Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, ICMAE2012: (Volume 232 Applied Mechanics and Materials)

The proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE 2012), held on the 7 and 8th July 2012 in Paris, France, reflect the current situation in these important fields.

Table of Contents:
Preface and Committees Chapter 1: Advances in Composites Materials Effect of Process Parameters on Defect Formation in Friction Stir Processed 6082-T6 Aluminium Alloy Verification of Accelerated Methods for Determining the S-N Curve Effects of Atmospheric Conditions on the Mechanical Properties of Tires Hypothesis of Local Zones with Dependent Fatigue Damages Accumulation Experimental Research on Acoustic Emission of Granite under Uniaxial Compression and Splitting Tensile The Characteristic Features of Composite Materials Specimen’s Static Fracture Investigated by the Acoustic Emission Method Mesoporous Activated Carbon Prepared from Bamboo by One-Step CO2 Activation Used for Puerarin Separation The Microstructure and Hardness of Al2O3 Particle Reinforced Composite Overall Mechanical Properties of Particulate Porous Composites Following Two-Step Homogenization Scheme An Empirical Model of Ribbed Cylindrical Glass Reinforced Plastic Tanks Surface Quality and Dust Analysis in High Speed Trimming of CFRP Elastic and Plastic Stress Analysis of Composite Beams under Distributed Load A Semi-Analytical Model for Buckling of Laminated Plates with the NKQ Method Effective Mechanical Properties for Composites with Three-Phase Randomly Distributed Aggregates Predicted by Multi-Step Mori-Tanaka Method Multiple Nonlinear Regression Analysis for the Prediction of Macroscopic Elastic Properties on Composite Containing Interphase Research and Simulation on Strengthening Steel Structure with Carbon Fiber Sheet Reconfiguration of a Milling Machine to Achieve Friction Stir Welds Quasi Static Analysis of Anti-Plane Shear Crack Quasi Static Fracture – Global Minimizer of the Regularized Energy Analysis on the Friction Performance of the Bionic Surface with the Convex Domes for Increasing Friction Evaluation of Delamination in Drilling Rice Husk Reinforced Polyester Composites The Element Free Galerkin Method for Fully Developed, Open-Channel Magnetohydrodynamic Flow Chapter 2: Nanomaterials, Functional and Biomedical Materials Dynamic Response of an Electro-Rheological Sandwich Beam with Different Elastic Layers Subjected to Simultaneous Impact Loads Design of a Microstrip Antenna Based on the Magnetoelectric Composite Material Thermophysical Properties of Nanoparticles-Phase Change Material Compositions for Thermal Energy Storage Architectural Application of Smart Materials for Non-Flexible Structures Made by Flexible Formworks Smart Surveillance System Detection Using PCA- Based Feature Extraction Biomechanical Study of Lumbar Spinal Fixation Device Investigating the Effect of Gripping on Upper Limbs Muscles by Modeling and Electromyography Test Comparative Study of Mechanical Properties of Bone Tissue Based on the CT and the µCT Slices Studies on Post-Yield Behavior of Cortical Bone Microstructures and Various Properties of Hot-Extruded Mg-Zr-Ca Alloys for Biomedical Applications Chapter 3: Aerospace Engineering, Air Vehicles and Navigation System Design and Development of an Integrated Flight Planning and Rehearsal System Based on GIS and Navigation Database Effect of Nose Tip on Wing Rock of Slender Delta Wing Research on Airplane BOM Management Based on Single Source of Product Data A Novel Design in Micro-Air-Vehicle: Flapping Rotary Wings Nonlinear Hierarchy-Structured Predictive Control System Design for Hypersonic Flight Vehicle Friction Stir Spot Welding Technology and its Application in Aerospace Industry Application of Fuzzy Adaptive Fusion Algorithm in INS/BNS/GPS Integrated Navigation System Chapter 4: Aero-, Hydrodynamics and Wind Tunnel Experimental Investigation on Supersonic Jet Screech Tones Effect of Wind Directions on the