A critical phase of oil well completion involves positioning cement between the outer surface of a metal casing and the sides of the well. This task is done by injecting a specially formulated cement slurry down the center of the casing and up the sides of the bore hole. Designing these slurry systems is time consuming and expensive because of the variability of the conditions between wells and...

Shroud cavities in aero engines are typically formed by a labyrinth seal between the rotating turbine shroud and stationary casing wall. To mitigate rub-in reduce weight, often features honeycomb structures above rotor fins. In this paper, aerodynamic performance of such is experimentally investigated using test rig featuring both smooth honeycomb-tapered walls. Measurements show that discharge...

The abradable coatings had significantly enhanced turbomachinery performance by acting as a sacrificial seal between rotating blades and stationary casing. Further improvement in design to meet the higher energy demand increase service time has been key challenge solve gas turbine industry. Honeycomb seals have become industry standard clearance technique due their unique high structural streng...

Production and quality parameters of three commercial strains of cultivated mushroom Agaricus bisporus (Lange, Imbach) were evaluated. A correlation matrix was made between the main parameters. Blancochamp BL-40, a smooth white hybrid, generally produced the greatest number of mushrooms and provided the highest yield, and its firm mushrooms showed high protein, dry matter, and soluble solid con...

Abstract This paper investigates cracking failure of the casing tube. There were longitudinal cracks in heavy oil thermal recovery well occurred an field. The fracture cause was analyzed by macrographic observation, chemical composition analysis, mechanical property test, metallographic scanning electron microscope (SEM) and residual stress calculation. results showed that crack failed originat...

1Division of Plastic Surgery, Ottawa Hospital-Civic Campus, 2University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine Correspondence and reprints: Dr Michael Bell, The Ottawa Hospital, 402 – 1919 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 1A2. Telephone 613-739-5424, fax 613-739-7168, e-mail [email protected] Skin contact of breast prostheses is considered by many to be a significant cause of ongoing subclinical i...

This paper investigates the bending vibration of rotating single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) based on nonlocal theory. To this end, the rotating SWCNTs system modeled as a beam with a circular cross section and the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory (EBT) is applied with added effects such as rotary inertia, gyroscopic effect and rotor mass unbalance. Using nonlocal theory, two coupled sixth orde...

torque, speed, and power as mechanical variables are associated with the functional performance of any rotating machinery. the real-time performance and the efficiency of a machine can be determined with on-line measurement of these parameters. in this investigation a rotary torque meter (transducer) was constructed from strain gauge sensors for measuring the torque of rotating shafts. the syst...

The casing of large electrical generators can be deformed slightly by the rotor's magnetic field. The sound emission produced by these periodic deformations, which could possibly exceed guaranteed noise emission limits, is analyzed analytically and numerically. From the deformation of the casing, the normal velocity of the generator's surface is computed. Taking into account the corresponding s...