Generic, ready-to-use preliminary design methodologies for aircraft utility systems, made available by means of a Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) tool do not exist. An attempt is made to apply principles used in preliminary aircraft design to preliminary design of utility systems. This is demonstrated for the flight control and hydraulic system. The Computer-Aided Engineering tool consists of ...

geotextiles are one of the most widely used synthetic materials in filtration and drainage applications. since in real applications, geotextiles are subjected to various hydraulic gradients and confining stresses, hydraulic behavior of geotextiles under different circumstances is of great practical importance. in this study filtration and drainage properties of several nonwoven needle-punched g...

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. 1. Purpose. This manual provides guidance for the hydraulic design of spillways for flood control or multipurpose dams. This manual applies to all Headquarter US Army Corps of) elements and all field operating activities (FDA) having responsibility for the design of Civil Work projects. 3. General. Procedures recommended herein are conside...

The design of hydraulic systems is founded on deep physical connections. It needs creativity and, at the present time, it cannot be automated. Nevertheless, powerful design support in hydraulics is still possible. This paper presents a new view to the design of hydraulic systems and shows how sophisticated subtasks of the hydraulic design procedure can be tackled. We identify the “model synthes...

This paper describes the design and implementation of an automatic hydraulic circuit design system using case-based reasoning (CBR) as one of successful Knowledge Engineering paradigms. The domain of hydraulic circuit design and case-based reasoning are briefly reviewed. Then a proposed methodology in automatic circuit design and dynamic learning with the use of CBR is described. Finally an app...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a hydraulic circuit design system using case-based reasoning (CBR) paradigm from AI community. The application domain of hydraulic circuit design and case-based reasoning are briefly reviewed. Then a proposed methodology in computer-aided circuit design and dynamic learning with the use of CBR is described. Finally an application example has...

In this paper the control problem of a hydraulic servo-system is addressed. The performance achievable by classical linear controllers, e.g. PD, are usually limited due to highly nonlinear behavior of the hydraulic dynamics. This paper adopts the backstepping design strategy to develop a Lyapunov-based nonlinear controller for a hydraulic servo-system. Load, hydraulic and valve dynamics are inc...

Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) can support hydraulic circuit design. Existing expert systems for hydraulic system design use production rules as its source of knowledge. However, this leads to problems of knowledge acquisition and knowledge base maintenance. This paper describes the application of CBR to hydraulic circuit design for production machines, which helps solving problems using past exper...