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Seismic isolation systems are widely recognized as beneficial for protecting both acceleration- and displacement-sensitive nonstructural systems and components. Furthermore, adaptive isolation systems have been shown to enable engineers to achieve various performance goals under multiple hazard levels. These systems have been implemented for horizontal excitation, but there has been very limited research on isolation for vertical excitation. Thus, this paper seeks to evaluate the benefit of adaptive vertical isolation systems for component isolation, specifically for nuclear plants. To do this, three vertical isolation systems are designed to achieve multiple goals: a linear spring and a linear damper (LSLD), a linear spring and a nonlinear damper (LSND) and a nonlinear spring and a linear damper (NSLD). To investigate the effectiveness of the proposed systems, a stiff piece of equipment is considered at an elevated floor within a power plant. A set of 30 triaxial ground motions is used to investigate the seismic response of the equipment. The maximum isolation displacement and equipment acceleration are used to assess the effectiveness of the three isolation systems. While all systems significantly reduce the seismic accelerations on the equipment compared to the fixed-base case, a LSND system is shown to exhibit superior seismic performance across multiple hazard levels. / Thesis / Master of Applied Science (MASc)

O uso de filtros contra particulados é extremamente comum em ambiente de mineração. As normas nacionais e internacionais, utilizadas para a aprovação destes filtros, definem critérios de testes e aprovação que visam garantir que os filtros continuem eficientes ao longo do tempo. Os fatores como: tipo, tamanho, velocidade, carga da partícula e temperatura, são considerados nos testes de aprovação. O objetivo desta dissertação é verificar o comportamento de filtros para particulados tipo eletreto usados em respiradores, expostos a condições térmicas semelhantes às encontradas em ambiente de mineração, simulando, em laboratório, a temperatura e tempo de exposição a que os mesmos podem estar sujeitos, medindo e comparando os resultados obtidos no sentido de atenderem as recomendações normativas, tanto nacionais como internacionais. Filtros e peças faciais de diferentes fabricantes foram expostos a diferentes temperaturas, sendo mantidos nestas temperaturas por no mínimo 24 horas. Testes de penetração utilizando partículas de NaCl com ajuste da vazão em 85 l/min foram realizados antes e depois de cada período de exposição. O equipamento utilizado foi um gerador de partículas tipo impactador, que gera partículas da ordem de 0,3 a 0,6m, considerados os Tamanhos Mais Penetrantes de Partículas (MPPS). Como esperado, ocorreu um aumento da penetração de partículas de NaCl à medida que o tempo de permanência na temperatura e/ou a própria temperatura aumentaram. O fator temperatura foi predominante, em relação ao tempo de exposição, no decaimento da performance dos filtros. Este efeito variou de fabricante para fabricante, sendo, em alguns casos, inexpressivos. A variação encontrada nos testes de penetração após acondicionamento térmico foi entre 2,53% e 18%. Não se observou um aumento ou diminuição significativa da resistência ao fluxo de ar. Testes repetitivos em amostras sem acondicionamento térmico demonstraram uma diminuição da penetração do aerossol e um aumento da resistência ao fluxo de ar. Acredita-se que o aumento da resistência ao fluxo ocorra devido ao efeito de entupimento por deposição das partículas de NaCl ao longo do tempo em função da repetição dos testes no mesmo filtro. / The use of particle filters is extremely usual in mining environment. The national and international standards used for the approval of these filters define tests and approval criteria which look forward guaranteeing the efficiency of the filters along the time. Facts such as: type, size, speed, particle charge and temperature are considered on approval tests. The objective of this dissertation is to check the behavior of the eletrect filters for particulated used in respirators, when exposed to similar thermal conditions found in mining environment, by simulation, in lab, of the temperature and time of exposition beyond the respirators could be exposed, measuring and comparing the obtained results in order to attend the standards recommendations such National as International ones. Facial filters and pieces of different manufactures were exposed to different temperatures and maintained under these conditions for at least 24-hours. Penetration tests using NaCl particles and adjusted to a flow of 85 l/min were done before and after each period of exposition. The equipment used was a particle generator, impactor type which generates particles of the order of 0.3 to 0.6m, considered the Most Penetrant Particles Size (MPPS). As expected, an increase of NaCl particle penetration occurred as long as time and temperature increased too. The temperature factor was predominating in relation to time of exposition in the decrease of performance of the filters. This effect varied from one manufacture to another and in some cases it was expressionless. The variation found after conditioning at high temperature was from 2.53% to 18%. It wasnt observed a significant increase or decrease in the air flow resistance. Repetitive tests in samples without thermal packing showed a decrease of aerosol penetration and an increase of air flow resistance. Apparently, the increase of flow resistance happens because of the glog for NaCl particles deposition throughout the time, due to the test repetition over the same filter.

