Design and construction of a cost effective test facility for testing large rotating machines to API 541 and 546 standards

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.V. Hensler ◽  
B.J. Mathewson
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Rotating Machines ◽  
Design And Construction

scholarly journals Modified Presplit Blast Design and its Implementation to Control Near Field Blast Vibrations

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 62-71
Author(s):  
D.L.S. Rasagna ◽  
K.S.N. Reddy ◽  
Sanjay Singh ◽  
Sudip Das
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Subsurface Structures ◽  
Blast Design ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Operating Constraints ◽  
Design And Construction

The development of urban infrastructure projects like metro rail projects in the major cities in India is one of the challenging tasks due to several site construction and operating constraints. These rapid transit systems (RTS) are conceived to minimise traffic congestion by providing commuters with fast and efficient transportation alternatives. One such project is the Phase-II of the ongoing Bangalore Underground Metrorail Project. The design and construction of the metro rail project require sound engineering judgment and field experience on envisaged strata conditions along the proposed route alignment. The important factors that govern the excavation cycle depend on Rock mass material properties, efficient blast design and construction performance. All these considerations needs to be evaluated for achieving safe, cost-effective excavation design layouts. Proper blast design and safe blasting operations play a key role in achieving good fragmentation, minimising over break and equipment downtime. Site-specific innovative methods on controlled blasting techniques are being experimented with and demonstrated to minimise the ground vibrations. The major challenge lies with the design of efficient and smooth wall blasting techniques to safeguard the old heritage buildings and other subsurface structures and utilities.      

A Computer Vision Approach for Balancing of Rotating Machines

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashkan Nejadpak ◽  
Cai Xia Yang
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rotating Machines ◽  
Sinusoidal Vibration ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Frequency Domains ◽  
Mechanical Faults ◽  
Marked Area ◽  
Marked Location

Unbalance is one of the most common mechanical faults in rotating machines. Different balancing methods to stabilize the unbalanced rotor are investigated in this paper. One approach of using solely the accelerometers data and intricate vibration theories is discussed. Although the method can eliminate the need of balancing equipment, and the amplitude and phase of the machine’s vibrations can be identified, it needs numerous measurements, and in some cases is impossible to be implemented. Therefore, a novel approach with reduced number of required measurements is proposed. Our method only requires two measurements, one from the original unbalanced condition, and the other from modified situation after adding an arbitrary trial mass to a marked location on the rotor. The rotating rotor is being video recorded during this process. The goal is to identify the position of the marked area whenever the amplitude of the sinusoidal vibration response reaches the maximum. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, an experiment is setup. Vibration of healthy and unbalanced flywheel attached on a three-phase induction motor is analyzed in both time and frequency domains. The rotation of the motor is video recorded under original unbalanced and modified situations. The correction mass and its adding location are calculated using proposed method. The vibration analysis of balancing result demonstrated that the system got dynamically balanced by adding right value and location of a mass. The method proposed and developed in this paper is more cost effective with the same accuracy as the other contested balancing techniques.

Optimization of Structural Design for High-Performance Concrete Bridges

1998 ◽  
Vol 1624 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-139
Author(s):  
Mary Lou Ralls ◽  
Ramon L. Carrasquillo ◽  
Ned H. Burns
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
High Performance Concrete ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Concrete Bridges ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
Maintenance Requirements ◽  
Design And Construction

High-performance concrete (HPC) bridges can be cost-effective both initially and in the long term, provided the design and construction optimize the improved performance characteristics of HPC. Using the high-strength characteristic of HPC can reduce the required number and size of beams. Using the improved durability characteristics of HPC can reduce maintenance requirements and extend the service life. Practical guidelines help design and construction engineers implement HPC in bridges.

Design and Construction of Pipeline Integrated Oil Storage Caverns

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Broyles ◽  
Paul Dusseault ◽  
Frank Vanden Elsen
Keyword(s):  
Crude Oil ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Low Flow ◽  
Oil Storage ◽  
Oil Transportation ◽  
Control Centre ◽  
Salt Caverns ◽  
Design And Construction ◽  
Storage Facilities

In response to industry demand, Hardisty Caverns Limited Partnership (HCLP) has developed cost effective underground storage facilities with a capacity to store 480,000 m3 (3 million barrels) of crude oil. This project is unique through the integration of existing underground salt caverns into a significant North American crude oil transportation hub. Annually, 64 million cubic meters (400 million barrels) of oil move through this hub. This project utilizes existing caverns developed in the late 1960’s. Significant work was required to upgrade the cavern facilities and to construct new surface facilities to integrate the caverns into the crude oil transportation hub. Remote operation of the facility is performed from a control centre in Edmonton. In this paper, the key features of the design and construction of the Hardisty Cavern Storage Project will be presented. Of particular interest are the unique challenges presented due to hydraulic considerations related to cavern operation with multiple product characteristics and to provide crude oil movements exchanges between the cavern storage facilities and both low flow rate feeder pipelines and high flow rate transportation pipelines.

