In order to protect gas turbine blades from hot gases exiting the combustor, several intricate external and internal cooling concepts are employed. High pressure stage gas turbine blades feature serpentine passages where rib turbulators are installed to enhance heat transfer between the relatively colder air bled off from the compressor and the hot internal walls. Most of the prior studies have been restricted to Reynolds number of 90000 and several studies have been carried out to determine geometrically optimized parameters for achieving high levels of heat transfer in this range of Reynolds number. However, for land-based power generation gas turbines, the Reynolds numbers are significantly high and vary between 105 and 106. Present study is targeted towards these high Reynolds numbers where traditional rib turbulator shapes and prescribed optimum geometrical parameters have been investigated experimentally. A steady-state liquid crystal thermography technique is employed for measurement of detailed heat transfer coefficient. Five different rib configurations, viz., 45 deg., V-shaped, inverse V-shaped, W-shaped and M-shaped have been investigated for Reynolds numbers ranging from 150,000 to 400,000. The ribs were installed on two opposite walls of a straight duct with aspect ratio of unity. For very high Reynolds numbers, the heat transfer enhancement levels for different rib shapes varied between 1.3 and 1.7 and the thermal hydraulic performance was found to be less than unity. / Master of Science / Gas turbine blades operate in hot gases exiting from combustor. The temperature of the hot gas is much higher than the melting point of blades material. To protect gas turbine blades several intricate external and internal cooling technique have been applied. Inside the blades, impingement cooling, rib turbulators cooling and pin fins cooling technique are applied in the leading edge, central body and trailing edge, respectively. At the central body serpentine passage was manufactured where rib turbulators are installed to enhance heat transfer between the relatively colder air bled off from the compressor and the hot internal walls. This is attributed to the colder air’s boundary layer is tripped by the rib turbulators enhance the flow turbulence. All the previous works are based on lower Reynolds number (under 90000) which always happens in aircraft gas turbine engine. In land based gas turbine the Reynolds numbers of cooling air are significantly high and vary between 10⁵ and 10⁶ . Present study is targeted towards these high Reynolds numbers where traditional rib turbulator shapes and prescribed optimum geometrical parameters have been investigated experimentally. Five different rib configurations, viz., 45 deg., V-shaped, inverse V-shaped, W-shaped and M-shaped have been investigated for Reynolds numbers ranging from 150,000 to 400,000. For very high Reynolds numbers, the heat transfer enhancement levels for different rib shapes varied between 1.3 and 1.7 and the thermal hydraulic performance was found to be less than unity. It’s a caution to turbine hot gas path designers, particularly for the cases where rib designs for aircrafts are used in land based power generationgas turbines

The introduction of airbags has not significantly reduced serious thoracic injury for belted occupants in frontal crashes. This thesis has investigated the effectiveness of airbags and the characteristics of residual thoracic organ injury incurred by belted occupants in vehicles equipped with airbags. This study was based on the injury outcome of over 28,000 belted front seat occupants involved in frontal collisions. Data for this analysis was extracted from National Automotive Sampling System / Crashworthiness Data System (NASS/CDS) case years 1993-2007. The use of odds ratios for comparing the effect of airbags on the occurrence of injury has shown that airbags do not significantly increase protection against head and chest injuries. Overall, the lower extremity and the upper extremity were shown to be adversely affected by airbags. The face was the only body region that was shown to benefit from the combination of seat belts and airbags as compared to seat belts alone. An investigation into the characteristics and distributions associated with thoracic organ injuries showed the heart and great vessels are the only thoracic organs that showed a significant reduction in the rate of injury with the inclusion of airbags. In vehicles with airbags, the thoracic organs are injured more frequently than the ribs. When occupants sustain thoracic organ injury, the delta-V of the crash for vehicles with and without airbags is not significantly different. The odds of serious injury to the lungs and spleen are higher for occupants in vehicles with airbags as compared to those in vehicles without airbags. Rib fracture was found to be a poor predictor of moderate to fatal thoracic organ injury. Only 31-61% of thoracic organ injuries occur with an associated rib fracture. / Master of Science

