In this study the incipient motion of coarse solitary particles having different specific weights and shapes was investigated. A tilting flume of rectangular cross-section having a net working length of 12 m was used through the experiments. The slope of the channel and the discharge in the channel are the two basic variable parameters that determine the initiation of motion. Particles made of cement and mixture of cement and iron dust in certain ratios were used in the experiments with an obstructing element of various heights right behind the particles. Dimensionless hydraulic parameters determined from theoretical analysis were related to each other. Velocity profiles over the flow depths were measured and flow conditions corresponding to critical conditions were evaluated in terms of critical velocities and shear velocities. The findings of this study were compared with the results of similar studies given in the literature.

Monitoring of abnormal events in a distribution feeder by using a single technique is a challenging task. Many abnormal events can cause unsafe operation, including a high impedance fault (HIF) caused by a downed conductor touch ground surface, an incipient fault (IF) caused by partial breakdown to a cable insulation, and a circuit breaker (CB) malfunction due to capacitor bank de-energization to cause current restrikes. These abnormal events are not detectable by conventional protection schemes. In this dissertation, a new technique to identify distribution feeder events is proposed based on the complex Morlet wavelet (CMW) and on a decision tree (DT) classifier. First, the event is detected using CMW. Subsequently, a DT using event signatures classifies the event as normal operation, continuous and non-continuous arcing events (C.A.E. and N.C.A.E.). Additional information from the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) can be used to precisely identify the event. The proposed method is meticulously tested on the IEEE 13- and IEEE 34-bus systems and has shown to correctly classify those events. Furthermore, the proposed method is capable of detecting very high impedance incipient faults (IFs) and CB restrikes at the substation level with relatively short detection time. The proposed method uses only current measurements at a low sampling rate of 1440 Hz yielding an improvement of existing methods that require much higher sampling rates.

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Stormwater bioretention cells (BRCs) are a variety of green stormwater infrastructure with the potential to restore pre-urban water balance, provided they can be tailored to infiltrate and evapotranspire (i.e., harvest) urban runoff in proportions consistent with pre-urban hydrologic conditions. This paper evaluates their capacity to do so, focusing on evapotranspirative harvest, which is relatively understudied, and the capacity of CSR (Competitve, Stress-tolerant, and Ruderal) functional type to serve as an overarching framework characterizing the water use strategy of BRC plants. The goal is to determine if harvest (and therefore the ratio of urban runoff infiltrated to harvested; the I:H ratio) might be fine-tuned to meet pre-urban values in BRCs through informed manipulation of plant community composition. This study focuses on 3 critical plant water use traits, the turgor loss point, the point of incipient water stress, and maximum stomatal conductance. A global plant traits meta-analysis identified degree of plant competitiveness and stress tolerance as significant determinants of all three water use traits, with stem type (woody vs herbaceous) also being significant, but only for turgor loss point. Based on these results, six water use scenarios appropriate for plants with different CSR type/stem type combinations were developed. BRC plants spanning the range of CSR types necessary to actionize these scenarios were determined to be available in eight major climate zones of the coterminous US, suggesting that regulating plant water use in BRCs using CSR is likely feasible. Hydraulic simulations (Hydrus 1D) were conducted for each scenario in all eight climate zones and revealed significant differences in evapotranspirative harvest and I:H ratios in simulated BRCs. Competitive woody plants had the highest evapotranspiration and lowest I:H ratios; 1.5-1.8 times more evapotranspiration and a 1.6-2 times lower I:H ratio than stress tolerant herbaceous plants, on average, across climate zones. Despite these significant differences, no simulated BRC in any climate zone was capable of reproducing pre-urban I:H ratios, regardless of plant type. More water was infiltrated than harvested in all scenarios and climates with the inverse being true for all pre-urban conditions. This suggests that absent additional sources of harvest (e.g., use of BRC water for nonpotable purposes such as toilet flushing and outdoor irrigation, or adoption of novel BRC designs that promote lateral exfiltration, stimulating "extra" evapotranspiration from nearby landscapes), BRCs will be unable to restore pre-urban water balance on their own. If true, then using BRCs in combination with other green technologies (particularly those biased towards harvest), may be the best path forward for balancing urban water budgets. / Master of Science / Stormwater bioretention cells (BRCs) are a variety of green infrastructure designed to manage urban stormwater flows that can dramatically reduce the amount of stormwater that is rapidly (and unnaturally) conveyed from paved surfaces to ecosystems. Their ability to recreate natural flow conditions is dependent on them balancing rates of infiltration – slowly filtering water down to the water table – and evapotranspiration – letting plants capture and transpire water. This paper evaluates the extent to which different plant functional types (competitive, stress tolerant, and ruderal (weedy)) can be used to regulate this balance, bringing urban hydrologic conditions closer to pre-urban ones. Competitiveness and stress tolerance were found to significantly influence plant water use traits, as was plant stem type (woody vs herbaceous) to a lesser extent (i.e., managing water budgets using CSR functional type is theoretically possible). Published BRC vegetation guidelines in 8 major US climate zones were found to include both competitive and stress tolerant species (i.e., the range of functional types required to regulate BRC water balance exists, suggesting it is feasible). Finally, hydraulic simulations conducted under six plant water use scenarios (reflecting different CSR types and stem types) revealed significant differences in the ratio of water infiltrated to evapotranspired by BRCs (i.e., changing plant functional types can meaningfully influence BRC water balance). This said, the magnitude of this effect may be insufficient to return urban catchments to a pre-urban state. All BRCs infiltrated too much water in our simulations suggesting that absent additional sources of harvest (for instance., use of BRC water for nonpotable purposes such as toilet flushing or outdoor irrigation), BRCs will be unable to restore pre-urban water balance on their own. If true, then using BRCs in combination with other green technologies (particularly those biased towards harvest), may be the best path forward for balancing urban water budgets.

