Railway signaling is of paramount importance to ensure traffic management andsafety on the rail network. The main lines are divided into sections called ‘blocks’,which are governed by a fixed signal installation. To prevent trains from colliding,each block allows one train at once. In France (and most European countries),train detection is performed by an electrical device called track circuit that consistsof a transmitter and a receiver installed at the track-side, and connected via therails. In the absence of a train, an electrical signal flows from the transmitter tothe receiver through the rails. As a train enters a track circuit, its axles shuntthe rails, provoking a short circuit (also called ‘shunt’): the signal transmitted tothe receiver drops. The detection of that signal drop results in the detection of atrain. This method rarely fails throughout the network, but there can be criticalcases where it may be inefficient. In this Master’s Thesis, new detection criteriaproposed in previous studies have been tested on signals measured in poor shuntingconditions. Three approaches have been tested: one in the time domain and two inthe frequency domain. The time approach compares the short-term and long-termstatistics of the received signals. The observation of a change in the spectra of thereceived signals around the 3rd order harmonic (3OH) has led to the implementationof two frequency criteria: the estimation of the band power around the 3OH andthe detection of the 3OH peaks. The obtained results show that better detection isachieved when the new criteria and the existing one are combined. / Tågsignalsystem är väsentliga för att garantera trafikstyrning och säkerhet i tågnätet.Spåren är indelade i sektioner, s.k. block, som övervakas med fasta signalinstallationer.För att hindra tåg från att krocka, tillåts bara ett tåg i taget per block. IFrankrike (och de flesta andra europeiska länder), detekteras tågen med en elektriskspårkrets som består av en sändare och en mottagare som är installerad bredvidspåret och ansluten till rälsen. När inget tåg finns på spåret, flyter en elektrisk signalfrån sändaren till mottagaren via spåret. När ett tåg anländer, kortsluts kretsenav hjulaxeln och signalen försvinner från mottagaren. Minskningen i signalstyrkaanvänds för att detektera tåget. Denna metod sällan misslyckas i tågnätet, men iovanliga fall kan det uppstå farliga situationer. I detta examensarbete utvärderasnya detektionsmetoder, som har föreslagits i tidigare studier, på signaler som haruppmätts under förhållanden med dålig kontakt mellan hjul och spår. Tre olika metoderhar testats, en i tidsdomänen och två i frekvensdomänen. Tidsdomänsmetodenjämför kortvarig och långvarig statistik för den mottagna signalen. I spektrum förden mottagna signalen, har man observerat en förändring runt den tredje övertonen,samt detektering av frekvenstoppar vid tredje övertonen. De erhållna resultatenvisar på förbättrad detektering när de nya och existerande kriterierna kombineras.

As spacial restrictions become more and more of an issue for renewable energy parks onshore, more developers are turning offshore to develop future production. The desire for a diversity of energy sources combined with a desire to utilize space efficiently has sparked an interest in renewable energy parks where more than one energy source occupy the space. This master thesis took up the task of modeling the grid connection of such an offshore multi-source park consisting of wind turbines and floating solar panels from a techno-economical perspective. The grid connection consists of everything from the wind turbine and solar output to the Point of Common Connection (PCC) onshore. The park consists of a 4x4 set of 15MW wind turbines accompanied by three large floating platforms of solar panels. Two different ways of creating the grid connection have been investigated, including many sub-cases. HVAC-transmission to shore has been compared with HVDC-transmission at different line voltages and transmission distances. The use of shunt reactors at the middle point of the transmission lines have been investigated to try extending the distance where HVAC was viable. A radial AC-collection grid has also been compared with a parallel DC-grid to see if DC-grids shows any promise. All of these different cases have been evaluated based on their total cost over a 25 year period. The result has shown that HVAC-transmission is desirable for shorter distances, but eventually reaches a break-even point where HVDC makes more sense economically. Adding a middle shunt was shown to be able to make HVAC competitive, if not desirable, compared to HVDC as the distance becomes long. Changes in the collection grid have significantly less of an impact on the cost of the entire system compared to the transmission. It was concluded that a multi- source park of wind and solar shows similar results compared to offshore parks consisting only of wind power and similar conclusions could be drawn. The biggest challenges for multi-source parks are not in the electrical domain, but in structural design where floating solar face a lot of challenges such as mechanical stress from strong waves. / EU-SCORES

