Using Adams/Car and Insight in Simulation and Optimization on Guiding Mechanism of Air Front-Suspension

2014 ◽  
Vol 635-637 ◽  
pp. 381-384
Author(s):  
Meng Li

A mode of air front-suspension is established, and the effect of alignment parameters with the bump of the wheels is analyzed. The Guiding Mechanism of Air Front- suspension is optimized by using Insight, The optimum model parameters is obtained. It is concluded by comparing the wheel alignment parameter before and after optimization that After optimization guide mechanism makes the vehicle has better steady state characteristics.

1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (11) ◽  
pp. 2648-2661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Sovová ◽  
Vladislav Bízek ◽  
Jaroslav Procházka

In this work measurements of mean holdup of dispersed phase, of axial holdup profiles and of flooding points in a reciprocating plate contactor with both the VPE-type plates and the sieve plates were carried out. The experimental results were compared with a monodisperse model of steady-state column hydrodynamics and the model parameters were evaluated. Important differences in the behaviour of the two plate types could be identified. Comparison was also made between two reciprocating drives of different pulse form.


2013 ◽  
Vol 433-435 ◽  
pp. 2235-2238
Author(s):  
Wei Ning Bao

The mechanical system dynamics software,ADAMS,is used to establish multi-body dynamics system model for a truck front suspension and steering system. Through the simulation test of wheel travel, front wheel alignment parameters changing along with the wheel travel was obtained.


2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 449-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Hsin Chang ◽  
Chia I Tsai ◽  
Jaung Geng Lin ◽  
Yue Der Lin ◽  
Tsai Chung Li ◽  
...  

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) holds that Blood and Qi are fundamental substances in the human body for sustaining normal vital activity. The theory of Qi, Blood and Zang-Fu contribute the most important theoretical basis of human physiology in TCM. An animal model using conscious rats was employed in this study to further comprehend how organisms survive during acute hemorrhage by maintaining the functionalities of Qi and Blood through dynamically regulating visceral physiological conditions. Pulse waves of arterial blood pressure before and after the hemorrhage were taken in parallel to pulse spectrum analysis. Percentage differences of mean arterial blood pressure and harmonics were recorded in subsequent 5-minute intervals following the hemorrhage. Data were analyzed using a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Duncan's test for pairwise comparisons. Results showed that, within 30 minutes following the onset of acute hemorrhage,the reduction of mean arterial blood pressure was improved from 62% to 20%. Throughout the process, changes to the pulse spectrum appeared to result in a new balance over time. The percentage differences of the second and third harmonics, which were related to kidney and spleen, both increased significantly than baseline and towards another steady state. Apart from the steady state resulting from the previous stage, the percentage difference of the 4th harmonic decreased significantly to another steady state. The observed change could be attributed to the induction of functional Qi, and is a result of Qi-Blood balancing activity that organisms hold to survive against acute bleeding.


Geophysics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-73
Author(s):  
Bastien Dupuy ◽  
Anouar Romdhane ◽  
Pierre-Louis Nordmann ◽  
Peder Eliasson ◽  
Joonsang Park

Risk assessment of CO2 storage requires the use of geophysical monitoring techniques to quantify changes in selected reservoir properties such as CO2 saturation, pore pressure and porosity. Conformance monitoring and associated decision-making rest upon the quantified properties derived from geophysical data, with uncertainty assessment. A general framework combining seismic and controlled source electromagnetic inversions with rock physics inversion is proposed with fully Bayesian formulations for proper quantification of uncertainty. The Bayesian rock physics inversion rests upon two stages. First, a search stage consists in exploring the model space and deriving models with associated probability density function (PDF). Second, an appraisal or importance sampling stage is used as a "correction" step to ensure that the full model space is explored and that the estimated posterior PDF can be used to derive quantities like marginal probability densities. Both steps are based on the neighbourhood algorithm. The approach does not require any linearization of the rock physics model or assumption about the model parameters distribution. After describing the CO2 storage context, the available data at the Sleipner field before and after CO2 injection (baseline and monitor), and the rock physics models, we perform an extended sensitivity study. We show that prior information is crucial, especially in the monitor case. We demonstrate that joint inversion of seismic and CSEM data is also key to quantify CO2 saturations properly. We finally apply the full inversion strategy to real data from Sleipner. We obtain rock frame moduli, porosity, saturation and patchiness exponent distributions and associated uncertainties along a 1D profile before and after injection. The results are consistent with geology knowledge and reservoir simulations, i.e., that the CO2 saturations are larger under the caprock confirming the CO2 upward migration by buoyancy effect. The estimates of patchiness exponent have a larger uncertainty, suggesting semi-patchy mixing behaviour.


Author(s):  
R. Darin Ellis ◽  
Kentaro Kotani

A visco-elastic model of the mechanical properties of muscle was used to describe age-differences in the buildup of force in isometric elbow flexion. Given information from the literature on age-related physiological changes, such as decreasing connective-tissue elasticity, one would expect changes in the mechanical properties of skeletal muscle and their related model parameters. Force vs. time curves were obtained for 7 young (aged 21–27) and 7 old (aged 69–83) female subject. There were significant age group differences in steady-state force level and the best fitting model parameters. In particular, the viscous damping element of the model plays a large role in describing the increased time to reach steady-state force levels in the older subject group. Implications of this research include incorporating parameter differences into more complex models, such as crash impact models.


