During recent years, foundry industry has witnessed an increasing awareness about the importance of the filling stage for the production of metallurgically sound and dimensionally stable castings. The metallurgical soundness of a casting is strongly influenced by the way the liquid metal flows through various parts of the gating system and fills the mould cavity. Owing to the importance of fill...

Focusing on the problems of poor filling ability and stability mechanical wheat seeder complicated structure pneumatic seeder, a special air suction wheel-hole single seed drill for remote controlled self-propelled dibbler in plots was designed this paper. According to agronomic requirements precision seeding plots, wheel radius set at 180 mm 16 holes. Using discrete element simulation software...

Currently, many authors have studied the uniform axisymmetric pressure head laminar and turbulent movement of water in hydraulic smooth rough (with roughness) pipes circular cross-section. The results obtained study a plane-parallel flow channels allow here only to outline structure corresponding dependencies clarify simplest case unpressurized fluid movement, when this can also be reduced or, ...

Abstract This paper uncovers new manifestations of the homoclinic snaking mechanism in post-buckling regime a pressurized thin cylindrical shell under axial load. These forms tend to propagate either wholly or partially direction that is orthogonal applied load and so, unlike earlier Woods & Champneys (1999, Heteroclinic tangles unfolding degenerate Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcation. Phys. D, 12...

After more than 7 years of development, the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft (TZ), a space station transfer spacecraft, was successfully launched on 2017 April 20. The TZ is robotic that designed to support China operation by transporting pressurized cargo, unpressurized large propellant, and other supplies. vehicle equipped with crew specifications necessary for astronauts unload cargo. can be utiliz...

The aim of this work was to test the hypothesis that the reduced growth rate of wheat and barley that results when the roots are exposed to NaCl is due to inadequate turgor in the expanding cells of the leaves. The hypothesis was tested by exposing plants to 100 millimolar NaCl (which reduced their growth rates by about 20%), growing them for 7 to 10 days with their roots in pressure chambers, ...

The combinatorial effects of TGF-beta1 and hydrostatic pressure (HP) were investigated on meniscus cell-seeded PLLA constructs using a two-phase sequential study. The objective was to identify potentially synergistic effects of these stimuli toward enhancing the biomechanical and compositional characteristics of the engineered constructs. In Phase I, the effects of TGF-beta1 were examined on th...

In the current study, the processing conditions required for the inactivation of Paenibacillus polymyxa and relevant spoilage microorganisms by high hydrostatic pressure (HHP) treatment on apricot, peach, and pear pieces in sucrose (22°Brix) solution were assessed. Accordingly, the shelf-life was determined by evaluating both the microbiological quality and the sensory characteristics (taste, o...

Pressurized elastic capsules arise at scales ranging from the 10 m diameter pressure vessels used to store propane at oil refineries to the microscopic polymeric capsules that may be used in drug delivery. Nature also makes extensive use of pressurized elastic capsules: plant cells, bacteria and fungi have stiff walls, which are subject to an internal turgor pressure. Here, we present theoretic...

BACKGROUND One area of space suits that is ripe for innovation is the glove. Existing models allow for some fine motor control, but the power grip--the act of grasping a bar--is cumbersome due to high torque requirements at the knuckle or metacarpal phalangeal joint (MCP). This area in particular is also a major source of complaints of pain and injury as reported by astronauts. METHOD This pa...