Abstract: Variable valve timing technologies for internal combustion engines are used to improve power, torque, and increase fuel efficiency. Details of a new solution are presented in this paper for optimizing valve motions of a ...

Abstract: This paper presents a numerical investigation of the progressive collapse behavior of the precast RC frame subassemblages. An efficient numerical model for precast RC frame subassemblages under progressive collapse is ...

Abstract: In this study, a method for improving the exhaust energy grade called exhaust energy splitting is proposed. During the exhausting process of a low-speed marine diesel engine, the exhaust energy splitting is used to split ...

Abstract: Magnetorheological (MR) dampers are one of the most promising devices for mitigation of vibration of engineering structures due to earthquakes and wind excitation. In this paper, a compact twocolumn model of an MR fluid ...

Abstract: Microstructured surfaces are assuming an everincreasing role since they define the ultimate performance of many industrial components and products. Microchannels, in particular, have many potential applications in microfluidic ...

Abstract: In this study, an optimization scheme for exhaust flow characteristics based on the energy-splitting method is proposed. The low-speed marine diesel engine adopts the exhaust energy-splitting method during the exhaust ...

Abstract: By taking into account the ballistic mixing caused by recoil implantation and cascade collision, a model that describing effective free energy for alloys under irradiation from the perspective of diffusion equilibrium was ...