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Adaptive 6 DOF Self-Balancing Platform for Autonomous Vehicles
(ResearchGate, 2020-01)Parallel manipulators with six degrees of freedom are utilized in many applications. In this paper, a Stewart manipulator is used as a robust vehicle stabilizer to control the orientation and direction of the top platform. ... -
Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Modeling of Mechanical Behavior for Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Turfs
(Elsevier, 2011-04)Several characterization methods were developed to study the mechanical and structural properties of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs). Establishing analytical models at nanoscale to interpret these properties ... -
ALE formulation and its application in solid mechanics
(Science Direct, 1999-03)In this paper an incremental approach is used to derive an arbitrarily-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) finite element formulation including a complete expression of the external virtual work. The characteristics of this formulation ... -
Alternative methods for the solution of hyperelastic problems with incompressibility
(Science Direct, 2003-02)A new approach for analysing incompressible hyperelastic and rubber-like material behaviour is discussed. The approach is based on extending the linear analysis bubble function concept into nonlinear analysis. To eliminate ... -
Apparatus for measuring the effective thermal conductivity of packed bed of aggregates
(United States Patent, 2019-02)Systems and methods for measuring the effective thermal conductivity of aggregate packed beds are described . Sys tems and methods may include an apparatus comprising a first assembly , a second assembly , and a cylindrical ... -
Assessment of Fatigue Life of Ni-Ti Samples Prepared by Different Techniques
(ResearchGate, 2014)Ni-Ti alloys have been given a lot of attention, mainly for their innovative use in practical medical applications. These motives led to understand deformation mechanisms, particularly behaviors under fatigue loading. In ... -
Assessment of retail practices for providing enhanced value added services and improved customer satisfaction using lean manufacturing approach
(Dergi Park, 2017)The purpose of this study is to apply lean manufacturing principles in retailing services for enabling retail managers to understand takt time and value added services (VASs) in order to achieve benchmarked retail efficiency. ... -
Assessment of various methods in solving inverse heat conduction problems
(2011)In an inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP), the boundary conditions, initial conditions, or thermo-physical properties of material are not fully specified, and they are determined from measured internal temperature ... -
Automated design and optimization of industrial motion control machines: Verification and a case-study
(IOP Publishing, 2018)Motion control is a form of automation which enables the position- or velocity-control of a machine using an actuator such as an electric motor. The selection of suitable components and actuators for complex mechanical ... -
An Autonomous Exploration Strategy for Cooperative Mobile Robots
(scientific research publishing, 2014-03-07)Frontier-based exploration methods are efficient for multi-robot exploration systems. In this pa- per, enhanced frontier-based techniques are used with team of cooperating mobile robots to ex- plore unknown environment. ... -
Bayesian combined neural network for traffic volume short-term forecasting at adjacent intersections
(Springer London, 2021-03)Undoubtedly, one of the greatest issues nowadays is congestion. To face such problem, forecasting of traffic is required. Bayesian combined neural network (BCNN) is applied to four different locations in Kuwait (Cairo ... -
Boiling heat transfer of multiple impinging jets on a hot moving plate
(Taylor and Francis Online, 2013-01)In this research, boiling heat transfer on a hot moving plate caused by multiple impinging water jets in multiple jet rows is studied. An inverse heat conduction code is developed to analyze the readings of thermocouples ... -
Cement flow during impaction allografting: a finite element analysis
(Science Direct, 2016-02)Cement intrusion into cancellous or impacted bone is not well understood. We adopted an engineering mechanics approach to predict the effect of surgical variables on the cement intrusion into impacted cancellous bone, used ... -
Centrifugal Compressor Spiral Dry Gas Seal Simulation Working at Reverse Rotation
(Elsevier, 2013)Unidirectional dry gas seal may experiences reverse rotation when equipped in a centrifugal compressor. This paper describes how the reverse rotation effects on the spiral unidirectional dry gas seal performance and pressure ... -
Centrifugal compressor spiral dry gas seal simulation working at reverse rotation
(Science Direct, 2013-01)Unidirectional dry gas seal may experiences reverse rotation when equipped in a centrifugal compressor. This paper describes how the reverse rotation effects on the spiral unidirectional dry gas seal performance and pressure ... -
CFD Analysis on the Single-Phase Flow Electrical Submersible Pump Performance Curve
(Public Knowledge Project, 2020-12)Most of the industrial fields, especially oil and gas, involve the application of electrical submersible pump (ESP) for flow transport. The pump performance will deteriorate depending on conditions of usage. The main ... -
A CFD Simulation for a Two-Phase Turbulent Bed Contactor
(IEEE Xplore, 2019-04)Turbulent bed contactors (TBC) employed extensively in process industry and received much attention due to their high efficiency, and low capital and operating costs. In this paper, bed hydrodynamics including pressure ... -
A complete finite element treatment for the fully coupled implicit ALE formulation
(Springer Link, 2004-04)This paper presents a complete derivation and implementation of the Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) formulation for the simulation of large deformation quasi-static and dynamic problems. While most of the previous work ... -
Computational implementation of stress integration in FE analysis of elasto-plastic large deformation problems
(Science Direct, 2000-06)In this paper, we compare different numerical implementation algorithms for the rate type constitutive equation and present an integration scheme based on the physical meaning of the stress. Numerical implementation of ... -
A consistent Eulerian formulation of large deformation problems in statics and dynamics
(Science Direct, 2002-09)A concise survey of formulation methods of geometric and material non-linearity problems is given. The survey is concerned mainly with the differences between updated Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations, and with the ...