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L’utilisation de greffon costal en chirurgie reconstructrice est connue et utilisée depuis longtemps et notamment en chirurgie maxillo-faciale. La greffe de cartilage costal fait partie de l’arsenal thérapeutique pour le service de Traumatologie, Orthopédie, Chirurgie Plastique et Reconstructrice du CHU de Besançon. Proposée initialement dans le traitement chirurgical de la rhizarthrose, les opérateurs de ce service, se sont progressivement appropriés cette technique et l’on utilisée pour d’autres indications traumatiques ou dégénératives pour réaliser une restauration cartilagineuse. Ainsi depuis 15 ans, en dehors de son utilisation en routine pour la rhizarthrose, ce greffon a été proposé dans l’arthrose péri-scaphoïdienne ou radio-carpienne mais aussi pour quelques cas de reconstruction post-traumatiques d’articulations digitales, de cals vicieux de radius, dans la maladie de kienböck avancée ou lors d’une perte de substance ostéo-cartilagineuse d’une tête humérale. Dans un premier temps, ce travail rapporte les différentes indications thérapeutiques et résultats cliniques de cette technique originale qui ont fait l’objet de publications scientifiques et notamment dans l’arthrose radio-scaphoïdienne débutante et dans un cas de reconstruction de tête humérale.Cette technique chirurgicale impose pour le prélévement du greffon ostéo-chondral costal, l’abord du thorax au niveau de la 8e côte en général. Les complications pleuro-pulmonaires sont très rares. La technique de prélèvement est simple mais doit être « démystifiée ». Dans ce but, le deuxième temps de ce travail propose de donner les repères topographiques et anatomiques nécessaires au prélèvement de ce greffon. Une étude anatomique complétée par une étude en radio imagerie a permis de situer la 8e jonction ostéo chondrale costale entre les processus épineux de la 11e vertèbre thoracique et la première vertèbre lombaire mais le plus souvent au niveau du processus épineux de la 12e vertèbre thoracique et au 2/3 de l’hémi périmètre thoraco-abdominal en partant du sillon médian du dos, quel que soit la morphologie thoracique, l’âge et le sexe du patient. Cette 8e jonction est de plus toujours située sous un seul muscle, le muscle oblique externe et protégée par un épais périchondre qui la protège des pédicules de l’espace inter costal, du fascia endo thoracique et de la plèvre pariétale.En chirurgie du membre thoracique, les implants de pyrocarbone utilisés dans l’arthrose radio carpienne et la rhizarthrose, avec les mêmes principes que les greffes ostéo chondrales costales, ne semblent pas donner pour le moment de résultats satisfaisants. Les cultures de chondrocytes autologues ou de cellules stromales mésenchymateuses avec des produits déjà commercialisés posent le problème de leur matrice qui doit à la fois contenir les cellules greffées, des facteurs de croissance et se substituer à la perte de substance cartilagineuse le temps de l’intégration. Enfin, au vue des résultats intéressants apportés par cette technique de greffe ostéo chondrale costale en chirurgie orthopédique du membre thoracique, il est envisagé d’éventuelles greffes ostéo cartilagineuses pour restaurer des pertes de substances cartilagineuse au membre pelvien que ce soit en situation d’urgence ou pour des situations dégénératives comme l’ostéo chondrite disséquante de genou ou au niveau de la cheville. Des tests biomécaniques doivent être réalisés pour vérifier la capacité du greffon ostéo chondral costal à supporter une mise en charge sur une articulation portante. / The use of costal graft in reconstructive surgery is known and used for a long time in maxillo-facial surgery. It is the same practice for the service of traumatologic, orthopédic, plastic and reconstructive surgery of the university hospital of Besançon. Firstly proposed in the surgical treatment of trapezo-metacarpal osteoarthritis, the operators of this service gradually appropriated this technique and used it for other traumatic or degenerative indications to restore a cartilage defect. Thus, since 15 years, this surgical technique has been proposed in trapezo-metacarpal osteoarthritis, peri-scaphoid or radio-carpal osteoarthritis, for some cases of post-traumatic fingers joint reconstruction, for malunion of distal radius, for advanced Kienbock disease and defect of osteo-cartilaginous substance of a humeral head. In a first time, this work reports the different therapeutic indications and clinical results of this original technique which have been the subject of scientific publications, especially in radio-scaphoid osteoarthritis and in a case of humeral head reconstruction.To obtain the osteo-chondral costal graft, this technique needs the surgical approach of the thorax and generally of the 8e rib. Pleuro-pulmonary complications are very uncommun. This surgical technique is simple but must be "demystified". Therefore, the second phase of this work proposes giving topographical and anatomical landmark necessary to obtain this graft. An anatomical study supplemented by a radio imaging study helped to situate the 8e osteo-chondral rib junction between the epineus process of the 11e thoracic vertebra and the first lumbar vertebra but more often at the 12e thoracic vertebra. In the thoraco-abdominal hemi perimeter, this junction was locate at the 2/3 starting from the median furrow of the back, whatever the thoracic morphology, age and sex of the patient. This 8e junction is more always located under the obliquus externus abdominis muscle and coated by a thick perichondrium which protects it from the inter costal pedicle, from the endo thoracic fascia and the parietal pleura. In surgery of upper limb, the pyrocarbon implants, used actually in radio carpal osteoarthritis and trapezo metacarpal osteoarthritis, with the same principles as the osteo chondral costal graft, do not appear to give satisfactory results. Autologous transplantation of chondrocytes or mesenchymal stromal cells cultures have problem of their matrix which must contain the grafted cells, growth factors and have to substitute for the cartilaginous defect. Finally, due to this interesting results brought by this costal osteo chondral grafting technique in orthopaedic surgery of the upper limb, we considered eventual cartilaginous transplants to restore articular defect to the lower member following a injury or a degenerative lesion such as dissecans osteo chondritis of knee or ankle. Biomechanical tests should be realised to verify the ability of the costal osteo chondral graft to support a load on a bearing joint.

