Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-127).

Thesis (doctoral)--Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1992. / Summary in Dutch. Includes bibliographical references.

O presente trabalho trata de uma modelagem eletromagneticamente acoplada e fracamente acoplada ao problema mecânico do processo de conformação eletromagnética (EMF). Este usa bobina espiral plana, aplicada na deformação de chapas finas e planas para obter geometrias finais rasas. Um método de solução numérica é usado para o problema eletromagnético, o qual foi desenvolvido no software Matlab e utiliza o software Abaqus/Explicit para verificação da geometria deformada após a aplicação da força transiente de origem eletromagnética. O método foca especificamente no cálculo da densidade de fluxo magnético em pontos específicos usando a lei de Biot-Savart e análise do circuito que modela o processo de conformação eletromagnética, sendo que as indutâncias deste circuito são calculadas e fazem o acoplamento entre os fenômenos elétricos e magnéticos. Os cálculos das correntes de descarga e induzidas e perfil da força de origem eletromagnética são realizados para o instante inicial, sem considerar o movimento da chapa. O perfil da força de origem eletromagnética ao longo da chapa é calculado para diversos instantes, sendo este um dos dados de entrada no software Abaqus/Explicit através de uma sub-rotina acessível ao usuário (VDLOAD) obtendo-se a geometria da chapa deformada. A rotina de cálculo discretiza o problema eletromagnético como um sistema de equações diferenciais ordinárias (ODE) para calcular a corrente de descarga da bobina atuadora e as induzidas na chapa metálica. Experimentos, sem chapa acoplada, e com chapa fixa ou deformando foram realizados com a aquisição da corrente de descarga, medição da densidade de fluxo magnético, velocidade de deformação e geometria da chapa deformada, demonstrando uma boa correlação com o método de cálculo proposto. O presente trabalho fornece importantes informações para o projeto de sistemas de conformação eletromagnética sem a necessidade de uma função da corrente de descarga como dado de entrada para solução do problema eletromagnético. / This thesis deals with modeling and numerical simulation electromagnetically coupled and loosely-coupled to the mechanical problem for process of the electromagnetic forming. This uses flat spiral coil, applied to the deformation of thin and flat sheet metal to obtain shallow end geometries. This method uses a numerical solution to the electromagnetic problem, which was developed in the software Matlab and uses the software Abaqus/Explicit for verification of the deformed geometry after applying of the transient force of origin electromagnetic. The method focuses specifically on the calculation of the magnetic flux density at specific points using the Biot-Savart law and circuit analysis that modeling of electromagnetic forming process and the inductances of this circuit are calculated and couple the electric and magnetic phenomena. Calculations of discharge and induced currents, profile force of origin electromagnetic are performed for the initial time, without considering the motion of the sheet metal. The profiles force of origin electromagnetic along the sheet metal is calculated for several instants, which are input data in software Abaqus/Explicit using a user-routine (VDLOAD) obtaining the deformed geometry of the sheet metal. The calculation routine discretizes the electromagnetic problem as a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE) to calculate the discharge current of the actuator coil and induced currents in the metal sheet. Experiments without coupled sheet metal, and fixed or deforming sheet metal were performed with the acquisition of the discharge current, measurement of magnetic flux density, velocity of movement and deformation geometry of the sheet metal, demonstrating a good correlation with the proposed method of calculation. This study provides important information for the design of the electromagnetic forming systems without the need for a function of discharge current as input for solution of the electromagnetic problem.

This study first tests the factors influencing the willingness to express opinions online. Guided by the spiral of silence theory, the research used a survey to test whether fear of isolation and opinion congruency work online. Second, the study explores how psychological constructs, including self-efficacy, collective efficacy, and proxy efficacy affect the willingness to express disagreement. A 2 × 2, verbal persuasion × vicarious experience, experiment was applied. Third, this study also conducted a content analysis to measure disagreement expressions in online newspapers and test how these expressions affect opinion quality and online discussion involvement. The survey study (N=321) showed that while fear of isolation online negatively predicts the willingness to express individual opinions, opinion climate congruency is not associated with the willingness. The online experiment demonstrated that mastery experience and verbal persuasion positively influence self-efficacy, but vicarious experience's effect was not confirmed. Self-efficacy plays the most salient role in predicting whether one selects to express disagreement online. The content analysis (N=1,288) of the discussion threads demonstrated that disagreement expression is widespread in the online newspaper forums analyzed, and such expression positively influences reasoned opinions and political discussion engagement.

