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Bridges Structural Health Monitoring and Deterioration Detection Synthesis of Knowledge and Technology
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Index to 1984 NASA Tech Briefs, volume 9, numbers 1-4
Short announcements of new technology derived from the R&D activities of NASA are presented. These briefs emphasize information considered likely to be transferrable across industrial, regional, or disciplinary lines and are issued to encourage commercial application. This index for 1984 Tech B Briefs contains abstracts and four indexes: subject, personal author, originating center, and Tech Brief Number. The following areas are covered: electronic components and circuits, electronic systems, physical sciences, materials, life sciences, mechanics, machinery, fabrication technology, and mathematics and information sciences
Infrastructure for Detector Research and Development towards the International Linear Collider
The EUDET-project was launched to create an infrastructure for developing and
testing new and advanced detector technologies to be used at a future linear
collider. The aim was to make possible experimentation and analysis of data for
institutes, which otherwise could not be realized due to lack of resources. The
infrastructure comprised an analysis and software network, and instrumentation
infrastructures for tracking detectors as well as for calorimetry.Comment: 54 pages, 48 picture
The CERN Detector Safety System for the LHC Experiments
The Detector Safety System (DSS), currently being developed at CERN under the
auspices of the Joint Controls Project (JCOP), will be responsible for assuring
the protection of equipment for the four LHC experiments. Thus, the DSS will
require a high degree of both availability and reliability. After evaluation of
various possible solutions, a prototype is being built based on a redundant
Siemens PLC front-end, to which the safety-critical part of the DSS task is
delegated. This is then supervised by a PVSS SCADA system via an OPC server.
The PLC front-end is capable of running autonomously and of automatically
taking predefined protective actions whenever required. The supervisory layer
provides the operator with a status display and with limited online
reconfiguration capabilities. Configuration of the code running in the PLCs
will be completely data driven via the contents of a "Configuration Database".
Thus, the DSS can easily adapt to the different and constantly evolving
requirements of the LHC experiments during their construction, commissioning
and exploitation phases.Comment: Talk from the 2003 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics
(CHEP03), La Jolla, Ca, USA, March 2003, 5 pages, PDF. PSN THGT00
Design of master and slave modules on battery management system for electric vehicles
Nowadays, electric vehicle usage and the use of LiFePO4 batteries in electric vehicles gradually increase. However, there are important features to be considered to use these batteries safely and efficiently. Incorrect use of these batteries can lead to burning, explosion or shortening of the life of batteries.
In this paper, a Battery Management System (BMS) for lithium based batteries is designed that operates more efficiently and communicates with UART between master and slave modules and can communicate via CAN protocol with external devices. Micro controller based control and protection equipment is designed that help to measure and monitor the voltage, temperature and current values of the batteries. They protect the battery cells from the conditions such as over charge, over discharge, high current, high temperature. BMS balances battery cell voltages during charging process with passive cell voltage balancing. In addition to the main controller module in the BMS, slave controller modules have been added to provide high resolution voltage and temperature tracking. A modular BMS has been devised which can be used in groups of batteries of different voltage values thanks to electrically isolated slave control modules
Fifteen-foot diameter modular space station Kennedy Space Center launch site support definition (space station program Phase B extension definition)
This document defines the facilities, equipment, and operational plans required to support the MSS Program at KSC. Included is an analysis of KSC operations, a definition of flow plans, facility utilization and modifications, test plans and concepts, activation, and tradeoff studies. Existing GSE and facilities that have a potential utilization are identified, and new items are defined where possible. The study concludes that the existing facilities are suitable for use in the space station program without major modification from the Saturn-Apollo configuration
Internet of Things-aided Smart Grid: Technologies, Architectures, Applications, Prototypes, and Future Research Directions
Traditional power grids are being transformed into Smart Grids (SGs) to
address the issues in existing power system due to uni-directional information
flow, energy wastage, growing energy demand, reliability and security. SGs
offer bi-directional energy flow between service providers and consumers,
involving power generation, transmission, distribution and utilization systems.
SGs employ various devices for the monitoring, analysis and control of the
grid, deployed at power plants, distribution centers and in consumers' premises
in a very large number. Hence, an SG requires connectivity, automation and the
tracking of such devices. This is achieved with the help of Internet of Things
(IoT). IoT helps SG systems to support various network functions throughout the
generation, transmission, distribution and consumption of energy by
incorporating IoT devices (such as sensors, actuators and smart meters), as
well as by providing the connectivity, automation and tracking for such
devices. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey on IoT-aided SG
systems, which includes the existing architectures, applications and prototypes
of IoT-aided SG systems. This survey also highlights the open issues,
challenges and future research directions for IoT-aided SG systems
ASTRI for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the largest ground-based
observatory operating in the very-high-energy gamma-ray (20 GeV - 300 TeV)
range. It will be based on more than one hundred telescopes, located at two
sites (northern and southern hemispheres). The energy coverage, in the southern
CTA array, will extend up to hundreds of TeV thanks to 70 small size telescopes
(SST), with primary mirrors of about 4 meters in diameter and large field of
view of the order of 9 degrees. It is proposed that one of the first sets of
precursors for the CTA SSTs array will be represented by nine ASTRI telescopes.
Their prototype, named ASTRI SST-2M, is installed in Italy. It is currently
completing the overall commissioning before entering the science verification
phase that will performed observing bright TeV sources as Crab Nebula, Mrk421
and Mrk 501 cross-checking the prototype performance with the Monte Carlo
predictions. ASTRI telescopes are characterized by a dual-mirror optical design
based on the Schwarzschild- Couder (SC) configuration. The focal-plane camera
is curved in order to fit the ideal prescription for the SC design and the
sensors are small size silicon photomultipliers read-out by a fast front-end
electronics. The telescope prototype installed in Italy, has been developed by
the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, INAF, following an end-to-end
approach that comprises all aspects from the design, construction and
implementation of the entire hardware and software system to the final
scientific products. All parts of the system have been designed to comply with
the CTA requirements. A collaborative effort, addressed to the implementation
of the first ASTRI telescopes for the CTA southern site, is now on-going led by
INAF with the Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil), the North-West University
(South Africa) and the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics.Comment: All CTA contributions at arXiv:1709.0348
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