Irregular polygon shapes (eg, with small edges or small angles) are usually encountered in the contact simulation of discrete block systems. Treatment of irregular polygons in contact detection process has critical effects ...

Pre-insulated twin pipe systems (PTPS) for heat distribution offer advantages for heat supply companies. Trench dimensions for heat supply systems of District Heating (DH) networks might be reduced using these pipe systems. ...

A new contact model is proposed to simulate the forced response of a two degree of freedom mechanical model which resembles the simplest form of a friction damped turbine blade. The model scales a measured friction hysteresis ...

We investigate the number of iterations needed by an addition algorithm due to Burks et al. if the input is random. Several authors have obtained results on the average case behaviour, mainly using analytic techniques based ...

The efficiency of belt-type continuously variable transmission (CVT) - apart from the power consumption of auxiliary systems such as hydraulics - predominantly depends on the energy dissipated during sliding at the belt-disc ...

In this study, we developed a new pair-wise relation based approach for the matching of line features from stereo aerial images. To solve the final matching inconsistencies, we propose an iterative pair based post-processing ...