Abstract: Acoustic pyrometry is a widely used technique for contactless temperature measurement. It may be used in several applications, especially when high temperatures and harsh environments are involved. For instance, it has ...

Abstract: This work concerns the economic potential assessment of an innovative hybrid-cooling system for steam condensation in concentrated solar power plants. The system consists of an air-cooled condenser ...

Abstract: The design of a solar field is one of the crucial aspects when a solar tower system is realized. In general, shading and blocking effects, which are the main causes of solar power losses, are minimized displacing the ...

Abstract: In structural health monitoring, the presence of damage is detected and localized by outlining the differences between the initial state and current behavior of a given structure. The problem is often formulated as an ...

Abstract: This paper presents the results of the study on mechanical and tribological performance enhancement of 6061 aluminum alloys by incorporation of B4C particle via friction stir processing (FSP). The incorporation of B4C ...

Abstract: In this note we illustrate how to obtain the full family of Newmark’s time integration algorithms within a rigorous variational framework, i.e., by discretizing suitably defined extended functionals, ...

Abstract: This paper studies the morphology and evolutionary growth of the Nautilus pompilius based on the fractional R1-trigonometry. Morphological models based on the fractional trigonometry are shown to ...

Abstract: Composite, timber-concrete slabs as structural floor systems for office and residential buildings, offer several technical advantages over traditional, exclusively timber floors. The connection between timber and concrete ...