The problem of a rotating transported thread or yarn occurs in textile applications such as high-speed spinning and unwinding from a cylindrical package. In case of low tension the yarn is known to buckle and fly out under the action of centrifugal forces. The motion initially appears fixed when viewed from a rotating coordinate frame and is known as ballooning (see [1], which also contains ref...

In this paper, an active vibration control of a translating tensioned steel strip in the zinc galvanizing line is investigated. The dynamics of the moving strip is modeled as an Euler-Bernoulli beam with nonlinear tension. The control objective is to suppress the transverse vibrations of the strip via boundary control. A right boundary control law based upon the Lyapunov’s second method is deri...

Transverse vibration of two axially moving beams connected by a Winkler elastic foundation is analyzed analytically. The system is a model of paper and paper-cloth (wire-screen) used in paper making. The two beams are tensioned, translating axially with a common constant velocity, simply supported at their ends, and of different materials and geometry. Due to the effect of translation, the dyna...

We show experimentally that flapping foil kinematics consisting of a power downstroke and a feathering upstroke together with a properly timed in-line motion, similar to those employed in forelimb propulsion of sea turtles, can produce high thrust and be hydrodynamically as efficient as symmetrically flapping foils. The crucial parameter for such asymmetrically flapping foils is a properly size...

bearing capacity prediction of axially loaded piles is one of the most important problems in geotechnical engineering practices, with a wide variety range of methods which have been introduced to forecast it accurately. machine learning methods have been reported by many contemporary researches with some degree of success in modeling geotechnical phenomena. in this study, a fairly new machine l...

The plasma flow switch (PFS) utilizes the motion of a high density plasma discharge to accumulate and then release magnetic energy at multimegampere, rrul t imegajoul e 1 eve 1 s •1 Energy input to a coaxial plasma gun occurs in severa l microseconds as t he annular plasma discharge is accelerated axially along the center conductor . Energy is released to a load in a few hundred nanoseconds as ...

The scalar field in the focal volume of nontelecentric apodized focusing systems cannot be accurately described by the Debye integral representation. By use of the Fresnel-Kirchhoff diffraction formula it is found that, if the aperture stop is axially displaced, the focal-volume structure is tuned. We analyze the influence of the apodizing function and find that, whereas axially superresolving ...