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- Nybacka, Mikael, et al.
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Project: CASTT - Centre for Automotive Systems Technologies and Testing
- 2007
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Other publication (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Through the Centre for Automotive Systems Technologies and Testing, Luleå University of Technology aims to first of all support automotive winter testing in Northern Sweden. This means to support the local automotive test entrepreneurs and through them their customers: the car manufacturers and their suppliers. To succeed in this task, the center relies on the university's areas of leading research and most importantly on the cooperation between those areas.
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- Cervantes, Michel, et al.
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Porjus U9A full-scale hydropower research facility
- 2008
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In: Hydro technology and the evironment for the new century. - Foz do Iguassu.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Hydropower still faces complex scientific and technical challenges in order to secure the availability and reliability of the power plants despite more than a century of development. The main challenge is due to new market constrains such as electrical market deregulation and introduction of renewable sources of energy. The major problem is related to the dynamic of the rotor involving several fields: hydraulics, power engineering and mechanics. On the other side, the large and growing hydropower world market represents an opportunity for technically advanced companies offering better efficiency. The difficulty to scale rigorously any technical advance makes full-scale experiment a necessity. World unique facilities are available at Porjus, Sweden, for this purpose. The Porjus Hydropower Centre is composed of a Francis (U8) and a Kaplan (U9) turbine of 10 MW, each exclusively dedicated to education, research and development. In order to further investigate specific issues related to availability and reliability, a project was initiated in 2006. The main objective is to make U9 a full-scale hydropower laboratory able firstly to furnish the necessary data for the development of rotor-dynamic models but also turbines and bearings. To this purposes more than 200 sensors have been installed to measure displacements, forces, pressure, film thickness, strains... The work presents an overview of the newly upgrade facility as well as some of the problems faced during the instrumentation of the machine.
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- Andersson, H.M., et al.
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Application of digital speckle photography to measure thickness variations in the vacuum infusion process
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In: Polymer Composites. - : Wiley. - 0272-8397 .- 1548-0569. ; 24:3, s. 448-455
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A new method to measure the movement of the flexible bag used in vacuum infusion is presented. The method is based on an in-house developed stereoscopic digital speckle photography system (DSP). The advantage with this optical method, which is based on cross-correlation, is that the deflection of a large area can be continuously measured with a great accuracy (down to 10 μm. The method is at this stage most suited for research but can in the long run also be adopted in production control and optimization. By use of the method it was confirmed that a ditch is formed at the resin flow front and that there can be a considerable and seemingly perpetual compaction after complete filling. The existence of the ditch demonstrates that the stiffness of the reinforcement can be considerably reduced when it is wetted. Hence, the maximum fiber volume fraction can be larger than predicted from dry measurements of preform elasticity. It is likely that the overall thickness reduction after complete filling emanates from lubrication of the fibers combined with an outflow of the resin. Besides, the cross-linking starts and the polymer shrinks. Hence, the alteration in height will continue until complete cross-linking is reached.
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- Löfdahl, Lennart, 1948, et al.
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Characteristics of a hot-wire microsensor for time-dependent wall shear stress measurements
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In: Experiments in Fluids. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0723-4864 .- 1432-1114. ; 35:3, s. 240-251
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Hot-wire microsensors for the purpose of measuring the instantaneous velocity gradient close to a wall were designed and their characteristics were evaluated. The sensors were made using MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) technology, which permits the fabrication of various microgeometrical configurations with high precision and good repeatability. The design is based on estimates of the heat rates from the sensor wire to the air, through the supports, and to the wall. Several hot-wire configurations were fabricated with wires positioned in the range 50-250 mum from the wall. Requirements for the design and details of the fabrication methodology are outlined. The hot-wire microsensors were calibrated and tested in a flat-plate boundary layer with and without pressure gradients and were found to have good steady-state characteristics. In addition, the developed sensors were used for preliminary studies of transitional phenomena and turbulence, and the sensors were found to have a good time-dependent response as well.
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- Yarmohamadi, Hoda, 1980, et al.
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Modeling of elastomeric engine mounts for commercial vehicles
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In: Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, NSCM 20, R.Larsson and K. Runesson (eds.), 23-24 November, 2007, Göteborg, Sweden. - 1652-8549.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this paper, a model of the conventional engine mount is developed and the nonlinear behavior of dynamic stiffness and damping of the engine mounts of commercial vehicles are investigated. The model comprises elastic, viscous and friction functional components and expresses the stiffness and damping of the mount as a function of frequency and amplitude of harmonic excitation. Optimization is done to identify model parameters using measurements for real elastomeric engine mounts.
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- Hiselius, Per
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Acoustical properties of earplugs
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this study an experimental setup for measurements of high impedance objects in ducts, yielding the acoustical Two-Port properties of the object, is applied to earplugs. A frequently used experimental setup for measuring objective acoustical properties of earplugs is that of artificial ears. Great effort is spent on duplicating the human ear. The acoustical properties of the earplug are thought to be given by the insertion loss. Such a setup, however, gives a ratio of the "response of a system" to that of "another system". The actual properties of the earplug are thereby embedded in a complicated artificial response. A novel approach, presented here, is to use a simple setup. Given the sound pressure level on both sides of the earplug for two sufficiently different termination impedances, the Two-Port properties can be assessed. First, a setup is used where the earplugs are fitted in a cylinder. Second, a setup based on molds of the ear canals of a real person is used. For six types of earplugs, the acoustical properties are assessed and numerically coupled to a model of the ear in order to predict the insertion loss. The predicted attenuation is compared to subjective (REAT) attenuation. In addition, experimental Two-Port data is used to model the acoustical behavior of three fundamentally different types of earplugs. It is shown that simple lumped models suffice to describe the acoustical behavior of the earplugs. Furthermore, it is shown that the measurement setup can be advantageously used to assess the acoustical properties of an arbitrary acoustical partition for a wide frequency range.
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- Kyprianidis, Konstantinos, et al.
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Dynamic performance investigations of a turbojet engine using a cross-application visual oriented platform
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In: Aeronautical Journal. - 0001-9240. ; 112:1129, s. 161-169
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents the development of visual oriented tools for the dynamic performance simulation of a turbojet engine using a cross-application approach. In particular, the study focuses on the feasibility of developing simulation models using different programming environments and linking them together using a popular spreadsheet program. As a result of this effort, a low fidelity cycle program has been created, capable of being integrated with other performance models. The amount of laboratory sessions required for student training during an educational procedure, for example for a course in gas turbine performance simulation, is greatly reduced due to the familiarity of most students with the spreadsheet software. The model results have been validated using commercially available gas turbine simulation software and experimental data from open literature. The most important finding of this study is the capability of the program to link to aircraft performance models and predict the transient working line of the engine for various initial conditions in order to dynamically simulate flight phases including take-off and landing.
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