The development of a dynamic rubber balloon spring-based asymmetric photocurable imprint system

Optik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 201 ◽  
pp. 163479
Author(s):  
Yung-Jin Weng
Keyword(s):  
Rubber Balloon

Multi- and In-Stabilities in Gas Partitioning Between Nanoporous Materials and Rubber Balloons

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory Simon ◽  
carlo carraro
Keyword(s):  
Thermodynamic Equilibrium ◽  
Stable States ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
Adsorbed Gas ◽  
Rubber Balloon ◽  
Balloon Size ◽  
Metal Organic ◽  
Balloon Experiment ◽  
Adsorbent System ◽  
Balloon System

<div>In the two-balloon experiment, two rubber balloons are connected and allowed to exchange gas. Owing to the non-monotonic relationship between the radius of the balloon and the pressure of gas inside of it, the two-balloon system presents multi- and in-stabilities.</div><div><br></div><div>Herein, we consider a two-adsorbent system, where two different adsorbents are allowed to exchange gas. We show that, for rigid adsorbents, the thermodynamic equilibrium state is unique.</div><div><br></div><div>Then, we consider an adsorbent-balloon system, where an adsorbent exchanges gas with a rubber balloon. This system can exhibit multiple states at thermodynamic equilibrium-- two (meta)stable and one unstable. The size of the balloon, pressure of gas in the balloon, and partitioning of gas between the adsorbent and the balloon differ among the equilibrium states. Temperature changes and the addition/removal of gas into/from the adsorbent-balloon system can induce catastrophe bifurcations and show hysteresis. Furthermore, the adsorbent-balloon system exhibits a critical temperature where, when approached from below, the discrepancy of balloon size between the two (meta)stable states decreases and, beyond, bistability is impossible.</div><div><br></div><div>Practically, our findings preclude multiple partitions of adsorbed gas in rigid mixed-linker metal-organic frameworks and may inspire new soft actuator and sensor designs.</div>

Packing Optimization by Enhanced Rubber Band Analogy

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Dong ◽  
Georges M. Fadel ◽  
Vincent Y. Blouin
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Optimization Method ◽  
Rubber Band ◽  
Volume Relaxation ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Packing Problems ◽  
Rubber Balloon ◽  
Elastic Forces ◽  
Reaction Forces ◽  
Packing Optimization

In this paper, some new developments to the packing optimization method based on the rubber band analogy are presented. This method solves packing problems by simulating the physical movements of a set of objects wrapped by a rubber band in the case of two-dimensional problems or by a rubber balloon in the case of three-dimensional problems. The objects are subjected to elastic forces applied by the rubber band to their vertices as well as reaction forces when contacts between objects occur. Based on these forces, objects translate or rotate until maximum compactness is reached. To improve the compactness further, the method is enhanced by adding two new operators: volume relaxation and temporary retraction. These two operators allow temporary volume (elastic energy) increase to get potentially better packing results. The method is implemented and applied for three-dimensional arbitrary shape objects.

scholarly journals The Antarctic Stratospheric Aerosol Observation and Sample-Return System Using Two-Stage Separation Method of a Balloon-Assisted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-Ichiro Higashino ◽  
Masahiko Hayashi ◽  
Takuya Okada ◽  
Shuji Nagasaki ◽  
Koichi Shiraishi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Stratospheric Aerosol ◽  
Separation Method ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Sample Return ◽  
Stage Separation ◽  
Rubber Balloon ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
The Antarctic

Abstract. The authors have developed a system for the Antarctic stratospheric aerosol observation and sample-return using the combination of a rubber balloon, a parachute, and a gliding fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A rubber balloon can usually reach 20 km to 30 km in altitude, but it becomes difficult for the UAV designed as a low-subsonic UAV to directly glide back from the stratospheric altitudes because the quantitative aerodynamic characteristics necessary for the control system design at such altitudes are difficult to obtain. In order to make the observation and sample-return possible at such higher altitudes while avoiding the problem with the control system of the UAV, the method using the two-stage separation was developed and attempted in Antarctica. In two-stage separation method, the UAV first descends by a parachute after separating from the balloon at stratospheric altitude to a certain altitude wherein the flight control system of the UAV works properly. Then it secondly separates the parachute for autonomous gliding back to the released point on the ground. The UAV in which an optical particle counter and an airborne aerosol sampler were installed was launched on January 24, 2015 from S17 (69.028S, 40.093E, 607 m MSL) near Syowa Station in Antarctica. The system reached 23 km in altitude and the UAV successfully returned aerosol samples. In this paper, the details of the UAV system using the two-stage separation method including the observation flight results, and the preliminary results of the observation and analyses of the samples are shown.

