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Combustion Characteristics of Hypersonic SCRamjet Engine (극초음속 스크램제트 엔진의 연소특성)

  • 원수희;정은주;정인석;최정열
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.61-69
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    • 2004
  • This paper describes numerical efforts to characterize the flame-holding and air-fuel mixing process of model SCRamjet engine combustor, where a hydrogen jet injected into a supersonic cross flow and in a cavity Combustion phenomena in a model SCRamjet engine, which has been experimentally studied at University of Queensland and Australian National University using a free-piston shock tunnel, was observed around separation region of upstream of the normal injector and inside of cavity. The results show that the separation region and cavity generates several recirculation zones, which increase the fuel-air mixing. Self ignition occurs in the separation-freestream and cavity-freestream interface.

Application of Blind Deconvolution with Crest Factor for Recovery of Original Rolling Element Bearing Defect Signals (볼 베어링 결함신호 복원을 위한 파고율을 이용한 Blind Deconvolution의 응용)

  • Son, Jong-Duk;Yang, Bo-Suk;Tan, A.C.C.;Mathew, J.
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.585-590
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    • 2004
  • Many machine failures are not detected well in advance due to the masking of background noise and attenuation of the source signal through the transmission mediums. Advanced signal processing techniques using adaptive filters and higher order statistics have been attempted to extract the source signal from the measured data at the machine surface. In this paper, blind deconvolution using the eigenvector algorithm (EVA) technique is used to recover a damaged bearing signal using only the measured signal at the machine surface. A damaged bearing signal corrupted by noise with varying signal-to-noise (s/n) was used to determine the effectiveness of the technique in detecting an incipient signal and the optimum choice of filter length. The results show that the technique is effective in detecting the source signal with an s/n ratio as low as 0.21, but requires a relatively large filter length.

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Occurrence of Tropical Race 4 of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense in Indonesia

  • Wibowo, A.;Subandiyah, S.;Sumardiyono, C.;Sulistyowati, L.;Taylor, P.;Fegan, M.
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.280-284
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    • 2011
  • Fusarium wilt of banana caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense is widespread in Indonesia. However, the distribution of tropical race 4 strains has not been well studied. Thirty nine isolates of F. oxysporum f. sp. cubense were collected from Java and 7 isolates were from Sumatera, Bangka, and Kalimantan. All isolates produced volatile odor when grown on steamed rice. These isolates were further tested for their vegetative compatibility with nitM testers of 20 reported vegetative compatibility groups representing strains that belong to race 1, 2, and 4. Three isolates formed heterokaryons with nitM testers belong to race 1, 11 isolates with race 4, and the rest did not form heterokaryons with all nitM testers used. F. oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 specific primer pair was used to amplify a 1400 bp fragment of tropical race 4 DNA. Seven isolates (Bnt2, Mln1, Srg1, Bgl3, Bgl6, Lmp1, and Kjg1) produced the 1400 bp amplification product were therefore tropical race 4.

Flexural-torsional buckling tests of cold-formed steel compression members at elevated temperatures

  • Heva, Yasintha Bandula;Mahendran, Mahen
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.205-227
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    • 2013
  • Current design standards do not provide adequate guidelines for the fire design of cold-formed steel compression members subject to flexural-torsional buckling. Eurocode 3 Part 1.2 (2005) recommends the same fire design guidelines for both hot-rolled and cold-formed steel compression members subject to flexural-torsional buckling although considerable behavioural differences exist between cold-formed and hot-rolled steel members. Past research has recommended the use of ambient temperature cold-formed steel design rules for the fire design of cold-formed steel compression members provided appropriately reduced mechanical properties are used at elevated temperatures. To assess the accuracy of flexural-torsional buckling design rules in both ambient temperature cold-formed steel design and fire design standards, an experimental study of slender cold-formed steel compression members was undertaken at both ambient and elevated temperatures. This paper presents the details of this experimental study, its results, and their comparison with the predictions from the current design rules. It was found that the current ambient temperature design rules are conservative while the fire design rules are overly conservative. Suitable recommendations have been made in relation to the currently available design rules for flexural-torsional buckling including methods of improvement. Most importantly, this paper has addressed the lack of experimental results for slender cold-formed steel columns at elevated temperatures.

