The knowledge of the surface topography has a major importance in the field of Earth sciences. It is essential in any discipline concerned with process modeling like hydrology, climatology, geomorphology and ecology. The present study utilized Environmental Systems Research Institute’s (ESRI) ArcGIS 9.3 (with the spatial analyst extension) software, remote sensing data ( DEM and Digital Aerial ...

Iron and steel industry is the base of the country economy. It is the important support of the social developing, and is the important basic industry of the modern economic. This paper studies the rolling mechanical model of rolling process control, fluid stress model, rolling torque model and the temperature change models. And put forward an on-line modeling method of rolling mill based Least-...

In this paper, we present constructions of abelian Paley type group schemes by using multiplicative characters of finite fields and Arasu-Dillon-Player difference sets. The constructions produce many new Paley type group schemes that were previous unknown in our classification of Paley type group schemes in finite fields of small orders.

If G is an abelian group of order u, and D is a subset of G with k elements such that every nonidentity element can be expressed 2 times in the form a b, where a and b are elements of D, then D is called a (u, k, A) difference set in G. The order n of the difference set is k 1. In this paper we consider the parameter values v = 22di 2, k = 22d+ ’ 24 ,I= 22d 2d, and n=22d. The rank r of G is the...

Control of hot metal rolling process plays an important role in assuring high product quality and safe process operation. Although there have been many looper control technologies recently developed for finishing rolling processes, looperless interstand tension control of roughing and intermediate rolling mills remains a hard-to-solve problem. This paper proposes a current comparison based inte...

The purpose of the hot rolling mill is to make a preheated steel block thinner and longer, see Figure 1. This is done by pulling the plate through two parallel rolls mounted in the rolling mill. Due to the large forces obtained in hot rolling, the elastic de ection of the rolling mill is of the same order of magnitude as the plate thickness. Variations in the rolling force caused by variations ...

The Mexican jumping bean, Laspeyresia saltitans, consists of a hollow seed housing a moth larva. Heating by the sun induces movements by the larva which appear as rolls, jumps and flips by the bean. In this combined experimental, numerical and robotic study, we investigate this unique means of rolling locomotion. Time-lapse videography is used to record bean trajectories across a series of terr...

Original scientific paper High energetic water jets sprayed from nozzles are used for scale removal. Special nozzles with flat and very narrow jets for high feed pressure are used. This process, called descaling, is used in hot rolling, for example. A number of jets must be used to cover the total width of a rolled strip. High quality and homogeneity of the descaling process is required. A row ...

The center of mass (CoM) is a key descriptor in the understanding and the analysis of bipedal locomotion. Some approaches are based on the premise that humans minimize the CoM vertical displacement. Other approaches express walking dynamics through the inverted pendulum model. Such approaches are contradictory in that they lead to two conflicting patterns to express the CoM motion: straight lin...

Natural contacting surfaces have remarkable surface mechanical properties, which has led to the development of bioinspired surface structures using rubbery materials with strongly enhanced adhesion and static friction. However, sliding friction of structured rubbery surfaces is almost always significantly lower than that of a flat control, often due to significant loss of contact. Here we show ...