scholarly journals A three-dimensional isolation floor for earthquake and ambient micro-vibration using multi-stage rubber bearings. 1st report. Tests for the performance of the floor by a large-scale experimental model.

1987 ◽  
Vol 53 (496) ◽  
pp. 2521-2528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takafumi FUJITA ◽  
Naoki INOUE ◽  
Kinichiro ASAMI ◽  
Ken TSURUTA ◽  
Shoji TAKESHITA
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohua Tong ◽  
Kuifeng Luan ◽  
Xianglei Liu ◽  
Shijie Liu ◽  
Peng Chen ◽  
...  

Laminated rubber bearings are widely used for the mitigation of seismic damage of large-scale structures and equipment. However, owing to the flexibility in horizontal direction, the traditional contacted transducer is difficult to acquire the displacement data accurately in the three directions, respectively. In this paper, three-dimensional displacement measurement of laminated rubber bearing based on the large-scale shaking table is achieved by the use of a tri-camera high-speed videogrammetric system consisting of three complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) cameras, one synchronous controller, and one pair of 1000 watt light sources, which are used to simultaneously acquire the tri-camera image sequences of laminated rubber bearing at a speed of 300 frames per second (fps). Firstly, this paper proposes a fast image block technique for detecting and tracking targets in tri-camera image sequences by integration of techniques morphological edge detection, attribute based ellipse extraction and least-squares-based fitting adjustment. Secondly, this paper presents an integrated bundle adjustment approach, which brings continuous tracking points into one collinearity condition equation, to reconstruct the three dimensional coordinates of continuous tracking points, for the purpose of improving the accuracy of three-dimensional coordinates of tracking points based on tri-camera image sequences. At last, an empirical experiment was conducted to measure the three-dimensional displacement of laminated rubber bearings on the shaking table by the use of the proposed method. The experimental results showed that the proposed method could obtain three-dimensional displacement of laminated rubber bearings with an accuracy of more than 0.5 mm.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1940
Author(s):  
Muhammad Usman Naseer ◽  
Ants Kallaste ◽  
Bilal Asad ◽  
Toomas Vaimann ◽  
Anton Rassõlkin

This paper presents current research trends and prospects of utilizing additive manufacturing (AM) techniques to manufacture electrical machines. Modern-day machine applications require extraordinary performance parameters such as high power-density, integrated functionalities, improved thermal, mechanical & electromagnetic properties. AM offers a higher degree of design flexibility to achieve these performance parameters, which is impossible to realize through conventional manufacturing techniques. AM has a lot to offer in every aspect of machine fabrication, such that from size/weight reduction to the realization of complex geometric designs. However, some practical limitations of existing AM techniques restrict their utilization in large scale production industry. The introduction of three-dimensional asymmetry in machine design is an aspect that can be exploited most with the prevalent level of research in AM. In order to take one step further towards the enablement of large-scale production of AM-built electrical machines, this paper also discusses some machine types which can best utilize existing developments in the field of AM.


2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 003685042098705
Author(s):  
Xinran Wang ◽  
Yangli Zhu ◽  
Wen Li ◽  
Dongxu Hu ◽  
Xuehui Zhang ◽  
...  

This paper focuses on the effects of the off-design operation of CAES on the dynamic characteristics of the triple-gear-rotor system. A finite element model of the system is set up with unbalanced excitations, torque load excitations, and backlash which lead to variations of tooth contact status. An experiment is carried out to verify the accuracy of the mathematical model. The results show that when the system is subjected to large-scale torque load lifting at a high rotating speed, it has two stages of relatively strong periodicity when the torque load is light, and of chaotic when the torque load is heavy, with the transition between the two states being relatively quick and violent. The analysis of the three-dimensional acceleration spectrum and the meshing force shows that the variation in the meshing state and the fluctuation of the meshing force is the basic reasons for the variation in the system response with the torque load. In addition, the three rotors in the triple-gear-rotor system studied show a strong similarity in the meshing states and meshing force fluctuations, which result in the similarity in the dynamic responses of the three rotors.


2020 ◽  
Vol 501 (1) ◽  
pp. L71-L75
Author(s):  
Cornelius Rampf ◽  
Oliver Hahn

ABSTRACT Perturbation theory is an indispensable tool for studying the cosmic large-scale structure, and establishing its limits is therefore of utmost importance. One crucial limitation of perturbation theory is shell-crossing, which is the instance when cold-dark-matter trajectories intersect for the first time. We investigate Lagrangian perturbation theory (LPT) at very high orders in the vicinity of the first shell-crossing for random initial data in a realistic three-dimensional Universe. For this, we have numerically implemented the all-order recursion relations for the matter trajectories, from which the convergence of the LPT series at shell-crossing is established. Convergence studies performed at large orders reveal the nature of the convergence-limiting singularities. These singularities are not the well-known density singularities at shell-crossing but occur at later times when LPT already ceased to provide physically meaningful results.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 2659
Author(s):  
Gianluca Costamagna ◽  
Giacomo Pietro Comi ◽  
Stefania Corti

In the last decade, different research groups in the academic setting have developed induced pluripotent stem cell-based protocols to generate three-dimensional, multicellular, neural organoids. Their use to model brain biology, early neural development, and human diseases has provided new insights into the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders, including microcephaly, autism, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. However, the adoption of organoid technology for large-scale drug screening in the industry has been hampered by challenges with reproducibility, scalability, and translatability to human disease. Potential technical solutions to expand their use in drug discovery pipelines include Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) to create isogenic models, single-cell RNA sequencing to characterize the model at a cellular level, and machine learning to analyze complex data sets. In addition, high-content imaging, automated liquid handling, and standardized assays represent other valuable tools toward this goal. Though several open issues still hamper the full implementation of the organoid technology outside academia, rapid progress in this field will help to prompt its translation toward large-scale drug screening for neurological disorders.


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