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Development of a flexible piezoresistive sensor prototype using resin doped with magnetically oriented nanoparticles
By Rafael Hernando Blanco Gómez, Andres Felipe Rubiano Navarrete, Carlos Andrés Palacio Gómez, Leonel Paredes-Madrid, Yaneth Pineda Triana
High-performance flexible piezoresistive sensors are highly useful in areas such as biomedicine, soft robotics, and pressure change detection technology. However, they require complex designs and advanced manufacturing methods. In this study, the design and fabrication of a flexible piezoresistive sensor using a flexible resin matrix doped with magnetically oriented iron nanoparticles is presented. The sensor consists of a flexible polymer resin matrix as substrate, reinforced with iron nanoparticles in different concentrations (0.5 %, 0.7 % and 1 % by weight), oriented by a magnetic field during the manufacturing process. The nanoparticles significantly enhance the piezo-resistive properties of the sensor, increasing its sensitivity and electrical conductivity under compressive loads. The sensor demonstrated high sensitivity under loads greater than 100 N in samples with concentrations of 0.7 % and 1 % of nanoparticles, and exhibited stability during cyclic testing, demonstrating durability. Additionally, stability tests showed excellent durability in repeated load cycles. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM) confirmed the effective alignment and distribution of the nanoparticles within the matrix, enhancing conductivity. This flexible piezoresistive sensor doped with nanoparticles has great potential for future applications in technologies such as soft robotics and electronic skins, where high sensitivity and durability in pressure detection are required.
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Experimental analysis of cutting force during machining difficult to cut materials under dry, mineral oil, and TiO2 nano-lubricant
By I. P. Okokpujie, L. K. Tartibu
December 13, 2021
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Fault diagnosis and health management of bearings in rotating equipment based on vibration analysis – a review
There is an ever-increasing need to optimise bearing lifetime and maintenance cost through detecting faults at earlier stages. This can be achieved through improving diagnosis and prognosis of bearing faults to better determine bearing remaining useful life (RUL). Until now there has been limited research into the prognosis of bearing life in rotating machines. Towards the development of improved approaches to prognosis of bearing faults a review of fault diagnosis and health management systems research is presented. Traditional time and frequency domain extraction techniques together with machine learning algorithms, both traditional and deep learning, are considered as novel approaches for the development of new prognosis techniques. Different approaches make use of the advantages of each technique while overcoming the disadvantages towards the development of intelligent systems to determine the RUL of bearings. The review shows that while there are numerous approaches to diagnosis and prognosis, they are suitable for certain cases or are domain specific and cannot be generalised.
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A convolutional neural network method based on Adam optimizer with power-exponential learning rate for bearing fault diagnosis
The extraction of early fault features from time-series data is very crucial for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in bearing fault diagnosis. To address this problem, a CNN framework based on identity mapping and Adam optimizer is presented for learning temporal dependencies and extracting fault features. The introduction of four identity mappings allows the deep layers to directly learn the data from the shallow layers, which alleviates the gradient disappearance problem caused by the increase of network depth. A new Adam optimizer with power-exponential learning rate is proposed to control the iteration direction and step size of CNN method, which solves the problems of local minima, overshoot or oscillation caused by the fixed values of the learning rates during the updating of network parameters. Compared to existed methods, the identification accuracy of the proposed method outperformed that of other methods for bearing fault diagnosis.
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A review on wind turbines gearbox fault diagnosis methods
As an renewable and clean energy of the world, wind energy has gained more and more attention and its fault diagnosis becomes more and more important. The gearbox, as the kernel component of the wind turbine system, it’s robust conditions have a great influence on the whole wind turbines system. Wind turbine gearbox has complex structure, which is usually composed of solar planetary gearbox and cylindrical gearbox. In the process of operation, various kinds of faults easily occur, resulting in serious losses. Once the wind turbine gearbox is not functioning as smoothly as it could be, it may result in large economic losses for the company and owner. At the same time, the failure rate of wind turbine gearbox has always been high because of complicated mechanic structure and special motion. Therefore, the tasks of reducing the downtime and increasing the productivity of wind turbine gearbox are urgent. This paper reviewed some research results of faults diagnosis on wind turbines gearbox, such as time-frequency analysis method, vibration based methods, nondestructive testing methods, etc. Meanwhile, this paper finds out some key problems and the channel of the resolution of the issue in order to supply some information for the further research of wind turbines gearbox.
January 27, 2021
Applied Mathematics
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Recent advancements of signal processing and artificial intelligence in the fault detection of rolling element bearings: a review
A rolling element bearing is a common component in household and industrial machines. Even a minor fault in this section has a negative impact on the machinery's overall operation. As a result, the industry suffers significant financial losses, and this damage can potentially result in catastrophic failures. Therefore, even a little fault in the rolling element bearings must be recognized and remedied as soon as possible. Many ways for detecting REB defects have been created in recent years, and new methods are being introduced on a daily basis. This article will provide a summary of such methods, with a focus on vibration analysis techniques. The newest advancements in this field will be recognizable to readers of this article. Anyone interested in defect diagnostics of rolling element bearings can utilize this material.
June 26, 2022
Applied Mathematics
Journal of Vibroengineering
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