NEW APPROACH TO AUTOMATED CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF MECHANICAL SYSTEM BY MEANS OF STATE-SPACE

2003 ◽  
Vol 39 (03) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delun Wang

Since early 1980, BP has been developing the conceptual design of a Single-Well Oil Production System or SWOPS. This paper outlines the concept and discusses the design and the operational criteria that have been applied in this early work. It further examines some of the innovative areas of technology that have been included in this new approach and outlines the work of the detail design phase, which has just started.


2021 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 112866
Author(s):  
U. Wiącek ◽  
F. Arbeiter ◽  
B. Bieńkowska ◽  
D. Bocian ◽  
J. Castellanos ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 1140 ◽  
pp. 361-368
Author(s):  
Stefan Hilscher ◽  
Richard Krimm ◽  
Bernd Arno Behrens

Presses with mechanical linkages based on levers between motor and ram (path-linked presses) tend to oscillate due to inertial forces as a consequence of the drive parts motion.In this publication a new approach for a mass-balancing system is presented. This system allows to generate the optimal compensation forces needed to counteract the inertial forces by means of four linear motors. The control signals for the linear motors are specified by an evolutionary optimization algorithm, which operates on the base of measured accelerations of the press frame. The control signals of the linear motors are created in a way that the machines oscillations are reduced to a minimum. This way the presented mass-balancing system adapts itself automatically to varying conditions during the operation of the machine, such as a tool change or a varying stroke rate.In particular, the present publication provides the results of the conceptual design and the virtual testing of this approach, which has been mainly carried out with the help of multiple-body simulations.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 3806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafał Wiśniowski ◽  
Paweł Łopata ◽  
Grzegorz Orłowicz

Advances in the field of material engineering, computerization, automation, and equipment miniaturization enable modernization of the existing technologies and development of new solutions for construction, inspection, and renovation of underground pipelines. Underground pipe installations are used in the energy sector, gas industry, telecommunications, water and sewage transport, heating, chemical industry, and environmental engineering. In order to build new pipeline networks, dig and no-dig techniques are used. Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is one of the most popular trenchless technologies. The effectiveness of HDD technology application is mostly determined by its properly designed trajectory. Drilling failures and complications, which often accompany the application of the HDD technology, result from poor design of the well path in relation to the existing geological and drilling conditions. The article presented two concepts of Horizontal Directional Drilling well path trajectory design: Classic sectional, which is a combination of straight and curvilinear sections, and a single-section chain curve trajectory (catenary). Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of the catenary trajectory relative to the sectional trajectory, the author’s solution was presented, which was the implementation of the sectional trajectory with a maximum shape similarity to the catenary trajectory. The new approach allowed us to take advantage of a chain curve trajectory and was easier to implement using the available technology. The least squares method, based on deviations from a catenary trajectory, was set as the matching criterion. The process of searching for a trajectory, being a combination of straight and curvilinear sections as similar as possible to a catenary-type trajectory, was carried out using two methodologies: State space search and a genetic algorithm. The article shows the pros and cons of both optimization methodologies. Taking into account the technical and technological limitations of HDD drilling devices, a new approach was proposed, combining the methodology of state space search with the genetic algorithm. A calculation example showed the application of the proposed methodology in an engineering design process.


Author(s):  
Jérôme Guillet ◽  
Benjamin Mourllion ◽  
Abderazik Birouche ◽  
Michel Basset

Extracting second-order structures from single-input state-space models: Application to model order reductionThis paper focuses on the model order reduction problem of second-order form models. The aim is to provide a reduction procedure which guarantees the preservation of the physical structural conditions of second-order form models. To solve this problem, a new approach has been developed to transform a second-order form model from a state-space realization which ensures the preservation of the structural conditions. This new approach is designed for controllable single-input state-space realizations with real matrices and has been applied to reduce a single-input second-order form model by balanced truncation and modal truncation.


Author(s):  
Jozsef Rohacs ◽  
Daniel Rohacs

Nowadays, all the stakeholders, policy makers, regulators, aircraft designers, producers, operators, etc.) are intensively working on development of the aircraft with full electric and hybrid propulsion systems. However, the technical, technological constrains (like limit on accumulator energy density) require introducing a new approach to conceptual design of such aircraft. The new methods is based on energy and mass balance evaluation. This paper analyses the identified constrains; integrates the energy and mass balance equations into the preliminary definition and calculations of the aircraft performance. By this way, the technological constrains might be transferred into the limitation on the aircraft energy and mass breakdown, that initiates a new approach to aircraft conceptual design uses the knowledge based multidisciplinary optimization. The paper describes the developed methodology for conceptual design of aircraft. It show results of implementing this new development philosophy to conceptual design of a four-seat small electric/hybrid aircraft and a special hybrid cargo UAV. The discussion of the results including got by using the emerging and enabling new technologies and new methods and solutions (including for example distributed propulsion system, unconventional forms, morphing, biomimics, etc.), demonstrates the possible implementation of the new development philosophy, new approach to aircraft conceptual design.


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