Expert systems have experienced tremendous growth and popularity since their commercial introduction in the early 1980’s. Today, expert systems are used in business, science, engineering, manufacturing, medical diagnosing, chemical, and many other fields. Mechanical engineers are the major users, expert systems, are finding rapid application in industry for such tasks as analysis of quality con...

Abstract—Singular value decomposition based optimisation of geometric design parameters of a 5-speed gearbox is studied. During the optimisation, a four-degree-of freedom torsional vibration model of the pinion gear-wheel gear system is obtained and the minimum singular value of the transfer matrix is considered as the objective functions. The computational cost of the associated singular value...

This paper presents a new nanolubricant for the intermediate gearbox of the Apache aircraft. Historically, the intermediate gearbox has been prone for grease leaking and this natural-occurring fault has negatively impacted the airworthiness of the aircraft. In this study, the incorporation of graphite nanoparticles in mobile aviation gear oil is presented as a nanofluid with excellent thermo-ph...

As a critical power transmission system, planetary gearbox is widely used in many industrial important machines such as wind turbines, aircraft turbine engines, helicopters. Early fault detection and diagnosis of the gearbox will help to prevent unexpected breakdowns of this important equipment. Misalignment is one of the major operating problems in the planetary gearbox which may be caused by ...

We prove that the minimal VLSI layout of the arrangement graph A(n; k) occupies (n!=(n ? k ? 1)!) 2 area. As a special case we obtain an optimal layout for the star graph S n with the area (n!) 2 : This answers an open problem posed by Ak-ers, Harel and Krishnamurthy 1]. The method is also applied to the pancake graph. The results provide optimal upper and lower bounds for crossing numbers of t...

In layout design problems including blank nesting, the positions and directions of layout elements must be determined so as to minimize the total space. It is difficult and computationally time-consuming to find the optimal solution for such layout problems, because they include a lot of underlying combinational conditions. In this paper, we present an approach for optimal nesting by combining ...