of a Transport Aircraft
Abstract Full airframe flutter analysis of a transport aircraft with T-tail configuration is performed for two fuselage lengths in order to assess the effect of fuselage plug-in on the empennage flutter characteristics when developing the stretched...
2014 / Y.J. Choi, S.W. Lee, W. Kang, S.K. Paek -
Energy Recovery from Low Temperature Heat Produced During Aerobic Biological Treatment
Abstract The possibility of recovering the heat ejected with the exhaust air arising from the aerobic conversion of organic waste for feeding a micro organic Rankine cycle (ORC) was investigated. This heat was upgraded by the combustion of a given...
2014 / Francesco Di Maria, Lucio Postrioti, Caterina Micale, Alessio Sordi, Marcello Marconi -
Microcontroller-based mobile robot positioning and obstacle avoidance
Abstract The use of mobile robots is growing in manufacturing facilities, hazardous materials handling, etc. Usually, several sensor systems are used in combination. The task of combining the information into a usable form, suitable for making...
2014 / Aziza M. Zaki, Osama Arafa, Sanaa I. Amer -
URANS Prediction of the Effects of Upstream Wakes on High-lift LP Turbine Cascades Using Transition-sensitive Turbulence Closures
Abstract A URANS solver has been applied to the analysis of unsteady effects induced by incoming wakes in high-lift, low-Reynolds- number cascade flows. The study has been carried out using a novel, transition-sensitive, turbulence model. It is...
2014 / Roberto Pacciani, Michele Marconcini, Andrea Arnone, Francesco Bertini -
Development of a Software in the Loop Environment for Automotive Powertrain Systems
Abstract In the last years the interest for hybrid vehicles increased mainly for environmental reasons. The dynamic behavior of a vehicle is then influenced by the interaction between the engine and the hybrid system. The final goal of the paper is...
2014 / Gabriele Vandi, Nicolò Cavina, Enrico Corti, Giorgio Mancini, Davide Moro, et al. -
Comparison of the Effectiveness of Common Cycle Computing Models
Abstract In a coordinated road network, the common cycle is selected by evaluating the performance of the network in the given cycle length range. There are some models to compute the common cycle length. This study give a review of these current...
2014 / Ting Lu, Alexander Sohr, Xiaoxu Bei -
Investigation of lateral-directional aerodynamic parameters identification method for fly-by-wire passenger airliners
Abstract A new identification method is proposed to solve the problem of the influence on the loaded excitation signals brought by high feedback gain augmentation in lateral-directional aerodynamic parameters identification of fly-by-wire (FBW)...
2014 / Zhao Wu, Lixin Wang, Jiaming Lin, Junqiang Ai -
Rapid and accurate reverse engineering of geometry based on a multi-sensor system2014 / Feng Li, Andrew Peter Longstaff, Simon Fletcher, Alan Myers
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A Method for Improving the Pose Accuracy of a Robot Manipulator Based on Multi-Sensor Combined Measurement and Data Fusion2015 / Bailing Liu, Fumin Zhang, Xinghua Qu
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Exposure Time Optimization for Highly Dynamic Star Trackers2014 / Xinguo Wei, Wei Tan, Jian Li, Guangjun Zhang
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A Thermal Runaway Simulation on a Lithium Titanate Battery and the Battery Module2015 / Man Chen, Qiujuan Sun, Yongqi Li, Ke Wu, Bangjin Liu, et al.