O incessante aumento do volume de informações produzido por uma sociedade cada vez mais informatizada tem elevado drasticamente os requisitos quanto ao desenvolvimento de dispositivos capazes de suportar velocidades de operação cada vez mais elevadas em tamanhos cada vez mais reduzidos. No entanto, a contínua redução do tamanho desses dispositivos, celebrado através da lei de Moore, também produz um indesejável aumento na produção de calor durante a operação dos mesmos, comprometendo seu desempenho global. Uma alternativa promissora para aliviar, ou mesmo superar, estas limitações é oferecida pelos dispositivos ópticos integrados. No entanto, todo esse avanço esbarrava no fato de que as dimensões de tais dispositivos estavam restringidas fundamentalmente ao que é largamente conhecido como limite de difração (LD). Uma maneira de contornar essa limitação é obtida através da utilização de Plásmon Poláritons de Superfície, ou SPPs, que, de maneira simplificada, são ondas que se propagam ao longo da superfície de um condutor depositado sobre um dielétrico. Estas são essencialmente ondas de luz que são localizadas na superfície por causa de sua interação com os elétrons livres do condutor. Nesta interação, os elétrons livres respondem coletivamente oscilando em ressonância com a onda de luz. No presente trabalho, o fenômeno de geração de SPPs é estudado teoricamente e aplicado na modelagem de diversas estruturas de interesse científico e tecnológico, tais como acopladores direcionais e ressoadores. O objetivo principal é a obtenção de estruturas capazes de proporcionar propagação de SPPs por longas distâncias, permitindo, assim, estender ainda mais o leque de possíveis aplicações. As estruturas são investigadas prioritariamente no COMSOL Multiphysics, um aplicativo baseado em elementos finitos que permite solução vetorial de problemas eletromagnéticos. Os resultados obtidos até o momento permitem afirmar que o conceito de SPP de longa distância (long range SPP, LRSPP) podem ser aplicados com sucesso a estruturas geometricamente complexas como os ressoadores em anel e acopladores direcionais. / The continuous growth of knowledge produced by a society with increasing access to information technologies has demanded the development of communication devices capable of supporting high processing speeds at more and more reduced sizes. Nevertheless, the continuous reduction of the size of these devices, celebrated by the Moore\'s law, has also produced an undesirable increase of heat produced during the operation of the device itself, compromising its overall performance. A promising alternative to alleviate, or even overcome, these limitations has been offered by photonic integrated circuits. However, all the advance of photonic devices was restricted to what is known as diffraction limit. A fascinating way of circumventing this limit is now available to the scientific community, and consists in the generation of Surface Plasmon Polariton (SPP) waves. In a simplified manner, SPP waves are waves that propagate along a metal/dielectric interface. These waves are essentially localized at the metal/dielectric interface because of the interaction of light with free electrons of the metal. In this interaction, the free electrons respond collectively and oscillate resonantly with the incident light. In the present work, the phenomenon of SPP generation is theoretically investigated and applied to the modeling of several structures, such as directional couplers and resonators. The primary goal of this work is to design structures capable propagating SPP waves for long distances, known as long range SPP (LRSPP). The structures are investigated mostly with COMSOL Multiphysics, a finite elements based software that allows for the vectorial solution of electromagnetic problems. The results obtained so far are extremely encouraging, and prove that the LRSPP concept can be successfully applied to geometrically complex structures, such as couplers and ring resonators.

