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Study of the Heating-and-Pressing Separation Process of Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM)
To improve hot-pressing process currently employed by the laminated object manufacturing
(LOM), an innovated heating-and-pressing separation system is proposed, and heat transfer
problems of this system is investigated. A thermal model is first established. It is solved
numerically by the finite element method (FEM) software ANSYS, and verified by experiments.
According to the numerical solution under various operating conditions, it is suggested that if the
temperature and the moving speed of the heater are both increased, the depth of the heat affected
laminates will be reduced. The processing time will be shortened and the manufacture efficiency
will be promoted. Through analysis, it is concluded that, to obtain finished parts of high quality,
the appropriate distance between the roller and the heater can be determined.Mechanical Engineerin
Health Care Efficiency In Transition Economies: An Application Of Data Envelopment Analysis
Health care costs are a financial burden for developing and transition economies which have experienced a faster growing demand on their health care systems while aiming to improve efficiency. As costs become more complex, attention has shifted to the efficiency of an entire system. Through system-wide assessments, countries with higher health care efficiency can be identified. These systems can be replicated to allow provision of good care at lower costs. Data Envelopment Analysis is used to measure health care efficiencies and to discuss policy implications
A simple circuit realization of the tent map
We present a very simple electronic implementation of the tent map, one of
the best-known discrete dynamical systems. This is achieved by using integrated
circuits and passive elements only. The experimental behavior of the tent map
electronic circuit is compared with its numerical simulation counterpart. We
find that the electronic circuit presents fixed points, periodicity, period
doubling, chaos and intermittency that match with high accuracy the
corresponding theoretical valuesComment: 6 pages, 6 figures, 10 references, published versio
PI-controlled bioreactor as a generalized Lienard system
It is shown that periodic orbits can occur in Cholette's bioreactor model
working under the influence of a PI-controller. We find a diffeomorphic
coordinate transformation that turns this controlled enzymatic reaction system
into a generalized Lienard form. Furthermore, we give sufficient conditions for
the existence and uniqueness of limit cycles in the new coordinates. We also
perform numerical simulations illustrating the possibility of the existence of
a local center (period annulus). A result with possible practical applications
is that the oscillation frequency is a function of the integral control gain
parameterComment: 15 pages, 5 figures, accepted version at Computers & Chem. En
The use of the saccade target as a visual reference when localizing flashes during saccades
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139147.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Flashes presented around the time of a saccade are often mislocalized. Such mislocalization is influenced by various factors. Here, we evaluate the role of the saccade target as a landmark when localizing flashes. The experiment was performed in a normally illuminated room to provide ample other visual references. Subjects were instructed to follow a randomly jumping target with their eyes. We flashed a black dot on the screen around the time of saccade onset. The subjects were asked to localize the black dot by touching the appropriate location on the screen. In a first experiment, the saccade target was displaced during the saccade. In a second experiment, it disappeared at different moments. Both manipulations affected the mislocalization. We conclude that our subjects' judgments are partly based on the flashed dot's position relative to the saccade target
Dynamic Stress Intensity Factor for Interfacial Cracks of Mode III Emanating from Circular Cavities in Piezoelectric Bimaterials
This paper investigates dynamic stress intensity factors in piezoelectric bimaterials with interfacial cracks emanating from the circular cavities under steady SH-waves. The interfacial cracks are assumed to be permeable. Green functions for the experiment were constructed through complex variable and wave function expansion methods. Based on the crack-division and conjunction techniques, a series of Fredholm integral equations of the first kind were established to calculate the stress intensity of the crack tips. Direct numerical integration was used to solve the equations. Some numerical results were plotted to indicate the influence of the defect geometry, material constants, and SH-wave frequencies on dynamic stress intensity factors
The flavor-changing bottom-strange quark production in the littlest Higgs model with T parity at the ILC
In the littlest Higgs model with T-parity (LHT) the mirror quarks induce the
special flavor structures and some new flavor-changing (FC) couplings which
could greatly enhance the production rates of the FC processes. We in this
paper study some bottom and anti-strange production processes in the LHT model
at the International Linear Collider (ILC), i.e.,
and . The results show that the production
rates of these processes are sizeable for the favorable values of the
parameters. Therefore, it is quite possible to test the LHT model or make some
constrains on the relevant parameters of the LHT through the detection of these
processes at the ILC.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure
Ultrafast extreme rejuvenation of metallic glasses by shock compression
Structural rejuvenation of glasses not only provides fundamental insights into their complicated dynamics but also extends their practical applications. However, it is formidably challenging to rejuvenate a glass on very short time scales. Here, we present the first experimental evidence that a specially designed shock compression technique can rapidly rejuvenate metallic glasses to extremely high-enthalpy states within a very short time scale of about 365 \ub1 8 ns. By controlling the shock stress amplitude, the shock-induced rejuvenation is successfully frozen at different degrees. The underlying structural disordering is quantitatively characterized by the anomalous boson heat capacity peak of glasses. A Deborah number, defined as a competition of time scales between the net structural disordering and the applied loading, is introduced to explain the observed ultrafast rejuvenation phenomena of metallic glasses
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