Thermal Performance of Three Aligned NDDCT: Parallel and Perpendicular Directions Influence of Tip Clearance on the Turbulent Aerodynamics of Axial Flow Fan under off Design Conditions Investigation of Transient Shock Wave in Supersonic Wind Tunnel Estimation of Skin Friction Drag on a Model in Hypersonic Shock Tunnel Numerical Investigation of Hypersonic Double-Cone Flow Studies on Aerodynamic Characteristics of Dump Diffusers for Modern Aircraft Engines Numerical Wind Tunnel Simulation of Wind Loads on a Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation Station Flow Velocity Investigation by Particle Image Velocimetry in Supersonic Air Ejector Influence of the Curved Ground Surface on the Lift of Flat Plate Airfoil Dynamic Impact Behavior of Water Droplet on a Superhydrophobic Surface in the Presence of Stagnation Flow Layer Thickness Variation in Two-Phase Flow of a Third Grade Fluid A Two-Phase Flow Model with VOF for Free Surface Flow Problems Theoretical and Experimental Study on Oil-Water Two-Phase Flow in a Downhole Venturi Meter Study of Numerical Evaluation about Kinestate of Mixed Particles in Rectilinear-Flow Pneumatic Conveyance Capillary Force in the Particle-Particle-Substrate System Chapter 5: Advances in Rocket and Space Engineering, Technology Range Prediction and Trajectory Correction of Long Range Rocket with Attitude Stabilization Research of Pipeline Fault Diagnosis for Liquid Rocket Propulsion System Air Breathing Rocket Engines and Sustainable Launch Systems Studies on Ignition Delay and Flame Spread in High-Performance Solid Rocket Motors Advanced Space Launching Mechanism Making an Outer Space Adventure by Means of the Periodic Return of Halley Comet A Fault Isolation Method Based on Analytical Redundancy Relations for Spacecraft Propulsion System Discharge Characteristics of a Laser-Electromagnetic Coupling Plasma Thruster for Spacecraft Propulsion Studies on Gravity Influence on Solid Propellant Burn Rate Design Algorithm for Upper Stage’s Attitude Control System Influence of Electrode Flare Angle on the Performance of Pulsed Plasma Thruster Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Integration Signed Directed Graph with Quantitative Knowledge Chapter 6: Robotics: Modelling, Simulation etc. A Kinematic Model for Volumetric Error Estimation of a Special Purpose CNC Machine Development of Efficient Tactile Sensing System for Humanoid Robotics A New Method for Precision of a Serpentine Snake-Like Robot Robot Manipulators: Modeling, Simulation and Optimal Multi-Variable Control Autonomous Laser Guided Vehicle for Book Deposition in a Library Experimental Study of Non-Contact Robot Gripper for Food Industries CBR Based Collision Avoidance Approach to Reactive Control for Multi-Robot System Performance Optimisation of Mobile Robots for Search-and-Rescue Improved Hough Transform Applying in Mobile Robot Vision Navigation A Method for Solving Dynamic Equations of a 3-PRR Parallel Robot Robustness Compensation Control of Simulation Loading System Based on Secondary Regulation Chapter 7: Vibration Analysis and Measurement A Homogenization Procedure for Nonlinear Free Vibration Analysis of Functionally Graded Beams Resting on Nonlinear Elastic Foundations Micro-Vibration Analysis and Measurement on High Resolution Remote Sensing Satellites Localization and Identification of Vibroacoustic Sources of Gear Transmission Mechanism by Inverse Frequency Response Function Reaction Wheel Disturbance Characterization by Analysis of Micro-Vibration Measurements Vibrations of a Non Jeffcott Rotor with One Non Linear Bearing The Study of the Effect of the Blade’s Aspect Ratio and Thickness on Rotating Vibration Model Predict Vibration and Noise of Disc Brake Dynamics of Cantilever Beams due to Time-Dependent Excitations and their Suppression Chapter 8: Simulation Studies of Various Systems Detailed Investigation of Detached-Eddy Simulation for the Flow Past a Circular Cylinder at Re=3900 Simulating the