Steel cables are widely used in cable-stayed bridges, suspension bridges and so on. It is important to test them periodically for their safe operation. The cable tension is one of the key testing parameters. Magnetoelastic methods are usually adopted to measure the cable tension due to their non-contact features. However, it is difficult to install the exciting and receiving encircling coil on ...

A finite element solution based on equevalent elements is proposed for the static and dynamic analysis of tallhigh tensioned cable antennas. To reduce high number of degrees of freedom in space frame body of a structure, a simple equivalent beam element is defined for each simulative substructure. This numerical procedure is applicable to analyze complex three dimensional assemblies of substruc...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of nonpenetrating captive bolt stunning followed by electrical induction of cardiac arrest on veal calf welfare, veal quality, and blood yield. Ninety calves from the same farm were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 treatment groups in a balanced unpaired comparison design. The first treatment group (the "head-only" method-application of the pneuma...

High accuracy for automated translation and information retrieval calls for linguistic annotations at various language levels. The plethora of informal internet content sparked the demand for porting state-of-art natural language processing (NLP) applications to new social media as well as diverse language adaptation. Effort launched by the BOLT (Broad Operational Language Translation) program ...

This paper first presents a comprehensive comparison of the established radio telescope near Arecibo, Puerto Rico vs. the designed Chinese Five-hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) that includes a six-degrees-of-freedom (dof) underconstrained cable-suspended robot to position and orient its focus cabin. Then a straight-line cable model is presented for the FAST robot kinematics and...

Aeolian vibration in bare and iced cable was simulated using the theory of cable vibration. High frequency vibration creates stresses in the cable and consequently in the ice covering that cable, which may result in ice failure and eventually ice shedding. These stresses were estimated in this study. Displacement of the cable during vibration was determined; furthermore, instantaneous wind load...

Cable System Management requires an assessment of the health of the cable systems. It is increasingly common for the assessment of aged cable systems to be made through the application of diagnostics measurements. Papers and standards have established benchmarks for diagnostic measurements that help utility engineers to reach a condition assessment. Generally, extremes of healthy and non-health...

Structures consisting of cables and membranes have been of interest to engineers due to their higher ratio of strength to weight and lower cost compared to other structures. One of the challenges in such structures is presence of holes in membranes, which leads to non-uniform stress and strain distributions, even under uniform far-field deformations. One of the approaches suggested for controll...

In order to detect distributed ground surface deformation, an elastic helical structure Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) sensing cable is shown in this paper. This special sensing cable consists of three parts: a silicone rubber rope in the center; a couple of parallel wires coiling around the rope; a silicone rubber pipe covering the sensing cable. By analyzing the relationship between the impe...