Title: Electromyographic analysis of mutual relation between standing and movement pattern in shoulder girdle Objectives: This thesis examines the electric activity and recruitment (timing) of m. latissimus dorsi, m. obliquus externus abdominis, m. gluteus maximus, m. tensor fasciae latae, m. tibialis anterior, m. erector spinae and m. trapezius during shoulder girdle movement standing on both feet, ipsilateral or contralateral foot. Furthermore the thesis explores whether it is possible to objectify the existence of published tendomuscular chains or the whole hypothetic Latissimus dorsi muscle chain of Spiral stabilization concept using surface electromyography. Methods: The muscles mentioned above were measured bilaterally with surface electromyography electrodes during particular movements. Twelve healthy individuals participated, seven women and five men in the age of 23 - 30. All participants were instructed to do the specific movement from Spiral Stabilization concept against the 2kg resistence of elastic rope when standing on both feet or in one leg stand on contralateral or ipsilateral leg. Results: We can identify muscles that are active in the particular movements almost within all participants, that are activated less often and those that are involved rarely. But we are not able to...

Le rendement d’un hélicoptère est étroitement lié à son poids. L’allègement des composants profite à la charge utile transportable. Il implique généralement une diminution de leur rigidité, donc une augmentation de leur déformation. Les boites de transmission par engrenages sont particulièrement concernées. Elles doivent assurer la transmission de puissances importantes à masse minimale. Les axes des roues dentées se désalignent alors progressivement au fur et à mesure de l’application du chargement. Les topographies des dentures spiroconiques sont corrigées pour tolérer ce déplacement et optimiser les performances du mécanisme. La portée d’engrènement ne doit pas toucher une arête afin d’éviter toute surpression par effet de bord et une dégradation prématurée des dents. Il faut améliorer la répartition de l’effort transmis et des pressions de contact. L’erreur de transmission induit des vibrations et du bruit. Il faut donc la minimiser. L’étude de la correction à appliquer à la denture est fastidieuse et requiert une longue période d’apprentissage lorsqu’elle est réalisée manuellement. Les travaux présentés s’inscrivent dans le cadre d’une automatisation du processus. L’usinage et l’engrènement des dentures sont simulés numériquement. Les méthodes proposées sont simples et robustes. Trois problèmes d’optimisation différents sont traités et analysés / The performance of a helicopter is closely linked to its weight. The components are lightened to benefit the carried payload. That usually involves a reduction in their stiffness, so an increase in their deformation. The transmission gear boxes are particularly affected. They must ensure the transmission of high powers with a minimal mass. The load makes the axes of the gears misaligned. The topographies of the spiral bevel gear teeth are corrected in order to tolerate the displacement and optimize the mechanism performances. The contact path must not touch tooth edges to avoid any overpressure and premature degradation. The distribution of the transmitted load and of the contact pressures must be improved. The transmission error induces vibrations and noise. Therefore, it must be minimized. The study of the correction to be applied to the teeth is tedious and requires a long learning period when it is done manually. The presented works fit into the scheme of an automated process. The machining and meshing of the teeth are simulated numerically. The proposed methods are simple and robust. Three different optimization problems are discussed and analyzed

