Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering VI: (Volume 798 Applied Mechanics and Materials)

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2015 6th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE 2015), July 16-17, 2015, Roma, Italy. The 109 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Designing and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering Chapter 2: Dynamics and Vibration of Machines and Mechanisms Chapter 3: Fluids and Thermal Engineering Chapter 4: Researching and Designing of Internal Combustion Engine Chapter 5: Instrumentation, Monitoring, Control Systems and Automatics Chapter 6: Materials and Materials Processing in Mechanical Engineering Chapter 7: Computational Techniques for Simulation and Numerical Analysis Chapter 8: Researching and Designing in Aerospace Engineering

Table of Contents:
Preface and Committees Chapter 1: Designing and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering Teaching Industrial Robot Manipulators by Easy to Use Interface Systems A New Design Concept for Wind Turbine Airfoil Evaluation and Improvement of Performance Parameters for a Mechanical System Used in Minirobotics Effect of Link Tolerance and Joint Clearance on End-Effector Positioning of the 3-PSP Manipulator Using Taguchi Method Flanged Connections of Steel Tubular Sections under High Bending Stresses: A Comparison between Two Thickness Design Methods Design of Passive Weight Compensation for a Robotic Manipulator A FEM Frontal Impact Study of Square-Section Tubes with Different Structural Solutions for Vehicle Safety Experimental Determination of Tyre Lateral Force: Application to Tyre Cornering Stiffness Passive Safety Analysis for the Commercial Vehicle Cab after Weight-Reduction Design Simulating Torsional Slip in V-Band Clamp Joints Performance Evaluation of a Variable Geometry Gas Turbine in a CHP Plant Design of Walking Mechanism for All-Terrain Mobile Platform Gantry Robot for Mobile Observation Assessment of a FEM-Based Formulation for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Rotors Aeroelasticity Combined Compliance Method of the Variable Cross Section Flexure Hinge and its Verification Continuous Improvements Analysis in Energy Efficiency of Steering Power Systems to Light Vehicles Cascading Analysis Using Discrete Element Method in Rotary Drum Coolers Analysis of Developing of Renewable Energy Sector in Europe and 2020 Targets Chapter 2: Dynamics and Vibration of Machines and Mechanisms Optimization Method Research for Stiffened Thin Wall Structure’s Vibration Suppression Based on Parametric Modeling Technique Effect of the Transverse Shear Deformation on the Free Vibration of Rotating Blades Modeled as Thin-Walled Composite Beams Dynamics of Landing a Spacecraft on a Small Celestial Body with Conditional Operation of Pinch Engines Dynamic Model Updating of Satellite Structure Using Vibration Test Data Noise and Vibration Measurements for the Assessment of Damping Efficiency in Power Transformers An Investigation of Internal Viscous Damping Effects on the Vibration of a Microbeam Made of Functionally Graded Materials Modal Analysis as the Base of Dynamic Analysis Chapter 3: Fluids and Thermal Engineering Design and Analyses of a Propeller for Underwater Vehicles Using Computational Fluid Dynamics Experimental Study of Defluidization by Continuous Water Injection into a Gas-Solid Fluidized Bed Using Pressure Fluctuation Measurements Determination of the Diameter of a Cylinder to Insertion in a Low-Speed Wind Tunnel Based on EFD and CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Steel Bars Cooling by Free Convection and Thermal Radiation Evaluation of Spray Drying Behavior by Model Simulation A Practical Solution for Reducing Critical Height in Drain Sink Problem during Ladle Teeming Process Numerical Simulation of Solid Propellant Rocket Exhaust Plume Considering Two-Phase Flow Effects Numerical Analysis of Pressure Swirl Atomizer Optimal Design of Wind Boosters for Low Speed Vertical Axis Wind Turbines Investigation of Phase Change Material as a Potential Replacement of EGR Cooler Fluid Dynamic Simulation and Optimization of Compact Heat Exchangers with Louver Fins Chapter 4: Researching and Designing of Internal Combustion Engine Numerical Validation of the Ethanol Spray Produced by a Direct Injection Injector for Different Pressure Conditions Ethanol Lean Combustion Characteristics of a GDI Engine Numerical Analysis of an Internal Combustion Engine Using One-Dimensional Code Macroscopic Analysis of Spray Development Using Direct Injection for Studying Ethanol Fuel Behavior Numerical Analysis of a Torch-Ignition System for an Internal Combustion Engine Design and Fabrication of Supercharging an Engine Using Vehicle Suspension Chapter 5: Instrumentation, Monitoring, Control Systems and Automatics Adaptive Fuzzy Autopilot for a Scale Ship Model Satellite Attitude Control System Using a Spherical Reaction Wheel A New Iterative Identification and Control Method of Closed-Loop Power System Based on Ambient Signals Fault Detection in Navigation System of ALV Based on Symmetrical Behavior of Control Channels Tool Condition Monitoring Using the Electromotive Force from the Chip-Tool Thermocouple Elimination of the Collision States of the Effectors of Industrial Robots by Application of Neural Networks Formation Control of Quadrotor UAVs by Vision-Based Positioning Mapping by Optimization of the Minimum Volumetric Error in Coordinate