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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Estudo da din?mica de secagem em um secador rotat?rio com alimenta??o intermitente / Dynamic study of drying in rotary dryer operating with feed intermittent

Moura, Br?ggida Dantas de 15 April 2016 (has links)
Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-12-29T17:01:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 BriggidaDantasDeMoura_TESE.pdf: 2291552 bytes, checksum: 2fb9f82bd1437c5af48a519b0910e04e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-01-02T19:38:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 BriggidaDantasDeMoura_TESE.pdf: 2291552 bytes, checksum: 2fb9f82bd1437c5af48a519b0910e04e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-02T19:38:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 BriggidaDantasDeMoura_TESE.pdf: 2291552 bytes, checksum: 2fb9f82bd1437c5af48a519b0910e04e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-15 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / A crescente atividade industrial de beneficiamento de polpas de frutas ? respons?vel pela gera??o de uma quantidade significativa de subproduto na forma de res?duos, constitu?dos basicamente de semente, casca e baga?o da fruta. Tais res?duos ainda s?o pouco aproveitados e o seu descarte direto pode resultar em preju?zos ambientais consider?veis. Portanto, ? de grande interesse cient?fico e tecnol?gico o desenvolvimento de estrat?gias para agregar valor econ?mico a estes res?duos. A secagem, por ser um dos processos mais utilizados na preserva??o de produtos aliment?cios, representa uma alternativa interessante de aproveitamento dos res?duos, podendo gerar um material com potencial aplica??o na forma de ingrediente para ra??o animal. Neste trabalho, foi realizado um estudo de secagem do res?duo de maracuj? atrav?s de um secador rotat?rio com recheio de inertes e fluxo concorrente, operando com alimenta??o intermitente do material. Diferentes condi??es de intermit?ncia e de temperatura do ar de secagem foram estudadas experimentalmente com o objetivo de avaliar o comportamento de resposta na sa?da do secador das seguintes vari?veis: umidade do s?lido; umidade do ar; temperatura do ar; e massa produzida cumulativamente ao longo da secagem. Tamb?m, um modelo matem?tico do processo foi implementado com o objetivo de descrever o comportamento de resposta din?mica nas condi??es estudadas. Tal modelo matem?tico foi escrito com base nos balan?os de massa e energia das fases s?lido e g?s (ar de secagem), resultando num sistema de equa??es diferenciais parciais (EDP), onde as vari?veis do processo (umidade e temperatura do s?lido e do g?s) s?o dependentes do tempo e do espa?o (dire??o da coordenada axial do secador). As propriedades fisico-quimicas e composicional do res?duo de maracuj? foram avaliadas e permitiram inferir importantes par?metros necess?rios ao modelo matem?tico. Testes iniciais de secagem em camada delgada demonstraram que a cin?tica de secagem apresenta uma caracter?stica de taxa constante, com constante de secagem dependente linearmente da temperatura. Um comportamento similar foi verificado no ajuste do modelo matem?tico do secador rotat?rio com os dados experimentais, onde se observou que a constante de secagem no termo de transfer?ncia de massa tamb?m apresentou forte correla??o com a temperatura de opera??o. De um modo geral, os valores calculados pelo modelo matem?tico acompanharam adequadamente a evolu??o de resposta de todas as vari?veis do processo, para todas as condi??es estudadas. Analisando-se a influ?ncia das condi??es operacionais em rela??o aos par?metros do modelo, observou-se que a dispers?o axial e a velocidade do s?lido foram influenciadas moderadamente pela intermit?ncia de alimenta??o, enquanto a constante de secagem e o coeficiente convectivo de transfer?ncia de calor foram fortemente influenciados pela temperatura. A partir do ajuste do modelo matem?tico do secador com as condi??es experimentais estudadas, simula??es explorat?rias foram feitas usando o modelo matem?tico em diferentes vaz?es de alimenta??o do material, tanto em regime cont?nuo quanto intermitente. O prop?sito principal com tais simula??es foi de avaliar qual a caracter?stica dimensional de projeto (L/Dc) do secador capaz de garantir uma melhor produ??o de material e que atenda uma especifica??o de umidade do produto. Tais resultados demonstraram a capacidade do modelo matem?tico para avalia??o dimensional de projeto b?sico, podendo ser tamb?m aplicado tanto na otimiza??o do processo quanto na implementa??o de estrat?gias avan?adas de controle. / The industrial fruit pulp processing is responsible for the generation of a significant amount of by-product in waste form, consisting essentially of seed, husk and rest of the fruit. These subproducts are still underutilized and their direct discard may result in considerable environmental damage. Therefore, it is of great scientific and technological interest to develop strategies able to add economic value to these waste. Drying is one of the processes most used for preservation of food products and represents an alternative for use in fruit waste. Drying processes can produce materials with potential application, mainly in form of ingredient for animal food. In this work, a drying study of passion fruit waste was performed using a rotary dryer containing inert loading and operating in concurrent flow with intermittent feed of material. Different experimental conditions were studied for intermittent material feed and air temperature, in order to evaluate the response behavior at the dryer outlet, verifying the following variables: moisture content of material; air absolute humidity; air temperature; mass (produced cumulatively during drying). Also, a mathematical model of the process was developed and implemented