Le développement de l’électronique embarquée et miniaturisée est pleinement d’actualité de nos jours, dans les domaines tels que l’armement, la médecine, et les télécommunications. La miniaturisation des antennes large-bande, opérationnelles sur plus d’une décade, présentent un défi particulier. Ces travaux de thèse proposent de travailler sur la miniaturisation d’une antenne spirale, afin d’en réduire l’encombrement, à savoir son diamètre, tout en conservant au mieux ses caractéristiques de rayonnement et polarisation intrinsèques. Cette recherche sera appliquée à la bande des Très hautes Fréquence (Very High Frequencies – VHF), allant de 30MHz à 300MHz La géométrie inédite proposée consiste à associer à une antenne spirale un ensemble d’anneaux résonnants, dont le diamètre n’excède pas celui de la spirale, et permettant de diminuer la fréquence basse de fonctionnement. Pour un ensemble de cinq anneaux associé à la spirale, la réduction de la fréquence basse de fonctionnement est de plus de 30%. Pour deux antennes spirales de même fréquence basse de fonctionnement, l’antenne miniaturisée a donc un diamètre réduit de 30%, soit une surface réduite de 50%. Les performances de l’état de l’art d’après lesquelles les réductions sur le diamètre des antennes spirales n’excèdent pas 15% sont donc dépassées. De plus, d’après cet état de l’art, les méthodes de réduction appliquées aux antennes large bande dégradent en général le gain et l’axial ratio dans les bandes basses de fréquences de fonctionnement. La méthode proposée permet de conserver l’efficacité de l’antenne, voire de l’augmenter, dans les fréquences proches de la fréquence basse de fonctionnement. Le rayonnement de l’antenne spirale miniaturisée dans la bande passante de l’antenne sans anneaux n’est pour autant pas modifiée. Ces résultats très encourageant ont été confirmés par la mesure d’antennes spirales miniaturisées, réalisées pour un diamètre de 8cm et de 1m : une réduction de 30% du diamètre sans dégradation du rayonnement a été observée. Les mesures ont par ailleurs donné lieu à l’étude de la réalisation d’une antenne en bande VHF, avec pour implication les problématiques de réalisation (masse, encombrement, résistance mécanique) et de mesure (isolation, effets parasites en VHF avec une longueur d’onde de 4m). / Miniaturizing electronic devices is a great challenge in crucial research domain such as defense, medicine, and telecommunications. Wideband antenna miniaturization operating on more than a decade is a particular issue. This thesis presents an original method for miniaturizing a spiral antenna, reducing its diameter while keeping its bandwidth, its radiating performances and its axial ratio characteristics. This method is applied to UHF spiral antenna (from 750MHz) and VHF antenna (from 75MHz). The new geometry adds stacked resonant rings to an Archimedean spiral antenna. Their diameter are the same, hence no rise of the antenna diameter. For a 5-ring spiral antenna, the lowest operating frequency reduction is higher than 30%. That is equivalent to a 30% reduction of the diameter for two antennas sharing the same lowest operating frequency, hence a 50% reduction of the area of the antenna. These reduction factors surpass the reduction factors of the state of art of 15%. Besides, according to the state of art, the miniaturizing techniques imply some degradation of the gain and axial ratio performances at the lowest operating frequencies. The new method improves on the other hand these characteristics at these frequencies. At higher frequencies, the rings do not interfere with the matching of neither the spiral antenna nor its radiation characteristics. These results were validated by fabricated antenna measurements. A 30% reduction of the diameter was obtained on a 5-ring-8cm-large antenna as well as on a 5-ring-1m-large antenna. No impairment was noticed on the radiation of the antennas, even at the lowest operating frequencies. The thesis also discusses the difficulties which came in addition for the fabrication (mass, size and mechanical resistance) and measurement (radiation interferences and measurement isolation – the wavelength being 4m) of the VHF antenna.

