Identifying the quantitative relationship between the sound pressure level and noise annoyance for environmental noises is important from the viewpoint of noise assessment. In this study, a method for predicting the probabilistic evaluation quantities like Lx ((100−x) percentile level) and LAeq (equivalent A-weighted sound pressure level) of the noise environment is proposed by introducing a no...

This paper describes the design of an X-band balanced low noise amplifier (LNA) using an available HJFET device. The balanced LNA consists of a pair of electrically similar transistors whose input and output signals are divided or combined by 3 dB two-stage Wilkinson power dividers. The proposed balanced LNA is fabricated and measured. The measured results show that the noise figure is 1.30 dB ...

The typical installation of a heat exchange device usually involves a flow contraction at the core entrance and a flow expansion at the core exit. Repeated flow Contraction and expansion are experienced in the flow passages of some compact heat exchangers. The latter refers to the flow passages in the plate-fin type with louvered fins or stripped fins and in the tubular type with dimpled-circul...

where η is a space-time Lévy noise. A perturbative (in the sense of formal power series) strong solution is given by a tree expansion, whereas the correlation functions of the solution are given by a perturbative expansion with coefficients that are represented as sums over a certain class of graphs, called Parisi-Wu graphs. The perturbative expansion of the truncated (connected) correlation fu...

First part of the thesis deals with the dynamics and stability of nonlinear delay gyroscopic systems with periodically varying delay. The aim is to demonstrate that greater depths of cut may be achieved in a boring process (2 DOF) when the speed of the spindle is modulated sinusoidally instead of being kept constant. Since the variation of spindle speed is small and independent of the tool moti...