Agunmukha River is an important water body having plentiful aquatic resources. The fisheries communities in the river are familiar with a diverse range of fishing gear and crafts to catch fish. Therefore, the objectives of the present study were to explore fishing gear and fishing crafts, catch composition of the respective gearand identification of fish biodiversity of Agunmukha River. A step ...

Global competitive business market had brought increasing awareness to optimize the gear design. Gears have the advantage over friction and belt drives in that they are positive drive, a feature which most of the machine tools require, since exact speed ratios are essential. The design and manufacture of precision cut gears, made from materials of high strength, have made it possible to produce...

Vibration generated by a gear-set is a signal of its technical condition. Many papers have been published on relation between the vibration signal and the condition of a gear-set. It is convenient to investigate this relation by dividing the factors which have influence on vibration generated by a gear-set into four major groups: design, production technology, operational and change of conditio...

Since there are backlash friction and time-varying stiffness, the characteristics of gear pair has strong nonlinearity. When a gear has faults such as pitting, spalling and tooth breakage, there are often some nonlinear characteristics as super-harmonics or sub-harmonics along with vibration signal. These characteristics will cause some difficulty for fault diagnostics, so it is necessary to st...

Original scientific paper The relationships between the existence of gear teeth cracks as a cause and symptoms emerging as housing vibrations that can be detected with signals measured was investigated numerically and experimentally. Experimental measurements on one-stage gear drives have been carried out involving gears built in with different notch length in tooth root. Signals measured as ac...

BACKGROUND In-line skate injuries are highly preventable by the use of protective gear. We investigated how young Dutch skaters protect themselves and what factors predict the use of protective gear in order to develop campaigns to increase their safety behaviour. METHODS A survey was conducted to study protection behaviour of 872 Dutch skaters and factors influencing the use of protective ge...

− Evaluation of measurement performance of a gear measuring instrument (GMI) is not easy task since a master gear with sufficient accuracy has not been available. The manufacturing the master gear with an ideal involute form is very difficult and the accuracy of the master gear is not able to be estimated. Therefore, we have proposed a new artifact named Double Ball Artifact (DBA) which consist...

The advantages of miniaturisation, e.g. low masses, low power consumption and small dimensions open new fields of applications for powerful micro actuators in areas dealing with particular environmental conditions like ultra high vacuum or wide temperature ranges. In fact these kinds of applications are mostly challenging positioning tasks, such as the sensitive movement or exact adjustment of ...

In this paper, Gaussian and elliptic high pass filters are analyzed for image sharpening qualitatively and quantatively . The filters are implemented in frequency domain using matlab software. Experiments are performed to compare the performance of both the filters ,processed images are presented. The results demonstrate that elliptic yields better results.

Java cellular phone has arrived in the marketplace as the latest device of a mobile gear. The gear is very compact, allowing 10KB for Java program size and 5KB for data size. Although small in size, it features innovative computer system architecture. Java program can be sent dynamically to the gear in a streaming manner over wireless network. In addition, compared to conventional mobile comput...