Characteristic Research for Scramjet Engine with Thrust Nozzle Variation (추력 노즐 변화에 따른 스크램제트 엔진 특성 연구)

  • Lee, Yang-Ji;Kang, Sang-Hun;Yang, Soo-Seok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.613-617
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    • 2011
  • Korea Aerospace Research Institute has been designed and manufactured various thurst nozzles of the scramjet engine for optimized configuration. The test campaign for thurst nozzle characteristics was performed at T4 free-piston shock tunnel in University of Queensland, Australia. Total 8 kinds of thrust nozzles and 2 kinds of side walls were manufactured for this campaign. In this paper, the design and specification of thrust nozzles was reported. Based on the static pressure distribution of the engine and pitot pressure distributions at nozzle exit, The positive net thurst was observed with baseline case of the test campaign.

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Competing-Complementarity of Social Media on News Organizations

  • Palekar, Shailesh;Sedera, Darshana
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.370-402
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    • 2015
  • The dynamic capabilities of social media are changing the nature of contemporary news by allowing users to communicate and create content, deliver and share newsworthy information, and consume news. News organizations engage with social media because this computer-mediated tool provides an alternative platform for delivering news and connecting with global audiences. This role of social media is conceptualized as its complementarity. However, when mass user-generated-content is constantly shared with other users, more users are attracted to indulge in news-seeking activities on social media. This phenomenon potentially fulfills users' news requirements on social media, which is contrary to what news companies envisioned when they began engaging with social media. This dichotomous role of social media, providing complementarity and showing the potential for becoming a superior news medium, is conceptualized as its competing-complementarity. This paper offers preliminary evidence of competing-complementarity by analyzing the news consumption of individuals. Such consumption is explained through the theoretical perspective of punctuated equilibrium by conceptualizing news consumption as a deep structure radically impacted by a disruptive technology. Although social media benefit news organizations, its competing potential poses serious challenges to their monopolistic controls on news production, distribution, readership, and revenue generation.

Experimental analysis of an asymmetric reinforced concrete bridge under vehicular loads

  • Thambiratnam, D.P.;Brameld, G.H.;Memory, T.J.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.17-35
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    • 2000
  • Dynamic response of a three span continuous bridge has been determined by full scale experiments on the bridge. In the experiments, a heavy vehicle was driven across the bridge at different speeds and along different lanes of travel and the strains were recorded at different locations. The bridge was made of reinforced concrete and was asymmetric in plan and in elevation. Frequencies and modes of vibration excited by the vehicle were determined. The dependence of the dynamic amplification on bridge location and vehicle speed was investigated and dynamic amplifications up to 1.5 were recorded, which was higher than values predicted by bridge design codes. It was evident that when this asymmetric bridge was loaded by an asymmetric forcing function, higher modes, which are lateral and/or torsional in nature, were excited. Dynamic modulus of elasticity and the support stiffness influenced the natural frequencies of the bridge, which in turn influenced the dynamic amplifications. Larger than anticipated dynamic amplification factors and the excitation of lateral and/or torsional modes should be of interest and concern to bridge engineers.

Effects of plate slenderness on the ultimate strength behaviour of foam supported steel plate elements

  • Pokharel, Narayan;Mahendran, Mahen
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.407-422
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    • 2005
  • Plate elements in fully profiled sandwich panels are generally subjected to local buckling failure modes and this behaviour is treated in design by using the conventional effective width method for plates with a width to thickness (b/t) ratio less than 100. If the plate elements are very slender (b/t > 1000), the panel failure is governed by wrinkling instead of local buckling and the strength is determined by the flexural wrinkling formula. The plate elements in fully profiled sandwich panels do not fail by wrinkling as their b/t ratio is generally in the range of 100 to 600. For this plate slenderness region, it was found that the current effective width formula overestimates the strength of the fully profiled sandwich panels whereas the wrinkling formula underestimates it. Hence a new effective width design equation has been developed for practical plate slenderness values. However, no guidelines exist to identify the plate slenderness (b/t) limits defining the local buckling, wrinkling and the intermediate regions so that appropriate design rules can be used based on plate slenderness ratios. A research study was therefore conducted using experimental and numerical studies to investigate the effect of plate slenderness ratio on the ultimate strength behaviour of foam supported steel plate elements. This paper presents the details of the study and the results.