2015 ◽  
pp. 1125-1152
Author(s):  
Tania Pencheva ◽  
Maria Angelova ◽  
Krassimir Atanassov

Intuitionistic fuzzy logic has been implemented in this investigation aiming to derive intuitionistic fuzzy estimations of model parameters of yeast fed-batch cultivation. Considered here are standard simple and multi-population genetic algorithms as well as their modifications differ from each other in execution order of main genetic operators (selection, crossover, and mutation). All are applied for the purpose of parameter identification of S. cerevisiae fed-batch cultivation. Performances of the examined algorithms have been assessed before and after the application of a procedure for narrowing the range of model parameters variation. Behavior of standard simple genetic algorithm has been also examined for different values of proof as the most sensitive genetic algorithms parameter toward convergence time, namely, generation gap (GGAP). Results obtained after the intuitionistic fuzzy logic implementation for assessment of genetic algorithms performance have been compared. As a result, the most reliable algorithm/value of GGAP ensuring the fastest and the most valuable solution is distinguished.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dayna Roznowski ◽  
Erin Wagner ◽  
Sarah Riddle ◽  
Laurie Nommsen-Rivers

Abstract Objectives Measuring maternal milk production is cumbersome. Our objectives were to: 1) confirm that milk production rate reaches steady state at hour 2 of hourly breast emptying; and 2) compare agreement in milk production when measured using the well-established test-weighing method versus the more efficient hourly breast emptying method (Lai, et al., Breastfeeding Medicine, 2010). Methods Eligible mothers were 4–10 weeks postpartum and exclusively breastfeeding their healthy, singleton, term infants. A subset of mothers test-weighed (TW) their infant (± 2 g) before and after breastfeeding for 48h. Within 1 week of TW, mothers had a morning visit at the research clinic for hourly breast expression measurements. Mothers emptied both breasts at baseline (h0), and 1, 2, and 3 hours after baseline (h1, h2, h3) using a hospital-grade pump. We recorded hourly milk output ± 1 g and adjusted production rate (g/h) to exact interval (minutes from end of previous to end of current expression). We used paired t-test to compare g/h at h3 versus h0, h1, and h2. We estimated mother's steady-state milk production rate (MPR, g/h) as mean (h2, h3). We used the Bland-Altman method for determining the 95% limits of agreement in measuring milk production (g/24h) using TW versus MPRx24. Results 23 mothers (65% primiparous) were 54 ± 14 days postpartum. Milk output was 185 ± 55 g at h0 and 60 ± 26, 47 ± 13, 44 ± 13 g/h at h1, h2, and h3, respectively. Mean paired difference (vs. h3) was significant at h0 and h1 (P < 0.05), but not at h2 (P > 0.05, h3 - h2 = 3 ± 10 g/h). In the subset with TW data (n = 16), mean TW milk output was 717 ± 119 g/24h, and mean MPRx24 was 1085 ± 300 g/24h. Mean difference, MPRx24 - TW [± 95% limits of agreement], was 368 [± 468] g/24h; and mean ratio, MPRx24/TW, was 1.5 [± 0.4]. Both difference and ratio significantly increased as MPR increased (P < 0.05). Conclusions Hourly milk production reaches steady state at h2; thus, mean (h2, h3) is a valid measure of current maternal milk production capacity. However, there was not homogeneous agreement between MPR and TW, and the 95% limits of agreement were very wide: -91 to 459 g/24h when expressed as the difference, and 0.9 to 1.9-fold as a ratio. Thus, MPR is feasible for researching variation in maternal milk production but not for researching variation in infant intake. Funding Sources None. Supporting Tables, Images and/or Graphs


1983 ◽  
Vol 245 (6) ◽  
pp. R873-R880 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Pokorski ◽  
S. Lahiri

We investigated the relative contribution of peripheral and central chemosensory mechanisms to ventilatory responses to metabolic alkalosis in anesthetized cats by simultaneously measuring steady-state carotid body chemosensory activity and ventilation. The effects of graded steady-state levels of metabolic alkalosis at constant levels of arterial O2 and CO2 partial pressure (PaO2 and PaCO2, respectively) were studied first. Then the responses to isocapnic hypoxia and hyperoxic hypercapnia before and after the induction of a given level of metabolic alkalosis were studied. From the relationship between the carotid chemosensory activity and ventilation, the contribution of the two chemosensory mechanisms was estimated. The depression of ventilation that could not be accounted for by a decrease in the carotid chemosensory activity is attributed to the central effect. We found that metabolic alkalosis decreased both carotid chemosensory activity and ventilation at all levels of PaO2 or PaCO2. The ventilatory effect of alkalosis increased during hypoxia due to suppression of both peripheral chemosensory input and its interaction with the central CO2-H+ drive. During hyperoxia the central effect of alkalosis was predominant, although the peripheral effect increased with hypercapnia. We conclude that acute metabolic alkalosis suppresses both peripheral and central chemosensory drives, and its ventilatory effect grows larger with decreasing PaO2.


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