A NUMERICAL SIMULATION INVESTIGATION OF THE HYDRODYNAMIC MOTIONS OF A SHIP ADVANCING IN WAVES

This study establishes a relationship diagram of the ship-wave interaction under a ship advancing in waves. A finite difference method based on volume of fluid (VOF) principles was used to simulate the hydrodynamic motions of a ship advancing in waves. A ship model was constructed using a computer aided design (CAD) tool. The computational fluid dynamic (CFD) technique was used to calculate the hydrodynamic motions effect of a ship sailing in waves at varying angles of incidence. This study investigates a number of significant related parameters, such as the speed of the ship model, the various wave incidence angles, the wave height, and the navigation time. A chart is also used to show the flow field, and changes in the six degrees of freedom motion and continually compare changes in the drag force.

IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF FINISHING MILLING OF CONCAVE SURFACES ON SMALL-SIZED CNC MACHINES

Pазвитие систем ЧПУ современного полногабаритного металлорежущего оборудования дало возможность корректировать режимы резания, например, величину рабочей подачи непосредственно в процессе обработки. Однако на производстве имеется значительная часть деталей, которые по своим габаритам экономически невыгодно обрабатывать на дорогостоящих крупных станках, имеющих мощную систему ЧПУ. Поэтому на предприятиях все большее применение получают относительно недорогие малогабаритные металлорежущие станки. Технологические возможности такого оборудования позволяют обрабатывать не только цветные металлы и сплавы, но и стали. Особенностью управления таким оборудованием является использование упрощенных систем ЧПУ, установленных на персональных компьютерах, которые не имеют возможности выполнять арифметические операции, и это становится препятствием для повышения производительности обработки сложных поверхностей. В то же время из-за своей простоты и низкой стоимости эти системы становятся все более востребованными. Предлагается повысить производительность обработки поверхностей сложной пространственной формы на основе расчета движения инструмента САПР системой путем преобразования реальной траектории в набор симметричных отрезков с известными координатами. Этот метод позволяет при заданной точности обработки установить значения параметров режима резания, близкие к оптимальным, исключить аварийные ситуации, связанные с выходом из строя инструмента при работе с переменной глубиной резания, сформированной после черновой обработки, и повысить производительность на 15-20% The development of CNC systems of modern full-sized metal-cutting equipment made it possible to adjust cutting modes, for example, the value of the working feed, directly during processing. However, there is a significant number of the parts in production that, according to their dimensions, are economically unprofitable to process on expensive large machines with a powerful CNC system. Therefore, relatively inexpensive small-sized metal-cutting machines are becoming increasingly used in enterprises. The technological capabilities of such equipment allow processing not only non-ferrous metals and alloys but also steels. A feature of the control of such equipment is the use of simplified CNC systems installed on personal computers that are not able to perform arithmetic operations and this becomes an obstacle to improving the productivity of processing complex surfaces. At the same time, due to their simplicity and low cost, these systems are becoming more and more popular. In the article, we proposed to increase the productivity of processing surfaces of complex spatial shape on such machines based on the calculation of the CAD tool movement by the system by converting the real trajectory into a set of symmetrical segments with known coordinates. This method allows you, with a given processing accuracy, to set the values of the cutting mode parameters close to the optimal ones, to eliminate emergencies associated with tool failure when working with a variable cutting depth formed after roughing and to increase productivity by 15-20%

Developing and Using Computational Frameworks to Conduct Numerical Analysis and Calculate Temperature Profiles and to Classify Breast Abnormalities

In this chapter, computational tools that have been designed to analyze and classify infrared (IR) images will be presented. The function of such tools is to interconnect in a user-friendly way the algorithms that are used to map temperatures and to classify some breast pathologies. One of these performs texture mapping using IR breast images to relate temperatures measured to the points over the substitute tridimensional geometry mesh. Another computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) tool was adapted so that it could be used to evaluate individual patients. This methodology will be used when the computational framework approach for classification is described. Finally, graphical interfaces and their functionalities will be presented and explained. Some case studies will be presented in order to verify whether or not the computational classification framework is effective.

Design and Implementation of 64-bit Barrel Shifter with Reconfigurable SoC

In majority of embedded system-based applications, RISC Processors are popular. In these processors, barrel shifters are used for performing arithmetic and logical operations like multiplication, division, shift and rotation operations. The reason behind this will be a great advantage of speed. Because, a barrel shifter can perform shift and rotate operations within a single clock cycle where as in a normal shifter ‘n’ number of clock cycles are required for n-shift or rotate operations. As per the today’s need, in the design and development of 64-bit processors, 64-bit barrel shifters IPs are desired. Therefore, the RTL design of 64-bit barrel shifter, implementation and its verification process with an Artix 7 FPGA and front-end CAD tool is demonstrated in this paper. The main feature of the proposed work is power efficient design. It is implemented with 28nm technology and verified with 100MHz on board clock

Optimizing Router Placement of Indoor Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Buildings for IoT Applications

Internet of Things (IoT) is characterized by a system of interconnected devices capable of communicating with each other to carry out specific useful tasks. The connection between these devices is ensured by routers distributed in a network. Optimizing the placement of these routers in a distributed wireless sensor network (WSN) in a smart building is a tedious task. Computer-Aided Design (CAD) programs and software can simplify this task since they provide a robust and efficient tool. At the same time, experienced engineers from different backgrounds must play a prominent role in the abovementioned task. Therefore, specialized companies rely on both; a useful CAD tool along with the experience and the flair of a sound expert/engineer to optimally place routers in a WSN. This paper aims to develop a new approach based on the interaction between an efficient CAD tool and an experienced engineer for the optimal placement of routers in smart buildings for IoT applications. The approach follows a step-by-step procedure to weave an optimal network infrastructure, having both automatic and designer-intervention modes. Several case studies have been investigated, and the obtained results show that the developed approach produces a synthesized network with full coverage and a reduced number of routers.

ViTA: A flexible CAD-tool-independent automatic grading platform for two-dimensional CAD drawings

Grading engineering drawings takes a significant amount of an instructor’s time, especially in large classrooms. In many cases, teaching assistants help with grading, adding levels of inconsistency and unfairness. To help in grading automation of CAD drawings, this paper introduces a novel tool that can completely automate the grading process after students submit their work. The introduced tool, called Virtual Teaching Assistant (ViTA), is a CAD-tool-independent platform that can work with exported drawings originating from different CAD software having different export settings. Using computer vision techniques applied to exported images of the drawings, ViTA can not only recognize whether or not a two-dimensional (2 D) drawing is correct, but also offers the detection of many important orthographic and sectional view mistakes such as mistakes in structural features, outline, hatching, orientation, scale, line thickness, colors, and views. We show ViTA’s accuracy and its relevance in the automated grading of 2 D CAD drawings by evaluating it using 500 student drawings created with three different CAD software.