The hydrogen storage properties of the pseudobinary intermetallic compounds Ml, -.Ca,Ni, (where Ml is La-rich mischmetal and x varies from 0 to 0.9) were investigated over the temperature range of 25-80°C It was found in experiment that with increasing x in Ml,_,Ca,Ni, the incubation time for its first hydrogenation shortened, the first hydrogen absorption rate accelerated, the hysteresis lower...

Human life became more intensive in the ХIХ and ХХ centuries due to the development of mining, metallurgy, automobile industry, city and housing construction, military manufacturing, and construction of powerful electric stations. Despite that such a development has made the human life on the planet more comfortable, the contemporary production spheres have caused several technogenic disasters ...

This report summarizes the studies done during the fall 2007 semester. It includes the literature review, and research done on the subject of the Ph.D. dissertation. Since the oil crises of the 1970's, fuel economy has been one of the dominant issues in automotive industry. Therefore, a lot of research work has been focused on finding more efficient methods for transportation. One approach is p...

The automobile Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is hard to design and implement due to its real time features and increasing complexity. Some automobile RTOS standards are released aiming at unifying the software architecture of vehicle systems. Most of the standards are presented informally in natural languages, which may lead to not only ambiguities in specifications but also difficulties in...

− The paper describes an unusual approach to diagnose standard ignition subsystem of fuel engines. All the information about real state conditions of the ignition coils and sparks is taken from simple measurement of power consumption transient of the electric control systems of engine. The transient is processed by continuous wavelet transformation (CWT). Result of the CWT is used for a classif...

We investigate an automobile supply chain where a manufacturer and a retailer serve heterogeneous consumers with electric vehicles (EVs) under a government’s price-discount incentive scheme that involves a price discount rate and a subsidy ceiling. We show that the subsidy ceiling is more effective in influencing the optimal wholesale pricing decision of the manufacturer with a higher unit prod...

The increased use of electric and electronic components is a trend in several branches of industry. The short life cycles of these innovative components compared with the life cycles of the primary products lead to challenges regarding an effective spare parts management. To guarantee an availability of spare parts during the whole period of the post-series supply, a period of up to 15 years in...

This paper presents the available technique and discusses the difficulties to implement intelligent robots in nextgeneration automobile assembly. First, it presents the status of automobile assembly line, analyzes the problems and difficulties of current industrial robots-based assembly systems, and summarizes the technology needed to overcome the problems and difficulties. Then, it presents th...

The performance of a product depends on if it is created in terms of expected functional requirements. A product is designed to satisfy some certain tasks. In this study, the design of an automobile seat is handled. Automobile seat design procedure is based on experience and trial-and-error method, rather than structured and scientific methods. Axiomatic design is a design theory providing a sy...

Literature Review Automobile Industry Abhijeet Singh and Brijesh Kumar (2011) Hero Honda Motors Ltd, is running a program called Good life Passport to Relationship Reward, with an objective to create an innovative environment for interaction between Hero Honda and its customers. Members of this program are given a magnetic card in which all information is stored and this card is swiped when usi...