Asperity Failure Control of Stick–Slip Along Brittle Faults

Optimal nonlinear control of flight faults in manned aircrafts in the presence of fault and failure of control actuato

Control actuators' faults are among the major reasons to lose aircraft control while flights. The plane dynamics is severely dependent upon faults and errors in flight control systems and if the reformed control order is not issued by the fault tolerant controller there would be unpleasant outcomes such as inconsistency and the reduction of system performance and some dreadful aerial accide...

Multiscale failure modelling of quasi - brittle materials

Modeling of Brittle Failure and Comparisons

A numerical multiple crack interaction model was developed to simulate the failure process in brittle solids containing significant populations of flaws. The model, which is 2D, allows for the growth of microcracks on a regular array of potential crack sites. Individual cracks may be oriented vertically, horizontally or at 450 to the sample axes. Quasi-static equilibrium equations are expressed...

Brittle Failure Mechanism in Thermoelectric Skutterudite CoSb3

Skutterudites based on CoSb3 have high thermoelectric efficiency, but the low fracture strength is a serious consideration for commercial applications. To understand the origin of the brittleness in CoSb3, we examine the response along various shear and tensile deformations using density functional theory. We find that the Co−Sb bond dominates the ideal strength. Among all the shear and tensile...

Control Reconfiguration of a Boiler-Turbine Unit After Actuator Faults

Boiler-turbines are one of the most important parts in power generation plants. The safety problem in such systems has always been a special concern. This paper discusses the application of control reconfig uration by fault-hiding approach for a boiler-turbine unit. In Fault-hiding approach, after occurrence of a fault, nominal controller of the system remains unchanged; instead, a reconfigurat...