Cost Effective On-Site Fault Diagnosis Home Appliance Using a Smart Phone and Support Vector Machine

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Min Baek ◽  
Kyeong Ha Lee ◽  
Seung Ho Lee ◽  
Ja Choon Koo
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Consumer Electronics ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Rotating Machines ◽  
Pass Filter ◽  
Rotating Machine

Abstract One of the common rotating machines of the consumer electronics might be a washing machine. The rotating machinery normally suffers mechanical failures even during daily operations that results in poor performance or shortening lifetime of the machine. Therefore, engineers have been interested in the earliest fault diagnosis of the rotating machine. Existing fault diagnosis methods for rotating machines have used fast fourier transform (FFT) method in frequency domain to detect abnormal frequency. However, it is difficult to diagnose using the FFT method if the normal frequency components of the rotating machines overlaps with the fault frequencies. In this paper, sets of acoustic signals generated by the washing machines are collected by using a smart phone in which an inexpensive microphone is equipped, and collected data are analyzed using a new algorithm, which combining the skewness, kurtosis, A-weighting filter, high-pass filter (HPF), and FFT. The analyzed data is applied to support vector machine (SVM) to determine defect existence. The proposed algorithm solves the disadvantages of the existing method and is accurate enough to discriminate the data collected by the cheap microphone of the smart phone.

scholarly journals Design and Construction of a Cost-Effective Didactic Robotic Arm for Playing Chess, Using an Artificial Vision System

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian del Toro ◽  
Carlos Robles-Algarín ◽  
Omar Rodríguez-Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Visual Servoing ◽  
Mechanical Design ◽  
Vision System ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Artificial Vision ◽  
Robotic Arm ◽  
Chess Game ◽  
Human Opponent ◽  
The University ◽  
Design And Construction

This paper presents the design and construction of a robotic arm that plays chess against a human opponent, based on an artificial vision system. The mechanical design was an adaptation of the robotic arm proposed by the rapid prototyping laboratory FabLab RUC (Fabrication Laboratory of the University of Roskilde). Using the software Solidworks, a gripper with 4 joints was designed. An artificial vision system was developed for detecting the corners of the squares on a chessboard and performing image segmentation. Then, an image recognition model was trained using convolutional neural networks to detect the movements of pieces on the board. An image-based visual servoing system was designed using the Kanade–Lucas–Tomasi method, in order to locate the manipulator. Additionally, an Arduino development board was programmed to control and receive information from the robotic arm using Gcode commands. Results show that with the Stockfish chess game engine, the system is able to make game decisions and manipulate the pieces on the board. In this way, it was possible to implement a didactic robotic arm as a relevant application in data processing and decision-making for programmable automatons.

scholarly journals THE LATENT CAUSES OF REWORK IN FLOATING PRODUCTION STORAGE AND OFFLOADING PROJECTS

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter E. D. Love ◽  
David John Edwards ◽  
Zahir Irani ◽  
Nuria Forcada
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Significant Cost ◽  
Cost Growth ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Design And Construction

There is growing demand for cost effective and reliable floating production systems to maximize marginal and new deepwater fields worldwide. Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels are considered to be the most economical and viable options to meet this demand. Yet, FPSO projects are prone to significant cost and schedule growth. On average, FPSOs have been reported to experience a 20% cost growth and are delayed by six months. Overruns and delays represent uncertainties for owners, contractors and financial institutions. In-depth interviews with twenty-three practitioners about their experiences with FPSO projects revealed that rework arising from design and construction errors were major contributors to cost and schedule growth. Key latent conditions contributing to rework are classified according to people, organization and project. Using retrospective sensemaking an examination of the determinant histories in a new build and conversion FPSO that experienced rework was undertaken. The sharing of experience(s) is deemed pivotal for reducing rework in future projects, particularly through the use of communities of practice that are able to stimulate situated learning to take place. A reduction in rework will not only reduce cost and schedule growth, improve operational performance and augment safety.

Overview of the U.S. Program for Reduction of Earthquake Hazards in Steel Moment-Frame Structures

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Mahin ◽  
James O. Malley ◽  
Ronald O. Hamburger ◽  
Michael Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Guideline Development ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
The United States ◽  
Frame Structures ◽  
Earthquake Hazards ◽  
Steel Buildings ◽  
Moment Frame ◽  
Steel Moment Frame ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Design And Construction

Considerable research has been conducted worldwide to assess the unexpected damage to welded steel moment-frame buildings during the 1989 Loma Prieta, 1994 Northridge, and 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquakes, as well as to find effective and economical remedies that can be incorporated into analysis, design, and construction practices. A major six-year program has been undertaken with the sponsorship of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to synthesize and interpret the results of this research, and to conduct additional investigations to develop reliable, practical, and cost-effective guidelines for the design and construction of new steel moment-frame structures, as well as for the inspection, evaluation and repair or upgrading of existing ones. Topics investigated as part of this program include (1) performance of steel buildings in past earthquakes; (2) material properties and fracture issues; (3) joining and inspection; (4) connection performance; (5) system performance; (6) performance prediction and evaluation; and (7) social, economic, and political impacts. The project utilizes a performance-based engineering framework and addresses issues pertaining to various types of steel moment-resisting frames including those utilizing welded, bolted, and partially restrained connections. The guidelines are applicable to regions of low, medium, and high seismicity throughout the United States. This paper reviews the overall organization and management of this program of research, guideline development, training and peer evaluation, the scope of the investigations undertaken, and the general organization and contents of the guidelines developed.

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