This study has been conducted to develop robust event detection and object tracking algorithms that can be implemented in real time video surveillance applications. The aim of the research has been to produce an automated video surveillance system that is able to detect and report potential security risks with minimum human intervention. Since the algorithms are designed to be implemented in real-life scenarios, they must be able to cope with strong illumination changes and occlusions. The thesis is divided into two major sections. The first section deals with event detection and edge based tracking while the second section describes colour measurement methods developed to track objects in crowded environments. The event detection methods presented in the thesis mainly focus on detection and tracking of objects that become stationary in the scene. Objects such as baggage left in public places or vehicles parked illegally can cause a serious security threat. A new pixel based classification technique has been developed to detect objects of this type in cluttered scenes. Once detected, edge based object descriptors are obtained and stored as templates for tracking purposes. The consistency of these descriptors is examined using an adaptive edge orientation based technique. Objects are tracked and alarm events are generated if the objects are found to be stationary in the scene after a certain period of time. To evaluate the full capabilities of the pixel based classification and adaptive edge orientation based tracking methods, the model is tested using several hours of real-life video surveillance scenarios recorded at different locations and time of day from our own and publically available databases (i-LIDS, PETS, MIT, ViSOR). The performance results demonstrate that the combination of pixel based classification and adaptive edge orientation based tracking gave over 95% success rate. The results obtained also yield better detection and tracking results when compared with the other available state of the art methods. In the second part of the thesis, colour based techniques are used to track objects in crowded video sequences in circumstances of severe occlusion. A novel Adaptive Sample Count Particle Filter (ASCPF) technique is presented that improves the performance of the standard Sample Importance Resampling Particle Filter by up to 80% in terms of computational cost. An appropriate particle range is obtained for each object and the concept of adaptive samples is introduced to keep the computational cost down. The objective is to keep the number of particles to a minimum and only to increase them up to the maximum, as and when required. Variable standard deviation values for state vector elements have been exploited to cope with heavy occlusion. The technique has been tested on different video surveillance scenarios with variable object motion, strong occlusion and change in object scale. Experimental results show that the proposed method not only tracks the object with comparable accuracy to existing particle filter techniques but is up to five times faster. Tracking objects in a multi camera environment is discussed in the final part of the thesis. The ASCPF technique is deployed within a multi-camera environment to track objects across different camera views. Such environments can pose difficult challenges such as changes in object scale and colour features as the objects move from one camera view to another. Variable standard deviation values of the ASCPF have been utilized in order to cope with sudden colour and scale changes. As the object moves from one scene to another, the number of particles, together with the spread value, is increased to a maximum to reduce any effects of scale and colour change. Promising results are obtained when the ASCPF technique is tested on live feeds from four different camera views. It was found that not only did the ASCPF method result in the successful tracking of the moving object across different views but also maintained the real time frame rate due to its reduced computational cost thus indicating that the method is a potential practical solution for multi camera tracking applications.

