Evaluation of pressure levels in pipelines due to solar heat gains

A detailed numerical model based on a lumped capacity analysis, is developed for assessing potential pressure increases in pipelines due to solar energy gains. Test computations for gasoline and water show that for operational conditions of no pipeline flow, pressures reach levels for which structural damage may occur.     

Finite p-Groups in Which the Number of Subgroups of Possible Order is Less Than or Equal to $p^3 $

In this paper, groups of order pn in which the number of subgroups of possible order is less than or equal to p3 are classified. It turns out that if p 2, n ≥ 5, then the classification of groups of order pn in which the number of subgroups of possible order is less than or equal to p3 and the classification of groups of order pn with a cyclic subgroup of index p2 are the same.     

On the refined modeling of the force distribution in a bistable magnetoelastic energy harvesting system due to a magnetic field

Abstract: The problem of a bistable magnetoelastic beam under base excitation was discussed in [1] under the aspect of chaotic behaviour in mechanical systems. Three decades later the system was used in [2] to design an energy harvesting system which performs well under harmonic excitation for a broad range of excitation frequencies due to its bistability. The initial modeling was tailored to obtain a model with one degree of freedom based on the assumption that the magnetic force acts on the beam tip only. A more appropriate model can be found when considering a distributed force along the beam. The authors present the force distribution on a ferromagnetic beam due to the magnetic field of two permanent magnets. A semi-analytic method is used to compute the magnetic field. The force distribution can in future be used to derive a refined nonlinear dynamical model for the ferromagnetic elastic beam. (© 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)