Lung volumes after an increase in lung distension in pneumonectomized ferrets

1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 1418-1421 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. T. McBride
Keyword(s):  
Lung Resection ◽  
Transpulmonary Pressure ◽  
Tissue Growth ◽  
Lung Growth ◽  
Lung Volumes ◽  
Compensatory Lung Growth ◽  
Rubber Balloon ◽  
Residual Capacity ◽  
The Right

To investigate the role of lung distension in compensatory lung growth, the right lung of each of 21 adult male ferrets was replaced with a silicone rubber balloon filled with mineral oil. Three to thirteen weeks after surgery, the oil was removed through a subcutaneous port. Lung volumes were measured serially until 3–6 wk after balloon deflation. With pneumonectomy the total lung capacity (TLC) decreased to less than 50% of the preoperative value and remained essentially unchanged while the balloon was inflated. At balloon deflation, TLC and vital capacity did not change immediately, whereas functional residual capacity increased by 44%, indicating a change of 2–3 cmH2O in end-expiratory transpulmonary pressure. TLC increased by 10% within 3 days and continued to increase over the subsequent 3–5 wk by a total of 25% over TLC at balloon deflation. There was little difference in this response between animals whose balloons were deflated 3 wk after surgery and those in which deflation was delayed up to 13 wk. After pneumonectomy in the adult ferret, the remaining lung increases in volume in response to an increase in lung distension even weeks or months after surgery. The extent to which this volume increase involves lung tissue growth or depends on previous lung resection is at present unknown. This model may be useful for studies of the mechanisms by which lung distension influences lung volume and compensatory lung growth.

scholarly journals Multi- and instabilities in gas partitioning between nanoporous materials and rubber balloons

2019 ◽  
Vol 475 (2222) ◽  
pp. 20180703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory M. Simon ◽  
Carlo Carraro
Keyword(s):  
Thermodynamic Equilibrium ◽  
Stable States ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
Adsorbed Gas ◽  
Rubber Balloon ◽  
Balloon Size ◽  
Metal Organic ◽  
Balloon Experiment ◽  
Adsorbent System ◽  
Balloon System

In the two-balloon experiment, two rubber balloons are connected and allowed to exchange gas. Owing to the non-monotonic relationship between the radius of the balloon and the pressure of gas inside it, the two-balloon system presents multi- and in-stabilities. Herein, we consider a two-adsorbent system, where two different adsorbents are allowed to exchange gas. We show that, for rigid adsorbents, the thermodynamic equilibrium state is unique. Then, we consider an adsorbent–balloon system, where an adsorbent exchanges gas with a rubber balloon. This system can exhibit multiple states at thermodynamic equilibrium– two (meta)stable and one unstable. The size of the balloon, pressure of gas in the balloon, and partitioning of gas between the adsorbent and the balloon differ among the equilibrium states. Temperature changes and the addition/removal of gas into/from the adsorbent–balloon system can induce catastrophe bifurcations and show hysteresis. Furthermore, the adsorbent–balloon system exhibits a critical temperature where, when approached from below, the discrepancy of balloon size between the two (meta)stable states decreases and, beyond, bistability is impossible. Practically, our findings preclude multiple partitions of adsorbed gas in rigid, mixed-linker or stratified metal-organic frameworks and may inspire new soft actuator and sensor designs.

On the inflation of a rubber balloon

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (9) ◽  
pp. 566-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Vandermarlière
Keyword(s):  
Rubber Balloon

scholarly journals VI. The vertical temperature distribution the atmosphere over England, and some remarks on the general and local circulation

1912 ◽  
Vol 211 (471-483) ◽  
pp. 253-278 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Distribution ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Vertical Temperature ◽  
Local Circulation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rubber Balloon ◽  
Vertical Temperature Distribution

During the past four years a considerable number of small free balloons carrying selfrecording instruments have been sent up in the British Isles, and sufficient observations have now accumulated to give some idea of the conditions which prevail over England, to a height of about 10 miles, in summer and winter, in cyclonic and anticyclonic weather. The method of obtaining observations is fully described in a publication of the Meteorological Office, M.O. 202. It will suffice here to state that a small selfrecording instrument, weighing 1 oz. (35 gr.), is attached by about 30 ft. (9 metres) of strong thread to a small rubber balloon. The balloon is 1 ft. diameter when unstretched. It is filled with hydrogen until it is expanded to about 1 m. diameter, securely tied up, and then let go. The balloons generally rise until they burst, and carry the instrument on the average to a height of 10 miles (16 km). A label offering a reward of 5 s . is attached to the instrument, and the reward is claimed and the instrument returned in two cases out of three.

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