Grâce à leurs avancées techniques en termes de poids, performances et fiabilité, les machines synchrones sont de plus en plus utilisées dans le domaine de transport et en particuliers dans l’aéronautique. Les stratégies de maintenances de ces systèmes électriques sont alors indispensables afin d'éviter des surcouts liés à des temps d'arrêt non planifiés. Ce document propose une analyse des conséquences d'un défaut inter-spires intermittent naissant dans l'enroulement statorique d'une Machine Synchrone à Aimants Permanents (MSAP). Ce type de défaut correspond à l'état peu avancé d'un futur court-circuit permanent. Jusqu'à présent, les études menées se sont limitées à la détection de courts-circuits inter-spires permanents. L'objectif de cette analyse est de définir une méthode de détection de ce type de défaut qui soit facile à mettre en œuvre. A partir d'une étude analytique du courant statorique d'une MSAP contrôlée en courant en présence de court-circuit intermittent, nous avons étudié l'impact des différentes grandeurs influençant la perturbation du courant. Nous avons constaté que la forme de la perturbation créée par le défaut était toujours la même et qu'elle était la signature du défaut intermittent dans le courant. Par la suite cette étude analytique a été validée expérimentalement. Dans la partie suivante nous avons étudié la sensibilité des méthodes de détection des courts-circuits inter-spires permanents appliquées au cas du court-circuit intermittent. Ces méthodes se sont révélées inadaptées pour la détection du défaut étudié dans ce travail. Nous avons donc proposé une méthode dédiée qui est basée sur la détection de la signature du défaut et qui utilise une transformation en ondelette adaptée. Il s'agit d'une méthode de détection de forme qui permet non seulement de détecter le défaut intermittent mais aussi de le distinguer des autres types de défauts. La performance de la méthode a été validée par les résultats de simulation et de manipulation. Dans une dernière partie, une étude plus générale sur le suivi de vieillissement des enroulements est proposée. Elle est basée sur le suivi de l'évolution des courbes d'admittance hautes fréquences d'un bobinage au cours du temps en utilisant les fonctions de transfert de ce dernier. / Thanks to technical advances in terms of weight, performance and reliability, synchronous machines are increasingly used in the transport field and especially in aeronautics. The maintenance strategies of these electrical systems are essential to avoid extra costs associated with unscheduled downtime. This document offers a study on the intermittent inter-turn fault occurring in the stator winding of a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (PMSM) and its consequences. This type of fault correspond to the emerging state for a future permanent short circuit condition. So far, studies have been limited to the detection of continuous inter-turn short circuits. The main purpose of this analysis is to define a detection method for this type of fault easy to implement. Based on the stator current analytical study of a PMSM current controlled in presence of intermittent short circuit, we had studied the impact of different variables influencing the current disturbance. We had found that the shape of the disturbance created by the fault was always the same and that it was the fault signature in the current signal. Later this analytical study was validated experimentally. In the next part we had studied the sensitivity of continuous short circuits detection methods applied in the case of intermittent short circuit. These methods have been proved unsuitable to detect the defect studied in this work. Therefore, we had proposed a dedicated method based on the fault signature identification using an adapted wavelet transform. It is a pattern detection method able to detect the intermittent fault and to distinguish it from other types of defects. The performance of the method was validated by simulation and experimental results. In the last part, a more general study concerning the winding health monitoring is proposed. It uses transfer functions and it is based on the monitoring over time of the winding high frequencies admittance curves evolution.

