A super heater is a device that is used to convert wet, saturated steam into dry steam. Dry steam at 538oC contains more thermal energy. It increases the overall efficiency of the cycle. The modelling of the Super hea...
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This paper presents a comparison of iris localization techniques namely, Circular Hough Transform (CHT), Daugman's Integro Differential Operator (DIDO) and Circular Boundary Detector (CBD) for localization of iris...
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Collaboration between robots and humans is an increasingly important aspect of industrial and scientific settings. In addition, significant effort is being put into the development of robot helpers for more general us...
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Despite considerable interest among engineers and scientists, bi-directional interaction between walking pedestrians and lively bridges has still not been well understood. In an attempt to bridge this gap a biomechani...
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Despite considerable interest among engineers and scientists, bi-directional interaction between walking pedestrians and lively bridges has still not been well understood. In an attempt to bridge this gap a biomechanically inspired model of the human response to lateral bridge motion is presented and explored. The simple inverted pendulum model captures the key features of pedestrian lateral balance and the resulting forces on the structure. The forces include self-excited components that can be effectively modelled as frequency-dependent added damping and mass to the structure. The results of numerical simulations are in reasonable agreement with recent experimental measurements of humans walking on a laterally oscillating treadmill, and in very good agreement with measurements on full-scale bridges. In contrast to many other models of lateral pedestrian loading, synchronisation with the bridge motion is not involved. A parametric study of the model is conducted, revealing that as pedestrians slow down as a crowd becomes more dense, their resulting lower pacing rates generate larger self-excited forces. For typical pedestrian parameters, the potential to generate negative damping arises for any lateral bridge vibration frequency above 0.43 Hz, depending on the walking frequency. Stability boundaries of the combined pedestrian-structure system are presented in terms of the structural damping ratio and pedestrian-to-bridge mass ratio, revealing complex relations between damping demand and bridge and pedestrian frequencies, due to the added mass effect. Finally it is demonstrated that the model can produce simultaneous self-excited forces on multiple structural modes, and a realistic full simulation of a large number of pedestrians, walking randomly and interacting with a bridge, produces structural behaviour in very good agreement with site observations. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
There has been increasing interest in deploying data mining methods for fault detection. For the case where we have potentially large numbers of devices to monitor, we propose to use peer group analysis to identify fa...
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The present paper was concerned primarily with the analysis, simulation of the air flow and thermal patterns in a lecture room. The paper is devoted to numerically investigate the influence of location and number of v...
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The proceedings contain 44 papers. The special focus in this conference is on development activities in the field of mechanical engineering, manufacturing systems, robotics, medical and military field. The topics incl...
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The proceedings contain 44 papers. The special focus in this conference is on development activities in the field of mechanical engineering, manufacturing systems, robotics, medical and military field. The topics include: spherical ultrasonic motor for pipe inspection robot;advanced rehabilitation technology;a 6-DoF satellite virtual simulator design and development;experimental study of vortex shedding control using plasma actuator;remote control testing consumer;flammability behavior of composite mixed with retardant agents;flammability behavior of composite mixed with retardant agents;mechatronic designed hydraulic positioning system;VBA for tracking manufacturing process in SME;possibilities of use of virtual reality in the field of manufacturing systems;torsor evaluation of the tooth during the milling process;the preliminary study of machinability during milling of titanium alloy;device used for magnetic treatment of fuel fluids before burner;mathematical simulation of leg's a 5-Dof a biped robot;modelling and kinematic analysis of a built up linear delta robot;research on correlation between any plantar diseases and stability;eye tracking used to evaluate the human behavior;adaptive drive of manipulator module;development and optimization of perimeter traversing robot and development and optimization of perimeter traversing robot.
A Current-to-Pressure (I/P) converter is a device which converts a current input, typically between 4mA and 20mA, to a proportional pressure output. Such devices are often used in valve positioners and regulators to p...
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Intrusion of contaminants into water distribution systems due to negative pressures is a complex phenomena that has been theorised and is an active area of research. Work has identified the existence of contaminants i...
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mathematicalmodelling of human mandible and its temporomandibular joints (TMJs) is one of the most important steps for developing a powerful forecasting tool to analyse the stress/strain behaviour of a human masticat...
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