A morphing segmented concept is proposed herein for future extreme-scale wind turbine systems. The morphing may be accomplished by using segmented blades connected by screw sockets and a tension cable system. At low wind and rotor speeds, the segmented blades are fully tensioned and set at high pitch to ensure start-up and maximum power at low speeds. At high rotor rpm, the cable tension can be...

introduction: epulis fissuratum is often formed as a result of a poor fitting denture. the conventional treatment for this fibrous hyperplastic tissue is to excise it using a scalpel and to close the wound by a continuous or an interrupted suture. the increased utilization of lasers in dentistry also includes the utilization of carbon dioxide (co2) lasers in place of surgical scalpels in soft t...

Accuracy is the key issue in the precision forging. Geometric and dimension errors are the two significant defects found in most of near net or net shape manufacturing process. It becomes more critical for complex part such as an AUV propeller blade. In this study, geometric error was quantified by comparing the blade profile obtained from nominal geometry of the blade and the profile construct...

The rigid body motion can be represented by a motor in geometric algebra, and the motor can be rewritten as a trinometric function of the screw blade. In this paper, a screw blade strapdown inertial navigation system (SDINS) algorithm is developed. The trigonometric function form of the motor is derived and utilized to deduce the Bortz equation of the screw blade. The screw blade SDINS algorith...

The standard guillotine-shaped vitreous cutter blade (hereafter named Regular Blade [RB]) did not substantially change over the past 40 years, because of its simple and robust design. The asynchronous suction and cutting action, typical of RB blades, determines complete port obstruction generating flow instability and fluid acceleration that results in limited efficiency and eventually retinal ...

This research describes aerodynamic characteristics of small-scale wind turbine blade, called Archimedes spiral wind turbine blade. Numerical approaches on the prediction of aerodynamic performance of the blade have been conducted. Both steady and unsteady state numerical simulations using ANSYS CFX are performed on the several cases of rotating speeds. Large scale tip vortex is captured and gr...

The BRAF T1799A mutation is a heterozygous point mutation and its reported prevalence in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) has varied from 29 to 83%, with an overall mean of 44%. In Korea, the reported mutation rate reached 83% in PTC and 52% in micropapillary carcinoma. We hypothesized that the differences in prevalence may be influenced by the methods of mutation analysis, the sizes of tumor ...

Blade configuration of nanofluids has been proven to perform much better than dispersed configuration for some heat conduction systems. The analytical analysis and numerical calculation are made for the cylinder--shaped and regular-rectangular-prism--shaped building blocks of the blade-configured heat conduction systems (using nanofluids as the heat conduction media) to find the optimal cross-s...

A gas turbine abruptly tripped to a stop during its daily morning start-up period. Out of a total of 81 blades in the first row only one blade was broken at its root. Prior to this accident, there were three blade failure accidents in the same plant during the last 10 years. First, the fracture surface of the troubled blade was investigated. Stress analysis of the blade showed that the maximum ...