Interim NASA chief Sean Duffy, who also serves as US Transportation Secretary, will reveal a fast-tracked plan this week to construct a nuclear reactor on the Moon.
Reportedly, this move is particularly notable because it’s Duffy’s…
Category: Engineering
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World’s most powerful battery goes live at 350 MW
Australia’s Waratah Super Battery, operated by BlackRock’s Akaysha Energy, has officially begun operations. Once fully commissioned later this year, it will become the world’s largest battery by power output.
With an expected capacity…
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The impact of multidirectional excitation on the stick–slip vibration characteristics of a drill string
Taking a deep vertical well in an oilfield in western China as an example, the influence of composite impact tool on the stick–slip vibration characteristics of drill string is analyzed. The composite impact tool is often installed above the…
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Superimposed modal voltage based passive islanding detection of grid tied distributed generation using Wigner distribution function
Hussain, A., Mehdi & Kim, C. H. A communication-less islanding detection scheme for hybrid distributed generation systems using recurrent neural network. Int. J. Electr. Power Energy Syst. 155, 109659 (2024).
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Roles of elements V and N in tetragonally distorted Fe-Co-V-N films
Crystal structure and magnetic properties of Rh/(Fe0.5Co0.5)100−yVy films
Figure 1a shows the in-plane and out-of-plane X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of N-free (Fe0.5Co0.5)100−yVy (t = 20 nm) films deposited on the Rh underlayer. The…
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Joints with angle dependent damping can help to reduce impact forces in robots
In the context of a robotic end effector collision, complete cycle would involve contact establishment (impact), compression, restitution and recovery from collision. However, to investigate the effect of angle-dependent damping on collision…
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Effect of operating conditions on the bursting performances of cross-grooved domed rupture disc
Applied pressure
In this section, the bursting performance of CDRs under varying applied pressures is analyzed. In practical applications, the applied pressure on CDRs typically consists of two components: the operating pressure and the back…
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Adaptive control strategies for button motor actuated insect scale flapping wing MAV mechanisms
This section gives an overview of the results obtained from simulation study.
Button motor driven design-2 Fwd-model
An attempt was made to add two more wing levers to the same model, and as a result, we were able to achieve the four-lever…
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Triple-layered security system: reliable and secured image communications over 5G and beyond networks
Vu, K., Abdellah, C., Nguyen, M., Nguyen, D. & Nguyen, T. Innovative trends in the 6G era: A comprehensive survey of architecture, applications, technologies, and challenges. IEEE Access. 11, 39824–39844 (2023).
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Numerical analysis of flow configuration and channel design for thermoelectric OTEC systems
This study utilized COMSOL Multiphysics finite element software to simulate a TEG between warm surface seawater and cold deep seawater flow channels. The 3.8-m-long, 0.072-m-wide channels comprised 400 thermoelectric units in total. A…
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