Pultrusion is one of several manufacturing processes for reinforced polymer composites. In this process fibers are continuously pulled through a resin bath and, after impregnation, the fiber-resin assembly is cured in a heated forming die. In order to obtain a polymeric composite with good properties (high and uniform degree of cure) and a process with a minimum of wasted energy, an optimizatio...

Although various investigations of Atkinson cycle have been carried out, distinct output power and thermal efficiencies of the engine have been achieved. In this regard, thermal efficiency, Ecological Coefficient of Performance (ECOP), and Ecological function (ECF) are optimized with the help of NSGA-II method and thermodynamic study.  The Pareto optimal frontier ...

New generation x-ray instruments for spacecraft such as ASTRO-E and CONSTELLATION-X have very specialized requirements, notably operation at cryogenic temperatures. Luxel Corporation, under a NASA Phase I SBIR contract, undertook demonstrating feasibility of producing polyimide films suitable for use as x-ray filter substrates specifically optimized for cryogenic applications. 5000Å thick polyi...

This article proposes an optimization model for preventing the waste of time in the educational and research activities' cycle of an organization such as a university. For this purpose and in order to increase efficiency and prevent the waste of time; the graph theory models have been used. The educational and research activities diagrams of a supposed university is drawn by the use of graphs t...

UV cured epoxy systems represent complementary technology to the established heat cured epoxy systems for coating, adhesion and encapsulation of electronic devices. The UV cured epoxy systems offer significant benefits in terms of fast cure and thus very short production cycle time; low stress and better colour due to room temperature cure; process wise no mix ratio problem or anhydride handlin...

A dual-loop cycle for a domestic refrigerator-freezer (RF) has a large energy saving potential because of lower compression ratio due to higher evaporating temperature in the fresh food compartment (R)-operation, and the individual optimization flexibility for each loop, compared to a conventional refrigeration cycle. In this study, the optimization of the dual-loop cycle was carried out. The o...