scholarly journals Subcritical and supercritical granular flow around an obstacle on a rough inclined plane

2021 ◽  
Vol 933 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Tregaskis ◽  
C.G. Johnson ◽  
X. Cui ◽  
J.M.N.T. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Granular Flow ◽  
Dead Zone ◽  
Bow Shock ◽  
Rough Terrain ◽  
Snow Avalanches ◽  
Vacuum Region ◽  
Free Region ◽  
Mass Flows ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Frictional Hysteresis

A blunt obstacle in the path of a rapid granular avalanche generates a bow shock (a jump in the avalanche thickness and velocity), a region of static grains upstream of the obstacle, and a grain-free region downstream. Here, it is shown that this interaction is qualitatively altered if the incline on which the avalanche is flowing is changed from smooth to rough. On a rough incline, the friction between the grains and the incline depends on the flow thickness and speed, which allows both rapid (supercritical) and slow (subcritical) steady uniform avalanches. For supercritical experimental flows, the material is diverted around a blunt obstacle by the formation of a bow shock and a static dead zone upstream of the obstacle. Downslope, a grain-free vacuum region forms, but, in contrast to flows on smooth beds, static levees form at the boundary between the vacuum region and the flow. In slower, subcritical, flows the flow is diverted smoothly around the dead zone and the obstacle without forming a bow shock. After the avalanche stops, signatures of the dead zone, levees and (in subcritical flows) a deeper region upslope of the obstacle are frozen into the deposit. To capture this behaviour, numerical simulations are performed with a depth-averaged avalanche model that includes frictional hysteresis and depth-averaged viscous terms, which are needed to accurately model the flowing and deposited regions. These results may be directly relevant to geophysical mass flows and snow avalanches, which flow over rough terrain and may impact barriers or other infrastructure.

scholarly journals Experimental investigation on steady granular flows interacting with an obstacle down an inclined channel: study of the dead zone upstream from the obstacle. Application to interaction between dense snow avalanches and defence structures

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 187-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Faug ◽  
P. Lachamp ◽  
M. Naaim
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Dead Zone ◽  
Granular Flows ◽  
Friction Angle ◽  
Snow Avalanches ◽  
Zone Length ◽  
Inclined Channel ◽  
Zone Of Influence ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Obstacle Height

Abstract. An experimental investigation with dry granular flows passing over an obstacle down a rough inclined channel has been performed. The aim is to improve our understanding of the interaction between dense snow avalanches and defence structures. Specific attention was directed to the study of the zone of influence upstream from the obstacle, linked to the formation of a dead zone. The dead zone length L was systematically measured as a function of the obstacle height H and the channel inclination θ, for several discharges. In a whole range of channel inclinations, all the data are shown to collapse into a single curve when properly scaled. The scaling is based on the introduction of a theoretical deposit length (depending on H, θ and the internal friction angle of the material, φ) and a Froude number of the flow depending on the obstacle height.

Improved Pole-placement Control with Feed-forward Dead Zone Compensation for Position Tracking of Electro-Pneumatic Actuator System Improved Pole-placement Control with Feed-forward Dead Zone Compensation for Position Tracking of Electro-Pneumatic Actuato

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Noorhazirah Sunar ◽  
Mohd Fua’ad Rahmat ◽  
Ahmad ‘Athif Mohd Fauzi ◽  
Zool Hilmi Ismail ◽  
Siti Marhanis Osman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dead Zone ◽  
Pneumatic Actuator ◽  
Pole Placement ◽  
Position Tracking ◽  
Zone Model ◽  
Feed Forward ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Chattering Effect ◽  
Pole Placement Controller ◽  
Pole Placement Control

Dead-zone in the valve degraded the performances of the Electro-Pneumatic Actuator (EPA) system.  It makes the system difficult to control, become unstable and leads to chattering effect nearest desired position.  In order to cater this issue, the EPA system transfer function and the dead-zone model is identified by MATLAB SI toolbox and the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm respectively.  Then a parametric control is designed based on pole-placement approach and combine with feed-forward inverse dead-zone compensation.  To reduce chattering effect, a smooth parameter is added to the controller output.  The advantages of using these techniques are the chattering effect and the dead-zone of the EPA system is reduced.  Moreover, the feed-forward system improves the transient performance.  The results are compared with the pole-placement control (1) without compensator and (2) with conventional dead-zone compensator.  Based on the experimental results, the proposed controller reduced the chattering effect due to the controller output of conventional dead-zone compensation, 90% of the pole-placement controller steady-state error and 30% and 40% of the pole-placement controller with conventional dead-zone compensation settling time and rise time.

Piecewise Nonlinear Energy Sink

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad A. Al-Shudeifat
Keyword(s):  
Dead Zone ◽  
Linear Structure ◽  
Nonlinear Energy Sink ◽  
Viscous Damping ◽  
Nonlinear Stiffness ◽  
Flexible Design ◽  
Energy Inputs ◽  
Energy Sink ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Nonlinear Energy

Symmetric piecewise nonlinearities are employed here to design highly efficient nonlinear energy sink (NES). These symmetric piecewise nonlinearities are usually called in the literature as dead-zone nonlinearities. The proposed dead-zone NES includes symmetric clearance about its equilibrium position in which zero stiffness and linear viscous damping are incorporated. At the boundaries of the symmetric clearance, the NES is coupled to the linear structure by either linear or nonlinear stiffness components in addition to similar viscous damping to that in the clearance zone. By this flexible design of the dead-zone NES, we obtain a considerable enhancement in the NES efficiency at moderate and severe energy inputs. Moreover, the dead-zone NES is also found here through numerical simulations to be more robust for damping and stiffness variations than the linear absorber and some other types of NESs.

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