Most education tracts in Industrial Technology prepare students with traditional content relevant to industry. Learning these skills is critical to a student’s ability to function in any industrial field and these skills have always dominated industrial education. Within recent years, however, new computer technology is rapidly changing the face of industry. This comes in many forms, one of whi...

We identify a class of monomial supports that are inherently improper because any surface rational parametrization defined on them is improper. A surface support is inherently improper if and only if the gcd of the normalized areas of the triangular sub-supports is non-unity. The constructive proof of this claim can be used to detect all and correct almost all improper surface parametrizations ...

In this article we prove that Fintushel-Stern’s construction of Horikawa surface, which is obtained from an elliptic surface via a rational blow-down surgery in smooth category, can be performed in complex category. The main technique involved is Q-Gorenstein smoothings.

Surface-mount permanent-magnet synchronous motor(SPMSM) has been widely applied in accurate motion control. In this paper, the SPMSM model is divided into electrical magnetic subsystem and electrical mechanical subsystem. Then a novel error model is given by which the controllers can be designed easily. In the general PMSM controllers design, the unknown load is often neglected. In this paper, ...

In this paper, we study the notion of regular surface in the Carnot–Carathéodory spaces and we prove the implicit function theorem in this setting. We fix at every point of R a subset of the tangent space, called horizontal tangent plane, and we assume that it has a basis X1, . . . , Xm of C∞ vector fields satisfying the Hörmander condition of hypoellipticity, (see [16]). This choice induces a ...

The correct color of water and bottom refraction is one of the most important parts of realistic visual water simulation. The paper is devoted to the real time rendering of scenes with shallow water when the bottom is visible. It covers the model of light transport at the water surface and through the water medium that allows us to calculate spectral intensity of light at the surface; the human...

Many factors influence a vehicle’s rate of fuel consumption. Among them are engine efficiency, speed, aerodynamics, and rolling resistance. When it comes to the influence that pavement characteristics have on fuel consumption, one of the major contributors is surface roughness which impacts rolling resistance; more energy is required to propel a vehicle over a rough surface than over a smooth s...

The influence of the water layer on the shear force damping is investigated in the case of a perfectly flat mica surface. In ambient conditions it is shown that the damping curve exhibits three particular regimes depending on the tip-sample distance. Moreover, the damping varies significantly over the first hour, pointing out the complexity of the distance control by shear force detection. © 19...

One of the main objectives of geophysics is to determine the density at different depths and at different geographical locations. There exist several methods for estimating the density: e.g., we can use seismic data, or we can use gravity measurement. Each of the techniques for estimating the density has its own advantages and limitations: e.g., seismic measurements often lead to a more accurat...