L’intervention de Fontan est une chirurgie palliative pour les cardiopathies congénitales univentriculaire. A long terme, la défaillance cardiaque, l’hypertension artérielle pulmonaire(HTAP) et l’entéropathie exsudative peuvent mener à l’échec tardif du Fontan.Une mise au point clinique a été realisée en se focalisant secondairement sur les patients adultes.L’intérêt de la cavo bipulmonaire (CBP), étape intermédiaire au Fontan, dans certains cas de retours veineux pulmonaires anormaux totaux a été décrite. Afin d’affiner de futures études cliniques, nous avons discuté de l’intérêt du Brain NatriureticPeptide en post opératoire de Fontan. Nous avons démontré la fiabilité d’une nouvelle technologiede l’oxyme´trie de pouls chez des enfants cyanosés et la non fiabilité d’un nouveau dispositifd’impédancemétrie pour le monitorage non invasif du de´bit cardiaque en comparaison avecun cathéter artériel pulmonaire.Un modèle animal viable et chronique de la CBP a été développé. Il a montré que le flux pulsatileantérograde empêche la formation de fistules artério-veineuses pulmonaires (FAVP), améliorel’hématose et atténue le développement de l’HTAP soutenant cliniquement le maintien de ce fluxlors de la création d’une CBP. Par ailleurs, la perte de pulsatilité, en diminuant le contrainte de cisaillement, entraîne unediminution de l’eNOS synthase et une réponse altérée vaso-relaxante dépendante de l'endothélium artérielle pulmonaire. La micropulsatilité limite ces effets délétères. Ces résultats impliquent desthérapies potentielles contre l’HTAP du Fontan, en maintenant un débit pulmonaire accessoire et la modulation pharmaceutique vaso-relaxante non endothélium-dépendante / The Fontan surgery is a palliative surgery for univentricular congenital heart disease. On the longterm, heart failure, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and exudative enteropathy may lead tothe Fontan failure.A clinical adjustment has been realized by focusing secondarily on adult patients. The advantage, insome cases of total anomalous pulmonary venous return, of the bidirectional cavopulmonary (BCP),which is an intermediate stage of Fontan, has been described.In order to prepare future clinical studies, we have discussed about Brain Natriuretic Peptide inpostoperative Fontan surgery. We have demonstrated the reliability of a new technology of pulseoxymetry in cyanotic children and the unreliability of a new device of impedance for non-invasivemonitoring of cardiac outpout in comparison with pulmonary arterial catheter.A viable chronic animal model of bidirectional cavo-pulmonary (BCP) has been developed. Itshowed that the antegrade pulsatile flow prevents the formation of pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas(PAVMs) ,improves hematosis and attenuates the development of PAH clinically supporting themaintenance of this flow when creating a BCP.Moreover, the loss of pulsatility while reducing the shear stress causes a decrease in e-NOSsynthase and a dependent vaso-relaxing altered response of the pulmonary arterial endothelium. Themicropulsatility limits these deleterious effects. These results imply potential therapies against thePAH of Fontan surgery, maintaining an accessory pulmonary blood flow and the pharmaceuticalvaso-relaxing non-endothelium dependent modulation.

