Abstract: In electromagnetic railgun experiments at ISL, the composite projectiles are accelerated up to 2000 m/s with a maximal acceleration of 7×106 m/s2. The maximum forces typically will have ...

Abstract: The detection of an abrupt change in the parameters of a linear discrete dynamical system is considered in the framework of the easily implemented generalized-likelihood-ratio (GLR) method. This ...

Abstract: The clear relation between shaft cracks in turborotors and vibration effects measured in bearings can be established by model-based methods very well. Here a new concept has been presented, ...

Abstract: Mechanical descriptor systems, i.e., constrained mechanical systems, have many applications in practice. This paper studies the control of mechanical descriptor systems. First, a class of the state ...

Abstract: A new method is proposed for preparing silicon P -N junctions. The first consists in fixing a transparent plastic film coated with a thin layer of a conventional dopant on the surface of ...

Abstract: Normal forms are presented for linear mechanical systems with holonomic and/or nonholonomic constraints. These forms provide deep insight into the peculiar system structure of constrained linear ...