Design options to mitigate deep cracking of tungsten armor

Turbine Design to Mitigate Forcing (postprint)

Using Decoupling and Deep Pockets to Mitigate Judgment-proof Problems

We examine how financial penalties for social damages can be structured to mitigate judgment-proof problems. These problems occur when a producer has insufficient wealth to compensate victims for the most serious damages that can arise from his activities. We demonstrate that a policy in which assessed penalties are decoupled from realized damages generally generates greater social surplus than...

A Robust FACTS Damping Controller Design to Mitigate Interarea Oscillations in a Multi-machine Power System

In this paper, damping of interarea oscillations using simultaneous coordination of static Var compensator (SVC) and power system stabilizer (PSS) is considered.  To be effective in damping of oscillations, the best-input signal of power oscillation damper (POD) associated with SVC is selected using Hankel singular values (HSVs), and right-hand plane zeros (RHP-zeros). The 4-machine-2 area...

Design, Construction and Performance Evaluation of the Walnut Cracking Machine

The traditional method in Iran of cracking walnut manually, using harmer or knife cutter is laborintensive, slow and tedious; besides, most mechanical crackers do not give satisfactory results in terms of kernel extraction quality. A prototype machine was developed to crack walnut. A walnut cracker was designed, constructed and tested to evaluate its performance. The cracker, which consists of ...

Neuro-PD Controller of Structural System to Mitigate Earthquake Vibrations

In this paper, stabilization of the structural system against earthquake is presented. Because the conventional PD controller is popular and simple in design, our controller is based on PD controller. The main problem of such a controller is its inability to produce desired response and instability against variations in the properties of the structural system. To obviate this issue, the neu...