Using Stability Theory to Analyse Configurations of Pulsed Jets for Flow Control

During the last decade, efforts for simulating active flow control behavior by the use of pulsating jets have multiplied. In the present work, a URANS is used mostly for simulation, where the resulting flow characteristics can be reproduced with fair but adequate accuracy for engineering applications. This computational tool provides information concerning the effect on the flow, of the flow control. An additional computational tool is introduced, that of flow stability analysis, which allows to optimize the frequency and the position of the actuators (here pulsating jets). This tool will be developed through flow stability arguments. Both tools will be used within the context of the present paper and for reasons explained below, for suppressing only flow separation in internal flow cases. Once the computational tools are described/developed, they will be applied to a specific case. The optimization procedure will be demonstrated and discussed.     

Mathematical modelling of the container cranes under seismic loading and proving by shake table

This paper is concerned with modelling of the behaviour of container cranes under seismic loadings. For this purpose, physical and mathematical models are prepared. A six degrees-of-freedom non-linear mathematical model is developed in order to understand the dynamic behaviour of cranes under the seismic loadings. In order to determine the seismic behaviour of the container cranes against earthquakes, a 1/20 scaled crane model was designed and constructed. For the comparison of the models, the real earthquake records were used. The results are used to observe the destructive effects and compared with the period values of the most critical sections on the crane structure. When time and frequency domains are compared, it is seen that mathematical modelling of the container crane structure shows reasonable results under dynamic loadings. It will be available to take precautions and to increase seismic performance of cranes with the help of the developed dynamic model. Also, the developed mathematical model will be able to be used as a crane model in active vibration control studies in order to decrease the structural vibrations on container cranes.     

Phenomenological and numerical modelling of short fibre reinforced cementitious composites

In this paper, a constitutive model for short fibre reinforced cementitious composites will be presented. This model is based on the St. Venant–Kirchhoff model, which is a special case of a hyperelastic material. This model is refined to include the fibre orientation distribution. Numerical FEM simulations with the developed constitutive model and fracture simulations using the discrete element method are presented. The outcomes of these numerical methods demonstrate how important it is to monitor and further to control the fibre orientation distribution during the manufacturing process. As the manufacturing process might involve casting, as, e.g., in the case of steel fibre reinforced concrete, an outlook on simulations of the manufacturing process in order to predict and to control the fibre orientation distribution is given.     

高机动飞行器非指令运动及其控制的研究进展

高机动飞行器往往都是通过大攻角飞行来实现高机动科目的, 在发展高机动飞行器的过程中, 其非指令运动是伴随着大攻角飞行而常常出现的运动形态. 为此, 应在飞行器设计的早期阶段, 充分研究所设计布局的大攻角流动性态及其相应的非指令运动的形态;揭示这类运动形态的主控流动;在此基础上形成和发展流动控制新技术, 以达到抑制非指令运动的目的. 由于大攻角前体非对称涡往往与非指令运动密切相关, 为此本文首先指出前体非对称涡流动对头部微扰动十分敏感, 以致长期以来让人们误认为这类流动具有不确定性. 研究表明, 通过设置人工微扰动可使前体非对称涡流动具有可重复性, 并揭示该流动随扰动周向角变化的响应、演化规律. 通过利用大、小后掠翼两类翼身组合体的典型布局形式, 研究它们所呈现的摇滚运动形态, 揭示其摇滚运动的不同主控流动机理, 在此基础上分别发展了抑制小、大后掠翼身组合体摇滚运动的流动控制技术: 快速旋转头部扰动和适当设置扰动位使翼、身的两对非对称涡处于反相. 在抑制非指令运动的研究中, 深入理解和揭示头部微扰动对非对称涡流动的响应、演化机理是至关重要的, 应予以特别关注.     

Non-Contact Eddy Current Excitation Method for Vibration Testing

When a conductive material is subjected to a time changing magnetic field, eddy currents are induced in that structure. The eddy currents circulate inside the conductor resulting in a magnetic field that interacts with the applied field. The eddy current field is such that it opposes the change in flux resulting in a force between the source and conductor. The time changing magnetic field necessary to induce an electrometric force in the materials can be generated through a variety of different ways. In the present study, a permanent magnet will be mounted to the tip of an electromagnetic shaker such that the motion of the magnet relative to the structure will cause a time changing field and the formation of eddy currents. The actuator will be demonstrated to be beneficial due to its ability to apply actuation forces without contacting the structure. This study will show that the non-contact nature of the system eliminates mass loading and added stiffness which are downfalls of traditional excitation techniques. Additionally, it will be shown that the use of a non-contact device preserves the mode shapes of the structure, whereas a stinger results in distortions due to the added constraint. Using this concept, a model of the actuation system will be developed, allowing the beams response to be simulated. The actuation system will then be used to excite a cantilever beam to obtain the modal parameters without contacting the structure. The novel non-contact actuation system developed in this paper provides a new method performing vibration testing of on lightweight or flexible structures while preserving their dynamics.     

