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Miary jakości transmisji głosu w technologii VoIP.
PublicationPrzedstawiono i omówiono czynniki decydujące o jakości mowy takie jak: opóźnienie tak charakterystyczne dla sieci IP a głównie jego fluktuacja, utraty pakietów podczas transmisji, rozmiar pakietu oraz zjawisko echa zbliżonego jadalnego. Jakość transmisji uzależniono od elementów występujących w łącznej sieci telekomunikacyjnej typu PSTN, bram oraz sieci IP.
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Ellipse-fitting algorithm implementation in the impedance measurement system based on DAQ card with FPGA
PublicationThe paper presents an implementation of the ellipse-fitting algorithm in the impedance measurement system based on DAQ card equipped with FPGA chip. The method implementation was tested by simulation means as well as experimentally in the designed and presented measurement system. Finally, the limit values of sampling parameters which assures satisfying accuracy were given.
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Przykłady modernizacji dwóch wiaduktów drogowych w aspekcie kosztów przedsięwzięcia.
PublicationW referacie przedstawiono rozwiązania techniczne modernizacji i wzmocnienia dwóch wiaduktów drogowych w aspekcie kosztów realizacji przedsięwzięcia. Analiza ekonomiczna wykazała, iż bardzo wydatne wzmocnienie (skok o dwie klasy obciążenia obiektu) wiąże się z tak dużymi kosztami, że staje się to nieopłacalne w zestawieniu z kosztami budowy nowego obiektu. Zwrócono uwagę na konieczność choćby ograniczonej analizy ekonomicznej (koszty...
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Bezpieczeństwo użytkowania urządzeń chłodniczych i klimatyzacyjnych
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono zagrożenia pochodzące od urządzeń chłodniczych i klimatyzacyjnych oraz sposoby zapobiegania tym zagrożeniom. Do głównych zagrożeń można zaliczyć pracę przy czynnikach chłodniczych oraz zagrożenia elektryczne pochodzące od instalacji i urządzeń napędowych, oświetleniowych i sygnalizacyjnych. Zaprezentowano środki mające na celu wyeliminowanie tych zagrożeń, przedstawiono sposoby zapobiegania porażeniom elektrycznym...
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Analysing selection of low-temperature medium for cogeneration micro power plant
PublicationThe article analyses the ORC system working with dry and wet low-boiling media which are most frequently used in installations of this type. Two types of cycles were examined, which were the cycle with heat regeneration for dry media: fc72, hfe7100, R227ea, R245fa, R423a and R600a, and the cycle without heat regeneration for wet media: R11, R12, R134a, R718 and 507a. The calculations were performed for the assumed required thermal...
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Analysis of the selection of low temperature medium for a turbine power plant using ocean thermal energy (OTEC)
PublicationThe paper presents the results and conclusions of numerical calculations modelled in the EES program of a closed OTEC cycle. The following mediums were analysed: ammonia, R32, R41, R404a, R407c, R410a, R423a, R500, R502, R507a and R114, R152a, R234fa, R600, R1234yf, R1234ze. Analogous assumptions were adopted as in the ORC cycle with heat regeneration for dry refrigerants without regeneration for wet refrigerants. Each of them...
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Design analysis of combined gas-vapour micro power plant with 30 kW air turbine
PublicationThe article presents basic results of the design analysis of a combined gas-vapour micro power plant with a waste-heat boiler without exhaust reheat, working in the vapour section in the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system. The analysis concerned working media most frequently used in those types of power plants and planned to be used in future. The object of the analysis was a micro power plant with a 30 kW gas (air) turbine for...
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A compact microstrip rat-race coupler constituted by nonuniform transmission lines
PublicationIn this work, a step-by-step development of a compact microstrip rat-race coupler (RRC) has been presented and discussed. A high degree of miniaturization has been obtained by substituting six quarter-wavelength uniform atomic building blocks of a RRC by their nonuniform counterparts. The miniaturization procedure has been realized in three progressive steps: (i) the first layout solution of a miniaturized RRC has been acquired...
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A robust design of a numerically demanding compact rat-race coupler
PublicationA fast and accurate design procedure of a computationally expensive microwave circuit has been presented step-by-step and experimentally validated on the basis of a compact rat-race coupler (RRC) comprising slow-wave resonant structures (SWRSs). The final compact RRC solution has been obtained by means of a sequential optimization scheme exploiting the implicit space mapping (ISM) algorithm. A well-suited surrogate optimization...
