This paper describes the feasibility analysis of an innovative, extensible blade technology. The blade aims to significantly improve the energy production of a wind turbine, particularly at locations with unfavorable wind conditions. The innovative ‘smart’ blade will be extended at low wind speed to harvest more wind energy; on the other hand, it will be retracted to its original shape when the...

The introduction of blade servers for diverse applications is expanding rapidly. The switch blade—a key network component of the blade server—must provide high performance to accommodate growing data-communication demands generated by network consolidation as in Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), have a compact, low-power-consumption design, and have switch control software optimized for blade...

Dans un article récent [1], Abderezak Ould Houcine montre qu’un groupe superstable résiduellement C pour une pseudo-variété C admet une série normale définissable G = G0⊲G1⊲· · ·⊲Gn telle que Gi/Gi+1 ∈ C pour i < n, et Gn est résoluble ; si G est ω-stable, on peut choisir Gn nilpotent. Nous étendons son résultat aux groupes supersimples, et montrons en même temps qu’on peut toujours prendre Gn ...

Since 1986, more than 500 million powder forged (PF) connecting rods have been manufactured and installed in automobiles worldwide. The application of forging a preformed near-net shape consolidated from metal powder has been widely accepted since the early eighties and today is the preferred manufacturing technique for 60% of the connecting rods manufactured in North America. The remaining por...

In this paper, the sensitivity of the structural integrity of wind turbine blades to debonding of the shear web from the spar cap was investigated. In this regard, modal analysis, static and fatigue testing were performed on a 45.7 m blade for three states of the blade: (i) as received blade (ii) when a crack of 200 mm was introduced between the web and the spar cap and (iii) when the crack was...