O incessante aumento do volume de informações produzido por uma sociedade cada vez mais informatizada tem elevado drasticamente os requisitos quanto ao desenvolvimento de dispositivos capazes de suportar velocidades de operação cada vez mais elevadas em tamanhos cada vez mais reduzidos. No entanto, a contínua redução do tamanho desses dispositivos, celebrado através da lei de Moore, também produz um indesejável aumento na produção de calor durante a operação dos mesmos, comprometendo seu desempenho global. Uma alternativa promissora para aliviar, ou mesmo superar, estas limitações é oferecida pelos dispositivos ópticos integrados. No entanto, todo esse avanço esbarrava no fato de que as dimensões de tais dispositivos estavam restringidas fundamentalmente ao que é largamente conhecido como limite de difração (LD). Uma maneira de contornar essa limitação é obtida através da utilização de Plásmon Poláritons de Superfície, ou SPPs, que, de maneira simplificada, são ondas que se propagam ao longo da superfície de um condutor depositado sobre um dielétrico. Estas são essencialmente ondas de luz que são localizadas na superfície por causa de sua interação com os elétrons livres do condutor. Nesta interação, os elétrons livres respondem coletivamente oscilando em ressonância com a onda de luz. No presente trabalho, o fenômeno de geração de SPPs é estudado teoricamente e aplicado na modelagem de diversas estruturas de interesse científico e tecnológico, tais como acopladores direcionais e ressoadores. O objetivo principal é a obtenção de estruturas capazes de proporcionar propagação de SPPs por longas distâncias, permitindo, assim, estender ainda mais o leque de possíveis aplicações. As estruturas são investigadas prioritariamente no COMSOL Multiphysics, um aplicativo baseado em elementos finitos que permite solução vetorial de problemas eletromagnéticos. Os resultados obtidos até o momento permitem afirmar que o conceito de SPP de longa distância (long range SPP, LRSPP) podem ser aplicados com sucesso a estruturas geometricamente complexas como os ressoadores em anel e acopladores direcionais. / The continuous growth of knowledge produced by a society with increasing access to information technologies has demanded the development of communication devices capable of supporting high processing speeds at more and more reduced sizes. Nevertheless, the continuous reduction of the size of these devices, celebrated by the Moore\'s law, has also produced an undesirable increase of heat produced during the operation of the device itself, compromising its overall performance. A promising alternative to alleviate, or even overcome, these limitations has been offered by photonic integrated circuits. However, all the advance of photonic devices was restricted to what is known as diffraction limit. A fascinating way of circumventing this limit is now available to the scientific community, and consists in the generation of Surface Plasmon Polariton (SPP) waves. In a simplified manner, SPP waves are waves that propagate along a metal/dielectric interface. These waves are essentially localized at the metal/dielectric interface because of the interaction of light with free electrons of the metal. In this interaction, the free electrons respond collectively and oscillate resonantly with the incident light. In the present work, the phenomenon of SPP generation is theoretically investigated and applied to the modeling of several structures, such as directional couplers and resonators. The primary goal of this work is to design structures capable propagating SPP waves for long distances, known as long range SPP (LRSPP). The structures are investigated mostly with COMSOL Multiphysics, a finite elements based software that allows for the vectorial solution of electromagnetic problems. The results obtained so far are extremely encouraging, and prove that the LRSPP concept can be successfully applied to geometrically complex structures, such as couplers and ring resonators.

This diploma thesis deals with design of timber load-bearing structure of a Multi-functional object in Olomouc. This object has an eliptical ground plan with dimensions 50x30 metres and height of 11 metres. The idea of the shape is an eliptical dome. This dome was designed in two options, those are a Rib dome and a Föppel dome.

Finite element human body models have in recent years become widely used in the area of vehicle safety evaluations. They make it possible to predict injury risk in specific areas, down to the organ level in the human body. An existing human body model, SAFER HBM includes a rib cage representing an average male. However, humans have a large variability in rib geometry and material properties leading to uncertainties in non-linear phenomena such as rib fracture risk. Hence, it cannot be known if predictions based on an average male representation are applicable to other similar individuals. In simulation studies with the SAFER HBM, rib cortical bone thickness, rib cross-sectional width, and rib cortical bone material properties have been identified as the most influential for the magnitude of rib strains and thus, they have a large influence on the strain-based rib fracture risk. This means that the predicted injury outcome is sensitive to the particular rib properties of an individual, and in a real-world scenario, a distribution of injury outcomes is expected across a population. Knowledge of the injury risk distribution can aid vehicle designers in developing safer vehicles. This distribution can be found through repeated human body model simulations with various rib properties, but due to the lengthy simulation times, this is not feasible. This thesis aims to predict human body model rib strain histories, given variations in the three biomechanical parameters, rib cortical bone thickness, rib cross-section width and rib cortical bone material with the help of graph neural networks (GNNs) for both single and mixed impact scenarios. Several variations of GNNs were used and implemented with help of PyTorch and PyTorch Geometric. An extensive hyperparameter study was performed on a small part of one human body model rib, to find the optimal combinations of hyperparameters and GNNs. The data used in training and evaluation of the networks was generated in LS-DYNA with SAFER HBM v10 and post-processed in Meta post processor. To be able to generate many training examples, the HBM was subjected to a simplified impact scenario consisting of a pendulum impact to the chest. As final verification, the trained GNNs were applied to predict rib strains in a vehicle impact scenario. Evaluation of the GNNs' prediction accuracy on the whole rib cage for all impact scenarios was made by studying the root mean square error along with differences in predicted and actual peak strain, rib fracture risk, time the peak strain occurs and the euclidean distance between the locations within the rib of real and predicted peak strains. The results showed that it is possible to accurately predict strain histories. Further, a multilayer perceptron (MLP) model consistently achieved the lowest errors in all measurements for mixed impacts. However, the trained model produced slightly unexpected errors for test data extracted from vehicle simulations compared to simplified simulations. This is an indication that retraining the model on data from vehicle simulations may be necessary. In conclusion, this thesis has shown the possibility to predict strain histories from a SAFER HBM rib cage extracted from simplified simulations and simulations including the full vehicle model, the SAFER HBM and all safety systems, to investigate the effects of human variability in the rib cage.