Granular Materials Flow in Rotary Kilns Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation and Flight Experimentation of the Control System on a Small Solid Rocket Simulation and Optimization Analysis of External Spur-Gear Pump Shell Direct Computational Method for Life Prediction of UD Fibre Reinforced Polymers Based-on Plasticity-Damage Simulation Computational Simulation of Small Punch Test Numerical Simulation of Gel Propellant Droplet Breakup in Airflow Dynamic Simulation on Shock Excitation Hydraulic System with Rotary Valve Based on AMEsim The Constant Pressure Gas Supply Control System and Characteristic Simulation to Air Compressors Based on Fuzzy Self-Tuning of PID Parameters Helicopter Maneuver Flight Simulation and Control Law Design Pressure Control Characteristics Simulation Research of Electro-Hydraulic Proportional Variable Pump ADAMS/MATLAB Co-Simulation: Dynamic Systems Analysis and Control Tool An APIm Algorithm to Solve the Scheduling Problem in an FMS with Presence of Breakdowns Tube Hydroforming Analysis Based on Ansys Chapter 9: Modelling of Systems Modelling Aerodynamics Unsteady Loads on the Horizontal Tail Plane of a Civil Aircraft Modeling of Layering Ceramic Shell Mould Modeling Approach of a Near-Space Airship Using Newton-Euler and Lagrangian Formulation Developing a Dynamic Model for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Motion on Ground during Takeoff Phase Modeling of Planar Embedded Cracks of Arbitrary Shape under Non Uniform Mode I Loadings Algebraic Modeling for Dynamic Gates in Dynamic Fault Trees Dynamic Fault Trees Analysis for Importance Measures Based on Cut Sequence Set Model Modeling of Urea-Water Solution Injection Spray in SCR System Area Symbol Model for GIS Based on AutoCAD The State of the Art in Energy Consumption Model – The Key to Sustainable Machining Chapter 10: Optimization Techniques Quality Prediction in Complex Industrial Process with Support Vector Machine and Genetic Algorithm Optimization: A Case Study Thermoeconomic Approach and Optimization of a Solar Thermal Power Plant Influence of Optimization Algorithm on Airfoil Shape Optimization of Aircraft Wings On the Optimization of Vent Arrangement in a Subway Station 3-D Path Planning for UAV Based on Chaos Particle Swarm Optimization Research and Simulation on Optimization of Phase Noise in Crystal Oscillators The Design and Optimization of Fuzzy Controller Based on Vibrating Mill Granularity A Comprehensive Approach for Thermal Error Model Optimization for ANN-Based Real-Time Error Compensation in CNC Machine Tools Optimal Trajectory of Flexible Manipulators Using Genetic Algorithms Chapter 11: Applications of Neural Network and Finite Element in Materials Predictions of Scratch Characters for Engineering Material by Using FEM and Abductive Network Optimize the Satellite Orientation by Using the Inertial Pulse Method, Intelligent Damper, Dynamics, Kinematics and Proper Neural Network Detection of Mechanical Defects by Neural Networks “Experimental Analysis” Global Stability Properties for Neutral-Type Hopfield Neural Networks Modal Stress Intensity Factor Using Extended Finite Element Method Stress of a Rocket Turbine under Different Loads Using Finite Element Modeling Magnesium Alloy Stent Expansion Behavior Simulated by Finite Element Method Research on Authentication-Based Security Technology for Complex Networks Dynamic Response Analysis of a SRM Incorporating Frequency-Dependent Modulus Using Iterative Approach Data Acquisition and Power Forecasting of Trans-Regional Wind Farm Dynamic Stress Intensity Factor Computation by Using Xfem Formulation Chapter 12: Heat Transfer, Heat Engines, Thermal Systems, and Fuels Integrated Thermal Management System Design for Advanced Propulsion System Study of Induction Heating Process Applied to Internal Gear Using 3D Model Sensitivity Study of Temperature Profile of 4340 Spur Gear Heated by Induction Process Using 3D Model Numerical Simulation of Phase