in order to describe the dynamic response characteristics in the studied conditions. This mathematical model was written based on microscopic balance of mass and energy for solid and gas phases, resulting in partial differential equations (PDE), where the process variables (temperature and moisture for solid and gas) are dependent on the time and space. Some physicochemical and compositional properties of passion fruit waste were evaluated, allowing to infer important parameters for the mathematical model. Drying in thin layer showed that the drying kinetics presents a characteristic of constant rate dependent linearly with the drying temperature. A similar behavior was observed in fitting the mathematical model of rotary dryer with the experimental data. It was noted that the drying constant for the mass transfer term also presented a strong correlation with the operating temperature. In general, the values calculated by the mathematical model were adequate in respect to all response variables and for all conditions studied. Analyzing the influence of operating conditions with respect to the model parameters, it was observed that the axial dispersion and the velocity of the solid were influenced moderately by the feed intermittence, while the constant of drying and the convective coefficient of heat transfer were strongly influenced by the temperature. From the mathematical model adjusted with the experimental conditions, exploratory simulations were performed in both continuous and intermittent regime and assuming different conditions of flow for the material. The main purpose with such simulations was to investigate the dimensional design feature (L/Dc) of the dryer, able to ensure better production and to comply with a product moisture specification. These results demonstrated that the mathematical model is able to perform a dimensional evaluation in equipment design as well as it can be applied for process optimization and advanced process control.
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Especifica??o e monitoramento din?mico da pol?tica de tratamento de exce??es / Specification and dynamic monitoring exception handling policy

Abrantes, Joilson Vidal 25 February 2016 (has links)
Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-01-12T13:24:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JoilsonVidalAbrantes_DISSERT.pdf: 2404682 bytes, checksum: d60333810463c26554d8e41bfe6683fb (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-01-16T15:05:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 JoilsonVidalAbrantes_DISSERT.pdf: 2404682 bytes, checksum: d60333810463c26554d8e41bfe6683fb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-16T15:05:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoilsonVidalAbrantes_DISSERT.pdf: 2404682 bytes, checksum: d60333810463c26554d8e41bfe6683fb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-25 / A pol?tica de tratamento de exce??es de um sistema compreende o conjunto de regras de design que especificam o comportamento e tratamento das condi??es excepcionais, ou seja, define como as exce??es devem ser manuseadas e disparadas. Essa pol?tica geralmente n?o ? documentada e fica definida implicitamente pelo arquiteto do sistema. Por essa raz?o os desenvolvedores podem pensar que apenas inserindo blocos try-cach em todos locais onde exce??es podem potencialmente ser lan?adas est?o lidando adequadamente com as condi??es excepcionais de um sistema. Por?m este comportamento pode transformar o tratamento das condi??es excepcionais em uma generaliza??o do mecanismo "goto", tornando o programa mais complexo e menos confi?vel. Este trabalho prop?e uma linguagem espec?fica de dom?nio, chamada ECL (Exception Contract Language) para especificar a pol?tica de tratamento de exce??es e uma ferramenta de monitoramento em tempo de execu??o que verifica dinamicamente a pol?tica de tratamento de exce??es. Essa ferramenta ? chamada de DAEH (Dynamic Analysis of Exception Handling e ? implementada na forma de uma biblioteca de aspectos, que pode ser adicionada a uma aplica??o Java sem a necessidade de alterar o c?digo fonte da mesma. Esta abordagem foi aplicada a dois sistemas WEB, a quatro vers?es do framework JUnit e a uma aplicatica??o m?vel. Os resultados indicam que esta abordagem pode ser usada para expressar e automaticamente verificar a pol?tica de tratamento de exce??es de sistemas, e, consequentemente apoiar o desenvolvimento de sistemas Java mais robustos. / The exception handling policy of a system comprises the set of design rules that specify its exception handling behavior how exceptions should be handled and thrown. Such policy is usually undocumented and implicitly defined by the system architect. For that reason, the developers may think that by just sprinkling the with catch-blocks in all places where exceptions may potentially be released they are adequately dealing with the exceptional conditions of a system. This lack of information may turn the exception handling into a generalized "goto"mechanism making the program more complex and less reliable. This work proposes a domain - specific language called ECL (Exception Contract Language) to specify the exception handling policy and a runtime monitoring tool which dynamically checks thise policy. This tool is called DAEH (Dynamic Analysis Of Exception Handling). It is implemented in the form of an aspect library, which can added to any Java system without the need to change the application source code. We applied this approach to two large-scale WEB systems and to the a set of versions to the well-known JUnit framework and a mobile application. The results indicate that this approach can be used to express and automatically check the exception handling policy of a system, and consequently support the development of more robust Java systems and more robust.