Textile process and textile structures that are suitable for composites are carefully studied and chosen to have weft knitted fabrics. The aim of this research is to knit the carbon and Dyneema® fibres in circular weft knitting to fit contour shapes. Carbon/Dyneema® can also be knitted in warp knitting machines to get properties in multi axial direction. But the fabric was flat and can be used only for 2D shape products which are having less drapabiity. According to previous research, weft knitting is the best suitable for complex preforms. Before knitting these fibres properties were studied in order to avoid the damage to the carbon fibres. The carbon fibres have high bending rigidity, low resistance to friction and are very brittle. A small damage to the carbon fibre in knitting subsequently affect directly on the composite properties. The strongest manmade fibre manufactured till date is Dyneema® and these fibres could be used in composites due to its performance, properties and light weight. But, the Dyneema® fibres are expensive when compared to common polyester, so polyester fibres are used to compare the properties and cost performance ratio. The critical bending of the carbon fibres causes friction between the fibres and also between fibre and machine. This was considered carefully during the knitting of carbon fibres and the idea chosen is mentioned in this thesis. Between the two layers of Dyneema®/polyester, carbon fibres are laid circularly in unidirectional and in un-crimped condition. This makes the carbon yarn to possess good mechanical properties. The 2 layers of Dyneema®/polyester fibres exchange the loops at certain points to increase the inter-laminar strength and decrease the carbon fibre distortion. This structure helps to withstand external load. It is also lighter than the carbon composite with additional properties. This makes much more space in the future for the Dyneema® fibres in the 3D carbon composite manufacturing. The internal carbon fibres are fully covered by the Dyneema® fibres to withstand the external impact load and not to damage the carbon fibres. So the loop length, stitch density, fibre volume fractions are considered before knitting.

Resonant ionization laser ion sources are applied worldwide to increase purity and intensity of rare isotopes at radioactive ion beam facilities. Especially for heavy elements the laser wavelengths required for efficient resonant laser ionization are not only element dependent, but also vary to small degrees from isotope to isotope. Since the first operation of an actinide target at ISAC-TRIUMF in 2008, the demand for neutron-rich isotopes far away from stability has steadily increased. Those isotopes often have very low production rates so that often only a few ions per second are released. In order to study isotope shifts and hyperfine structure of silver, actinium and astatine, in-source resonant ionization spectroscopy in combination with radioactive decay detection has been applied. Despite the Doppler limited resolution, it has the advantage that it is ultra-sensitive and the atomic spectrum for the nuclear ground and isomeric states can be investigated individually. An isobaric separation has been demonstrated for 115-119Ag, where the hyperfine structure of one state showed a splitting of 22 GHz to 38 GHz while for the other state only a single peak spectrum can be resolved. For astatine and actinium, the main interest is to measure and study the optical isotope shift, which is for the first excitation step for neutron-rich isotopes in the order of IS_FES≈±3.7GHz/u for both elements, as these observables give insight into nuclear moments and shape. In addition, also the isotope shift of the second excitation step for astatine has been measured to IS_SES,At≈-1.7GHz/u. Laser spectroscopy on astatine has mainly been performed on the neutron-deficient isotopes 199,205At due to high count rates and low isobaric contamination. With the results obtained it is possible to extrapolate the required wavelength for ionizing and delivering the isotopes 221-225At which are of interest to e.g. electric dipole moment studies. / October 2017