scholarly journals Proposal of the Coupled Thermomechanical Model of a Crank Mechanism

Author(s):  
Bogumil Chilinski ◽  
Anna Mackojc

The aim of the paper is to propose analytical coupled thermomechanical model of the crankshaft system, which includes the mutual interaction between thermodynamic and mechanical phenomena occurring in engines. The most relevant dynamic effects observable in the crank system are connected with its kinematics. When the mechanism operates there are also additional effects corresponding with stress, strain and thermal fields. Elastic properties of the system parts and changeable stiffness of the fuel-air mixture cause different dynamics of the entire device. The authors assumed that rigid motion of the crank mechanism, parts deformation and thermodynamic effects and their mutual dependencies will be included in the modelling process. Elasticity of the crankshaft system components is the reason for the difference between a rigid ’ideal’ motion and the real movement of crankshaft elements. In most cases, it is enough to assume linear elastic material features based on the relatively high stiffness of the system preventing big deformations. This ensures small displacements and the correctness of the applied model. The performed investigations have shown an influence of the crank system flexibility on the overall device response. Moreover, the parameters that change due to thermodynamic and mechanical properties of the working medium were taken into account. The authors have applied simple engine cycles (Otto, Diesel or combined model) for determining engine load including the connection between mechanical and thermodynamic state variables. This caused another decrease of the total system stiffness. Further numerical testing proved a visible effect of the applied approach in the global system response. The main discrepancies are observable in natural frequencies and vibration modes. It can also be stated that the utilization of different engine cycles results in different engine features. The paper is concluded with an analysis of the existing systems and mutual reactions from the assumed phenomena. The authors have shown the necessity to take a transdisciplinary approach into account in order to model complex systems.

Electronics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Sanchez ◽  
Elías Todorovich ◽  
Angel de Castro

As the performance of digital devices is improving, Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) techniques are being increasingly used. HIL systems are frequently implemented using FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) as they allow faster calculations and therefore smaller simulation steps. As the simulation step is reduced, the incremental values for the state variables are reduced proportionally, increasing the difference between the current value of the state variable and its increments. This difference can lead to numerical resolution issues when both magnitudes cannot be stored simultaneously in the state variable. FPGA-based HIL systems generally use 32-bit floating-point due to hardware and timing restrictions but they may suffer from these resolution problems. This paper explores the limits of 32-bit floating-point arithmetics in the context of hardware-in-the-loop systems, and how a larger format can be used to avoid resolution problems. The consequences in terms of hardware resources and running frequency are also explored. Although the conclusions reached in this work can be applied to any digital device, they can be directly used in the field of FPGAs, where the designer can easily use custom floating-point arithmetics.


1996 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Rauch ◽  
P. Harremoës

Rain causes not only pollution loads from combined sewer overflows but also from treatment plants. High hydraulic load conditions can affect the secondary clarifier performance, resulting in a massive loss of sludge from the plant. The consequence to the oxygen concentration in the recipient can be described by the same simplified mechanism, because the principle remains the same. The difference that has to be accounted for, is the different organic characteristics of the discharged water. The analysis of a hypothetical urban drainage system by means of a deterministic model reveals the importance of the treatment plant in this respect. Oxygen depletion in urban rivers is caused by intermittent discharges from both sewer system and wastewater treatment plant. Neglecting one of them in the evaluation of the environmental impact gives a wrong impression of total system behavior. Linear sensitivity analysis provides useful information for water quality management. The significant parameters in terms of acute water pollution are identified.


1972 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. B. Dale ◽  
R. Cohen

A method is presented for obtaining and optimizing the frequency response of one-dimensional damped linear continuous systems. The systems considered are assumed to contain unknown constant parameters in the boundary conditions and equations of motion which the designer can vary to obtain a minimum resonant response in some selected frequency interval. The unknown parameters need not be strictly dissipative nor unconstrained. No analytic solutions, either exact or approximate, are required for the system response and only initial value numerical integrations of the state and adjoint differential equations are required to obtain the optimal parameter set. The combinations of state variables comprising the response and the response locations are arbitrary.