호주의 인광석 매장지의 개발

  • 한국비료공업협회
    • 비료회보
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    • s.7
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    • pp.10-17
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    • 1976
  • 인광석은 Queensland북서쪽 Georgina Basin에 20억 톤이 매장되어 있다. Basin지역의 세 지역에 매장되어 있는데 남부 매장지에는 17.5$\%$ $P_2O_5$를 함유하는 인광석 14억ton, 그리고 직접 선적할 수 있는 $P_2O_5$ 31$\%$ 함량의 인광석 4000ton이 매장되어 있는데 현재 Queensland Phosphate Ltd (QPL)에 의해서 개발되고 있다. 앞으로 이 회사는 76년까지 연간 100만톤의 생산수준을 달성할 것이며 78년까지는 300만톤으로 올릴 것이다. 그리고 동남아세아에 인광석 수출 판로개척을 도모할 것이며 호주정부는 연간 200만ton의 인광석을 수출하기로 결정하였다. BH South Limited (BHS)는 1964년 호주 인광석에 대한 본격적 채굴작업에 들어갔다. 1966년초 Georgina Basin에 대한 탐사가 시작되었고 G.Basine 동쪽에 걸쳐있는 인광석 매장지를 발견하였고 총매장량은 17.5$\%$ $P_2O_5$ 등급으로 20억 ton을 초과하는 수준으로 추정되었다. Georgina Basin에는 세 개의 인광석 매장지대가 있는데, 대규모 Duchess 매장지와 소규모 Ardmore 매장지로 구성되어 있는 남부매장지대는 17.5$\%$, $P_2O_5$ 함유 인광석 14억ton, 그리고 31$\%$ $P_2O_5$ 함유의 직접 선적할 수 있는 4,000만ton의 인광석을 보유하고 있다. 중부매장지대는 Lady Annie와 Lady Jane 매장지로 구성되어 있으며 북부매장지대는 Riversleigh로부터 서쪽으로 Queensland에 이르는 지대의 6개의 소규모 매장지로 구성되어 있다.

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Effectual Method FOR 3D Rebuilding From Diverse Images

  • Leung, Carlos Wai Yin;Hons, B.E.
    • 한국정보컨버전스학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.145-150
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    • 2008
  • This thesis explores the problem of reconstructing a three-dimensional(3D) scene given a set of images or image sequences of the scene. It describes efficient methods for the 3D reconstruction of static and dynamic scenes from stereo images, stereo image sequences, and images captured from multiple viewpoints. Novel methods for image-based and volumetric modelling approaches to 3D reconstruction are presented, with an emphasis on the development of efficient algorithm which produce high quality and accurate reconstructions. For image-based 3D reconstruction a novel energy minimisation scheme, Iterated Dynamic Programming, is presented for the efficient computation of strong local minima of discontinuity preserving energyy functions. Coupled with a novel morphological decomposition method and subregioning schemes for the efficient computation of a narrowband matching cost volume. the minimisation framework is applied to solve problems in stereo matching, stereo-temporal reconstruction, motion estimation, 2D image registration and 3D image registration. This thesis establishes Iterated Dynamic Programming as an efficient and effective energy minimisation scheme suitable for computer vision problems which involve finding correspondences across images. For 3D reconstruction from multiple view images with arbitrary camera placement, a novel volumetric modelling technique, Embedded Voxel Colouring, is presented that efficiently embeds all reconstructions of a 3D scene into a single output in a single scan of the volumetric space under exact visibility. An adaptive thresholding framework is also introduced for the computation of the optimal set of thresholds to obtain high quality 3D reconstructions. This thesis establishes the Embedded Voxel Colouring framework as a fast, efficient and effective method for 3D reconstruction from multiple view images.

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