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A CMRC-based compact rat-race coupler with harmonic suppression
PublicationIn this paper, an eective miniaturization technique exploiting compact microstrip resonant cells has been discussed and experimentally validated on the basis of a 3-dB microstrip rat-race coupler. The application of the method proposed has resulted in 91 % circuit area reduction in comparison to a conventional rat-race coupler. Experimental results show good agreement with theoretical characteristics, as well as an additional eect,...
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A probabilistic-driven framework for enhanced corrosion estimation of ship structural components
PublicationThe work proposes a probabilistic-driven framework for enhanced corrosion estimation of ship structural components using Bayesian inference and limited measurement data. The new approach for modelling measurement uncertainty is proposed based on the results of previous corrosion tests that incorporate the non-uniform character of the corroded surface of structural components. The proposed framework's basic features are outlined,...
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Topological Behaviour of Solutions of Vibro-Impact Systems in the Neighborhood of Grazing
PublicationThe grazing bifurcation is considered for the Newtonian model of vibro-impact systems. A brief review on the conditions, sufficient for the existence of a grazing family of periodic solutions, is given. The properties of these periodic solutions are discussed. A plenty of results on the topological structure of attractors of vibro-impact systems is known. However, since the considered system is strongly nonlinear, these attractors...
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Pompa na zasileniu czy na powrocie?
PublicationW artykule dokonano analizy warunków ciśnieniowych pracy zamkniętej instalacji grzewczej z pompą zainstalowaną na przewodzie zasilającym i powrotnym.
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A design concept of fire protection system for an ecological floating dock
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono możliwe do wystąpienia na doku pływającym zagrożenie pożarowe oraz projekt koncepcyjny systemu zabezpieczenia przeciwpożarowego. Projekt ten obejmuje: istalację gaśniczą wodno-hydrantową i pianową do ochrony pokładu głównego oraz instalację CO2 do ochrony siłowni, rozdzielni elektrycznej i tunelu kablowego, a także instalację wykrywania i sygnalizacji pożaru.
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Delay dependent estimates for waveform relaxation methods for neutral differential-functional systems
PublicationW pracy dyskutowane są oszacowania błędów z uwzględnieniem ich zależności od opóźnienia dla metod typu ''waveform relaxations'' stosowanych do rozwiązywania układów równań różniczkowo-funkcyjnych typu Volterry i równań różniczkowo-algebraicznych. Oszacowania te służą do oceny szybkości zbieżności tych metod a w niektórych przypadkach do wykazania, że rozwiązanie dokładne otrzymuje się po skończonej liczbie iteracji.
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Remarks on evaluation of spectral radius of operators arising in WR methods for linear systems of ODEs
PublicationW pracy omawiane są różne metody oszacowania promienia spektralnego. Do oszacowań tych użyto elementarnych metod. Jedną z nich jest metoda wykorzystująca normę Bieleckiego. Jedną z zalet takich metod wyraźnie widać na przykładzie równań różniczkowych z opóźnieniem, gdzie oszacowania promienia spektralnego zależą od charakteru opóźnienia.
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Model procesu hamowania w pojeździe hybrydowym
PublicationW tradycyjnym procesie hamowania cała energia kinetyczna pojazdu jest rozpraszana do otoczenia w postaci energii cieplnej. W pojazdach hybrydowych istnieje możliwość odzyskania części tej energii przez przekazanie do akumulatorów i wykorzystania jej do napędu pojazdu. W pracy przedstawiono model energetyczny procesu hamowania pojazdu hybrydowego w układzie szeregowym, stosując metodę grafów wiązań (GW). Stosując konwencję GW podano...
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Design analysis of combined gas-vapour micro power plant with 30 kW air turbine
PublicationThe article presents basic results of the design analysis of a combined gas-vapour micro power plant with a waste-heat boiler without exhaust reheat, working in the vapour section in the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system. The analysis concerned working media most frequently used in those types of power plants and planned to be used in future. The object of the analysis was a micro power plant with a 30 kW gas (air) turbine for...
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Badania radiograficzne spoin wzdłużnych rurociągu derywacyjnego nr 2 w Elektrowni Wodnej Żarnowiec
PublicationCelem niniejszego opracowania było wykonanie badań radiologicznych spoiny wzdłużnej Rurociągu Derywacyjnego nr 2 przed i po naprawie. Klasyfikacje jakości spoin dokonano, stosując normę PN EN ISO 5817, przyjmując jako dopuszczalny poziom jakości - poziom C. Lokalizację obszaru pomiarowego dokonano na podstawie wcześniejszych badań prowadzonych przez IMP w Gdańsku. Opis radiogramów wraz ze zdjeciami i protokołem z badań RT przekazano...