<p>”Nästa generations ryggskydd” är ett examensarbete vid Innovations- och designingenjörsprogrammet på Karlstads Universitet. Uppdragsgivaren är Stefan Ytterborn på POC Sweden i Stockholm.</p><p>POC är ett företag som satsar på att utveckla ny och effektiv skyddsutrustning till alpinskidåkare för att förhindra allvarliga skador. Då utrustningen och åkstilen ständigt blir mer extrem måste även skyddsutrustningen utvecklas för att ge så bra och smidigt skydd som möjligt.</p><p>Uppdraget har gått ut på att ta fram en produkt eller metod som skyddar ryggen vid alpin skidåkning. Denna problemformulering har varit väldigt öppen och gett en hel del spelrum vid idégenerering och produktframtagning.</p><p>Examensarbetet resulterade i en produkt som skyddar ryggen mot den nuförtiden mer frekventa skadeformen, kompressionsskador. Att det inte finns några befintliga skydd mot dessa skador på marknaden har gjort att researcharbetet har blivit en stor del i projektet.</p> / <p>”The next generation of spine protection” is a degree project in the Innovation and design engineering program at the University of Karlstad. The employer is Stefan Ytterborn at POC Sweden in Stockholm.</p><p>POC is a company that works towards developing new and efficient protection for alpine skiers to prevent serious injuries. Both the equipment and the way people ski are getting more and more extreme and therefore new protection must be developed to offer as good and flexible protection as possible.</p><p>The assignment has been to develop a product or method to protect the spine at alpine skiing. Due to the openness of the problem there has been a lot of scope during the idea generating and product developing phase.</p><p>This degree project has resulted in a product that protects the spine against the increasingly frequent damage, the compression injury. Due to the lack of existing protection against these types of damages on the market the research phase has been a big part of the project.</p>

”Nästa generations ryggskydd” är ett examensarbete vid Innovations- och designingenjörsprogrammet på Karlstads Universitet. Uppdragsgivaren är Stefan Ytterborn på POC Sweden i Stockholm. POC är ett företag som satsar på att utveckla ny och effektiv skyddsutrustning till alpinskidåkare för att förhindra allvarliga skador. Då utrustningen och åkstilen ständigt blir mer extrem måste även skyddsutrustningen utvecklas för att ge så bra och smidigt skydd som möjligt. Uppdraget har gått ut på att ta fram en produkt eller metod som skyddar ryggen vid alpin skidåkning. Denna problemformulering har varit väldigt öppen och gett en hel del spelrum vid idégenerering och produktframtagning. Examensarbetet resulterade i en produkt som skyddar ryggen mot den nuförtiden mer frekventa skadeformen, kompressionsskador. Att det inte finns några befintliga skydd mot dessa skador på marknaden har gjort att researcharbetet har blivit en stor del i projektet. / ”The next generation of spine protection” is a degree project in the Innovation and design engineering program at the University of Karlstad. The employer is Stefan Ytterborn at POC Sweden in Stockholm. POC is a company that works towards developing new and efficient protection for alpine skiers to prevent serious injuries. Both the equipment and the way people ski are getting more and more extreme and therefore new protection must be developed to offer as good and flexible protection as possible. The assignment has been to develop a product or method to protect the spine at alpine skiing. Due to the openness of the problem there has been a lot of scope during the idea generating and product developing phase. This degree project has resulted in a product that protects the spine against the increasingly frequent damage, the compression injury. Due to the lack of existing protection against these types of damages on the market the research phase has been a big part of the project.

