Metallocene: multi-layered molecular rotors

Besides a negligible rotation barrier, the reasonable rotational period associated with the ultra-soft rotation mode is a critical point for the observability of dynamical behavior in multi-layered molecular rotors.

THE RESEARCH OF STABILITY OF STATIONARY ROTATION A ROTOR SYSTEM WITH A LIQUID, THE AXLE OF WHICH IS LOCATED IN ANISOTROPIC FIXINGS

Earlier, one of the authors proposed and developed (together with coworkers) an original method to study the stability of stationary rotation of rotary systems containing a viscous liquid and having a drive that maintains the angular velocity of rotation constant. It was assumed that the rotor has axial symmetry, the anchors of its axis are isotropic. The method is based on two theorems, according to which a change in the degree of instability is associated with the possibility of a perturbed motion of the circular precession type. This motion has a remarkable property: the velocity field and the shape of the liquid surface do not depend on time in a specially selected non-inertial reference frame associated with the line of centers. Finding the conditions for the feasibility of circular precession makes it possible to effectively construct the boundaries of the stability regions of the stationary rotation regime in the space of problem parameters. In addition, the study of the occurrence of circular precession allows us to find the conditions under which a subcritical (supercritical) Andronov-Hopf bifurcation takes place in the rotor system and to identify "dangerous" (“safe”) sections of the boundaries of the stability regions. In this paper, the previously proposed method of stability research applies to systems in which the rotor axis is located in anisotropic Laval type anchors. In the study of rotary systems of this type, it is possible to link the change in the degree of instability with the feasibility of perturbed movements of the elliptical precession type. It can be shown that the imaginary characteristic numbers of the equations in deviations from the stationary rotation mode are possible only in the case when there is a perturbed motion in the form of an elliptical precession. An example of a study of the stability of stationary rotation of a typical rotary system is given. Mechanical effects caused by the fact that gyroscopic stabilization becomes impossible with anisotropic fixing of the rotor axis are noted.

Study of multiple-site structural damage detection application using vibration response

The identification effects of different modal parameters (displacement mode, rotation mode, and curvature mode) of the beam structure on structural damage during crack initiation are studied in this paper. Firstly, the displacement mode, the rotation mode and the curvature mode of the two-span simply supported beam are calculated using the vibration response. Secondly, combining the multi-resolution and singularity analysis characteristics of continuous wavelet transform, the wavelet transform coefficients of three modal parameters are calculated to identify the singularity of structural modal parameters. Thirdly, the recognition effects of each method on structural damage are compared by adding different degrees of random noise to the simulation data. The results show that the damage identification methods based on three different modal parameters can locate small-scale structural damage, but the anti-noise performance of each method is different, the anti-noise performance of the rotation mode is the best, the displacement mode is second and the curvature mode is poor. Finally, the experimental data is used to verify the recognition effect of each damage identification method based on different modal parameters on the actual structural damage. The experimental results show that the damage recognition effect of the rotation mode parameters is better, while the displacement mode and the curvature mode parameters are similar, but the curvature mode method is more likely to be interfered at the smaller damage. These analysis results provide a reference for the selection of different damage identification parameters according to the environment and response characteristics in engineering practice.

An Efficient Hardware Architecture with Adjustable Precision and Extensible Range to Implement Sigmoid and Tanh Functions

The efficient and precise hardware implementations of tanh and sigmoid functions play an important role in various neural network algorithms. Different applications have different requirements for accuracy. However, it is difficult for traditional methods to achieve adjustable precision. Therefore, we propose an efficient-hardware, adjustable-precision and high-speed architecture to implement them for the first time. Firstly, we present two methods to implement sigmoid and tanh functions. One is based on the rotation mode of hyperbolic CORDIC and the vector mode of linear CORDIC (called RHC-VLC), another is based on the carry-save method and the vector mode of linear CORDIC (called CSM-VLC). We validate the two methods by MATLAB and RTL implementations. Synthesized under the TSMC 40 nm CMOS technology, we find that a special case AR∣VR(3,0), based on RHC-VLC method, has the area of 4290.98 μm2 and the power of 1.69 mW at the frequency of 1.5 GHz. However, under the same frequency, AR∣VC(3) (a special case based on CSM-VLC method) costs 3196.36 μm2 area and 1.38 mW power. They are both superior to existing methods for implementing such an architecture with adjustable precision.

A compact rotary motor actuated by shape memory alloy mini springs

Shape memory alloys have recently gained attention for applications in motor driving components. The most expressive advantage of shape memory alloy components in that type of application is the high torque to motor weight ratio. Considering the importance of these studies, this article presents the design, manufacture, and theoretical and experimental analyses of a rotary motor driven by Ni–Ti shape memory alloy mini springs. The adopted motion mechanism allows the motor to run in continuous and bidirectional rotation mode, where speed and torque are determined by a drive sequence. A simplified analytical model was implemented, considering the thermomechanical characteristics of the shape memory alloy springs. Experimental tests with and without electrical drives were performed using properly designed electronic measurement instrumentation. The principal scientific contribution of this work is the demonstration of the motor’s functionality and torque generation. An energy density index of 1.41 × 10−3 Nmm/mm3 was attained, which is higher to those of other similarly constructed motors in the literature.

Automatic analysis of image quality by ETR-1 for the On-Board Imager

The test-plate image of an image quality test tool is processed. The processing is based on quality assurance with the well-established test device ETR-1. A program is developed to analyze the parameters such as contrast, low contrast and resolution automatically. This results in more accurate patient positioning for the On-Board Imager (OBI) system. The contrast and resolution are measured by means of Bresenham’s line algorithm. The low contrast is calculated with the help of binary masking. The modulation transfer function (MTF) is also observed for the system. The developed program imports the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image and returns the image parameters. The program can process the ideal image or the less noisy image. The no-rotation-mode or the slight-rotation-mode of the test-plate can be analyzed.