Automatic hydraulic press is one of the key Ceramic machinery and equipments for pressing ceramic wall and floor tiles, and its frame withstands all of the work force when it works, so the work performances of the frame have an important impact on the structural performance of the entire automatic hydraulic press. Took the frame of 32.8MN automatic hydraulic press as research object, establishe...

This study presents an approach for obtaining limited sets of realizations of hydraulic conductivity (K) of multiple aquifers using simulated annealing (SA) simulation and spatial correlations among aquifers to simulate realizations of hydraulic heads and quantify their uncertainty in the Pingtung Plain, Taiwan. The proposed approach used the SA algorithm to generate large sets of natural logar...

The work presented in this paper is based on a novel integrated and compact hydraulic robotic actuator [1] (BIA patentUS20110085922), intended for the hydraulic humanoid robot HYDROïD. This actuator solves the problem of autonomy for hydraulic humanoid robots as it can be integrated to operate each joint separately. Thus, eliminating the need for a central hydraulic power pack. Also, due to its...

geotextiles are one of the most widely used synthetic materials in filtration and drainage applications. since in real applications, geotextiles are subjected to various hydraulic gradients and confining stresses, hydraulic behavior of geotextiles under different circumstances is of great practical importance. in this study filtration and drainage properties of several nonwoven needle-punched g...

Despite decades of research on plant drought tolerance, the physiological mechanisms by which trees succumb to drought are still under debate. We report results from an experiment designed to separate and test the current leading hypotheses of tree mortality. We show that piñon pine (Pinus edulis) trees can die of both hydraulic failure and carbon starvation, and that during drought, the loss o...

Planning for use of a dune field aquifer for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) requires that hydraulic properties need to be estimated over a large geographic area. Saturated hydraulic conductivity of dune sands is commonly estimated from grain size distribution data by employing some type of empirical equation. Over 50 samples from the Wadi Khulays dune field in Western Saudi Arabia were collecte...

Energetic autonomy of a hydraulic-based mobile robot requires a power source capable of both hydraulic and electrical power generation. The hydraulic power is used for locomotion, and the electric power is used for the control computer, sensors and other peripherals. In addition, the power source must be lightweight and quiet. This study presents several designs of internal combustion engine-ba...

This paper studies the high performance robust motion control of electro-hydraulic servo-systems driven by double-rod hydraulic actuators. The dynamics of hydraulic systems are highly non-linear and the system may be subjected to nonsmooth and discontinuous non-linearities due to directional change of valve opening, friction and valve overlap. Aside from the non-linear nature of hydraulic dynam...

This research adopts the quasi three-dimensional hydraulic design method for the impeller of high specific speed mixed-flow pump to achieve the purpose of verifying the hydraulic design method and improving hydraulic performance. Based on the two families of stream surface theory, the direct problem is completed when the meridional flow field of impeller is obtained by employing iterative calcu...

In this paper we investigate the combined effect of nonstationarity in log hydraulic conductivity and the presence of boundaries on flow in heterogeneous aquifers. We derive general equations governing the statistical moments of hydraulic head for steady state flow by perturbation expansions. Due to their mathematical complexity, we solve the moment equations by the numerical technique of finit...