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Badania przyczyn uszkodzenia i własności liny stalowej sześciosplotkowej typu T
PublicationWykonano badania przyczyn pęknięcia liny stalowej. Sformułowano wnioski.
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Analysis of the selection of low-temperature medium for a turbine power plant using ocean thermal energy (OTEC)
PublicationThe paper presents the results and conclusions of numerical calculations modelled in the EES program of a closed OTEC cycle. The following mediums were analysed: ammonia, R32, R41, R404a, R407c, R410a, R423a, R500, R502, R507a and R114, R152a, R234fa, R600, R1234yf, R1234ze. Analogous assumptions were adopted as in the ORC cycle with heat regeneration for dry refrigerants without regeneration for wet refrigerants. Each of them...
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Analysing selection of low-temperature medium for cogeneration micro power plant
PublicationThe article analyses the ORC system working with dry and wet low-boiling media which are most frequently used in installations of this type. Two types of cycles were examined, which were the cycle with heat regeneration for dry media: fc72, hfe7100, R227ea, R245fa, R423a and R600a, and the cycle without heat regeneration for wet media: R11, R12, R134a, R718 and 507a. The calculations were performed for the assumed required thermal...
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Intensification of thermal convection near electric devices using flat screens – computer modelling
PublicationIntensification of natural thermal convection near electric devices is possible by application of additional elements as screens creating convection canals close to the device. In the earlier authors paper the results of the analysis of thermal convection with the use of only one additional screen close to the electric device were presented. This paper presents computer modelling of thermal convection when two screens near the...
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Fast surrogate-assisted simulation-driven design of compact microwave hybrid couplers
PublicationThis work presents a robust methodology for expedited simulation-driven design optimization of compact microwave hybrid couplers. The technique relies on problem decomposition, and a bot-tom–up design strategy, starting from the level of basic building blocks of the coupler, and finishing with a tuning procedure that exploits a fast surrogate model of the entire structure. The latter is constructed by cascading local response surface...
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Analiza doboru korzystnego czynnika niskowrzącego do mikrosiłowni kogeneracyjnej
PublicationArtykuł prezentuje wyniki obliczeń oraz wnioski płynące z analiz obiegów ORC pracujących z wykorzystaniem najczęściej spotykanych w siłowniach kogeneracyjnych czynników niskowrzących. W trakcie obliczeń pod uwagę brano obieg z regeneracją ciepła dla czynników suchych: fc72, hfe7100, R227ea, R245fa, R423a, R600a, R600, RC138, R141b oraz obieg bez regeneracji ciepła dla czynników mokrych: R11, R12, R134a, R718, 507a, R290, R717....
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Usage of the Gstreamer framework for generation, analysis, processing and visualization of sonar signal
PublicationIn this paper a novel method of the bearing estimation in a passive sonar system with a towed array is introduced. The classical approach of the bearing estimation based on the spatial spectrum is extended by using the synchrosqeezing method that is a part of the reassignment method introduced by Kodera et al. The usage of this method leads to the precise bearing estimation. The proposed method requires a relatively small amount...
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Doubly miniaturized rat-race hybrid coupler
PublicationTwo complementary miniaturization techniques have beenapplied to reduce the size of a rat-race hybrid coupler: (i) conventional microstrip sections have been replaced with their diminished lowimpedance counterparts as the first step of size reduction and (ii) novel fractal-shaped compact microstrip resonant cells dedicated to efficiently shorten low-impedance transmission line segments have been implemented as the second step of...
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Computer-aided analysis of thermal convection near electric devices
PublicationObciążalność długotrwała urządzeń elektrycznych zależy od intensywności oddawania ciepła przez te urządzenia do otoczenia. Dla zwiększenia obciążalności długotrwałej urządzeń stosuje się konwekcję wymuszoną np. z wykorzystaniem wentylatorów. Wszechstronne obserwacje i analiza procesów konwekcji naturalnej wskazują, że jej intensyfikację można uzyskać dzięki umieszczaniu w pobliżu urządzenia oddającego ciepło elementów tworzących...
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Analiza nowoczesnych siłowni jądrowych
PublicationW pracy analizowano obiegi termodynamiczne siłowni wykorzystujących reaktory jądrowe IV generacji. Obliczano sprawność obiegów siłowni jądrowych z nowoczesnymi reaktorami, a wyniki obliczeń porównano z tradycyjnym układem obecnie stosowanym typu PWR. Każdy z badanych układów optymalizowano ze względu na maksymalną sprawność dla zadanych parametrów początkowych. Układ nadkrytyczny wodny SCWR okazał się najkorzystniejszy ze względów...
