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Modern wind turbines are designed to cope with their increased size and capacity. One of the most expensive components of these machines is the gearbox. Its design is more complex than a mere upscaling exercise from predecessors. The stress levels experienced by the different gear stages, the dynamic effects induced by their size and the unparalleled loads transmitted are some of the challenges that design engineers face. Moreover, unexpected ...

Computational efficiency is important for all numerical simulation tools. For real-time and faster-than-real-time applications, which rely on a strong interaction between simulation results and other subsystems, it is vital. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for coordinate transformations to recast the differential-algebraic system equations of a flexible mechanism into a simpler set of equations, which is cheaper to solve. Desirable ...

Computational efficiency is important for all numerical simulation tools. For real-time and faster-than-real-time applications, which rely on a strong interaction between simulation results and other subsystems, it is vital. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for coordinate transformations to recast the differential-algebraic system equations of a flexible mechanism into a simpler set of equations, which is cheaper to solve. Desirable ...

The physical interaction between vibrating structures and acoustics is of paramount importance in modern society. It is encountered in many products of daily use, such as vehicles, home appliances, and musical instruments but also in industrial environments, such as an assembly line in a factory. On the one hand, sound can be considered pleasant or useful in the context of music or communication. On the other hand, undesired sound, or noise, can ...

The use of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) tools in the automotive industry is nowadays a confirmed approach to predict the various functional performance attributes (ride and handling, NVH, crashworthiness, etc.) and adapt the design based on the outcome of virtual simulations. In particular, reduction of the time to market has been one of the main thrusts in the automotive sector in the last years, pushing researchers to find more efficient ...

The use of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) tools in the automotive industry is nowadays a confirmed approach to predict the various functional performance attributes (ride and handling, NVH, crashworthiness, etc.) and adapt the design based on the outcome of virtual simulations. In particular, reduction of the time to market has been one of the main thrusts in the automotive sector in the last years, pushing researchers to find more efficient ...

The use of seeds dressed with pesticides is widespread and has important advantages. The most important disadvantage of this technique is that there is a possible emission of pesticide laden dust particles during sowing. The main factors affecting the emission of pesticide-laden dust are seed treatment quality, the environmental conditions and the seed drill technology used (Nuyttens et al. 2013).
Due to the bee killing incidents observed ...

© 2016 IEEE. In power systems rife with uncertainty, stochastic unit commitment (SUC) models may be used to properly size and allocate operational reserves, in order to ensure a reliable and cost-efficient operation of the power system. The performance of SUC-based unit commitment schedules is however fully dependent on the scenario sets used to describe the uncertainty at hand. Dedicated scenario generation & reduction techniques (SGT & ...