This work gives an overview of the theoretical and experimental achievements of mechatronics applied to fluid film bearings. Compressible and uncompressible fluids are addressed. Rigid and elastic (deformable) bearing profiles are investigated. Hydraulic, pneumatic, magnetic and piezoelectric actuators are used. The ideas of combining control techniques, informatics with hydrodynamic, thermo-hy...

The purpose of this paper is to present a new type of dynamic balancing system, having a driving solution of the rotating part based on magnetic interactions. The magnetic system also plays the role of an elastic bearing. In the first part of the article is presented the technical solution which allows the dynamic balancing evaluation depending on the radial displacement between two disks with ...

This paper presents a theoretical study of the dynamic behaviour wind turbine consisting rotor, speed increaser with fixed axes, and counter-rotating electric generator, operating in variable conditions. In first part, analytical model mechanical system is elaborated based on equations associated component rigid bodies linear characteristics direct current (DC) generator rotor. The proposes met...

The condition of mtDNA in hair shafts preserved in a museum was examined using 30 study skins of masked palm civets, Paguma larvata (Viverridae), collected between 1924 and 2011. Comparisons of extracts from fresh and burnt alum-fixed hair shafts showed that burnt alum, which is commonly used in taxidermy, had no harmful effect on the amount of total DNA and lengths of the mtDNA fragments. Burn...

A Review on Vibration Analysis for Misalignment of Shaft in Rotary Systems by Using Discrete Wavelet Transform Abhijeet Shirude | S. Y. Gajjal (Mechanical Department, NBNSSoE, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India, [email protected]) (Mechanical Department, NBNSSoE, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India, [email protected]) ___________________________________________...

Hypodermic needles cause pain and bleeding, produce biohazardous sharp waste and require trained personnel. To address these issues, we introduce separable arrowhead microneedles that rapidly and painlessly deliver drugs and vaccines to the skin. These needles are featured by micron-size sharp tips mounted on blunt shafts. Upon insertion in the skin, the sharp-tipped polymer arrowheads encapsul...

We have developed a method where, after glutaraldehyde fixation, human hair shafts and insect cuticles are treated with ammonium thioglycolate (ATG) to improve ultrastructural staining. Conventional transmission electron microscopic (TEM) preparations do not distinguish the A-layer and the exocuticles of hair shafts. However, after ATG treatment, the A-layer appears in higher contrast. ATG trea...

Presented work discusses a complex process of inductive heating and quenching of carbon steel planetary shafts for diesel engine starters. On the measurements base of temperature fi elds on the surface of the planetary shafts by thermographic camera and theoretical knowledge, a mathematical model for temperature conditions determination in the shaft during the entire process of heating and quen...

Control and structural health monitoring sensors are becoming increasingly common in industrial household applications due to recent advances reducing their manufacturing costs, size power consumption. Nevertheless, providing for these poses a key challenge engineers, particularly system locations where limited access renders regular maintenance infeasible high associated costs. In the present ...