Additive manufacturing with multi-material design offers great possibilities for lightweight and function-integrated components. A process chain was developed in which hybrid steel–steel-components high fatigue strength were produced. For this, a material combination of stainless powder Rockit® (0.52 wt.% C, 0.9% Si, 14% Cr, 0.4% Mo, 1.8% Ni, 1.2% V, bal. Fe) cladded onto ASTM A572 mild steel b...

The process of modernization has brought about changes in lifestyle of people leading to improvement in standard of living but it is associated with certain unwanted life styles like decreased physical activity and increased sedentary work. Thus, improvement in motorized transport availability of house hold gadgets like washing machine, vaccum cleaners, dish washers all tend to reduce activity ...

A rapid growth in the application of embedded programmable processors in systems from simple household machines (e.g., washers and dryers) to complex real-time control in automobiles has been seen over last three decades. Microprocessors, microcontrollers, and digital signal processors (DSPs) have been at the forefront such development. This has warranted training electrical and computer engine...

Smart electricity meters record the aggregate consumption of an entire building. However, appliance-level information is more useful than aggregate data for a variety of purposes including energy management and load forecasting. Disaggregation aims to decompose an aggregate signal into appliance-by-appliance information. Existing disaggregation systems tend to perform well for single-state appl...

A study was conducted to investigate the effects of spray washing broiler carcasses with acidified electrolyzed oxidizing water (EO) or sodium hypochlorite (HOCl) solutions for 5, 10, or 15 s. Commercial broiler carcasses were contaminated with 0.1 g of broiler cecal contents inoculated with 10(5) cells of Campylobacter and 10(5) cells of nalidixic acid-resistant Salmonella. Numbers of bacteria...