A technology for automatically creating and adding sound to interactive CG animations of spark discharges in an efficient way has been developed. In the procedure proposed in this paper, the user inputs the electric charge distribution, boundary conditions and other parameters affecting the initiation of electric discharges in virtual space. The animation of the discharge is then created by gen...

Compact Marx generators are widely used as portable pulse generator in different industrial applications, where high power pulses with rise times of order of some tens of nanoseconds are needed. For those applications, closing switches with very short delay and jitter times have to be used. Considering the fact that the breakdown of spark gap is a statistical process, the delay times of the clo...

We performed simulations of ground motions in Mexico City expected for large earthquakes in the Guerrero seismic gap in Mexico. The simulation method uses as empirical Green's functions the accelerograms recorded in Mexico City during four small to moderate earthquakes (8 Feb. 1988, M s = 5.8; 25 April 1989, M w = 6.9; 11 May 1990, M w = 5.5; and 31 May 1990, Mw = 6.0) in the Guerrero gap. Beca...

This paper presents an investigation on WEDM of pure titanium (grade-2). An attempt has been made to model the response variable i.e. surface roughness in WEDM process using response surface methodology. The experimental plan is based on Box-Behnken design. Six parameters i.e. pulse on time, pulse off time, peak current, spark gap voltage, wire feed and wire tension has been varied to investiga...

Original scientific paper Memristors will surely have application in secondary lightning protection as well. This paper proposes a combined over-voltage protecting device consisting of a memristor connected in series with a spark gap. Operation of this combined device has been simulated with circuit simulation software on a model proposed in this paper. The memristor is applied for dissipating ...

We performed simulations of ground motions in Mexico City expected for large earthquakes in the Guerrero seismic gap in Mexico. The simulation method uses as empirical Green's functions the accelerograms recorded in Mexico City during four small to moderate earthquakes (8 Feb. 1988, M s = 5.8; 25 April 1989, M w = 6.9; 11 May 1990, M w = 5.5; and 31 May 1990, Mw = 6.0) in the Guerrero gap. Beca...

We investigate the behavior of solutions to the 1D NonLinear Coupled Mode Equations (NLCME) with a Finite Difference (FD) method. The FD approach is used to render the NLCMEs a system of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) that is then solved with a splitting method. The high frequency components of the solution moving from a fine grid into a coarse grid cannot be resolved on the coarse grid ...

The e-glass fibre epoxy composite is a nonconductive ceramic material hence it is difficult to machine by any well known non-conventional machining methods like electrical discharge machining, wire electrical discharge machining etc. This material can be machined with conventional machining but compromise with accuracy, surface texture even not possible to micro slicing etc. Keeping in view, a ...

Neural network architectures are proposed to model and control the Spark-Ignition (SI) engine idle speed. Static and dynamic multi-layer neural networks are used to develop plant models and plant inverse function models. A neural network is trained to learn the system’s input-output relationship. Another is trained to model the inverse relationship of the plant and is included in the controller...