The goal of this study is investigating reduction of residual stresses from welding carbon steel plates through vibrationstress reliefmethod vs. thermal method. In order to carry out the required experimental tests, carbon steel plates were welded together under specific conditions as samples. Some of the samples were vibration stress relieved, some were thermal stress relieved while the rest r...

black tea sample was dried by a vibro-fluidized bed dryer to find its aerodynamic behavior and thermal performance during drying. the drying experiments were conducted at three different inlet air temperatures of 100, 115 and 130°c and fluidization condition at five vibration intensity levels of 0 (no vibration), 0.063, 0.189, 0.395 and 1.184. the results showed that bed channeling and defluidi...

We report the main characteristics and performances of the first – to our knowledge – prototype of an ultra-stable cavity designed and produced by industry with the aim of space missions. The cavity is a 100 mm long cylinder rigidly held at its midplane by an engineered mechanical interface providing an efficient decoupling from thermal and vibration perturbations. The spacer is made from Ultra...

In this study, the second type of Green and Naghdi's thermoelasticity theory is applied to present the vibration of a nanobeam subjected to rectified sine wave heating based upon the nonlocal thermoelasticity theory. Both Young's modulus and thermal conductivity are considered to be linear functions of the temperature. The Laplace transform domain is adopted to solve the governing partial diffe...

The use of vibration signals for internal combustion engines diagnosis is now well established for several applications such as knock detection or valve mechanics behaviour assessment. If standard knock detection can be performed in real time, diagnoses are generally carried out off-line due to algorithm complexity. Our aim was to get some insights on the time-frequency properties of the vibrat...

BACKGROUND Hand-arm vibration exposure may cause hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) including sensorineural disturbances. AIMS To investigate which factors had the strongest impact on work ability in vibration-exposed workers. METHODS A cross-sectional study in which vibration-exposed workers referred to a department of occupational and environmental medicine were compared with a randomized...

Experimental results of the thermal conductivity (k(T)) of nanostructured g-As2S3 during cooling and heating processes within the temperature range from 2.5 to 100 K have been analysed. The paper has considered thermal conductivity is weakly temperature k(T) dependent from 2.5 to 100 K showing a plateau in region from 3.6 to 10.7 K during both cooling and heating regimes. This paper is the firs...

Non-metallic crystalline materials conduct heat by the transport of quantized atomic lattice vibrations called phonons. Thermal conductivity depends on how far phonons travel between scattering events-their mean free paths. Due to the breadth of the phonon mean free path spectrum, nanostructuring materials can reduce thermal conductivity from bulk by scattering long mean free path phonons, wher...

nce solely a research tool, the laser is now an enabling technology for a wide range of applications in semiconductor manufacturing and inspection, industrial marking, materials processing, biomedical systems, reprographics, information display, and telecommunications. Given today’s accelerated product-development schedules, laser-based optical systems are being pushed to produce finer resoluti...

The equivalence between a noise source in combination with a resistance, and a thermal bath, is a part of fluctuation theory. This observation was the motivation for the author’s 1960 calculation of the power flow between modes of vibration excited by random noise sources. The resulting relation between power flow and uncoupled energy of vibration is therefore more than a thermal analogy; it is...