Measuring Machines Optimal Control Procedure Application for Dynamic Response of Adaptive Aircraft Wings Modeled as Thin-Walled Composite Beams Stability Analysis of the Microsatellite Attitude Control System Calibration of Positional Errors in Coordinate Measuring Machines and Machine Tools Using a Laser Interferometer System Selection of Input Parameters for Multivariate Classifiersin Proactive Machine Health Monitoring by Clustering Envelope Spectrum Harmonics Size Determination of Immersed and Embedded Cylindrical Rods by Inversion of Acoustic Scattering Data Real-Time 2D Surface Profile Mapping of Biological Tissue with Force Feedback in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery Development of a Tool Changer for a Reconfigurable Machine Tool The Development of Flight Test Real-Time Trajectory Measurement System Chapter 6: Materials and Materials Processing in Mechanical Engineering In Si tu X-Ray Diffraction Measurements of the Apparent Modulus of Human Dental Tissue in the Vicinity of the Dentine-Enamel Junction (DEJ) Application of High-Strength Gradient Cutting Ceramics with a Multifunctional Coating for Heavy Machining of Hard-to-Cut Materials Improving Efficiency of End Mills by Deposition of Modifying Nano-Scale Multilayer Composite Coatings Tensile Behavior of Unidirectional Carbon Reinforced Composites for Aerospace Structures under Varying Strain Rates Experimental Study on Material Removal Capability with Vibration-Assisted WEDM Multi-Cycle Nanoindentation Studies on TiN/TiAlN Nano-Multilayer Coating: Effects of Mechanical Properties and Coating Structure Si Particle Size-Controlled Al-17 Mass% Si Alloy and Tool Wear in Cutting Al-17 Mass% Si Alloy by Polycrystalline Diamond Compact Cutting Tool Tool Wear of Aluminum/Chromium/Tungsten-Based-Coated Cemented Carbide in Cutting Hardened Steel Preparation of Pb(II)-Imprinted-Carboxymethyl Chitosan-Pectin-BADGE Film as Sorbent for Pb(II) Ion Application of Oyster (Anadara Inflata) Shell Chitosan as Adsorbent for Heavy Metal Cu(II) Ion Wear Behaviour of Cryogenic Treated M2 Tool Steel under Dry Sliding Condition Further Analysis on Silver Ions Migration The Spontaneous Growth of Pb Whisker from the Pb60Sn40 Solder Layer on the Au Coating Environmental Effects on the Static and Fatigue Behaviours of Hemp Fibre under Tensile Loading Epoxy Resin as a Binder in the Preparation of Rutile Coated Electrodes Research on Wear Mechanism of Solid Lubrication Bearing in Vacuum Environment Predicting Mechanical and Thermal Behavior of Multiphase Composite Containing Phase Change Material (PCM) by Micromechanical Approaches Comparative Study of Effect of Cryogenics Heat Treatment and Case Hardening on the Wear Property of 20MnCr5 Intellectualization of Surface Layers, Working under Cyclic Loading and Reversing Friction Experimental Investigation of Machining Factors in Metal Turning Operation Using Shainin’s Variables Search Method Comparative Evaluation of Efficiency of Metal-Cutting Tool by Method of Pendulum Scribing Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Application Analysis of Buckling of Sandwich Plates with Viscoelastic Core Using Layerwise Theory FE Study of the Chips Morphology when Drilling Process Analysis of Wood Biomass in Bubbling Fluidized Bed Reactors Evaluation of the Potential of Fruit Peel Biomass after Conventional and Microwave Drying for Use as Solid Fuel Toolholder Internally Cooled by a Phase Change Fluid in Turning of SAE XEV-F Chapter 7: Computational Techniques for Simulation and Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis of the Trajectory of a Basketball Considering Lift and Drag Bespoke Part Library for an SME for Enhanced Design Efficiency A Generalized Elasto-Plastic Micro-Polar Constitutive Model Chapter 8: Researching and Designing in Aerospace Engineering Critical Mach Number for Flow around Circular-Arc Airfoil Third Order ENO Scheme on Non-Uniform Grid for Supersonic Flows II Unsteady Aerodynamic Characteristics of the Pitched Supersonic Biplane Aircraft Ditching Loads Simulation Tool Numerical Study of the Particle Dispersion on a Supersonic Shear Layer Research on Simulation and Experiment of Dynamic Aeroelastic Analysis on Wing Structure Investigation of Vortex Structures for Supersonic Jet Interaction Flowfield End of Life and Beginning of Life Thermal Analysis of a Micro Satellite Design of a Solar Powered, Unmanned, Low Altitude, High Endurance Airship Aircraft Configuration Improvement Study from Aerodynamic and Structure Standpoints The Application of Stewart Platform in Spacesuit Upper Torso Active Fit Design A Modified Discriminance in Performance Reliability Simulation of Solid Rocket Motor Actuation System Design for a Morphing Aileron Numerical Investigation of Surface Curvature Effects on Aerofoil Aerodynamic Performance A Simple and Robust Subsonic Boundary Layer Method to Be Used with the Panel Method for Wing Calculations Using a Wing Strip Approach Inverse Design Method for a Supersonic Ring Wing Based on the Busemann Concept Numerical Experiment of Flow Characteristics of Parallel Arrangement Two Symmetrical Airfoils Deterministic Algorithms to Estimate Spacecraft Angular Velocity from Single Vector Measurements Drogue System Reliability Analysis Using Weibull Analysis A “Laminar + Transition Criteria” Model for Hypersonic Three-Dimensional Boundary Layer Transition Prediction A Contact Nonlinear Thermo-Structure Fully-Coupled Simulation for Nozzle Based on One-Time Adhesive Failure