O uso de filtros contra particulados é extremamente comum em ambiente de mineração. As normas nacionais e internacionais, utilizadas para a aprovação destes filtros, definem critérios de testes e aprovação que visam garantir que os filtros continuem eficientes ao longo do tempo. Os fatores como: tipo, tamanho, velocidade, carga da partícula e temperatura, são considerados nos testes de aprovação. O objetivo desta dissertação é verificar o comportamento de filtros para particulados tipo eletreto usados em respiradores, expostos a condições térmicas semelhantes às encontradas em ambiente de mineração, simulando, em laboratório, a temperatura e tempo de exposição a que os mesmos podem estar sujeitos, medindo e comparando os resultados obtidos no sentido de atenderem as recomendações normativas, tanto nacionais como internacionais. Filtros e peças faciais de diferentes fabricantes foram expostos a diferentes temperaturas, sendo mantidos nestas temperaturas por no mínimo 24 horas. Testes de penetração utilizando partículas de NaCl com ajuste da vazão em 85 l/min foram realizados antes e depois de cada período de exposição. O equipamento utilizado foi um gerador de partículas tipo impactador, que gera partículas da ordem de 0,3 a 0,6m, considerados os Tamanhos Mais Penetrantes de Partículas (MPPS). Como esperado, ocorreu um aumento da penetração de partículas de NaCl à medida que o tempo de permanência na temperatura e/ou a própria temperatura aumentaram. O fator temperatura foi predominante, em relação ao tempo de exposição, no decaimento da performance dos filtros. Este efeito variou de fabricante para fabricante, sendo, em alguns casos, inexpressivos. A variação encontrada nos testes de penetração após acondicionamento térmico foi entre 2,53% e 18%. Não se observou um aumento ou diminuição significativa da resistência ao fluxo de ar. Testes repetitivos em amostras sem acondicionamento térmico demonstraram uma diminuição da penetração do aerossol e um aumento da resistência ao fluxo de ar. Acredita-se que o aumento da resistência ao fluxo ocorra devido ao efeito de entupimento por deposição das partículas de NaCl ao longo do tempo em função da repetição dos testes no mesmo filtro. / The use of particle filters is extremely usual in mining environment. The national and international standards used for the approval of these filters define tests and approval criteria which look forward guaranteeing the efficiency of the filters along the time. Facts such as: type, size, speed, particle charge and temperature are considered on approval tests. The objective of this dissertation is to check the behavior of the eletrect filters for particulated used in respirators, when exposed to similar thermal conditions found in mining environment, by simulation, in lab, of the temperature and time of exposition beyond the respirators could be exposed, measuring and comparing the obtained results in order to attend the standards recommendations such National as International ones. Facial filters and pieces of different manufactures were exposed to different temperatures and maintained under these conditions for at least 24-hours. Penetration tests using NaCl particles and adjusted to a flow of 85 l/min were done before and after each period of exposition. The equipment used was a particle generator, impactor type which generates particles of the order of 0.3 to 0.6m, considered the Most Penetrant Particles Size (MPPS). As expected, an increase of NaCl particle penetration occurred as long as time and temperature increased too. The temperature factor was predominating in relation to time of exposition in the decrease of performance of the filters. This effect varied from one manufacture to another and in some cases it was expressionless. The variation found after conditioning at high temperature was from 2.53% to 18%. It wasnt observed a significant increase or decrease in the air flow resistance. Repetitive tests in samples without thermal packing showed a decrease of aerosol penetration and an increase of air flow resistance. Apparently, the increase of flow resistance happens because of the glog for NaCl particles deposition throughout the time, due to the test repetition over the same filter.

Orientador : Abílio Garcia dos Santos Filho / Banca: João Candido Fernandes / Banca: César Antunes de Freitas / Resumo: O desenvolvimento de produtos de uso pessoal que seguem o design antropomórfico nem sempre podem ser planejados em detalhes mínimos para adaptação em sujeitos que representam as extremidades estatísticas da antropometria. Atento a esse obstáculo, o projeto do produto necessita de recursos que permitam contornar essa limitação. O uso de materiais que possuem capacidade de deformação elástica / moldabilidade se torna viável no sentido de adaptar o produto ao usuário, de forma a otimizar seu desempenho, obtendo maiores índices de segurança, conforto e preferência subjetiva sem modificar sua estrutura básica em função de detalhes antropométricos. A aplicação de forma planejada em locais estratégicos onde exista maior contato com o corpo, sob pressão via peso ou força aplicada faz com que o material se molde aos contornos locais do corpo, proporcionando conforto, firmeza e segurança. São elementos primordiais para a ideal funcionalidade de um produto e que agregam valores preferenciais no poder de decisão do usuário. Dessa forma, é compilado o conceito dos Materiais Miméticos, cujo foco do presente estudo é a análise de preferência subjetiva de sujeitos por equipamentos de proteção individuais que possuem esses materiais moldáveis ao corpo como parte fundamental de sua estrutura; a constatação que a preferência está ligada às sensações produzidas através do material; os fatores decisivos para a escolha definitiva do usuário; análise de interface; e elementos secundários de design para contribuição referencial... