Commercial aluminum（grade 1900） in rotary motion was exposed to slurry of sand in water.Samples were mounted at various angles and rotated at different speeds.Wear rate was calculated using mass loss measurement.The...Commercial aluminum（grade 1900） in rotary motion was exposed to slurry of sand in water.Samples were mounted at various angles and rotated at different speeds.Wear rate was calculated using mass loss measurement.The results show that wear rates increase with increasing impingement angle up to 90°.Contrary to the conventional understanding of maximum loss of ductile material at about 45° impingement angle,maximum wear rate was observed in case of the aluminum sample fixed at 90°.However,increasing rotation speed of the samples results in exponential increase in wear rate.The findings are substantiated with the metallographic study of worn surface.展开更多
The thermo-electric behavior of shape memory alloy （SMA） wire was presented. When the wire was electrically heated above its transformation temperature by current, a large mechanical force is exerted due to transfor...The thermo-electric behavior of shape memory alloy （SMA） wire was presented. When the wire was electrically heated above its transformation temperature by current, a large mechanical force is exerted due to transformation in its phases. In order to make use of SMA wire as an actuator, different parameters and their relationships were investigated. These parameters are recoverable strain （displacement）, temperature hysteresis and electrical resistance variation under different stress levels. Optimum safe heating current was assessed and phase transformation temperatures were estimated by heat transfer model. The wire was heated and cooled by 680 mA of current for 796 s under natural air convection. The strain recovered is 4.33% and corresponding change in resistance is 11.2% at 43 MPa of stress. The resistance variation shows linearly with displacement and current during heating and cooling cycle respectively. This study will be useful in precisely controlling of SMA wire actuator with and without external sensor feedback.展开更多
Occurrence of faults in Network on Chip(NoC) is inevitable as the feature size is con-tinuously decreasing and processing elements are increasing in numbers.Faults can be revocable if it is transient.Transient fault m...Occurrence of faults in Network on Chip(NoC) is inevitable as the feature size is con-tinuously decreasing and processing elements are increasing in numbers.Faults can be revocable if it is transient.Transient fault may occur inside router,or in the core or in communication wires.Examples of transient faults are overflow of buffers in router,clock skew,cross talk,etc..Revocation of transient faults can be done by retransmission of faulty packets using oblivious or adaptive routing algorithms.Irrevocable faults causes non-functionality of segment and mainly occurs during fabrication process.NoC reliability increases with the efficient routing algorithms,which can handle the maximum faults without deadlock in network.As transient faults are temporary and can be easily revoked using re-transmission of packet,permanent faults require efficient routing to route the packet by bypassing the nonfunctional segments.Thus,our focus is on the analysis of adaptive minimal path fault tolerant routing to handle the permanent faults.Comparative analysis between partial adaptive fault tolerance routing West-First,North-Last,Negative-First,Odd Even,and Minimal path Fault Tolerant routing(MinFT) algorithms with the nodes and links failure is performed using NoC Interconnect RoutinG and Application Modeling simulator(NIRGAM) for the 2D Mesh topology.Result suggests that MinFT ensures data transmission under worst conditions as compared to other adaptive routing algorithms.展开更多
In the present work,tilted global solar irradiance data are presented and analysed,measured for a period of 1 year on the campus of Bahrain Polytechnic,Kingdom of Bahrain,from both a fixed photovoltaic panel and a mov...In the present work,tilted global solar irradiance data are presented and analysed,measured for a period of 1 year on the campus of Bahrain Polytechnic,Kingdom of Bahrain,from both a fixed photovoltaic panel and a moving one via a two-axis solar tracker.The fixed panel faces south with an angle of 26°with respect to the horizontal,coinciding with the local geographical latitude.The second panel is moved by two motors,controlled by a global positioning system and suitable software so that the Sun’s rays are perpendicular to the panel surface.A pyranometer is installed on each panel,recording the tilted global solar irradiance,stored by using a data logger.The analysis of the data obtained shows a 33%solar energy gain on an annual basis for the moving panel(2780 versus 2088 kWh/m^(2)on the fixed panel).More importantly,in June,when the energy demand in Bahrain is elevated due to the increased residential cooling loads,the solar energy received by the moving panel is 54.7%higher compared with that of the fixed panel.On a percentage basis,the increase in solar energy from the moving panel is profound in the early morning and late evening hours.Moreover,the reduction in the solar energy received by the fixed panel from May to June does not appear in the moving panel because of the adjustable orientation of the latter.Throughout the year,the mean daily solar power varies between 0.37 and 0.56 kW/m^(2)for the fixed panel,and 0.45 and 0.70 kW/m^(2)for the moving panel.In winter,solar energy fluctuations are elevated due to erratic weather conditions that present a peak standard deviation of 28%of the corresponding mean.The data presented are useful for potential solar investments in Gulf countries.展开更多
文摘Commercial aluminum（grade 1900） in rotary motion was exposed to slurry of sand in water.Samples were mounted at various angles and rotated at different speeds.Wear rate was calculated using mass loss measurement.The results show that wear rates increase with increasing impingement angle up to 90°.Contrary to the conventional understanding of maximum loss of ductile material at about 45° impingement angle,maximum wear rate was observed in case of the aluminum sample fixed at 90°.However,increasing rotation speed of the samples results in exponential increase in wear rate.The findings are substantiated with the metallographic study of worn surface.
