Dielectric elastomers undergo large deformations in response to an electric field and consequently have attracted significant interest as electromechanical transducers. Applications of these materials include actuators capable of converting an applied electric field into mechanical motion and energy harvesting devices that convert mechanical energy into electrical energy. Numerically based desi...

Metamaterials are artificial multifunctional materials that acquire their material properties from their structure, rather than inheriting them directly from the materials they are composed of, and they may provide novel tools to significantly enhance the sensitivity and resolution of sensors. In this paper, we derive the dispersion relation of a cylindrical dielectric waveguide loaded on a neg...

This paper presents a preliminary design and analysis of an optimal energy management and control system for a parallel hybrid electric vehicle using hybrid dynamic control system theory and design tools. The vehicle longitudinal dynamics is analyzed. The practical operation modes of the hybrid electric vehicle are introduced with regard to the given power train configuration. In order to synth...

The paper proposes a generic methodology to incorporate constraints (pollutant emission, battery health, drivability) into on-line energy management strategies (EMSs) for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The integration of each constraint into the EMS, made with the Pontryagin maximum principle, shows a tradeoff between the fuel consumption and the c...

LINK TO PAPER Integrating CAD Into an Enterprise GIS Track: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Author(s): Steve Murphy The PUD in Truckee, California maintains Electric and Water facilities. Although Electric facilities are designed in-house, more than 85 percent of new Water facilities are designed by Engineering firms using CAD software. Historically, as-built information was often delivered w...

Photovoltaic Power Plants (PVPP) are classified as a power energy sources with non-stabile supply of electric energy. It is necessary to back up power energy from PVPP for stabile electric network operation. We can set an optimal value of back up power energy with using variety of prediction models and methods for PVPP Power output prediction. Fuzzy classifiers and fuzzy rules can be informally...

During the last decades it has been shown that non-contact AFM can be used as an efficient lithographic technique capable of manufacturing nanometer sized devices on the surface of a silicon wafer. The AFM nanooxidation approach is based on generating a potential difference between a cantilever needle tip and a silicon wafer. A water meniscus builds up between the tip and the wafer, resulting i...

System integration is one of the key challenges to bringing future hybrid-electric and all-electric aircraft into market. In addition, retrofitting redesigning existing are potential paths toward achieving hybrid flight, which even more challenging goals from a system perspective. Therefore, tools that bridge gap between subsystem level need be developed for use in conceptual design stage addre...

This paper describes the Power System Blockset (PSB) from The MathWorks, Natick, MA, which is a new software package for the simulation of electric circuits, power systems, power electronic devices, and electric drives. The PSB is developed in the graphical Simulink environment of the general-purpose Matlab software. This blockset inherits a number of advantages from its development environment...

A form of optical circuitry is overviewed in which a tapestry of subwavelength nanometer-scale metamaterial structures and nanoparticles may provide a mechanism for tailoring, patterning, and manipulating local optical electric fields and electric displacement vectors in a subwavelength domain, leading to the possibility of optical information processing at the nanometer scale. By exploiting th...