Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2002--Berlin.

Pour répondre aux besoins des clients concepteurs de systèmes IRM (Imagerie par Résonnance Magnétique), EXXELIA TEMEX veut étendre sa gamme de composants non-magnétiques. Mon travail de thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre du développement d’une nouvelle gamme de condensateurs ajustables non-magnétiques (aussi appelés trimmers) capables de tenir des environnements extrêmes en tension pour des applications de l’IRM. Pour se faire, les composants passifs intégrés doivent respecter les conditions extrêmes de fonctionnement : un courant RF (Radiofréquence) de 30A à 128MHz et une tension efficace jusqu’à 5kV.Dans un premier temps, les propriétés électriques des trimmers existants ont été déterminées expérimentalement et par simulation afin de valider le modèle numérique proposé. Ensuite, les propriétés électriques des différents diélectriques constitutifs du condensateur sont déterminées expérimentalement. A partir de considérations théoriques, nous avons établi des expressions nécessaires aux calculs des capacités et des fréquences de résonance. Le trimmer est ensuite dimensionné par simulation numérique (méthode des éléments finis) puis fabriqué. Deux modèles de diélectriques sont étudiés. Le gap d’air présent entre les électrodes est évalué par simulation numérique avant validation expérimentale. L’influence de l’air sur les performances du prototype final est finalement abordée : la tension de claquage et de la variation de la fréquence de résonance et de la capacité sont successivement traités. / As a non-invasive imaging technology, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) revolutionizes medical diagnosis and diseases detection. Without damaging radiation, MRI systems use radio frequency (RF) waves to produce three dimensional detailed anatomical images. To reach the operating frequency of the next generation of MRI, new electronic components, in particular trimmers (called also adjustable capacitors) are necessary to obtain high-quality images. However, trimmers are still developed empirically using expired specifications that no longer respond to MRI requirements.First of all, to provide a high level of image resolution and to reduce manufacturing time and cost, electrical modeling is an important step. Then, according to these numerical simulations, prototypes are designed and then manufactured.

String trimmers or weed cutter or strimmer is one of the inevitable tool for a professional gardener. They are helping gardeners for maintaining the lawn and farmland. These machines have been used by human for a quite long time. Professionals normally uses the bike handle type string trimmer and the amateurs who has small gardens normally uses loop handle one. The bike handle models are more powerful and gives more comfort for long time working. While performing the trimming process users are using the handles to steer and control the machine. Handle is the main touch point of the machine and it needs to provide enough comfort and assist the functions.Cramer, a German garden tools brand owned by The Globe Group, is focusing on researching and developing Garden power tools for amateurs as well as professional users. For them it is important to satisfy the customer and improve the user experience of their products.This project is focused only on the handle of the string trimmer to improve the overall user experience. This project mainly deals with the ergonomic aspects of the handle for a larger percentile of population. It is very important to make a handle were the professional users are going to use longer period of time. Along with the comfort this project put stress on increase the user experience by giving modern, friendly and premium expression visually as well as physically. Even though the project is to develop a handle concept, it needs to go along with the overall brand language.

