In this study, high-carbon, chromium alloy steel (100Cr6) having the initial spheroidized microstructure was welded using the rotary friction welding method. The effects of process parameters such as friction time and friction force were experimentally investigated. The friction welded joints were produced of two 100Cr6 steel rods. In order to examine the microstructure and mechanical properti...

Friction and wear, often treated as unrelated, distinct phenomena, are manifestations of the same dissipative physical processes occurring at sliding interfaces. Friction force dissipates power and generates entropy. Wear irreversibly changes a material structure, often with loss of material. Associated with both friction and wear is production of irreversible entropy by interfacial dissipative...

Background: Mobile diabetes apps enable health care professionals (HCPs) to monitor patient progress, offer remote consultations, and allow more effective and informed treatment decisions between patients and HCPs. The OneTouch Reveal app aggregates data from a blood glucose meter and provides analytics to help patients and HCPs visualize glycemic trends and patterns, enabling more informed tre...

When a human rubs a contactor that is vibrating laterally at 3–10 Hz with an amplitude of ~1 mm, the friction is perceived as being greater than that sensed when touching a stationary contactor. This phenomenon could be exploited for a new vibrotactile approach to friction perception; however, the principles behind it have yet to be explained. In this study, we hypothesized that the perceived f...

Approximately 18 million people suffer from diabetes mellitus, also known as diabetes, only in the United States which is 5% of the total population. It is the seventh leading cause of death. By 2020, the cost associated with diabetic treatment is expected to rise as high as $192 billion (Freer, March 2011). There is no cure for diabetic till date. Measuring glucose level in a diabetic patient ...

In this paper we present results from the METER (MEasuring TExt Reuse) project whose aim is to explore issues pertaining to text reuse and derivation, especially in the context of newspapers using newswire sources. Although the reuse of text by journalists has been studied in linguistics, we are not aware of any investigation using existing computational methods for this particular task. We inv...

This paper introduces a novel way to detect metrical structure in music. We introduce a way to compute autocorrelation such that the distribution of energy in phase space is preserved in a matrix. The resulting autocorrelation phase matrix is useful for several tasks involving metrical structure. First we can use the matrix to enhance standard autocorrelation by calculating the Shannon entropy ...

A microcontroller based capacitance meter using 89C52 microcontroller for the measurement of capacitance has been design and developed. It is based on the principle of charging and discharging of the capacitor. Atmel’s AT89C52 microcontroller is used in the present study. Further, an LCD module is interfaced with the microcontroller in 4-bit mode, which reduces the hardware complexity. Software...

In this paper, by applying analytical method and using experimental method data, the effect of sliding velocity on friction coefficient for contact of copper with copper is investigated. Some equations for obtaining friction coefficient as a function of sliding velocity for contact of copper with copper by applying second analytical method and using experimental method data are achieved. The re...

Friction exists in all machines having relative motion, and plays an important role in many servo mechanisms and simple pneumatic or hydraulic systems. In order to achieve high precision motion control, accurate friction modeling and effective compensation techniques have to be investigated. In this chapter, we shall present a systematic treatment of adaptive friction compensation techniques fr...