To estimate the amount of fatigue damage in metallic plates such as steel and stainless steel, we have investigated the relationship between the amount of plane bending fatigue damage and residual magnetization. The m...
To estimate the amount of fatigue damage in metallic plates such as steel and stainless steel, we have investigated the relationship between the amount of plane bending fatigue damage and residual magnetization. The magnetic flux density in the Z component (Bz) at 1 mm above a specimen caused by residual magnetization is measured by using a thin-film flux-gate magnetic sensor. From the results of our experiment, the magnetic flux density has clear dependence on the increase of bending stress and the number of stress cycles in austenitic stainless steel. The distribution of Bz on steel plates is changed by the amount of plane bending fatigue damage. But, the relationship between the change of Bz and the number of stress cycles is not clear in the case of steel plates. In this paper, the relationship between the amount of plane bending fatigue damage and residual magnetization in metallic plates is discussed.
It is important to reuse existing motion capture data for reduction of the animation producing costs as well as the efficiency of the producing process. Because its motion curve has no control point, however, captured...
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Repetitive processes are a distinct class of 2D linear systems with applications in areas ranging from long-wall coal cutting and metal rolling operations through to iterative learning control schemes. The main featur...
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Repetitive processes are a distinct class of 2D linear systems with applications in areas ranging from long-wall coal cutting and metal rolling operations through to iterative learning control schemes. The main feature which makes them distinct from other classes of 2D linear systems is that information propagation in one of the two independent directions only occurs over a finite duration. This, in turn, means that a distinct systems theory must be developed for them, which can then be translated (if appropriate) into efficient routinely applicable controller design algorithms for applications domains. In this paper, we give some new results on LMI based stabilization and robust control of so-called discrete linear repetitive processes and illustrate them by application to a metal rolling process.
Most of iterative learning control (ILC) methods requires that the relative degree of the plant is less than 2 for a linear system or the plant is passive for a non-linear system. A new model reference parametric adap...
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Hot electron transport in a high density plasmas has been studied using a two dimensional hybrid code. The results show that the initially cylindrical solid beam evolves into a hollow, annular beam due to the Weibel i...
Hot electron transport in a high density plasmas has been studied using a two dimensional hybrid code. The results show that the initially cylindrical solid beam evolves into a hollow, annular beam due to the Weibel instability and generates strong magnetic fields on both sides of the annular ring. The annular structure subsequently breaks up into several beamlets due to a mechanism similar to a tearing instability. It is found that the magnetic fields parallel to the direction of beam propagation also grow during the tearing process. These beamlets are attract each other and finally they merged into a single beam which carries a net electric current. The tearing and merging processes have also been analyzed by the hybrid code for a uniform initial condition to determine an asymptotic behaviors of the total number of hot electron beams. We also have performed a three dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation to compare with the results of 2D hybrid code. It shows that the spatial variation of cold electron density is much more uniform than that obtained by 2D code.
Repetitive processes are a distinct class of 2D linear systems with applications in areas ranging from long-wall coal cutting and metal rolling operations through to iterative learning control schemes. The main featur...
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Repetitive processes are a distinct class of 2D linear systems with applications in areas ranging from long-wall coal cutting and metal rolling operations through to iterative learning control schemes. The main feature which makes them distinct from other classes of 2D linear systems is that information propagation in one of the two independent directions only occurs over a finite duration. This, in turn, means that a distinct systems theory must be developed for them, which can then be translated into efficient routinely applicable controller design algorithms for applications domains. In this paper, we give the first significant results on a positive realness based approach to the analysis of these processes.
Most of iterative learning control (ILC) methods requires that the relative degree of the plant is less than 2 for a linear system or the plant is passive for a non-linear system. A new model reference parametric adap...
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Most of iterative learning control (ILC) methods requires that the relative degree of the plant is less than 2 for a linear system or the plant is passive for a non-linear system. A new model reference parametric adaptive iterative learning control using the command generator tracker (CGT) theory is proposed in this paper. The method can be applied to control a plant with a higher relative degree and it only requires to iteratively adjust n m + 2 parameters for an SISO plant. Therefore, the ILC control system is very simple. The proposed method is in the spirit of simple adaptive control which has received intensive researches during past two decades. Simulation results show the effectiveness and usefulness of the proposed method.
We describe recent developments in thermosonic crack detection. This technique uses a single short pulse of sound to cause cracks to heat up and become visible in the infrared. A low frequency (15 to 40 kHz) ultrasoni...
We describe recent developments in thermosonic crack detection. This technique uses a single short pulse of sound to cause cracks to heat up and become visible in the infrared. A low frequency (15 to 40 kHz) ultrasonic transducer fills the sample with sound that causes frictional heating at crack interfaces. We show that the technique can be applied equally well to quite large and irregularly shaped objects, and to small delicate objects using the same apparatus. We present examples of this technology applied to cracks as small as 20 microns and as large as several inches, and to materials ranging from brittle ceramics, to soft metals and composites.
This paper presents the findings of an experimental study on the use of Infrared Thermography for nondestructive evaluation of subsurface delaminations in Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite bridge decks and conc...
This paper presents the findings of an experimental study on the use of Infrared Thermography for nondestructive evaluation of subsurface delaminations in Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite bridge decks and concrete columns wrapped with FRP jackets. Composite bridge deck specimens were constructed in the laboratory with varying delamination sizes. The infrared images from the delaminated specimens were compared with undamaged specimens to study the effect of subsurface delaminations on the infrared images. In addition, field tests were conducted using infrared thermography on composite structural members of three bridges located in West Virginia.
This paper is concerned with the control of carbon fiber sail structures that are being studied in a series of experiments at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and at the University of California, Irvine. The passiv...
This paper is concerned with the control of carbon fiber sail structures that are being studied in a series of experiments at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and at the University of California, Irvine. The passive dynamic stability in the one-dimensional (1-D) case was studied in an earlier paper in terms of the fixed points of the trajectories for the governing equations of motion. The simple 1-D model introduced the possibility of controlling a microwave-propelled sail using various nonlinear control strategies, using both position and velocity measurements. In the current paper, we assume that velocity measurements are unavailable, and that the position measurements are delayed (due to the finite speed of light). We then use a novel feedback that employs delayed position measurements only to stabilize the sail about an equilibrium position. The paper will also contain preliminary results on studying the stability of the full 3-D sail model, and potential control strategies.
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