Abstract: The motion of a body sliding under boundary friction, at a velocity slower than a particular critical velocity of the system, proceeds in a discontinuous or stick-slip form. This paper presents ...

Abstract: A new linear time varing (LTV) model has been developed for open loop, on-off valve controlled pneumatic actuation systems. This formulation is based on a periodic profile description for ...

Abstract: In the context of the reduction of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as prescribed by the Kyoto protocol, this paper describes a thermodynamic performance analysis of new gas turbine combined ...

Abstract: An automated side weir irrigation system is designed using the concept of constant specific energy. The characteristics of the spatially varied flow along a main channel with multiple side weir outlets are analyzed to ...

Abstract: In this paper economic and scenario analyses of new gas turbine combined cycles with no emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen oxides are described. The cycles, already presented in a ...

Abstract: A reduced order nonlinear model of an automotive manual transmission is presented and the neutral rattle case is analyzed. For a single frequency excitation and primary resonance, approximate ...

Abstract: A new probabilistic method is introduced which can be used to obtain a global map of the distribution of the velocity and force transmission characteristics of robot manipulators. The method ...

Abstract: The climatic effects of air-traffic pollutants, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and mononitrogen oxides (NOx), aerosols, contrails, and aviation induced cirrus clouds, are repeatedly stressed in ...

Abstract: The assumption of a constant coefficient of discharge in the linear head-discharge relationship of a chimney weir is reinvestigated. Based on dimensional analysis and subsequent experiments conducted with three different ...