2018 ◽  
Vol 218 ◽  
pp. 02007
Author(s):  
Wahyudi ◽  
Sela Martasia ◽  
Budi Setiyono ◽  
Iwan Setiawan

Auto-tuning relay feedback is one of the control techniques, which is used to solve the non-linear, long delay time, and disturbance's problems. This control technique is the development of Ziegler-Nichols that can be done automatically without doing system modeling. In this paper, auto-tuning relay feedback is used in the control system response to optimization of Shell Heavy Oil Fractionator (SHOF) system so the output of product composition as expected. SHOF is a distillation column type used to separate crude oil into desired products based on the difference in the boiling point of each product. PI regulators of relay feedback are used to control the valves on the SHOF with three inputs and three outputs that has been decoupled. Based on the tests, the average values of IAE at top end point composition (Y1) obtained with disturbance and no disturbance are 83.17 and 10.933, respectively. At the side end point composition (Y2), the average values of IAE with disturbance and no disturbance are obtained respectively, 336.38 and 42.3467. The average values of IAE at bottom reflux temperature (Y3) with disturbance and no disturbance are obtained 0.15 and 0.13, respectively.


2016 ◽  
Vol 849 ◽  
pp. 76-83
Author(s):  
Jiří Náprstek ◽  
Cyril Fischer

The exact coincidence of external excitation and basic eigen-frequency of a single degree of freedom (SDOF) nonlinear system produces stationary response with constant amplitude and phase shift. When the excitation frequency differs from the system eigen-frequency, various types of quasi-periodic response occur having a character of a beating process. The period of beating changes from infinity in the resonance point until a couple of excitation periods outside the resonance area. Theabove mentioned phenomena have been identified in many papers including authors’ contributions. Nevertheless, investigation of internal structure of a quasi-period and its dependence on the difference of excitation and eigen-frequency is still missing. Combinations of harmonic balance and small parameter methods are used for qualitative analysis of the system in mono- and multi-harmonic versions. They lead to nonlinear differential and algebraic equations serving as a basis for qualitativeanalytic estimation or numerical description of characteristics of the quasi-periodic system response. Zero, first and second level perturbation techniques are used. Appearance, stability and neighborhood of limit cycles is evaluated. Numerical phases are based on simulation processes and numerical continuation tools. Parametric evaluation and illustrating examples are presented.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-lei Luo ◽  
Xin Mo ◽  
Jin-yang Li ◽  
Zhi-qing Tang ◽  
Song-song Huang

In an eccentric rotating system driven by two hydraulic motors without synchronous gears, vibration coupling may help render motion stable. In order to investigate how vibration coupling influences the motion, the coupling characteristics of the vibration system were studied regarding the differences between two motors such as leakage network, coulomb damping network, and pressure loss network, and the sensitivity of the influence factors was also studied. The influence of tiny differences between the two motors, tiny differences in the motion pair structure, in the oil temperature and in the resistance coefficient on the coupling motion were discovered, and the criterion for synchronous motion were obtained consequently. The results show that the influence of the resistance coefficient difference on system motion stability is the greatest, accounting for 46.7%, and the influence of the difference in motion pair structure (e.g. motor piston clearance) is the second, accounting for 32.8%. For motors with displacement 80 ml/r, the condition of self-synchronization is that the difference in piston clearance between the two motors is equal to or smaller than 6 μm. Experiments have proved the correctness of the theory and showed that the synchronization can be achieved by leakage compensation, damping compensation, and back-pressure compensation of the external system by means of control when the motors rotate slowly enough for system response. The study shows that the coupling synchronous model can reduce the force of the gear for the eccentricity rotary system with synchronous gear, and that the synchronous stability can be improved for the eccentricity rotary system without synchronous gear.


