The purpose of this document is to describe important tire characteristics and their effect on vehicle performance. Characteristics considered are those that the Formula SAE judges have deemed important for discussion on tires at competition and include coefficient of friction, slip angle, slip ratio, camber angle, cornering stiffness, camber stiffness, self-aligning torque, normal load sensiti...

Performance of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system tends to be dramatically degraded in the presence of impulsive noise. In the previous work [1], we proposed flooring the observation probability (FOP) to compensate the adverse effect of impulsive noise on sensitive dimensions of Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) features. Linear prediction cepstral coefficient (LPCC) is anothe...

This paper presents a theoretical study of microwave remote sensing of vegetated surfaces. The purpose of this study is to find out if satellite bistatic radar systems can provide a performance, in terms of sensitivity to vegetation geophysical parameters, equal to or greater than the performance of monostatic systems. Up to now, no suitable bistatic data collected over land surfaces are availa...

As an important sensing element, the whispering gallery mode resonator (WGMR) parameters seriously affect the resonant micro-optic gyroscope (RMOG) performance. This work proposes an under-coupling resonator to improve the resonator's Q value and to optimize the coupling coefficient to maximize the RMOG's sensitivity. GeO₂-doped silica waveguide-type resonators with different coupling coefficie...

ABSTRACT This paper investigates journal bearings, and builds a lubrication model taking into account misalignment, the lubricant couple stress effect shear thinning. In order to explore sensitivity of fluid performance oil film thickness, we introduce critical thickness coefficient. The results show that increases with increase coefficient, it is highest in area minimum thickness. Compared par...

Soil property mapping is commonly done in two dimensions, and variation by depth is ignored. The only way to consider the vertical variation is mapping in 3D. In this paper, we present a method based on polynomial depth functions. The objective is determining the effectiveness of a simple polynomial to predict cone-index data by depth over a field. In order to study the performances of the prop...

Transient and steady-state multiphysics numerical simulations are performed to investigate the thermal and electrical performances of a thermoelectric generator (TEG) module placed between hot and cold blocks. Effects of heat radiation, leg length and Seebeck coefficient on the TEG thermal and electrical performances are identified. A new correlation for the Seebeck coefficient with temperature...

objective: tooth decay is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world. after pit and fissures, enamel of proximal surface is the second region prone to rot. bitewing images are one of the most important diagnostic tools for the detection of caries . given the importance of accurate and timely detection of decay , the current study was aimed to evaluate the ability and skill of the fina...

The beta multiplier voltage reference (BMVR) is discussed as a direct replacement for the bandgap voltage reference in a CMOS process especially when substrate current is a concern. Performance of the BMVR with regard to temperature and process variations is covered. Experimental results from a 2-micron MOSIS test chip indicate that the BMVR can be tuned to within 10 mV of a desired value while...