An evaluation of a pulsed-eurrent resistance meter ("Shigometer®", Model No. 7950) for facilitating detection of decay was performed on wood blocks of giant sequoia heartwood and of white fir sapwood. As decay progressed over a 12-week incubation period, a trend of lower meter readings was obtained, confirming reported field measurements of other workers. Variability in meter readings in situat...

With the development of the society, the demand of electric power becomes bigger and bigger. The phenomenon of unbalanced electricity in different time is worse and worse. In order to adjust electric power burthen with reason and save energy, we put forward the design of a novel multi-rate three-phase watt-hour meter. The design principle of a newfashioned multi-rate three-phase watt-hour meter...

Feeling the beat and meter is fundamental to the experience of music. However, how these periodicities are represented in the brain remains largely unknown. Here, we test whether this function emerges from the entrainment of neurons resonating to the beat and meter. We recorded the electroencephalogram while participants listened to a musical beat and imagined a binary or a ternary meter on thi...

This paper describes a new friction model, called the “brush model“, suitable for haptic rendering in virtual environments. A novel two-layer multiasperity surface contact model is presented that provides real-time rendering of friction forces at haptic refresh rates. This new friction model has several advantages; of particular importance is the accuracy with which it handles static friction a...

Friction is responsible for several servomechanism limitations, and their elimination is always a challenge for control engineers. In this paper, model-based feedback compensation is studied for servomechanism tracking tasks. Several kinetic friction models are employed and their parameters identified experimentally. The effects of friction compensation on system response are examined using des...

The new semi-experimental method for simulation of the turbine flow meters rotation in the transitional flow has been developed. The method is based on the experimentally established exponential low of changing of dimensionless relative turbine gas meter rotation frequency and meter inertia time constant. For experimental evaluation of the meter time constant special facility has been developed...

We examined the influence of incidental exposure to varied metrical patterns from different musical cultures on the perception of complex metrical structures from an unfamiliar musical culture. Adults who were familiar with Western music only (i.e., simple meters) and those who also had limited familiarity with non-Western music were tested on their perception of metrical organization in unfami...

This paper presents a method for the extraction of music meter and tempo from raw polyphonic audio recordings, assuming that music meter remains constant throughout the recoding. Although this assumption can be restrictive for certain musical genres, it is acceptable for a large corpus of folklore eastern music styles, including Greek traditional dance music. Our approach is based on the selfsi...

The work presents the issue of measuring and analyzing energy consumption during a thermal drilling cycle. A research stand based on CNC lathe was presented, equipment which an experimental system electricity meter force gauge. devices used allowed for recording load power grid, machine tool drives, axial force, drill braking torque, current rotation spindle, position in relation to workpiece v...

The optimal process parameters of ultrasonic-assisted processing were studied to further improve the molding quality and mechanical properties Ni60/WC-TiO2+La2O3 composite coating. A single-factor experiment was used explore influences ultrasonic vibration frequencies on microstructure, elemental composition, phase hardness, wear resistance coating using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), an X...