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Estudo de p?rticos planos n?o-lineares considerando os efeitos t?rmicos / A study of nonlinear 2D-frames considering thermic effects

Silva, Rafaela Lopes da 24 March 2017 (has links)
Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-09-05T19:41:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RafaelaLopesDaSilva_DISSERT.pdf: 5244464 bytes, checksum: f14dfee1270966b169af76ce9e23f4c6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-09-15T21:04:19Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 RafaelaLopesDaSilva_DISSERT.pdf: 5244464 bytes, checksum: f14dfee1270966b169af76ce9e23f4c6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-15T21:04:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RafaelaLopesDaSilva_DISSERT.pdf: 5244464 bytes, checksum: f14dfee1270966b169af76ce9e23f4c6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-24 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre a influ?ncia dos efeitos t?rmicos no comportamento din?mico de estruturas de p?rtico plano n?o lineares f?sicos e geom?tricos, nas quais esfor?os de flex?o e cisalhamento s?o predominantes. Uma formula??o fundamentada na primeira e segunda leis da termodin?mica e energia livre de Helmholtz ? apresentada neste trabalho para considerar os efeitos t?rmicos neste tipo de estrutura. Utiliza-se como ferramenta de an?lise estrutural o M?todo dos Elementos Finitos Posicional, que difere do m?todo convencional pelo simples fato de adotar como inc?gnitas as posi??es nodais, ao inv?s dos deslocamentos nodais. O problema n?o linear din?mico ? solucionado diante da combina??o do processo iterativo de Newton-Raphson com uma gama de algoritmos de integra??o temporal, expl?citos e impl?citos, sendo os resultados num?ricos confrontados com exemplos encontrados na literatura especializada. Como tamb?m, apresenta-se uma descri??o de uma t?cnica para solu??o de problemas de impacto. / This work presents a study considering the thermal effects in the dynamic behaviour of nonlinear 2D-frame structures (physical and geometric), in which the effects of bending and shear are predominant. A formulation based on the first and second laws of thermodynamic and the Helmholtz free-energy is presented in this work to consider the thermic effects on this type of structure. The Finite Element Method based on nodal positions, rather than nodal displacements, is used as structural analysis tool. The solution of the nonlinear dynamic problem is given through the combination of Newton-Raphson iterative process with several explicit and implicit time integration methods, wherein the numerical results are compared with the ones found on specialized literature. As well, it is presented a description of one technique to solution of impact problems.
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An automated approach for performance deviation analysis of evolving software systems

Pinto, Felipe Alves Pereira 18 November 2015 (has links)
Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-08-09T22:42:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FelipeAlvesPereiraPinto_TESE.pdf: 3382982 bytes, checksum: 85ac4517804b6893a9d66c8dc3ea1c78 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-08-10T21:37:28Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 FelipeAlvesPereiraPinto_TESE.pdf: 3382982 bytes, checksum: 85ac4517804b6893a9d66c8dc3ea1c78 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T21:37:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FelipeAlvesPereiraPinto_TESE.pdf: 3382982 bytes, checksum: 85ac4517804b6893a9d66c8dc3ea1c78 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-18 / The maintenance and evolution of software systems have become a critical task over the last years due to the diversity and high demand of features, devices and users. The ability to understand and analyze how newly introduced changes impact the quality attributes of the architecture of those software systems is an essential prerequisite for avoiding the deterioration of the engineering quality of them during their evolution. This thesis proposes an automated approach for the deviation analysis of the quality attribute of performance in terms of execution time (response time). It is implemented by a framework that adopts dynamic analysis and mining software repository techniques to provide an automated way to revel potential sources - commits and issues - of performance deviation in scenarios of an evolving software system. The approach defines four phases: (i) preparation - choosing the scenarios and preparing the target releases; (ii) dynamic analysis - determining the performance of scenarios and methods by calculating their execution time; (iii) deviation analysis - processing and comparing the results of the dynamic analysis for different releases; and (iv) repository mining - identifying development issues and commits