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Zhilei Yu and Xin Huang
Wind-blown pool fire accidents in a ventilated tunnel usually pose and present serious risks to properties and personal safety. In this paper, the flame characteristics and flow field changes of pool fires under the combined influence of baffles and cros...
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Pedro Torres, Hugo Marques and Paulo Marques
This paper describes a real case implementation of an automatic pedestrian-detection solution, implemented in the city of Aveiro, Portugal, using affordable LiDAR technology and open, publicly available, pedestrian-detection frameworks based on machine-l...
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Chao Li, Nan Pang, Kai Xu, Qingling Geng, Xiangyu Wang, Feihong Yun and Lei Gao
In order to clean up marine fouling attached to marine steel pile, this paper proposed an innovative configuration scheme of the marine steel pile cleaning equipment by the scraping method and its telescopic mechanism by applying a multi-cylinder synchro...
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Ali Khosravani, Jacky M. A. Desbiolles, Chris Saunders, Mustafa Ucgul and John M. Fielke
Disc seeders are commonly used in no-till farming systems, and their performance evaluation generally rely on expensive and time-consuming field experiments. Mathematical models can help speed up force-related evaluations and improve the understanding of...
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Davor Andric, Josip Galic and Karin ?erman
The article examines the actuation characteristics of different basic structural schemes?basic body plans?for soft modular pneubotics in architecture are investigated. Eight basic body plans are translated from abstract expressions into their correspondi...
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Khaleel Abushgair and Rafat Al-Waked
Hot and arid areas are considered a harsh environment when it comes to cleaning photovoltaic (PV) modules. Minimizing the panel tilt angle makes it evident that dust and other substances such as airborne dirt (both organic and inorganic) and bird droppin...
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Chang Wang, Minqi Huang, Xianmin Peng, Guichuan Zhang, Min Tang and Haowen Wang
The aerodynamic performance of a reduced-scale coaxial rigid rotor system in hover and steady forward flights was experimentally investigated to gain insights into the effect of interference between upper and lower rotors and the influences of the advanc...
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Nolan M. Uchizono, Adam L. Collins, Anirudh Thuppul, Peter L. Wright, Daniel Q. Eckhardt, John Ziemer and Richard E. Wirz
Electrospray thruster life and mission performance are strongly influenced by grid impingement, the extent of which can be correlated with emission modes that occur at steady-state extraction voltages, and thruster command transients. Most notably, we ex...
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Henrik Zsiborács, Nóra Hegedusné Baranyai, András Vincze, István Háber, Philipp Weihs, Sandro Oswald, Christian Gützer and Gábor Pintér
This article examines the positioning features of polycrystalline, monocrystalline, and amorphous silicon modules relative to the focus points of concentrator photovoltaic modules under real meteorological conditions using a dual tracking system. The per...
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Cécile Münch-Alligné, Jérémy Schmid, Sylvain Richard, Anthony Gaspoz, Nino Brunner and Vlad Hasmatuchi
An experimental investigation to measure the performance of a first prototype of a kinetic turbine is presented. This turbine, developed using numerical simulation, recovers the kinetic energy of water in free surface canals. To assess the performance of...
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