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Inverse modeling for fast design optimization of small-size rat-race couplers incorporating compact cells
PublicationIn the paper, a framework for computationally-efficient design optimization of compact rat-race couplers (RRCs) is discussed. A class of hybrid RRCs with variable operating conditions is investigated, whose size reduction is obtained by replacing ordinary transmission lines with compact microstrip resonant cells (CMRCs). Our approach employs a bottom-up design strategy leading to the development of compact RRCs through rapid design...
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Optymalizacja parametrów pracy siłowni osiągającej zaawansowane super ultrandkrytyczne parametry pary świeżej oraz modyfikacje obiegu parowego pozwalające zwiększyć jego sprawność
PublicationW niniejszym artykule przedstawiono metody optymalizacji parametrów siłowni osiągającej zaawansowane super ultranadkrytyczne parametry pary. Stworzono modele obliczeniowe trzech nadkrytycznych obiegów parowych: z pojedynczym przegrzewam międzystopniowym, z podwójnym przegrzewem międzystopniowym oraz „Master Cycle". Zaprezentowano wpływ dodatkowego przegrzewu międzystopniowego i konfiguracji Master Cyde na sprawność obiegu parowego....
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Possibilities of Increasing the Overall Efficiency of Gas-steam CHP Microplant
PublicationThe paper presents ways to increase the efficiency of a gas-steam micro power plant by modifying the cycle combination. The modification consists in partial release of the fluid downstream of the gas turbine and using it for ORC fluid overheating and evaporation. Advantages of this solution over the simplest gas and steam cycles’ combination are demonstrated.
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Numerical modelling and analysis of steel specimens subjected to marine immersed corrosion and tensile load
PublicationThe present study develops numerical models to analyse the behaviour of steel specimens subjected to marine immersed corrosion degradation and tensile load. The finite element method with the use of the explicit dynamic solver LS-DYNA, satisfying the quasi-static conditions, is employed. Two numerical models are developed, where in the first one, the scans of surfaces gathered from corroded plate specimens are implemented directly...
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Advances in Modelling and Analysis of Strength of Corroded Ship Structures
PublicationThe present study reviews the recent advances in modelling and analyses the strength of corroded ship structures. Firstly, the time-variant methodologies that consider only the mean structural element thickness loss due to corrosion degradation are identified. Corrosion degradation is regarded as the phenomenon that causes uneven thinning of specimens. This has been captured by various researchers as the loss of mechanical properties...
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Accelerated large scale test set-up design in natural corrosion marine environment
PublicationThe standards for conducting small-scale specimen tests are well developed, but there is a lack of direct guidelines for conducting corrosion tests for large-scale specimens. The objective here is to develop a methodology which may be used in designing an accelerated corrosion test of large-scale structural components subjected to a natural corrosion marine environment. Different factors influencing corrosion degradation of steel...
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Ultimate strength of stiffened plates subjected to compressive load and spatially distributed mechanical properties
PublicationThe present study deals with the ultimate strength of stiffened plates subjected to spatially distributed mechanical properties and compressive load. Normally, mean values of mechanical properties based on tensile tests are used to validate the numerical assessment with experimental results. However, mechanical properties may vary within a single specimen. To investigate the impact of that, random fields of yield stress and Young...
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Simplified approach to assess the dynamic response of a container ship subjected to bow slamming load
PublicationSimplified approach to assess the dynamic response of a container ship subjected to the bow slamming load, resulting in a transient vibratory response, typically called a 'whip-ping', is presented. The accurate numerical modelling is very complex and involves cou-pling of the hydrodynamic and structural solution at every time step, leading to huge com-putational and workload cost. Thus, the one-way coupling methodology is adopted,...
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Design of experiments approach for ultimate strength assessment of corroded stiffened plates
PublicationThe impact of corrosion degradation on the ultimate strength of stiffened plates subjected to compressive loading is investigated. The DoE technique is used considering different plate and column slenderness ratios and corrosion severity. The FE method, considering geometrical and material nonlinearities, is employed. A two-stage corrosion degradation model is adopted. Firstly, a uniform thickness loss is adopted to reflect the...
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Ultimate compressive strength assessment of uncleaned and cleaned corroded plates with locked crack
PublicationThe work presented here investigates the structural response of cleaned corroded plates, subjected to compressive load in the presence of a locked crack, where the change of mechanical properties as a result of corrosion development and the cleaning process is also accounted for. A Finite Element model for assessing the compressive strength, considering geometric and material nonlinearities, is developed, and the analysed plates...
