Abstract: Night-minus day-measured relative humidity differences are used to calculate mean temperature differences between the hygristor of the U.S. National Weather Service rawinsondes and the ambient air. Calculations are made ...

Abstract: Airfoil shapes tailored to specific inflow conditions and loading requirements can offer a significant performance potential over classic airfoil shapes. However, their optimal operating range has to be matched thoroughly ...

Abstract: The use of adaptronic components opens up interesting new possibilities for modern machine tools such as parallel kinematics. In this paper, two active vibration control concepts are designed ...

Abstract: In this paper response bounds of linear damped systems are reviewed and new response bounds are presented for free vibrations and forced vibrations under impulsive, step, and harmonic excitation. ...

Abstract: In this paper, it is shown that some classic longitudinal impact problems can be solved satisfactorily with time delayed systems. As an example, a sphere colliding with a fixed rod with finite ...

Abstract: Movement analyses of bearings focusing on cage motion behavior are often conducted by simulations, typically by investigating the cage whirl. Some experimental studies exist in which a metal cage or a modified one is ...

Abstract: Cloud signals from a vertically pointing, range-corrected ruby lidar and a rotating beam ceilometer showed excellent agreement in the height at which peak signal occurred. However, pilot reports of ceiling were at significantly ...

Abstract: Multibody dynamics is based on analytical mechanics and is applied to engineering systems such as a wide variety of machines and all kind of vehicles. Multibody dynamics depends on computational ...

Abstract: The modern design process of mechanical structures is increasingly influenced by highly sophisticated methods of topology optimization that can automatically synthesize optimal design variants. ...

Abstract: This Technical Note presents a systematic analysis of a steady-state biofilm model for the simultaneous utilization of an electron donor and an electron acceptor. It shows that the flux of the electron donor is balanced ...