The mass reduction of satellite solar arrays results in significant panel flexibility. When such structures are launched in a packed configuration there is a possible striking one with another dynamically, leading ultimately to structural damage during the launch stage. To prevent this, rubber snubbers are mounted at well chosen points of the structure and they act as a one sided linear spring....

During spring, summer and winter seasons, Sistani donor cows, with normal reproductive status, were superovulated and embryos were recovered non-surgically on day 7. Grade A blastocyst embryos were either transferred fresh (spring) or frozen (summer and winter). Recovered embryos during summer and winter were exposed to glycerol and frozen using conventional method. During spring season, recipi...

knowledge of traits associated with drought tolerance would be useful for developing breeding materials fortarget environments. to study these traits, 119 spring durum wheat breeding lines (bls) from the international maize and wheat improvement center (cimmyt) were evaluated along with local checks (one modern cultivar and three landraces) in three experiments under terminal and non-terminal d...

Series Elastic Actuators have linear springs intentionally placed in series between the motor and actuator output. The spring strain is measured to get an accurate estimate of force. Despite using a transmission to achieve high force/mass and high power/mass, the spring allows for good force control, high force fidelity, minimum impedance, and large dynamic range. A second order linear actuator...

in this paper, nonlinear dynamic behaviours of carbon nanotube conveying fluidwith slip boundary conditions is studied using variation iteration method. the developed solutions are used to investigate the effects of various parameters on the nonlinear vibration of the nanotube. from the result, it is observed that increase in the slip parameter leads to decrease in the frequency of vibration an...

abstract: this paper represents a novel use of artificial neural networks in medical science. the proposed technique involves training a multi layer perceptron (mlp) (a kind of artificial neural network) with a bp learning algorithm to recognize a pattern for the diagnosing and prediction of five blood disorders, through the results of blood tests from h1 machine. the blood test parameters and ...

in this paper, an optimal control of quadratic performance index with nonlinear constrained is presented. the sine-cosine wavelet operational matrix of integration and product matrix are introduced and applied to reduce nonlinear differential equations to the nonlinear algebraic equations. then, the newton-raphson method is used for solving these sets of algebraic equations. to present ability ...

in this paper, an optimization problem with a linear objective function subject to a consistent finite system of fuzzy relation inequalities using the max-product composition is studied. since its feasible domain is non-convex, traditional linear programming methods cannot be applied to solve it. we study this problem and capture some special characteristics of its feasible domain and optimal s...

in spark ignition (si) engines, the accurate control of air fuel ratio (afr) in the stoichiometric value is required to reduce emission and fuel consumption. the wide operating range, the inherent nonlinearities and the modeling uncertainties of the engine system are the main difficulties arising in the design of afr controller. in this paper, an optimization-based nonlinear control law is anal...