The RONDAN jacket support clamp and jacket transport sled are inexpensive, relatively easily fabricated tools which have proved invaluable for the field collection of large vertebrate specimens. Although there are some complicating factors, both of these tools have been used with great success to safely collect and transport numerous Jurassic dinosaur bones.

in this paper, optimization and control of a tubular reactor for thermal bulk post-polymerization of styrene have been investigated. by using the reactor mathematical model, static and dynamic simulations are carried out. based on an objective function including polymer conversion and polydispersity, reactor optimal temperature profile has been obtained. in the absence of model mismatch, desire...

Steel monopiles, jackets requiring four steel pinpiles, and gravity-based foundations were applied in offshore wind farms in the Belgian part of the North Sea. This paper compares the underwater noise generated during the piling activities of steel monopiles at the Belwind wind farm (Blighbank) with that of jacket pinpiles at the C-Power project (Thorntonbank). Underwater noise was measured at ...

Physical model tests with the scale of 1:36 are carried out in the Near-Shore Wave Basin (NSWB) at Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory (THL) with the jacket-type offshore wind turbine foundation (jacket-type foundation) and the combination of hard or soft scour protection in the test area. Scouring around the jacket-type foundation exposed to wave and current was conducted in the NSWB with a mobile be...

Development of a numerical model which describes launching of offshore jackets from barge is presented in this paper. In this model, in addition to capabilities of commercial softwares, water entry forces on jacket members and an implicit Newmark solution technique are included. The results are in general agreement with other numerical software’s available (SACS). Fluid forces acting on jacket ...

Design and production of cables for aerospace systems provide the background for the development of concurrent engineering framework. Key issues include the development of an architecture that supports collaboration among engineers associated with diierent parts of the cable design process and the development of hierarchical representations that capture the diierent characteristics (e.g., conne...

In this research a generalization of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy controllers is presented. In this generalization all or some of the inputs of the fuzzy controllers are fuzzy numbers. Also, it is proved that this generalization is well defined, which means that if the inputs of a generalized Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy controller are singleton fuzzy sets, then the generalized Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy controller wil...