associated with performance deviation. Several empirical studies have been developed to assess the approach from different perspectives. An initial study shows the feasibility of the approach to support traceability of quality attributes with static analysis. An exploratory study analyzed the usefulness and domain independence of the proposal in automatically identifying source code assets with performance deviation and the changes that have affected them during an evolution. This study was performed using three systems: (i) SIGAA - a web academic management system; (ii) ArgoUML - an UML modeling tool; and (iii) Netty - a network application framework. A third study has performed an evolutionary analysis of applying the approach to multiple releases of Netty, and the web frameworks Wicket and Jetty. It has analyzed twenty-one releases (seven releases of each system) and addressed a total of 57 scenarios. Overall, we have found 14 scenarios with significant performance deviation for Netty, 13 for Wicket, and 9 for Jetty. In addition, the feedback obtained from an online survey with eight developers of Netty, Wicket and Jetty is also discussed. Finally, in our last study, we built a performance regression model in order to indicate the properties of code changes that are more likely to cause performance degradation. We mined a total of 997 commits, of which 103 were retrieved from degraded code assets, 19 from optimized, while 875 had no impact on execution time. Number of days before release and day of week were the most relevant variables of commits that cause performance degradation in our model. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) area of our regression model is 60%, which means that deciding if a commit will cause performance degradation or not by using the model is 10% better than a random guess. / A manuten??o e evolu??o de sistemas de software tornou-se uma tarefa bastante cr?tica ao longo dos ?ltimos anos devido ? diversidade e alta demanda de funcionalidades, dispositivos e usu?rios. Entender e analisar como novas mudan?as impactam os atributos de qualidade da arquitetura de tais sistemas ? um pr?-requisito essencial para evitar a deteriora??o de sua qualidade durante sua evolu??o. Esta tese prop?e uma abordagem automatizada para a an?lise de varia??o do atributo de qualidade de desempenho em termos de tempo de execu??o (tempo de resposta). Ela ? implementada por um framework que adota t?cnicas de an?lise din?mica e minera??o de reposit?rio de software para fornecer uma forma automatizada de revelar fontes potenciais ? commits e issues ? de varia??o de desempenho em cen?rios durante a evolu??o de sistemas de software. A abordagem define quatro fases: (i) prepara??o ? escolher os cen?rios e preparar os releases alvos? (ii) an?lise din?mica ? determinar o desempenho de cen?rios e m?todos calculando seus tempos de execu??o? (iii) an?lise de varia??o ? processar e comparar os resultados da an?lise din?mica para releases diferentes? e (iv) minera??o de reposit?rio ? identificar issues e commits associados com a varia??o de desempenho detectada. Estudos emp?ricos foram realizados para avaliar a abordagem de diferentes perspectivas. Um estudo explorat?rio analisou a viabilidade de se aplicar a abordagem em sistemas de diferentes dom?nios para identificar automaticamente elementos de c?digo fonte com varia??o de desempenho e as mudan?as que afetaram tais elementos durante uma evolu??o. Esse estudo analisou tr?s sistemas: (i) SIGAA ? um sistema web para ger?ncia acad?mica? (ii) ArgoUML ? uma ferramenta de modelagem UML? e (iii) Netty ? um framework para aplica??es de rede. Outro estudo realizou uma an?lise evolucion?ria ao aplicar a abordagem em m?ltiplos releases do Netty, e dos frameworks web Wicket e Jetty. Nesse estudo foram analisados 21 releases (sete de cada sistema), totalizando 57 cen?rios. Em resumo, foram encontrados 14 cen?rios com varia??o significante de desempenho para Netty, 13 para Wicket e 9 para Jetty. Adicionalmente, foi obtido feedback de oito desenvolvedores desses sistemas atrav?s de um formul?rio online. Finalmente, no ?ltimo estudo, um modelo de regress?o para desempenho foi desenvolvido visando indicar propriedades de commits que s?o mais prov?veis a causar degrada??o de desempenho. No geral, 997 commits foram minerados, sendo 103 recuperados de elementos de c?digo fonte degradados e 19 de otimizados, enquanto 875 n?o tiveram impacto no tempo de execu??o. O n?mero de dias antes de disponibilizar o release e o dia da semana se mostraram como as vari?veis mais relevantes dos commits que degradam desempenho no nosso modelo. A ?rea de caracter?stica de opera??o do receptor (ROC ? Receiver Operating Characteristic) do modelo de regress?o ? 60%, o que significa que usar o modelo para decidir se um commit causar? degrada??o ou n?o ? 10% melhor do que uma decis?o aleat?ria.

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