Author(s):  
Eric Donald Dongmo ◽  
Kayode Stephen Ojo ◽  
Paul Woafo ◽  
Abdulahi Ndzi Njah

This paper introduces a new type of synchronization scheme, referred to as difference synchronization scheme, wherein the difference between the state variables of two master [slave] systems synchronizes with the state variable of a single slave [master] system. Using the Lyapunov stability theory and the active backstepping technique, controllers are derived to achieve the difference synchronization of three identical hyperchaotic Liu systems evolving from different initial conditions, as well as the difference synchronization of three nonidentical systems of different orders, comprising the 3D Lorenz chaotic system, 3D Chen chaotic system, and the 4D hyperchaotic Liu system. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the validity and feasibility of the theoretical analysis. The development of difference synchronization scheme has increases the number of existing chaos synchronization scheme.


1988 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. 2077-2088
Author(s):  
M. C. Chapman ◽  
J. A. Snoke ◽  
G. A. Bollinger

Abstract Efficient low-frequency calibration of the entire seismograph system can be accomplished by Fourier analysis of the system response to automatically generated transient test functions applied to the seismometer calibration coil. Typically, such calibrations are restricted to frequencies less than 10 Hz by the ambient ground motion, system noise, and limited dynamic range. To extend the calibration to a broader frequency range, we disconnect the seismometer and take advantage of the fact that the relative amplitude response of the electronic components in most systems can be measured with high accuracy at frequencies from as low as 0.02 Hz to the Nyquist frequency (e.g., 50 Hz) using standard electronics test equipment. The low-frequency amplitude response of the seismometer can then be isolated by dividing the total system response by that obtained for the electronic components. An iterative least-squares procedure is used to estimate the natural frequency and damping coefficient of the seismometer, along with a scaling parameter that specifies the absolute gain of the system. The phase response of the system is calculated directly from the amplitude response using the Hilbert transform. The procedure assumes that the seismometer is an ideal damped harmonic oscillator and that the system as a whole acts as a minimum phase filter. The only instrumental constants that must be known from independent measurement are the seismometer calibration coil force constant and the inertial mass.


Author(s):  
Anindya Chatterjee ◽  
Joseph P. Cusumano

Abstract We present a new observer-based method for parameter estimation for nonlinear oscillatory mechanical systems where the unknown parameters appear linearly (they may each be multiplied by bounded and Lipschitz continuous but otherwise arbitrary, possibly nonlinear, functions of the oscillatory state variables and time). The oscillations in the system may be periodic, quasiperiodic or chaotic. The method is also applicable to systems where the parameters appear nonlinearly, provided a good initial estimate of the parameter is available. The observer requires measurements of displacements. It estimates velocities on a fast time scale, and the unknown parameters on a slow time scale. The fast and slow time scales are governed by a single small parameter ϵ. Using asymptotic methods including the method of averaging, it is shown that the observer’s estimates of the unknown parameters converge like e−ϵt where t is time, provided the system response is such that the coefficient-functions of the unknown parameters are not close to being linearly dependent. It is also shown that the method is robust in that small errors in the model cause small errors in the parameter estimates. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (23-24) ◽  
pp. 2261-2273 ◽  
Author(s):  
George C Tsiatas ◽  
Dimitra A Karatzia

The reliability of the hysteretic nonlinear energy sink in shock mitigation is investigated herein. The hysteretic nonlinear energy sink is a passive vibration control device which is coupled to a primary linear oscillator. Apart from its small mass and a nonlinear elastic spring of the Duffing oscillator, it also comprises a purely hysteretic and a linear elastic spring of potentially negative stiffness. The Bouc–Wen model is used to describe the force produced by both the purely hysteretic and linear elastic springs. The hysteretic nonlinear energy sink protects the primary system through the energy pumping mechanism which transfers energy from the primary system and dissipates it in the hysteretic nonlinear energy sink. Three nonlinear equations of motion describe the resulting two-degree-of-freedom system response. The parameters of the system to be considered as uncertain are the natural frequency of the primary system and the hysteretic nonlinear energy sink linear elastic spring, which follow a normal distribution. A reliability analysis is then performed to evaluate the robustness of the coupled system in the presence of uncertainty. Specifically, the reliability index is calculated based on first passage probabilities of distinct dissipation energy level crossings using the Monte Carlo method. Several examples are examined considering various levels of initial input energy, and useful conclusions are drawn concerning the influence of uncertainty in the system robustness.


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