Syfte – Syftet med examensarbetet är att minimera eller helt eliminera den utböjning som uppstår i Husqvarnas trimmer 536 LiR från handtag ner till motor och trimmerhuvud då en 5 kilos vikt hängs i handtaget. Metod – En konceptstudie har utförts på Husqvarnas trimmer 536 LiR för att undersöka och utvärdera hur problemet med trimmern ser ut i dagsläget och därifrån ta fram olika koncept för att minimera utböjningen. Arbetet har följt en Stage-Gate produktutvecklingsprocess med sju steg från att skriva kravspecifikation till att ta fram och testa prototyper. Koncept genererades med metoderna brainstorming och Reverse Engineering och sållades sedan med Pughs beslutsmatris. Finita elementmetoden användes för att utvärdera produkten och för att analysera vissa koncept. Avancerade prototyper skapades med selektiv lasersintring medan enklare modeller togs fram för hand. Prototyperna testades och jämfördes mot originalprodukten. Resultat – I detta arbete presenteras fem olika förslag för att minska utböjningen i trimmern; en förstyvning av plastkåporna på originalprodukten, tre tillbehör att fästa på den befintliga trimmern och ett förslag på materialbyte. Alla förslag gav positiva resultat med minskad utböjning, men Tillbehör 3 var det som visade sig minimera utböjningen mest och det enda som klarade av att möta syftet. Dock gav detta tillbehör för stort viktpåslag. Förstyvningen och materialbytet gav också bra resultat gällande utböjningen och ökade inte vikten för mycket. Implikationer – Om de förslag som presenteras här skulle implementeras och tas i produktion skulle det innebära vissa tillfälliga konsekvenser vid produktion av trimmern. Verktygen för plastdetaljerna skulle behöva ändras för förstyvningen och kanske också för materialbytet, medan det för de två första tillbehören skulle behöva tillverkas helt nya verktyg för formsprutning. För att implementera Tillbehör 3 skulle nya beräkningar behövas eftersom trimmerns egenfrekvens ändras. Det skulle dock vara billigare att tillverka detta tillbehör än de första två eftersom detta inte behöver formsprutas. Begränsningar – Flertalet av prototyperna framtagna i detta projekt är tillverkade med selektiv lasersintring och inte med formsprutning, som är tillverkningsmetoden för de nuvarande plastkåporna. Detta innebär att hållfasthetsegenskaperna inte är desamma som de skulle bli vid verklig produktion. Dessutom är materialen som används glasfiberfyllda, vilket innebär att hållfastheten kommer att påverkas ytterligare beroende på tillverkningsmetod. Glasfibrernas positioner och riktningar blir olika vid olika processer vilket ger upphov till olika egenskaper. / Purpose – The purpose of this thesis is to minimize or completely eliminate the flexure in Husqvarna’s brush cutter 536 LiR from the handle down to the engine and the blade when a weight of 5 kilogrammes is hanged from the handle. Method – A concept study has been made on Husqvarna’s brush cutter 536 LiR to examine and evaluate what the problem with the model is and from that to develop different concepts to minimize the flexure. The work has followed a Stage-Gate product development process with seven steps from defining the specification of requirements to developing and testing prototypes. Ideas of concepts were generated using the methods brainstorming and Reverse Engineering and were later sifted using Pugh’s matrix. Finite Element Analysis was used to evaluate the product and to analyse certain concepts. Advanced prototypes were created using selective laser-sintering whilst simpler models were created by hand. The prototypes were tested and compared to the original product. Findings – This project presents five different suggestions on how to minimize the flexure in the brush cutter; one stiffer version of the original plastic casings, three accessories to attach to the original product and a proposal for a change of material. All these suggestions gave positive results with a lesser flexure, but the third accessory, Tillbehör 3, was the one that showed the smallest flexure and the only one able to fulfil the purpose of the study. The weight of the accessory was, however, too big. The stiffer version of the original casings and the change of material also showed good results regarding flexure and did not increase the weight too much. Implications – If any of the proposals of this project were to be implemented in production, it would cause certain temporary consequences for the production of the brush cutter. The tools for the plastic components of the current brush cutter would need some changing in order to manufacture the stiffer version of the mouldings or to produce the different material, whilst for the first two accessories completely new tools for injection moulding would have to be developed. To implement the third accessory, new calculations would be needed since the eigenfrequency of the brush cutter would be changed. It would, however, be cheaper to produce this accessory compared to the first two, since the third one does not need to be manufactured using injection moulding. Limitations – Most of the prototypes in this work is manufactured using selective laser sintering and not injection moulding, which is the manufacturing method of the current plastic casings. This means that the properties of the materials will be different than they would be if they were manufactured for production. Furthermore the materials used in the casings of the brush cutter are filled to certain degree with glass fibres, meaning that the material properties will be even more different depending on manufacturing method. The position and direction of the glass fibres will be different depending on which process is used, giving different mechanical properties.

The subject of master’s thesis is design and assessment of steel load-bearing construction of atypical family house in Vrchlabí. Structure is designed as multi-storey steel structure, cooperating with stiff concrete core. The design was considered in four different options which combines possibility of using steel, steel and timber with different way of stiffness for whole structure. There is also composite steel-concrete alternative floor trimmer for selected option. Design and assessment was conducted in accordance with the applicable standards and by using software Scia Engineer.

No description available.

No description available.

This thesis uses ecofeminist and human-animal studies lenses to explore human animal and nonhuman animal relations in early America. Most ecocritical studies of American literature begin with nineteenth-century writers. This project, however, suggests that drawing on ecofeminist theories with a human-animal studies approach sheds light on eighteenth-century texts as well. Early American naturalist travel writing offers a site replete with human and nonhuman encounters. Specifically, naturalist William Bartram's travel journal features interactions with animals in the southern colonial American frontier. Amateur naturalist Elizabeth House Trist's travel diary includes interactions with frontier and domestic animals. Sarah Trimmer's Fabulous Histories, a conduct manual that taught children acceptable behavior towards animals, provides insight about the social regulation of human and nonhuman relationships during the late eighteenth century, when Bartram and Trist wrote their texts. This thesis identifies and analyzes textual sites that blur the human subject/and animal object distinction and raise questions about the representation of animals as objects. This project focuses on the subtle discursive subversions of early Euroamerican naturalist science present in Bartram's Travels (1791) and the blurring of human/animal boundaries in Trist's Travel Diary (1783-84); Trimmer's Fabulous Histories (1794) further complicates the Euroamerican discourse of animals as curiosities. These texts form part of a larger but overlooked discourse in early British America that anticipated more well-known and nonhuman-centric texts in the burgeoning early nineteenth-century American animal rights movement.