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Refractory Performance and Mechanism of Damage
2019This chapter deals with performance of Refractories in the Cement industry. The factors which determine the performance of Refractory are addressed in details. It shows that although Refractory quality is very important, the refractory performances depend only to a small extent on Refractory quality. The best quality refractory will not perform well if
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Performance-based dynamic contracting mechanism
International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 2012Road infrastructure contracting is becoming more complex due to changing transport needs and new technologies. Transportation agencies are struggling with this increased complexity. Around the world, agencies have developed a variety of methods for undertaking outsourcing initiatives known as performance-based contracting and total asset management ...
Hatice C. Demirel +2 more
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Mechanical Stability and Performance
2014In addition to thermal strains, other mechanical strains arising from handling (such as bending, drop, or shock), and transport (vibration) add energy to joints that affects the rate and nature of microstructural evolution and damage generation.
Tae-Kyu Lee +3 more
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Mechanisms of Performance Enhancement with Force Feedback
First Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, 2005The addition of force feedback to virtual environments and teleoperators provides many benefits to the user. However, the mechanisms by which force feedback improves performance remain unknown. We present an experiment demonstrating that force feedback can provide a physical constraint to an operator's motion, passively restraining the hand and ...
Christopher R. Wagner, Robert D. Howe
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Performance evaluation of a dead reckoning mechanism
Proceedings. 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Interactive Simulation and Real-Time Applications (Cat. No.98EX191), 2002A dead reckoning mechanism allows one to reduce network bandwidth utilization considerably. As available bandwith is the key problem for large distributed interactive simulation (DIS) systems, we expect that a dead reckoning mechanism will allow us to increase the number of entities involved in a DIS exercise.
Corentin Durbach, Jean-Michel Fourneau
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Mechanical performance of wound closure tapes
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1983On the basis of these in vitro and in vivo studies, Shur-Strips are recommended for wound closure. These tapes have a non-woven microporous structure with an adhesive that aggressively bonds to underlying skin. The level of adhesion of Shur-Strips to the skin can be enhanced by adhesive adjuncts.
G T, Rodeheaver +2 more
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Performance Analytic Model for Authentication Mechanism
2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, 2008Authentication mechanism is important for network security and defence. In this paper, we describe the authentication process as a four-dimensional queuing model expressed as a quasi-birth-and-death process, and obtain the steady probabilities distribution, which leads to compute some important indices of the system. The numerical experiments show that
Wei Liu +4 more
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Voice Mechanisms and Performance
2007This chapter presents the performance associations connected with the observed ER patterns in German subsidiaries that were discussed in the preceding chapter. It was noted that these patterns emerge from the interplay between home-country, host-country and dominance effects. The ER-subsidiary performance links are analysed in a three-stage process. In
Heinz-Josef Tüselmann +4 more
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Mechanical performance of starch-based biocomposites
2015© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.This chapter provides an overview of starch-based biocomposites with a main focus on their mechanical properties. The chapter first introduces the basic knowledge of starch including its structure and plasticisation behaviour, followed by discussion of the mechanical properties of starch-based materials, starch ...
Xie, F. +3 more
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Clinical performance of biological and mechanical prostheses
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1995Prosthetic valve replacement remains the most viable alternative for the treatment of severely diseased heart valves. The cumulative experience of mechanical protheses and bioprostheses was evaluated for a 10-year performance comparison: Carpentier-Edwards standard porcine bioprosthesis (CE-S), 1,214 operations; Carpentier-Edwards supraannular porcine ...
Guy J. Fradet +7 more
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