Abstract: A pumpless fuel supply using pressurized fuel with autonomous flow regulation valves is presented. Since micropumps and their control circuitry consume a portion of the electrical power generated ...

Abstract: In sheet metal fabrication using an NCT (numerically controlled turret punch press) machine, automatic tool selection is a major problem to be solved to improve its production performance. ...

Abstract: Notwithstanding powerful computational simulation methodologies available today, there remain significant challenges: the plane-section assumption of popular fiber models, the scale limitations of sophisticated microscopic ...

Abstract: Parallel computing in civil engineering has been restricted to monotonic shock or blast loading with explicit algorithm which is characteristically feasible to be parallelized. In the present paper, efficient parallelization ...

Abstract: This paper presents an analytical study of flow redistribution in a compressor stage due to asymmetric tip clearance distribution. The entire stage is modeled as an actuator disk and it is ...

Abstract: Nine full‐scale tests are described in which composite beams containing web holes are studied in an attempt to understand the mechanisjns by means of which the slab participates in carrying vertical shearing force. In ...

Abstract: The load‐carrying mechanism in concrete slabs of composite beams at web holes is studied. Using a truss analogy, the shear studs in the hole region are considered as vertical tension‐carrying members, and inclined struts ...

Abstract: Although phenomenon-mimicking or metaheuristic algorithms, such as genetic algorithm, simulated annealing, tabu search, shuffled frog-leaping algorithm, ant colony optimization algorithm, harmony search, cross entropy, ...