The gas assisted injection moulding (GAIM) process has benefits realised through material saving, improved product performance and lower capital cost of machinery. This important process is similar to conventional injection moulding in so far as polymer melt enters a cavity under pressure. However, before the melt completely fills the cavity, nitrogen gas is introduced into the melt at high pre...

Gears are commonly used for transmitting power. They develop high stress concentration at the root and the point of contact. The repeated stressing on the fillets causes the fatigue failure of gear tooth. The main objective of this study is to add different shaped holes to reduce stress concentration. A finite element model of Spur gear with a segment of three teeth is considered for analysis a...

Two phase flow problem in a porous medium is governed by a system of nonlinear equations. One is an elliptic equation for the pressure and the other is a parabolic equation for the concentration of one of the fluids. Since the pressure appears in the concentration only through its velocity field, we choose a mixed finite element to approximate the pressure equation and use the standard Galerkin...

This paper discusses the use of functional data analysis to determine the interactions between the chemical composition and grain size. The proposed method is compared for a case study with others that involve the determination of the coefficient of correlation between the concentration of each chemical element in a bulk sample and representative points in the granulometric curve. The results o...

The present study aimed to identify the effect of heavy metal concentration and soil pH on the abundance of the selected soil microorganisms within ArcelorMittal Poland steelworks, Cracow. The analysis included 20 soil samples, where the concentration of Fe, Zn, Cd, Pb, Ni, Cu, Mn, Cr and soil pH were evaluated together with the number of mesophilic bacteria, fungi, Actinomycetes and Azotobacte...

The empirically observed linear relationship between relative x-ray intensity and relative concentration is the basis for a simplified approach to electron microprobe data reduction which is compatible with computer control of the x-ray spectrometers. Elementoxide matrix effects, predetermined using empirical and theoretical techniques, are concentration weighted in a polycomponent phase analys...

Numerical simulation of migration of chemical substances from HDPE into foods(simulants)is performed based on the finite element method(FEM). The results show that concentration of migrants in foods at equilibrium increases with the increase of its initial concentration in packaging. Diffusivity of migrants is key to migration dynamics. Partition coefficient represents ration of concentration i...