Change Thermal Storage in Finned Double-Pipe Heat Exchanger A New Approach about Heat Transfer of Hot-Wire Anemometer The Design of the Pre-Heater of Gas-Operated Hot-Water Heater Heat Transfer Study in Oil Channels of a Power Transformer Winding ONAN Cooling System with and without Insulating Paper Based on Numerical Modeling The Interior Ballistic Research for Gas-Steam Launching System with Water Injection in Block A Numerical Study on Heat Transfer and Lubricant Depletion on an Anisotropic Multilayer Hard Disk Application and Research of Feedforward Control in Boiler Control of Supercritical Thermal Power Generating Unit Augmentation of Convective Heat Transfer of Highly Viscous Fluid within Three-Dimensional Internally Finned Tube Study of Hydrogen-Air Flame Stability with Different Initial Pressure The Features of Microwave Thermal Conversion of Oil Sludge A Micro Gas Turbine Fuelled by Methane-Hydrogen Blends Hex Turbofan Engine Study on Damage of a Floating Roof-Type Oil Storage Tank due to Thermal Stress Experimental Study on the Laminar Cooling Process of the Middle and Heavy Plate Microbial Fuel Cell for Sustainable Electricity Production from Seafood Wastewater Chapter 13: Automotive Engineering and Under-Water Technologies Analysis of a Roll Cage Design against Various Impact Load and Longitudinal Torsion for Safety Knowledge Based Engineering Optimization and Interoperability: An Automotive Case-Study Experimental Validation and Adjustment of the Semi-Active Suspension Numerical Model Incorporating a MR Damping Experimental Determination of Vehicle Lateral Drift Characteristics under Laboratory Conditions Automated Car Seed Limiter for Cars With Electronic Fuel Pedal Research on Vehicle Longitudinal Following Control Modeling and Collaborative Simulation Research on Integrated Assembling Technology of Passenger Vehicle Clutches Cover Assembly CFD Simulations for Hydrodynamic Derivatives of High Speed Underwater Vehicle The Electrochemical Principle of Measuring Underwater Electric Field Calculation of Friction Coefficients in Journal Bearings to Determine the Turning Gear Motor Power Stresses Induced in Saturated Asphalt Pavement by Moving Vehicles Analysis of All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) for Impact Loading and Roll over Considering the Safety of Occupants Chapter 14: Reliability and Reverse Engineering Structural Damage Detection of Jointed Frame Structures Using Chaotic Excitation and Attractor Analysis Fatigue Reliability of Selective Laser Sintered (SLS) Components Using Weibull Analysis Reliability of Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) Components on Fatigue Cycles to Failure Using Weibull Analysis A Trimming Method of Experiment Based on Reverse Engineering Mesh Denoising Based on Spherical Wavelets in Reverse Engineering A New Modified Back-Propagation Algorithm for Forecasting Malaysian Housing Demand Chapter 15: Miscellaneous Researches of Technical Interest Analysis of Companding Techniques Applied to Onboard Telemetry Systems Adaptive Building Envelope System Using Parametric Camshaft Mechanism for Sustainable Building Mechanics Analyzing of Suspended Formwork Supporting System and Research of Decision System in Constructing Transfer Storey Structure of Steel Reinforced Concrete Design and Analysis of a Ultrasonic Sliding Platform Influence of pH on Cadmium Removal from Wastewater by SSI Tribological Behaviour and Metallographic Study of Al 2014 Alloy Reinforced by SiC Particle Application of High-Linearity Analog Optocoupler in DSP Acquisition Circuit Structural Nonlinearity Identification Using Perturbed Eigen Problem and ITD Modal Analysis Method The Kinematics of Eight-Speed Planetary Gear Hubs for Bicycles Influence of Hole Shape and Pattern on the Prediction of Limiting Strain for Perforated Commercial Pure Aluminium Sheets Cutting Tool Condition Monitoring in Machining Processes - A Comprehensive Approach Using ANN Based Multisensor Fusion Strategy