An Analytic Method of Hydraulic Breaker Performance

Investigation of Circuit Breaker Dielectric Performance

The violent event of a short-circuit leads to short-term exposure of circuit breaker components to extremely high current, causing thermal degradation, vaporization and deformation of some components and the deposition of surface contaminants. After short-circuit, the leakage current carried by the breaker, when voltage is applied, increases dramatically but must remain below a certain threshol...

A new method for the experimental assessment of finger haemodynamic effects induced by a hydraulic breaker in operative conditions.

The haemodynamic effects, in terms of grip force and hand-transmitted accelerations, produced on the fingers of 10 healthy subjects by operation of a hydraulic breaker held with a low or a high grip were investigated with a new experimental set-up. A novel apparatus consisting of a capacitive sensor matrix and a laser Doppler vibrometer was used to measure the two parameters during breaker oper...

Hydraulic Performance of Horticultural Substrates—1. Method for Measuring the Hydraulic Quality Indicators

Besides nutrient composition, the hydraulic performance of horticultural substrates is a main issue for evaluating their quality for horticultural purposes. Their water and air capacity and their suitability for transporting water are important hydraulic quality indicators. Shrinkage and water repellency could have a negative impact on storing and transporting water and solutes. The commonly us...

An Analytic Center Cutting Plane Method

Semideenite feasibility problems arise in many areas of operations research. The abstract form of these problems can be described as nding a point in a nonempty bounded convex body ? in the cone of symmetric positive semideenite matrices. Assume that ? is deened by an oracle, which, for any given m m symmetric matrix ^ Y , either connrms that ^ Y 2 ? or returns a cut, i.e., a symmetric matrix A...

Computing π(x): An Analytic Method