O presente trabalho trata de uma modelagem eletromagneticamente acoplada e fracamente acoplada ao problema mecânico do processo de conformação eletromagnética (EMF). Este usa bobina espiral plana, aplicada na deformação de chapas finas e planas para obter geometrias finais rasas. Um método de solução numérica é usado para o problema eletromagnético, o qual foi desenvolvido no software Matlab e utiliza o software Abaqus/Explicit para verificação da geometria deformada após a aplicação da força transiente de origem eletromagnética. O método foca especificamente no cálculo da densidade de fluxo magnético em pontos específicos usando a lei de Biot-Savart e análise do circuito que modela o processo de conformação eletromagnética, sendo que as indutâncias deste circuito são calculadas e fazem o acoplamento entre os fenômenos elétricos e magnéticos. Os cálculos das correntes de descarga e induzidas e perfil da força de origem eletromagnética são realizados para o instante inicial, sem considerar o movimento da chapa. O perfil da força de origem eletromagnética ao longo da chapa é calculado para diversos instantes, sendo este um dos dados de entrada no software Abaqus/Explicit através de uma sub-rotina acessível ao usuário (VDLOAD) obtendo-se a geometria da chapa deformada. A rotina de cálculo discretiza o problema eletromagnético como um sistema de equações diferenciais ordinárias (ODE) para calcular a corrente de descarga da bobina atuadora e as induzidas na chapa metálica. Experimentos, sem chapa acoplada, e com chapa fixa ou deformando foram realizados com a aquisição da corrente de descarga, medição da densidade de fluxo magnético, velocidade de deformação e geometria da chapa deformada, demonstrando uma boa correlação com o método de cálculo proposto. O presente trabalho fornece importantes informações para o projeto de sistemas de conformação eletromagnética sem a necessidade de uma função da corrente de descarga como dado de entrada para solução do problema eletromagnético. / This thesis deals with modeling and numerical simulation electromagnetically coupled and loosely-coupled to the mechanical problem for process of the electromagnetic forming. This uses flat spiral coil, applied to the deformation of thin and flat sheet metal to obtain shallow end geometries. This method uses a numerical solution to the electromagnetic problem, which was developed in the software Matlab and uses the software Abaqus/Explicit for verification of the deformed geometry after applying of the transient force of origin electromagnetic. The method focuses specifically on the calculation of the magnetic flux density at specific points using the Biot-Savart law and circuit analysis that modeling of electromagnetic forming process and the inductances of this circuit are calculated and couple the electric and magnetic phenomena. Calculations of discharge and induced currents, profile force of origin electromagnetic are performed for the initial time, without considering the motion of the sheet metal. The profiles force of origin electromagnetic along the sheet metal is calculated for several instants, which are input data in software Abaqus/Explicit using a user-routine (VDLOAD) obtaining the deformed geometry of the sheet metal. The calculation routine discretizes the electromagnetic problem as a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE) to calculate the discharge current of the actuator coil and induced currents in the metal sheet. Experiments without coupled sheet metal, and fixed or deforming sheet metal were performed with the acquisition of the discharge current, measurement of magnetic flux density, velocity of movement and deformation geometry of the sheet metal, demonstrating a good correlation with the proposed method of calculation. This study provides important information for the design of the electromagnetic forming systems without the need for a function of discharge current as input for solution of the electromagnetic problem.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-11-27Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:26:19Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_mm_me_araca.pdf: 800076 bytes, checksum: 5ef9b524100dd82bb4a83b225e5207c6 (MD5) / Enxerto ósseo tem sido realizado objetivando prevenir ou corrigir defeitos ósseos oriundos de traumas ou intervenções cirúrgicas. Existem várias maneiras de se obter o osso doador, sendo o autógeno e o homógeno os que parecem ter uma melhor resposta tecidual. O estudo do tecido ósseo por métodos não invasivos se tornou possível a partir da descoberta dos raios X em 1895 e, com o advento da tomografia em meados de 1970, ocorreu uma evolução na radiologia convencional. A partir daí, disponibilizando-se a obtenção de cortes sem a sobreposição das estruturas, permitindo assim uma melhor resolução da imagem radiográfica. O presente experimento teve como propósito analisar o processo de reparo ósseo em imagens obtidas por tomografia espiral em suínos submetidos a enxerto de osso homógeno congelado, comparando-o com enxerto de osso autógeno. Os 12 animais foram sacrificados aos 7, 30, 60, e 90 dias pós-operatórios, quando as mandíbulas foram removidas para a realização das tomografias espirais. Observou-se que em todos os tempos pós-operatórios o enxerto autógeno foi o que obteve melhor resultado. Mostrava-se mais reabsorvido e unido ao tecido ósseo e com radiopacidade semelhante à do tecido ósseo adjacente, além de ausência de reabsorção óssea ao redor dos mesmos. Em contrapartida, o enxerto homógeno se apresentava menos reabsorvido e na maioria das vezes, com sinal de reabsorção do tecido ósseo adjacente. Além dos melhores resultados com o enxerto autógeno, o estudo permitiu concluir que, a tomografia espiral foi um exame competente para avaliação dos enxertos, bem como o modelo experimental (suíno), foi perfeitamente viável para o estudo do tecido ósseo. / Bone graft has been accomplished aiming to prevent or correct bone defects originating of traumas or surgical interventions. Several techniques exist of obtaining the bone donor, being the autogenous and the homogenous then that seem have a better tissue reaction. The study of the bone tissue for methods non invasive became possible as from the discovery of the rays X in 1895 and, with the coming of the tomography in the middle of 1970, happened an evolution in the conventional radiology. Since then, making possible the obtainment of cuts without the overexposure of the structures, allowing a better resolution of the image radiographic. The present experiment had as purpose to analyze by the spiral tomography the process of bone repair in swine submitted to graft of bone frozen homogenous, being compared with graft of autogenous bone. The 12 animals were sacrificed to the 7, 30, 60, and 90 postoperative days, when the mandibulae were removed for the accomplishment of the spiral tomography. It was observed that in every postoperative time the autogenous graft was what obtained better result. It showed more reabsorbed and united to the bone tissue and with radiopacity similar to the one of the adjacent bone tissue, besides absence of bone reabsorption about of the same ones. In compensation, the graft homogenous came less reabsorbed and most of the time, with sign of reabsorption of the adjacent bone tissue. Besides best results with the autogenous graft, the study allowed to conclude that the spiral tomography went a competent exam to evaluation of the grafts, as well as the experimental model (swine), was practicable perfect for study bone tissue.