Supercapacitors are important electrochemical energy storage devices for microelectronic and telecommunication systems, electric cars, and smart grids. However, the energy densities of existing supercapacitors are still inadequate for many applications. Vanadium oxides have been studied as viable supercapacitor alternatives, with varying results. Methods are often complicated or time-consuming, and electrode fabrication often includes carbon powder and binder. The objective of this work was to study the effect of processing conditions on specific capacitance of supercapacitors based on vanadium oxides coated on carbon fiber papers. This study was conducted to form easily-fabricated compounds of vanadium oxides which could offer promise as pseudocapacitor material, and to nucleate these compounds directly onto inexpensive carbon fiber without binder. The incipient wetness impregnation technique was used to fabricate the electrodes. Electrochemical performance of the resulting electrodes was tested in a Swagelok-type electrochemical two-electrode cell, and the electrodes were characterized by XRD and SEM. Interesting nanofeatures were formed and the vanadium oxides exhibited pseudocapacitance at a respectable level.

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O presente estudo teve o objetivo de investigar a influência da perda de massa corporal de rainhas de A. sexdens na mortalidade, assim como na produção de ovos, larvas, pupas e operárias, nos períodos de fundação e de crescimento ergonômico, buscando descrever os atos comportamentais executados pelas rainhas mantidas em colônias artificiais. A aferição da massa corporal das rainhas e a contagem de ovos, larvas, pupas e operárias foram realizadas semanalmente, mantendo as condições laboratoriais em 25 ± 5°C, 70 a 80 % de umidade relativa e fotoperíodo de 12 horas. Ao final de 168 dias de observações, a mortalidade havia atingido 95,7% das jovens rainhas, principalmente na fase de préoviposição (58,3% de mortalidade). Em média, as rainhas recém-fecundadas e dealadas pesavam 0,7 ± 0,05g após o vôo nupcial, perdendo, em média, 22,5% de massa corporal durante as 11 semanas do período de fundação, e 44,7% nas 11 semanas seguintes, durante o período ergonômico. Quanto à duração das fases de desnvolvimento colonial, verificou-se que as fases de pré-oviposição, embrionária, larval e pupal duraram, respectivamente, 3, 26, 23 e 21 dias. As freqüências médias de ovos reprodutivos, larvas e pupas nos períodos de fundação e ergonômico foram significativamente diferentes entre si. Foram identificados 49 atos comportamentais, os quais puderam ser agrupados em sete categorias, conforme a função biológica aparentemente dedutível. As rainhas recém-fecundadas mostraram-se comparativamente mais ativas durante o período de fundação, em relação ao período ergonômico. Os comportamentos mais freqüentes registrados para rainhas de A. sexdens neste estudo foram aqueles relacionados com a auto limpeza. Este resultado é um forte indício de que a auto-limpeza possivelmente desempenha a função de prevenir a contaminação colonial por parasitas, podendo ter sido de extrema importância no estabelecimento da relação mutualística obrigatória formiga-fungo. Os dados obtidos com a conclusão deste estudo poderão ser utilizados em futuros estudos comparativos entre espécies, auxiliando eventualmente na compreensão de seus processos evolutivos. / Knowing both biology and behavior of newly-mated founding ant queens may be extremely useful for understanding the evolutionary adaptations experienced by many social insect societies. The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of weight loss of A. sexdens founding queens on the mortality and on the production of eggs, larvae, pupae and workers, during both the founding and ergonomic periods, as well as to describe the behavior repertoire performed by the queens. Individual queen weight and number of eggs, larvae, pupae and workers per colony were taken weekly. Laboratory conditions were kept in 25 ± 5°C, 70 to 80 % of relative umidity and 12 hour fotoperiod. By the end of 168 days, mortality had reached 95,7% of the young queens, mainly in the pre-incubation phase (58,3% of mortality). On average, newly-mated queens weighed 0,7 ± 0,05g after the nuptial flight, losing, on average, 22,5% of weight during the founding period, and 44,7% in the ergonomic period. On average, the pre-incubation, incubation, larval and pupal phases lasted, respectively, 3, 26, 23 and 21 days. The relative frequencies of reproductive eggs, larvae and pupae in the founding period were significantly different from the ergonomic period. Forty-nine behavioral acts were identified and they could be distributed into seven categories, according to their seemingly deducible biological function. The newly-mated queens were found to be comparatively more active during the founding period, in relation to the ergonomic period. Contrary to what one could expect for Attini queens with claustral foundation, the most frequent behaviors registered for A. sexdens queens in this study were those related not to the care with the offspring or to the simbiont fungus, but rather to the self-grooming. This result is a strong indication that self-grooming may function as preventing colony contamination by potential parasites, having been possibly played an important role in the establishment of the obligatory ant-fungus mutualism. Data obtained from the conclusion of this study can be used in comparative studies among ant species, eventually helping in the understanding of their evolutionary processes.