Orientador: Katia Maria Lucchesi Cavalca / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T03:12:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mastaler_Alexandre_M.pdf: 8070977 bytes, checksum: 67729451cedeb65f0b15eb1a17a3fead (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: O comando de válvulas é um sistema utilizado em motores à combustão, que tem como função controlar a abertura e fechamento de válvulas de circulação dos gases envolvidos na combustão. Ele é composto por diversos subsistemas; Um desses subsistemas é o contato balancim/pivô, onde o comando aciona o balancim para que esse acione a válvula e utilize o pivô como elemento de suporte. O conhecimento desse subsistema é importante para a avaliação de desgastes e ruídos provenientes desse contato, assim como, avaliações do atrito para otimização geral do comando. Para que haja a redução de desgaste, o pivô deve girar em relação ao balancim, mas existem certas aplicações em que o giro do pivô não é possível. Baseando-se na equação de Reynolds, o filme de óleo ao redor do pivô será avaliado e calculado com relação à distribuição de pressão. Com o conhecimento da distribuição de pressão, poderemos saber quais as forças envolvidas no subsistema. Considerando-se o atrito e os momentos gerados pelo balancim no pivô, chegamos às condições de equilíbrio do sistema. Com essas avaliações observaremos as condições que permitam a rotação do pivô em relação ao balancim / Abstract: The Valve Train System used in combustion engines have the ability to command the opening and closure of gas circulation valves control that takes part in combustion. It is formed by many sub-systems. One of these systems is the finger follower/pivot contact, where the command starts the finger follower for valve starts and uses the pivot as a support element. The knowledge of this sub-system is important to ware and noise evaluation that came ftom this contact, as well as, ftiction evaluation for the command general optimization. To reduce wear, the pivot must turn in finger follower relation, but in some applications the pivot tum is not possible. The oil film around the pivot is ca1culated in relation of its pressure distribution as Reynolds Equation. Through the knowledge of pressure distribution, the forces in the sub-system are known. Considering the ftiction and the moments generated by the balancing in the pivot, we carne to balance conditions in the system. With these evaluations we noticed the condition that allows the pivot rotation in relation to the balancing / Mestrado / Mecanica dos Sólidos e Projeto Mecanico / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

Software testing is widely considered to be one of the most important parts of software development life-cycle. In this research, we investigated potential improvements in the testing process and design of automated test scripts inside Bombardier Transportation. For the creation of automated test scripts BT is using a group of programs called TAF (Test Automation Framework). These scripts are used for testing Train Control Management System (TCMS), software that is used for managing the train. TAF can export its test scripts in XML format. XML scripts are analyzed in order to identify the most frequent changes. To better understand the life cycle of automated Test scripts official documentation that defines the Verification and Validation process inside BT was analyzed. Also, an interview was conducted with one of the responsible persons for testing. We believe that we have found a possible solution for improving testing process and creation of automated test scripts in BT, and to evaluate it proof of concept tool was developed. The main idea behind the tool is to write the test script using keywords which are based on analysis that was conducted on test specification documentation. These keywords represent frequent actions that are being tested on the train. By storing those actions in keywords re-usability of test script is being increased. Also, because they are based on naturally language, they are having positive effect on readability and maintenance of the test script.