Gyroscopes are used as rotation rate sensors. Conventional gyroscopes are heavy and bulky, which creates important problems regarding their usage in different applications. Micro-gyroscopes have solved these problems due to their small size. The beam micro-gyroscope is one of the popular types of inertial sensors. Their small dimensions and low energy consumption are key reasons for their popul...

Instrumentation for stroboscopic time-resolved diffraction studies at low temperatures is described. Exciting laser light is delivered to the crystal through an optical fiber. During the diffraction experiment, fluorescence from the sample is focused onto a fiber optic bundle surrounding the laser-light fiber, and monitored by a photodiode. A rotating slotted disk produces a pulsed X-ray beam w...

Ti-6Al-4V hour-glass shaped rotating beam specimens with duplex microstructure were processed by electric discharge machining (EDM). A comparatively high peak current of 29A was utilized in order to increase surface roughness for improved osteointegration. High cycle fatigue (HCF) tests were performed in rotating beam loading (R=-1) on these EDM specimens and results were compared with electrol...

Beam commissioning of the new proton therapy system for University of Tsukuba was started in September 2000. The present system employs a synchrotron with a maximum energy of 250MeV and two rotating gantries. The beam was successfully accelerated up to 250MeV and transported to the irradiation nozzles. The position of the beam extracted from the synchrotron was confirmed to be very stable and s...

This study introduces the Differential Transform Method (DTM) in the analysis of the free vibration response of a rotating closed section composite, Timoshenko beam, which features material coupling between flapwise bending and torsional vibrations due to ply orientation. The governing differential equations of motion are derived using Hamilton’s principle and solved by applying DTM. The natura...

5 Simple example problems 20 5.1 Cantilever beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5.2 Frequency calculation of a beam loaded by compressive forces . . 27 5.3 Frequency calculation of a rotating disk on a slender shaft . . . . 29 5.4 Thermal calculation of a furnace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 5.5 Seepage under a dam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

We calculate the vacuum polarization-induced ellipticity acquired by a linearly polarized laser beam of angular frequency ω̄ on traversing a region containing a transverse magnetic field rotating with a small angular velocity Ω around the beam axis. The transmitted beam contains the fundamental frequency ω̄ and weak sidebands of frequency ω̄±2Ω, but no other sidebands. To first order in small quan...

where co is the angular velocity of the chopper, r the distance from the rotating center to the laser beam axis, and t2-t, the time interval for a variation of P(x)/P0 from 0.9 to 0.1. Figure 1 shows the experimental arrangement. In this experiment, we use a He-Ne laser oscillating in the TEMoo mode. The wavelength is 0.63 m. The position of the beam waist is located at the output mirror of the...

Systems in which the point spread function (PSF) is a rotating beam have increasing use in three-dimensional (3D) microscopy and depth estimation. We analyze in several ways the 3D optical transfer function (OTF) of Gauss Laguerre modes and rotating beams. This is based on analysis of 3D OTFs of general aperture functions. Consequently, we suggest a criterion for depth resolution based on an ef...