Industrial manufacturing of injectable drug products presents very different and difficult challenges when compared to other industrial manufacturing applications. In order to enhance patient safety and ensure product quality the Pharmaceutical Industry has been implementing systems called Advanced Aseptic Processing (AAP) systems. Advanced Aseptic Processing systems utilize advanced forms of a...

Magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) base isolator is a new semi-active control device that has recently acquired more attention. This paper proposes a new model for MRE base isolator to portray the nonlinear hysteresis between generated force and the displacement. In this model, a hyperbolic expression is proposed to compare with the classical Bouc-Wen model, which includes internal dynamics rep...

We report 4 cases of Health Workers (HW) suspected of having contracted Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), transported from the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) in N'Zerekore, Guinea to the Treatment Centre for Carers run by the medical corps of the French army in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, which was established on 17 January 2015 and closed on 7 July ...

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In this paper, the detailed design of the 1.8 GHz band Y-junction stripline circulator with the low pass filter circuit in the center conductor in order to higher attenuations below value of -30 dB at 3rd order harmonics is proposed and presented. The HFSS is used to simulate designed 1.8GHz band circulator to check the non-reciprocal characteristics at operating frequency range and the results...

This article deals with the interaction between wave effects in mounts and resonances offoundations inflexible vibration isolation systems. A new model is proposed that is represented as a rigid mass supported by two linear unidirectional isolators on a flexible foundation beam, whose closed-form solutions for transmissibility and response ratio are then obtained, with which the influence of wa...

A variable stiffness and damping isolator (VSDI) is designed and developed employing MREs. A double lap shear test has been carried out to characterize two MRE based VSDIs under quasi-static shear loading. A phenomenological model which can capture the behavior of the VSDI is developed and related parameters are identified using experimental data. Both experimental and theoretical modeling resu...