Cylindrical Frictional Damper (CFD) is a new revolutionary frictional based mechanical damper. Unlike the other types of frictional dampers, CFDs do not utilize bolts to produce friction between contact surfaces. These dampers consist of two main parts, the inner shaft and the external cylinder. These two parts are assembled such that one is shrink-fitted inside the other. In this investigation...

Recently, a large amount of studies have been related to nonlinear systems with multi-degrees of freedom as well as continuous systems. The purpose of this paper is to optimize passive vibration absorbers in linear and nonlinear states for an Euler-Bernoulli beam with a nonlinear vibratory behavior under concentrated moving load. The goal parameter in the optimization is maximum deflection of t...

In this report we will present a simple way to model and simulate random fatigue loads, which are oftenly both non-stationary and non-Gaussian. The method is based on approximating the non-Gaussian process by a transformation of a Gaussian process. The procedure can be used to simulate loads as well as calculating important cycle properties of the load such as the rainnow cycle and wavelength-a...

The typical loads in the commercial buildings comprise of many single phase and three phase loads which includes non-linear loads. These loads are highly sensitive for any input variations in voltage. The performance of the electrical equipment gets worsened if they are supplied with polluted or distorted voltage. This paper presents modeling and analysis of custom power devices. SAPF based UPQ...

Utilizing capacitor banks is very conventional in distribution network in order for local compensation of reactive power. This will be more important considering uncertainties including wind generation and loads uncertainty. Harmonics and non-linear loads are other challenges in power system which complicates the capacitor placement problem. Thus, uncertainty and network harmonics have been con...

motion analysis and quality assessment of human sperm cell is of great importance for clinical applications of male infertility. sperm tracking is quite complex due to cell collision, occlusion and missed detection. the goal of this study is simultaneous tracking of multiple human sperm cells. in the first step in this research the frame difference algorithm is used for background subtraction. ...

this study compared the use of five different models to describe the growth from birth to 20 weeks of age of kids from both genders of nondescript goats. fifty nine (59) nondescript kids were weighed weekly at the university of maiduguri livestock teaching and research farm, nigeria and the live weights were modeled. biologically relevant variables were estimated for each kid from the logistic,...

in this paper, we consider non-linear ginsburg-pitaevski-gross equation with the rosen-morse and modifiedwoods-saxon potentials which is corresponding to the quantum vortices and has important applications in turbulence theory. we use the runge- kutta-fehlberg approximation method to solve the resulting non-linear equation.

This paper reports the performance of a speed sensorless stand-alone Variable Speed Constant Frequency (VSCF) Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) capable of supplying all types of loads. The proposed method maintains the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of the machine current and the load voltage within acceptable limits. In contrast to previously proposed methods, in this paper, the stator si...