Analysis of the population structure in Oman

Knowledge of a population structure can be a unique aid in planning genetic services. In order to facilitate the development of genetic services in the Sultanate of Oman, a tribal data base has been developed. The historic records of the beginning of the 19th century were used as the basis and were updated with contemporary information. The tribal data base includes tribal names, locations, and the main 185 major tribes and their subsections. Tribal data can be used for health care planning and the development of disease-specific genetic registers if the hospital records also include the tribal name. They may also provide a useful aid in genetic screening and disease prevention programmes, as when specific mutations are found in rare diseases, it is likely that these will be found to be exclusive to specific tribes, and laboratory testing will be greatly simplified. It is likely that similar data bases could be developed elsewhere in the Middle East and in the immigrant communities in Western Europe.     

板裂纹位置的确定

本文研究了悬臂板的裂纹检测问题,提出了特征参数与加权特征参数法.所提利用故障结构的一阶特征对及无裂纹时的刚度阵与质量阵,确定结构裂纹位置的方法,既可用于简单的结构元件,也可用于复杂结构.算例与实验表明,所提方法可行.     

Structural design of tension units for tracked vehicles, especially construction machines under the aspect of safety requirements

The commercial types of tension units for tracked vehicles which have been available so far consist of a spring which is in a permanent pretensioned condition. Although the probability of spring unit failures is very low, it cannot be guaranteed that springs in pretensioned condition will not break due to a potential material defect. This can mainly be explained by the fact that the special shape of the spring does not allow inspection and control. So to meet today's safety requirements in an improved way, a tension unit has been developed which is pretensioned only during assembly in the machine so that it does not involve any potential risk with regard to transport, storage or disposal of the component. This paper deals with some safety requirements for the use of tension units in construction machines under the aspect of an improved design of conventional tension units.     

Command filtered robust control of nonlinear systems with full-state time-varying constraints and disturbances rejection

For the barrier Lyapunov function-based control of full-state time-varying constrained systems via the traditional backstepping technology, due to repeated differentiations of virtual control functions involving time-varying barriers, the adverse effects of “explosion of complexity” caused by the backstepping iteration are more serious, which even makes it impossible to implement for high-order systems. In order to eliminate this negative influence, we take advantage of the command filtered backstepping approach which introduces a command filter to approximate the constructed virtual control law in each procedure of the backstepping design. More importantly, the approximate errors arising from the introduced filters will be removed by constructing a series of compensating signals. Meanwhile, some relatively conservative assumptions will be released compared with existing control strategies. Furthermore, largely unknown external disturbances that may exist in the system will be estimated in real-time via high-gain disturbance observers and then compensated feedforwardly in designing the controller. Specially, the scheme of the resulting control algorithm is simple and online computation time is saved. Finally, the stability of the whole closed-loop system and the control performance is strictly certificated, respectively.

     

Dynamic analysis of a dielectric elastomer-based microbeam resonator with large vibration amplitude

A non-linear vibration equation with the consideration of large amplitude, gas damping and excitation is developed to investigate the dynamic performance of a dielectric elastomer (DE)-based microbeam resonator. Approximate analytical solution for the vibration equation is obtained by applying parameterized perturbation method (PPM) and introducing a detuning variable. The analysis exhibits that active tuning of the resonant frequency of the resonator can be achieved through changing an applied electrical voltage. It is observed that increasing amplitude will increase the natural frequency while it will decrease the quality factor of the resonator. In addition, it is found that the initial pre-stretching stress and the ambient pressure can significantly alter the resonant frequency of the resonator. The analysis is envisaged to provide qualitative predictions and guidelines for design and application of DE-based micro resonators with large vibration amplitude.     

压电智能环形板的主动控制

对在不同位置粘有任意多组压电传感器和压电执行器的轴对称弹性环形薄板的振动控制进行了研究．根据压电执行元件的等效作用量得到了压电智能环板的振动控制方程和传感方程,再利用分离变量法以及由传感器测得的电量和作用在执行器上电压之间的控制模式得到振动方程的全解．实行了对整体结构的主动控制．对不同的压电片布置进行了数值计算．结果表明：当离散分布压电元件布置越密,振动衰减的效果越佳     

A new technique for viewing deformation zones at crack tips

A new technique has been developed to examine and view the deformation zone that occurs at a crack tip during loading. The technique, referred to as the “image-distortion technique”, is based on the optical distortion that results on a highly polished surface ahead of a crack when it is strained. The “image distortion” is a direct result of the thickness change occurring at the crack tip. While the technique was developed using monotonic loading, it is believed that it also will be applicable to cyclic-loading crack-tip studies. Additional studies are underway that will yield strain fields at the crack tip from the observed images of the deformation zones.     

