Materials develop different type of behaviours based on environmental conditions, loading conditions and different processing methods. Following up a previous work, the authors noticed that a mainly ductile material h...
Materials develop different type of behaviours based on environmental conditions, loading conditions and different processing methods. Following up a previous work, the authors noticed that a mainly ductile material had features of brittle failure when the material was used for specimens with stress concentrators. Three types of specimens with stress concentrators were chosen and tests were carried out in order to develop a triaxial state of stress using a universal testing machine. After the failure, new specimens of the failure surface were debited and they were studied using SEM analysis. Elements of both brittle and ductile failures were identified and the study went further to verify the chemical composition of the material and the presence of impurities, if any. The authors concluded that the processing methods, the chemical composition and contamination of the material greatly influences the behaviour and type of failure of the specimens.
The heating, ventilating and air conditioning system (HVAC) is one of the basic components of modern cars. At the same time, the system is a high energy consumer. The comfort of the passengers depends on its performan...
The heating, ventilating and air conditioning system (HVAC) is one of the basic components of modern cars. At the same time, the system is a high energy consumer. The comfort of the passengers depends on its performance, and a malfunction influences the performance of the car. In the case of closed spaces (cars) factors such as humidity, air flow, noise and vibration influence the feeling of comfort. The purpose of this work is to analyse the vibrations and noise that occur when the air conditioning system works, because they are influencing the comfort of the passengers. Literature review is useful in designing more efficient system reducing noise and vibration in the passenger compartment.
The cover image is based on the Focus Article Robotic interfaces for cognitive psychology and embodiment research: a research roadmap , by Philipp Beckerle, Claudio Castellini, and Bigna Lenggenhager, https://***/10.1...
The cover image is based on the Focus Article Robotic interfaces for cognitive psychology and embodiment research: a research roadmap , by Philipp Beckerle, Claudio Castellini, and Bigna Lenggenhager, https://***/10.1002/wcs.1486 .
Ceramics, as a commonly used insulating and thermally conductive material, has a wide range of applications in the field of micro-nano manufacturing. In recent years, research on ceramic bonding has also increased. Ho...
Ceramics, as a commonly used insulating and thermally conductive material, has a wide range of applications in the field of micro-nano manufacturing. In recent years, research on ceramic bonding has also increased. However, ceramic bonding has some problems such as bonding failure and low bonding quality. Learning from other commonly used bonding materials, the important factor for the success of bonding is the surface properties of the material. Therefore, in this study, the surface of ceramic was treated by dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) to improve surface properties. The effects of dielectric barrier discharge on the surface properties of ceramic is investigated from the three aspects: hydrophilic angle, surface energy and surface morphology. In the dielectric barrier discharge experiment, blind via glass is used as the blocking medium for the upper electrode. The lower electrode is covered by ceramic, and the ceramic is also the material to be treated. The influence of processing time, discharge voltage and discharge frequency on the treatment effect is investigated in the experiment. The hydrophilic angle and surface energy of the treated ceramics are measured and calculated by contact angle measuring instrument, and the surface morphology was observed by scanning electron microscopy. The results show that the longer the discharge treatment time is, the larger the discharge output voltage is, the smaller the discharge gap is, the faster the hydrophilicity of the surface of the ceramic sheet is, and the higher the activation energy is. The damage of the ceramic surface after treatment is small, and the impurities on the surface are destroyed. In general, the surface properties of ceramics after dielectric barrier discharge treatment are better than before.
The development of dependable software for mechatronic systems can be a very complex and hard task. For facilitating the obtaining of dependable software for industrial controllers, some powerful software tools and an...
The development of dependable software for mechatronic systems can be a very complex and hard task. For facilitating the obtaining of dependable software for industrial controllers, some powerful software tools and analysis techniques can be used. Mainly, when using simulation and formal verification analysis techniques, it is necessary to develop plant models, in order to describe the plant behavior of those systems. However, developing a plant model implies that designer takes his (or her) decisions concerning granularity and level of abstraction of models; approach to consider for modeling (global or modular); and definition of strategies for simulation and formal verification tasks. This paper intends to highlight some aspects that can be considered for taking into account those decisions. For this purpose, it is presented a case study and there are illustrated and discussed very important aspects concerning above exposed issues.
This paper was initially intended to report on the outcome of the twice postponed demonstration mission of the ARCHES project. Due to the global COVID pandemic, it has been postponed from 2020, then 2021, to 2022. Nev...
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Composite materials have experienced great development in recent years, replacing traditional materials. Designed as metastructures, their properties recommend them in different fields, from sports materials to those ...
Composite materials have experienced great development in recent years, replacing traditional materials. Designed as metastructures, their properties recommend them in different fields, from sports materials to those in aeronautic and energy industries. In combinations of metallic layers or composites based on carbon/glass fibers, the properties of these materials allowed both the miniaturization of devices and the construction of large lightweight components. The paper aims to present the results of the tensile evaluation of the glass fiber reinforced plastics (GFRP), used in the construction of wind turbine blades. The blades are the most critical components of the wind turbines, being exposed to the damage and the defects that appear during operation can lead to the loss of the integrity of the blade structure. In order to increase the lifetime and to study the defects during operation, tensile tests were performed to determine the mechanical properties on a dry specimen, reinforced at [0 ° / 90 °], and the results obtained were compared with two specimens subjected to immersion in water for 14 and 21 days, two other specimens were immersed in seawater (Black Sea) for 14 and 21 days and one specimen was immersed in liquid nitrogen for 4 days.
We study one-dimensional optical wave turbulence described by the 1D Schrödinger–Helmholtz model for nonlinear light propagation in spatially nonlocal nonlinear optical media such as nematic liquid crystals. By ...
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The dual-drive H-gantry (DHG) is widely used for high-speed high-precision Cartesian motion control applications. Compared with the rigid-linked gantry design, the flexure-linked design is able to prevent the damage o...
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The dual-drive H-gantry (DHG) is widely used for high-speed high-precision Cartesian motion control applications. Compared with the rigid-linked gantry design, the flexure-linked design is able to prevent the damage of the cross-arm because a small degree of rotation angle is allowed. Nevertheless, the flexure-linked design possibly induces the resonance of the gantry because of the chattering of control signals. To maintain the precision tracking of two carriages and minimize the chattering of control efforts, we aim to seek the most suitable flexure joints among the available ones and optimize the decentralized feedback controller parameters under parametric uncertainties. The mechatronic design problem is formulated as an H_2 guaranteed cost control problem. All the stabilizing feedback controller gains are parameterized over a convex set, from here, numerical procedures are developed to obtain the global optimum by means of an outer-linearization-based optimization algorithm. Experiments are carried out and the results successfully validate the optimality and the robustness of the proposed design approach.
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