Cette thèse s’interesse au contrôle des flux d’énergie mécanique dans les structures périodiques. Les problèmes de dynamiques des structures considérés dans cette thèse sont abordés sous l'angle d'une description ondulatoire : la réponse forcée d’un système est calculée comme une superposition d’ondes dans la structure, tandis que les modes propres sont interprétés comme des ondes stationnaires.Un des avantages de l’approche ondulatoire est qu’elle permet de réduire de manière importante la taille des problèmes de dynamique. Ceci se révèle particulièrement utile dans le domaine des hautes et moyennes fréquences, où les calculs par éléments finis deviennent très coûteux en temps à cause du grand nombre de degrés de liberté nécessaire à la convergence du modèle. Afin de contourner ce problème, cette thèse s'appuie sur la méthode des éléments finis ondulatoires (Wave Finite Element Method (WFEM)). Une des principales améliorations proposées est l’utilisation de plusieurs méthodes de synthèses modales (Component Mode Synthesis (CMS)) pour accélérer l’analyse des guides d’ondes généraux en présence d’amortissement ou de matériaux piézo-électriques. Les erreurs numériques restent faibles du fait de l’utilisation d'une base de projection réduite constituée d'ondes propagatives. Une autre contribution est le procédé de modélisation multi-échelle pour les assemblages de structures périodiques et non-périodiques. L’idée principale est de modéliser les parties non-périodiques par la méthode des éléments finis, et les parties périodiques par WFEM. Les interactions entre les différentes sous-structures sont modélisées par des coefficients de réflexion ou des impédances mécaniques. Ces travaux réalisent une extension de la WFEM à des structures plus complexes et plus proches des applications industrielles. Un autre intérêt de la vision ondulatoire est qu’elle mène à de nouvelles idées pour le contrôle des vibrations. Dans cette thèse, des matériaux piézo-électriques et des circuits de shunt, distribués de façon périodique sont utilisés afin de modifier artificiellement la propagation des ondes grâce au couplage électromécanique. Un nouveau critère, nommé « Wave Electromechanical Coupling Factor (WEMCF) », est proposé pour évaluer, en termes énergétiques, l’intensité du couplage entre le champ électrique et le champ mécanique lors du passage d'une onde. Ce facteur peut être obtenu à partir des caractéristiques ondulatoires obtenues par la WFEM. On montre que le WEMCF est fortement lié à l'atténuation dans le guide d’ondes piézo-électrique. La conception des paramètres géométriques et électriques peut être ainsi être effectuée séparément. Ce principe est appliqué à la réduction des vibrations d’une poutre encastrée. Le WEMCF est utilisé comme fonction objectif pour l'optimisation durant la conception géométrique, la masse totale de matériau piézo-électriques étant contrainte. Un circuit à capacité négative est utilisé pour élargir le band-gap de Bragg. La stabilité du système est prise en compte comme une contrainte sur la valeur de cette capacité. Les vibrations sont localisées et facilement dissipées par l’introduction d’absorbeurs sur la frontière. Ce procédé de conception basée sur une approche ondulatoire aboutit à des solutions stables, légères, et insensibles aux conditions aux limites dans une large gamme de fréquence. Par conséquent, il est prometteur pour analyser les structures en moyenne et haute fréquence où il est difficile d’accéder aux informations modales exactes. / This thesis describes analysis and control approaches for the vibration and energy flow through periodic structures. The wave description is mainly used to address the structural dynamic problems considered in the thesis: forced response is calculated as the superposition of the wave motions; natural modes are understood as standing waves induced by the propagating waves that recover to the same phase after traveling a whole circle of the finite structure. One advantage of the wave description is that they can remarkably reduce the dimensions of structural dynamic problems. This feature is especially useful in mid- and high frequencies where directly computing the full Finite Element Method (FEM) model is rather time-consuming because of the enormous number of degree-of-freedoms. This thesis extends one widely used wave-based numerical tool termed Wave Finite Element Method (WFEM). The major improvements are the use of several Component Mode Synthesis (CMS) methods to accelerate the analysis for general waveguides with proportional damping or piezoelectric waveguides. The numerical error is reduced by using the proposed eigenvalue schemes, the left eigenvectors and the reduced wave basis. Another contribution is the multi-scale modeling approach for the built-up structures with both periodic and non-periodic parts. The main idea is to model the non-periodic parts by FEM, and model the periodic parts by WFEM. By interfacing different substructures as reflection coefficients or mechanical impedance, the response of the waveguide is calculated in terms of different scales. These two contributions extend WFEM to more complex structures and to more realistic models of the engineering applications.Another benefit of the wave perception is that it leads to new ideas for vibration control. In this thesis periodically distributed piezoelectric materials and shunt circuit are used to artificially modify the wave properties by electric impedance. A novel metrics termed the Wave Electromechanical Coupling Factor (WEMCF) is proposed, to quantitatively evaluate the coupling strength between the electric and mechanical fields during the passage of a wave. This factor can be post-processed from the wave characteristics obtained from WFEM through an energy formula. We show that WEMCF is strongly correlated to the best performance of the piezoelectric waveguide. Hence the design for the geometric and electric parameters can be done separately. An application is given, concerning the vibration reduction of a cantilever beam. WEMCF is used as an optimization objective during the geometric design, when the overall mass of the piezoelectric materials is constrained. Then the negative capacitance is used with a stability consideration to enlarge the Bragg band gap. The vibration is localized and efficiently dissipated by few boundary dampers. The wave-based design process yields several broadband, stable, lightweight and boundary condition insensitive solutions. Therefore, it is promising at mid- and high frequencies where exact modal information is difficult to access.

This Master thesis deals with the design and construction of a measuring device for measuring and the current consumption logging of sensors using LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network) technology. The theoretical part of the thesis firstly summarizes selected LPWAN technologies. Selected technologies, namely: LoRaWAN, Sigfox and Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), are described more in detail. Further, the current measurement techniques are briefly discussed. The main focus is given to the current shunt measuring methods. The second half of thesis describes procedures conducted during the design and construction of a measuring device. The current measuring is based on the current shunt circuit complemented by the voltage amplification circuit, whose output is subsquently converted into digital form using an AD converter. The thesis describes in great detail the procedures for selecting individual components and important processes used in design of printed circuit boards. An integral part of the measuring device implementation is the design and implementation of control software, which is described in detail and supplemented by workflow charts underlining the entire description. The implementation of the entire measuring device is completed by the design and implementation of the cover box using 3D printing technology. Finally, the specifications of designed device are briefly discussed based on the limits of the used components.

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