文摘The thermo-electric behavior of shape memory alloy （SMA） wire was presented. When the wire was electrically heated above its transformation temperature by current, a large mechanical force is exerted due to transformation in its phases. In order to make use of SMA wire as an actuator, different parameters and their relationships were investigated. These parameters are recoverable strain （displacement）, temperature hysteresis and electrical resistance variation under different stress levels. Optimum safe heating current was assessed and phase transformation temperatures were estimated by heat transfer model. The wire was heated and cooled by 680 mA of current for 796 s under natural air convection. The strain recovered is 4.33% and corresponding change in resistance is 11.2% at 43 MPa of stress. The resistance variation shows linearly with displacement and current during heating and cooling cycle respectively. This study will be useful in precisely controlling of SMA wire actuator with and without external sensor feedback.
文摘Occurrence of faults in Network on Chip(NoC) is inevitable as the feature size is con-tinuously decreasing and processing elements are increasing in numbers.Faults can be revocable if it is transient.Transient fault may occur inside router,or in the core or in communication wires.Examples of transient faults are overflow of buffers in router,clock skew,cross talk,etc..Revocation of transient faults can be done by retransmission of faulty packets using oblivious or adaptive routing algorithms.Irrevocable faults causes non-functionality of segment and mainly occurs during fabrication process.NoC reliability increases with the efficient routing algorithms,which can handle the maximum faults without deadlock in network.As transient faults are temporary and can be easily revoked using re-transmission of packet,permanent faults require efficient routing to route the packet by bypassing the nonfunctional segments.Thus,our focus is on the analysis of adaptive minimal path fault tolerant routing to handle the permanent faults.Comparative analysis between partial adaptive fault tolerance routing West-First,North-Last,Negative-First,Odd Even,and Minimal path Fault Tolerant routing(MinFT) algorithms with the nodes and links failure is performed using NoC Interconnect RoutinG and Application Modeling simulator(NIRGAM) for the 2D Mesh topology.Result suggests that MinFT ensures data transmission under worst conditions as compared to other adaptive routing algorithms.
文摘In the present work,tilted global solar irradiance data are presented and analysed,measured for a period of 1 year on the campus of Bahrain Polytechnic,Kingdom of Bahrain,from both a fixed photovoltaic panel and a moving one via a two-axis solar tracker.The fixed panel faces south with an angle of 26°with respect to the horizontal,coinciding with the local geographical latitude.The second panel is moved by two motors,controlled by a global positioning system and suitable software so that the Sun’s rays are perpendicular to the panel surface.A pyranometer is installed on each panel,recording the tilted global solar irradiance,stored by using a data logger.The analysis of the data obtained shows a 33%solar energy gain on an annual basis for the moving panel(2780 versus 2088 kWh/m^(2)on the fixed panel).More importantly,in June,when the energy demand in Bahrain is elevated due to the increased residential cooling loads,the solar energy received by the moving panel is 54.7%higher compared with that of the fixed panel.On a percentage basis,the increase in solar energy from the moving panel is profound in the early morning and late evening hours.Moreover,the reduction in the solar energy received by the fixed panel from May to June does not appear in the moving panel because of the adjustable orientation of the latter.Throughout the year,the mean daily solar power varies between 0.37 and 0.56 kW/m^(2)for the fixed panel,and 0.45 and 0.70 kW/m^(2)for the moving panel.In winter,solar energy fluctuations are elevated due to erratic weather conditions that present a peak standard deviation of 28%of the corresponding mean.The data presented are useful for potential solar investments in Gulf countries.