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Areas of Fan Research—A Review of the Literature in Terms of Improving Operating Efficiency and Reducing Noise Emissions
PublicationFans as industrial devices are among the most significant single recipients of driving energy. Therefore, they represent an important area of energy savings to reduce CO2 emissions. The ubiquity of fans and their operation under conditions different from the optimum provides an opportunity for more significant global reductions in the energy used to drive them. The second important aspect, besides energy efficiency, related to...
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Advanced numerical modelling for predicting residual compressive strength of corroded stiffened plates
PublicationAn advanced methodology for predicting the residual compressive strength of corroded stiffened plates is developed here using the non-linear finite element method. The non-uniform loss of a plate thickness is accounted for on a macro-scale. In contrast, mechanical properties are changed using the constitutive model to reflect the corrosion degradation impact on a micro-scale. Three different stiffened plate thicknesses are considered,...
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Corrosion degradation impact on mechanical properties of structural steel
PublicationRecently, extensive research was conducted regarding the impact of corrosion degradation on the mechanical properties of structural steel. Studies show that at the material level, the microstructure is somewhat unchanged due to corrosion degradation. However, the corrosion causes pits and structural surface irregularities that consequently impact the mean stress-strain response of typical coupon specimens subjected to tensile loading....
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Advanced Turbine Cycles with Organic Media
PublicationOrganic Rankine Cycle (ORC) power plants have become very popular and have found their applications in systems with renewable sources of energy. So far their overall efficiencies are not very impressive and only for the upper temperature of about 300 °C do they exceed 20%. A drawback of these cycles is the limitation of the cycle upper temperature due to the heat exchanger technology and the materials used. However, it is possible...
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DESIGN ANALYSIS OF HYBRID GAS TURBINE - FUEL CELL POWER PLANT IN STATIONARY AND MARINE APPLICATIONS
PublicationThe paper concerns design analysis of a hybrid gas turbine power plant with a fuel cell (stack). The aim of this work was to find the most favorable variant of the medium capacity (approximately 50 MW) hybrid system. In the article, computational analysis of two variants of such a system was carried out. The analysis let to calculate capacity, efficiency of both variants and other parameters like flu gas temperature. The paper...
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An enhanced method in predicting tensile behaviour of corroded thick steel plate specimens by using random field approach
PublicationThe present work investigates the possibility of using random field techniques in modelling the mechanical behaviour of corroded thick steel plate specimens. The nonlinear Finite Element method, employing the explicit dynamic solver, is used to analyse the mechanical properties of typical specimens. A material model considering full nonlinearity is used to evaluate the stress-strain response. The influence of major governing parameters...
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Subcritical Thermodynamic Cycles with Organic Medium and Isothermal Expansion
PublicationThe efffciencies of the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) are not very high and only very seldom do they exceed 20%. The increase and optimization of initial parameters and certain modifications of the thermodynamic cycle make it possible to overcome these drawbacks. A new modified cycle has been described and analyzed in detail in the paper. Similarly to the Ericsson cycle for gas turbines, isothermal expansion in the turbine is suggested...
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Design Analysis of Micro Gas Turbines in Closed Cycles
PublicationThe problems faced by designers of micro-turbines are connected with a very small volume flow rate of working media which leads to small blades’ height and high rotor speed. In the case of gas turbines this limitation can be overcome by the application of a closed cycle with very low pressure at the compressor inlet (lower than atmospheric pressure). In this way we may apply a micro gas turbine unit of accepted efficiency to work...
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Analysis of ultimate compressive strength of cracked plates with the use of DOE techniques
PublicationThe objective of this work is to investigate the structural compressive response of plates with locked cracks accounting for all relevant factors and correlation between them. The nonlinear FE model considering both geometric and material nonlinearities is employed herein, and the FE model of the structural response of intact plates is validated with the available experimental data. In the common studies, based on One Factor at...
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Random field modelling of mechanical behaviour of corroded thin steel plate specimens
PublicationThe objective of this work is to explore the possibility of corrosion degradation modelling of thin steel plate specimens with the use of random field approach. The mechanical properties are obtained via the nonlinear Finite Element Analysis with the use of an explicit dynamic solver. The fully nonlinear material model is adopted to obtain the proper stress-strain response. Sensitivity analysis considering the main statistical...
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Reliability of Corroded Stiffened Plate Subjected to Uniaxial Compressive Loading
PublicationThe work is focused on the reliability of corroded stiffened plates subjected to compressive uniaxial load based on the progressive collapse approach as stipulated by the Common Structural Rules for Bulk Carriers and Oil Tankers, employing the limit state design. Two different cases have been investigated. In the first model, the corrosion degradation led to uniform thickness loss, whereas the mechanical properties were unchanged,...