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Development of products for personal use that follows the anthropomorphic design can not ordinarily be planned with meticulous details for the adjustment to subjects who represent the statistical extremes of anthropometry. Considering this obstacle, the productþs project demands resources that make it possible to hurdle this limitation. The use of material with flexible deforming capacity / capacity of shaping becomes something viable in a sense of adjusting product to user in order to enhance their performance, obtaining higher rates of safety, comfort and personal preference without modifying the basic structure in assignation of anthropometric details. The previously planned application in strategic areas where there is a greater contact with the body, under pressure by weight or employed strength, makes the material adapt to local contours of the body providing comfort, firmness and security. These are primal elements for the ideal functioning of a product and they aggregate preferential values to the userþs power of choice. This way, it is formulated the concept of Mimetic Materials, related to the aim of this study which are the analysis of subjectsþ personal preference for personal protection equipments that have this kind of material adaptable to the body as a fundamental part of their structure; the verification that preference is related to sensations produced by the material; decisive factors for userþs final choice; analysis of the interface; and secondary elements of design for referential contribuition... (Complete abstract, click electronic address below) / Mestre

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The consequences of microplastics spreading from surfaces made from molded rubber granules has a negative impact on our ecosystems, plants, and other living organisms. As our understanding of these negative environmental impacts grows, the need to shape and enforce effective measures to reduce this spread also increases. This creates a challenge for the political environmental management on both a national and municipal level. This study investigates the condition of Swedish municipalities and the possibilities they have to take effective measures to reduce the spread of microplastics in facilities that use molded rubber granules, in a time when both knowledge and experience of molded rubber granules is still limited. The study also examines whether the municipality’s participation during the forming of new environmental policies impacts the final outcome. The theory is based on implementation and participitation in management and politics. The results are based on interviews with representatives from nine Swedish municipalities, all geographically spread out and of varying size. Even if the accountable party at the municipalities admitted that their surfaces made from molded rubber granules spread microplastics, they lacked knowledge on the spread’s environmental impact. Both lack of sufficient resources and possibility to take effective action due to politically conflicting goals, confirmed several of the challenges connected to participation and implementation within politics. The study finds that the lack of knowledge on the environmental impact of molded rubber granules, the municipalities’ limited resources and the conflicting goals between the requirements of accessibility and environmental requirements affect the municipalities’ possibilities to implement measures through an environmental policy. Through an increased cooperation between state and municipalities during the forming and implementation of environmental policies the goal fulfillments would likely improve. / Effekterna av mikroplastspridning från ytor av gjutet gummigranulat påverkar både ekosystem, växter och levande organismer negativt. I takt med att förståelsen för mikroplasters negativa miljöpåverkan ökar växer behovet av att utforma och vidta effektiva åtgärder för att minska mikroplastspridningen. Detta utmanar den politiska miljöstyrningen på både statlig och kommunal nivå. Studien undersöker svenska kommuners förutsättningar för att vidta åtgärder som motverkar spridning av mikroplast från anläggningar med gjutet gummigranulat. Denna studie undersöker också hur kommuners deltagande vid utformning av nya miljöpolicys kan påverka måluppfyllnaden. Den teoretiska ramen utgörs av genomförande och deltagande inom politik och förvaltning. Resultatet baseras på intervjuer med representanter för nio geografiskt spridda svenska kommuner av varierande storlek. De ansvariga på kommunerna var medvetna om att deras ytor av gjutet gummigranulat sprider mikroplast men saknade djupare kunskap om miljöeffekterna av mikroplastspridningen. Otillräckliga ekonomiska resurser och politiska målkonflikter är några av de utmaningar som är kopplade till deltagande och genomförande inom politik och förvaltning. Kommunernas inställning till alternativa material såsom gjutet korkgranulat och åtgärder genom granulatfällor var positiv. Studien finner att bristen på kunskap om gjutet gummigranulats miljöeffekter, kommunernas resursbegränsningar och målkonflikten mellan tillgänglighetskrav och miljökrav påverkar kommunernas förutsättningar att implementera åtgärder genom en miljöpolicy. Med ett ökat deltagande genom samverkan mellan statlig och kommunal nivå vid utformning och implementering av miljöpolicys skulle måluppfyllnaden sannolikt förbättras.