Synchronous homopolar motors (SHMs) have been attracting the attention of researchers for many decades. They are used in a variety equipment such as aircraft and train generators, welding inverters, traction motors. Various mathematical models SHMs proposed to deal with their complicated magnetic circuit. However, techniques optimizing not yet proposed. This paper discusses various aspects opti...

Sejalan dengan perkembangan pembangunan di negara kita, investasi alat berat menjadi salah satu ketertarikan bagi pengusaha. Permintaan kebutuhan untuk mendukung proses yang semakin meningkat tiap tahunnya. Peningkatan ini sebabkan adanya tuntutan akan kecepatan dan mutu pelaksanaan konstruksi tidak selalu dapat subtitusi tenaga manusia. Alat umum ada pekerjaan yakni, Excavator, Bulldozer, Dump...

1 The traffic flow heterogeneity caused by the different car-following dynamics among the different types 2 of vehicles has drawn increasing attention recently. This paper explores the characteristics of the four 3 types of car-truck car-following combinations, car-following-car (CC), car-following-truck (CT), truck4 following-car (TC) and truck-following-truck (TT), and their impacts on traffi...

In this research, Ride quality of a three-axle truck is investigated to understand its vibration specifications and influence of it on special load. The truck is Benz 2624, and the load is rather sensitive to vibrations. The system is considered for an off-road duty. Hence, the vehicle is modeled as a nineteen-degree of freedom system and its equations of motion are derived by employing Lagrang...

BACKGROUND This work reports the determination of the levels of phthalate esters (dimethyl phthalate (DMP), diethyl phthalate (DEP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP), diethyl hexyl phthalate (DEHP)) and metals (lead, cadmium, manganese, zinc, iron, calcium) in composite soil samples. The soil samples were collected randomly within the Muledane open dump, Thohoyandou, Limpopo province, South Africa. Cont...

INTRODUCTION Injuries and fatalities due to large truck and other vehicle crashes have decreased over the last decade, but motor vehicle injuries remain a leading cause of death for both the working and general populations. The present study was undertaken to determine semi truck driver and sleeper berth passenger injury risk in a moving semi truck collision using a matched-pair cohort study. ...

ID: 321 It is believed that increasing truck volumes contribute to traffic congestion, pavement deterioration and crashes due to differences in the physical and operational characteristics of trucks and passenger cars. A 2002 US DOT report showed that the number of crashes involving commercial trucks had increased by 40.3% over the last two decades. Based on Insurance Institute for Highway Safe...

The copy-and-paste paradigm is a fundamental operation in graphical user interfaces. However, existing copy-and-paste techniques have limitations, in particular in terms of efficiency and robustness against interruptions. This thesis is focusing on improving the user interface used to copy-and-paste objects across different contexts, such as a series folders. To improve this fundamental operati...

background while cyclists and pedestrians are known to be at significant risk for severe injuries when exposed to road traffic accidents (rta) involving trucks, little is known about rta injury risk for truck drivers. objectives the aim of this study was to analyze the injury severity in truck drivers following rtas. patients and methods our local accident research unit prospectively documented...

In this paper, some results concerning the k-truck problem are produced. First, the algorithms and their complexity concerning the off-line k-truck problem are discussed. Following that, a lower bound of competitive ratio for the on-line k-truck problem is given. Based on the Position Maintaining Strategy (PMS), we get some new results which are slightly better than those of [1] for general cas...