Recently the new induction concepts for through heating of aluminium billets before extrusion have been proposed and some installations are under successful operating in industry. The paper is devoted to consider these concepts, their advantages and perspective. The aspect of numerical modeling as a necessary tool to design the induction heating installation is described in the paper and result...

This paper describes the Robotic Taishogoto, a new robotic musical instrument for performance, musical installations, and educational purposes. The primary goals of its creation are to provide an easy to use, cost effective, compact and integrated acoustic instrument which is fully automated and controllable via standard MIDI commands. This paper describes the technical details of its design an...

This paper is concerned with the coordination of inventory control in divergent multiechelon inventory systems under periodic review and decentralized control. All the installations track echelon inventories. Under decentralized control the installations will decide upon replenishment policies that minimize their individual inventory costs. In general these policies do not coincide with the opt...

bainitic transformation at low transformation temperatures leads to a microstructure involving fine plates of bainitic ferrite and thin films of retained austenite. this microstructure has shown ultimate tensile strength of about 2.2 gpa, noticeable uniform elongation in the range of 5 to 30%, hardness values of about 600 to 670 hv and impact toughness in the range of 30 to 40 mpa m1/2. with ca...

In this research program, we explore the relationship between television use, architectural space, and community identity. In particular, we discuss the conceptual design of a system that brings together the physically distributed academic community (students, academic and administrative staff) of the University of the Aegean. We propose the employment of networked interactive video installatio...

This paper describes the design and implementation of interactive sound installations using open source software. Aimed at encouraging an audience of non-musicians to explore electronic sounds, the features identified as the key elements in their design were robustness and responsiveness: an interface that is reliable, intuitive and easy to learn, and yields rich and interesting sounds. The mai...