This paper dis cusses the development of a nonlinear shock absorber model for low-frequency CAE-NVH applications of body-on-frame vehicles. In CAE simulations, the shock absorber is represented by a linear damper model and is found to be inadequate in capturing the dynamics of shock absorbers. In particular, this model neither captures nonlinear behavior of shock absorbers nor distinguishes bet...

We measure the mean halo-mass of z ≃ 0.5 Mg II absorbers using the cross-correlation (over co-moving scales 0.05–13h Mpc) between 1806 Mg II quasar absorption systems and ∼ 250,000 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs), both selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 3. The Mg II systems have λ2796 rest-frame equivalent widths W r & 0.3 Å. From the ratio of the Mg II–LRG cross-correlation t...

It is assumed that, for particles having rest mass, mass is equivalent to kinetic energy with coupling constant c 2. This paper examines the consequences for Newtonian gravity, in flat spacetime, when mass changes according to speed and gravity. It is assumed that gravitational mass is the same as inertial mass. The inertial mass increase with speed is: m = γm 0 = m 0 / 1 − β 2 (1) where m 0 is...

Fast surface integral equation (SIE) solvers seem to be ideal approaches for simulating 3-D nanophotonic devices, as these devices generate fields both in an interior channel and in the infinite exterior domain. However, many devices of interest, such as optical couplers, have channels that cannot be terminated without generating reflections. Generating absorbers for these channels is a new pro...

Adsten, M. 2002. Solar thermal collectors at high latitudes -Design and performance of nontracking concentrators. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 697. 78 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-5545274-4 Solar thermal collectors at high latitudes have been studied, with emphasis on concentrating collectors. A novel design ...

A stretchable electromagnetic absorber fabricated using screen printing technology is proposed in this paper. We used a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate to fabricate the stretchable absorber since PDMS exhibits good dielectric properties, flexibility, and restoring capabilities. DuPont PE872 (DuPont, Wilmington, CT, USA), a stretchable silver conductive ink, was used for the screen printin...

ASCA PV observations of the Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG63015 : rapid variability of the warm absorber. ABSTRACT We present a detailed re-analysis of the two ASCA Performance Veriication observations of the nearby Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG63015. Connrming the results of Fabian et al. (1994), we nd deenite evidence for the O vii and O viii K-shell absorption edges of the warm absorber and a doubling of the w...

Shock absorber is one of important component in a vehicle suspension system. The shock control spring motion by damping energy from the spring. This paper was focused on the dynamic characteristics of an automotive shock absorber. The design of interchangeable shock absorber test rig was developed and fabricated for the dynamics measurement system. This test rig integrated with the computer sys...

Electroacoustic absorbers consist of loudspeakers, shunted with an electrical circuit designed to obtain a given acoustic impedance. Their design and principles are now well understood. Unidimensional experiments, using plane waves under normal incidence in ducts, agree perfectly with simulations and confirm the validity of the model: the low-frequency absorption is maximal (and total) when the...