The standing skyline continues to be a common cable logging configuration. In payload analysis it is usually assumed that the tagline (line connecting logs carriage) length held constant while yarding turn up corridor. We show this assumption severely limits load-carrying capacity for skylines operating with partial suspension. suggest smart carriage technology could markedly increase log load ...

This paper shows a 99 [g] finger joint that can exert a very strong fingertip force of more than 100 [N]. We have proposed a simple and small load-sensitive continuously variable transmission (CVT), which consists of five links and a torsion-coiled spring. The maximum fingertip force of our previous finger was limited by the mechanical strength of its links and bearings, not by the power of its...

The rapid growth of Internet brings the need for a low cost high performance file system. Two objectives are to be pursued in building such a large scale storage system on multiple disks: load balancing and storage minimization. We investigate the optimization problem of placing variable-size data items onto multiple disks with replication to achieve the two objectives. An approximate algorithm...

Continuous media storage systems must provide guaranteed services and require large amount of resource consumption in terms of storage capacity and transmission band-width. In this chapter, we focus on a placement scheme for continuous media storage systems in a multimedia database management system to provide the load balance of disks uniformly. In particular, we consider complete control over...

The effects of applied load, sliding speed and sliding distance on the dry sliding wear behavior of aged Al-SiCp-Gr composites were investigated. The specimen were fabricated by stir-casting technique. The pin-on-disc wear testing machine was used to investigate the wear rate by design of experiments based on L27 using Taguchi technique. Sliding distance was the most important variable that inf...

This paper describes the PID control of a batch polymerization reactor concluding after comparison of two different mode of control. The main objective of any control system is to attain target value within minimum time. To achieve this goal we compared split range control with controller using heat load as manipulative variable. Both provide good control but after study of performance index we...