Salt crystallization is one of the most powerful weathering agents that may cause a rapid change in the mechanical properties of stones, and thus limit their durability. Consequently, determining the mechanical properties of stones due to salt crystallization is important for natural building stones used in marine environmental and mild climatic conditions, which expose excessive salt crys...

In large-scale air conditioning water systems, variable flow (VWF) control strategies are frequently utilized to conserve energy. This paper presents a differential pressure (DP) set-point strategy for VWF systems based on the pipeline characteristic curve. bifurcates most unfavorable loop into two segments: equivalent main pipe (EMP) and terminal branch (MUTBP). Initially, impedance of EMP is ...

We develop tools for studying the control of underactuated mechanical systems that evolve on a configuration space with a principal fiber bundle structure. Taking the viewpoint of affine connection control systems, we derive reduced formulations of the Levi-Civita and the nonholonomic affine connections, along with the symmetric product, in the presence of symmetries and nonholonomic constraint...

Mechanical properties are the attributes that measure the faculty of a metal to withstand several loads and tensions. Specifically, ultimate tensile strength is the force a material can resist until it breaks and, thus, it is one of the variables to control in the foundry process. The only way to examine this feature is the use of destructive inspections that renders the casting invalid with th...

We consider a structural acoustic problem with the flexible wall modeled by a thermoelastic plate, subject to Dirichlet boundary control in the thermal component. We establish sharp regularity results for the traces of the thermal variable on the boundary, in the case the system is supplemented with clamped mechanical boundary conditions. These regularity estimates are most crucial for validity...

This paper puts forward a design project of sampler for solving the difficult problem of radioactive source sampled by manual work because of radioactive source’s radioactivity. The project includes mechanical body’s design, controller’s design, and controller’s realization. According to mechanical body’s motion characteristics, advances an iterative learning algorithm of exponent variable-gain...