Pipe vibration is often excited in the deep ocean by ship motions, wave forces and vortex shedding. Elastic joints along the pipe are modeled in an attempt to move the resonance frequencies away from the pipe system. The numerical examples focus on the investigation of single and multiple elastic joints along a long pipe and their effect on three-dimensional (3-D) nonlinear coupled pipe respons...

Diameter pipe.robot, called the Multifunctional Robot for IN-pipe inSPECTion. In-pipe robots, which have a long history of development in robotics, can be.This paper describes a mobile feeder pipe inspection robot that can minimize the irradiation dose to human workers by automating the measurement process.Recently, many pipe inspection robot systems have been developed. Initially, development ...

Arc-shaped forceps are important in pharyngeal cancer surgery, endoscopic sinus surgery, and single port surgery. Rotating the gripper of an arc-shaped forceps with respect to its shaft axis can improve the manipulability of the forceps. Concentric pipe structures consisting of inner and outer pipes are often used for this purpose. The inner pipe transmits rotations from its proximal end to dis...

Nanofabricated photonic materials offer opportunities for crafting the propagation and dispersion of light in matter. We demonstrate an experimental realization of a two-dimensional negative-index material in the blue-green region of the visible spectrum, substantiated by direct geometric visualization of negative refraction. Negative indices were achieved with the use of an ultrathin Au-Si3N4-...

The broadband narrow pulse self-focusing ultrasonic transducer was designed for the special structure of the column holes, and used to do the research for the testing of bonding layer of metal composite material with F-scan ultrasonic imaging system. The copper-steel boding layer of bimetal rotor is connected by diffusing welding. There may be delamination flaws existed here. The depth and rang...

The functioning of the first type, the flue or labial pipe, was already investigated within previous extensive research projects. The second pipe type, the reed pipe, is less often installed in pipe organs, and only little research was done in this field so far. This is why this pipe type is now the focus of research of the working group ‚Musical Acoustics ‘ at the Fraunhofer Institute for Buil...