Modeling of stochastic modulated rattling system

Rattling vibration is an important noise source of gear-box. To control that noise, it is necessary to elaborate a mathematics-mechanical model on rattling gears. In this paper, a rattling system modulated by noise was investigated. Instead of performing the very tedious numerical calculation, a discrete stochastic model described by three dimensional mean mapping was established by means of the Non-Gaussian closure technique. Through the example, the chaotic stochastic behavior may be revealed. In comparison with deterministic model, the model developed in this paper is more approximate to practice and more available for acoustic investigation, so that it is suggested to be applied to modeling on rattling vibration.     

A theory of the adaptive growth of biological materials

Summary In this paper, a new theory of the adaptive growth of biological materials is presented. The theory is derived from the basic laws of continuum mechanics. The material is described as a classical mixture of solid material and fluid. It will be shown that several well-known models of the adaptive growth are embedded in this more general theory. In addition, it is clarified on which material assumptions these models are based. Finally, a solution procedure for the new theory is developed, and several examples are given. Received 31 March 1999; accepted for publication 1 June 1999     

磁流变弹性体自调谐式吸振器及其优化控制

本文研制了一种基于磁流变弹性体的自调谐式吸振器，它利用磁流变弹性体这种新型智能材料作为吸振器的弹性元件和阻尼元件，通过外加磁场控制磁流变弹性体的剪切模量来改变吸振器的固有频率，实现吸振器的移频。并将遗传算法改进移植到吸振器，对其进行优化控制。实验结果表明，这种遗传算法具有全局搜索和快速收敛的特点，它能使吸振器快速找到吸振器减振效果最佳点，并且经过优化控制的磁流变弹性体自调谐式吸振器在移频范围内具有很好的减振效果，减振效果最高可达25dB。     

Abhängigkeit der Wärmeübergangskoeffizienten vom Wandtemperaturverlaufund die Konsequenzen für die Berechnung von Wärmedurchgangskoeffizienten bei Wärmetauschern

In a recent article [2] it has been shown that the common equation in VDI Heat Atlas [1], which has been used for the calculation of overall heat transfer coefficients, satisfies the energy balance of the heat exchanger in seldom exceptional cases only. This equation has been corrected for constant wall temperature. In this article an equation for the calculation of overall heat transfer coefficients valid for any shape of the wall temperature will be developed at which it becomes obvious, that only in the case of identical shapes of wall temperature in measurement and real heat exchanger process the calculation according to VDI Heat Atlas [1] is valid. In all other cases this procedure leads to errors.     

A simplified method for defining air humidification and dehumidification requirements

Nowadays, the use of ventilation systems is very common. In museums and exhibition rooms, they are used to guarantee the optimal temperature and humidity conditions for valuable and irreplaceable objects. Ventilation systems are increasingly used even in residential and office buildings. In Austria and other similar climates, winter outdoor air is very dry. Because of the constant air exchange using a ventilation system, the relative humidity of indoor air is often lower than the comfort limit, so that air humidification is necessary. In the same rooms, air must be dehumidified during the summer months. Humidification and dehumidification should be minimized as they are processes that consume a large amount of energy. The problem is that until now, it has been unclear how much humidification or dehumidification is necessary and could not be calculated easily. In this investigation, a simplified method for determining the humidification and dehumidification demands taking into account the effective moisture capacity of the room was developed. The developed model is used for the calculation of the energy balance and will be integrated into the program for energy certification in Austria.     

Dependence between the shock and the separation bubble in a shock wave boundary layer interaction

We present experimental results obtained in a turbulent boundary layer at a Mach number of 2.3 impinged by an oblique shock wave. Strong unsteadiness is developed in the interaction, involving several frequency ranges which can extend over two orders of magnitude. In this paper, attention is focused on the links between the low-frequency shock motions and the separation bubble, in particular phase relationships are evaluated. An interpretation based on a simple scheme of the streamwise evolution of the instantaneous pressure is proposed. As it is mainly based on the pressure signal properties inside the region of the shock oscillation, it may be expected that it will still be relevant for different configurations of shock-induced separation as compression ramp, blunt bodies, or over expanded nozzles.     

关于动力分析精细积分算法精度的讨论

对动力问题分析的精细积分算法的精度问题进行深入研究,并在此基础上提出对原有的算法的改进策略,改进后的算法可以较好地克服算法精度对积分时间步长的依赖性问题。