Mechanics of Mobile Robots with Mecanum Wheels Klaus Zimmermann, Igor Zeidis, Florian Schale and Pedro Alonso Flores-Alvarez Abstract The mechanics of a robot with Mecanum wheels is studied. A Mecanum wheel is a wheel with rollers attached...

Solid liquid stirred tanls are commonly used in the minerals industry for operations 1ile concentration, leaching, adsorption, effluent treatment, etc. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is increasingly being used to predict the hydrodynami...

Plastic injection molding plays a key role in the production of high-quality plastic parts. Shrinkage is one of the most significant problems of a plastic part in terms of quality in the plastic injection molding. This article focuses on t...

Abstract Train braking performance is important for the safety and reliability of railway systems. The availability of a tool that allows evaluating such performance on the basis of the main train features can be useful for train system des...

a b s t r a c t The effect of catalyst pore structure on n-butane oxidation to maleic anhydride in a fixed-bed reactor was investigated by numerical simulations. The micro- and macro-pore model of Wakao and Smith was applied to model the d...

Abstract The effects of thermal properties of various fillers (magnetite, barite, copper, talc, glass fibres and strontium ferrite) in various proportions on the cooling behaviour of polypropylene matrix composites are investigated in an in...

Multi-piece molding technology is an important tool in producing complex-shaped parts that cannot be made by traditional two-piece molds. However, designing multi-piece molds is also a time-consuming task. This paper proposes an approach fo...

Abstract An innovative prediction method for the combination of failure modes of an arch bridge is proposed for its probabilistic risk assessment and is compared with the conventional system reliability analysis method. The suggested method...

Abstract A high temperature heat exchanger has been developed for application in a Rankine cycle. (Organic) Rankine Cycle technology is considered for exhaust Waste Heat Recovery from heavy-duty vehicles and other high power applications. T...

Abstract Renewed interest in reducing interior noise in transportation vehicles has motivated research in low frequency, structural-acoustic analysis. The internal sound field in the enclosed cavity is significantly affected by the acoustic...