The growing demand for the application of jacket platforms in deep water requires more attention on assessment structural reliability. This paper is devoted to dynamic reliability analysis subjected random wave loads with Monte-Carlo simulation (MCS), which a sample size order magnitude 104 105 repeated time–history analyses required small failure probability problems, and duration time up thre...

In order to reduce the functional degradation caused by improper daily washing-care and prolong service life of technical jacket, relationship between washing conditions in wearing performance jacket (waterproof, windproof, warmth retention) was quantitatively investigated with help hydrostatic pressure, surface contact angle, air permeability, retention, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) afte...

We describe a novel soft jacket and sling-harness restraint that permits species-typical postures for small-bodied primates, such as the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus), during long-term (>6 h), continuous restraint. The restraint system is straightforward to use and manipulate, it is easily repaired, and the materials used are readily available. The soft jacket allows for increased versat...

The Vital Jacket® (VJ) is a wearable vital signs monitoring system that joins textiles with microelectronics. After several years of development within the university lab, it has been licensed to a start-up company. Its evolutions have focused on cardiology and sports and scaled down from a jacket to a single T-shirt. The VJ manufacturing process has recently been certified to comply with the s...

A stirred-tank reactor was built with the objective of rapid and accurate temperature control in the reaction vessel. A first-principles heat transfer model was developed for the jacketed batch system, with the jacket inlet temperature used to control the vessel temperature. A model predictive controller was implemented to follow a rapidly changing temperature profile that cycled between steep ...