Over the past decade, wavelets provided a powerful and flexible set of tools for handling fundamental problems in science and engineering. Wavelet analyses are being used for solving problems in different engineering ...Over the past decade, wavelets provided a powerful and flexible set of tools for handling fundamental problems in science and engineering. Wavelet analyses are being used for solving problems in different engineering areas like audio de-noising, signal compression, object detection, image decomposition, speech recognition etc. Wavelet analysis employs orthonormal as well as non-orthonornal functions. This research investigates the effectiveness of wavelet analysis in detecting defects in underground steel pipe networks. Continuous Wavelet Transforms （CWT） has been performed on the received signals of cylindrical guided waves. Cylindrical Guided waves are generated and propagated through the pipe wall boundaries in a pitch-catch system. Piezo-electric transducers are used to generate as well as receive guided waves. Several mother wavelet functions such as Daubechies, Symlet, Coiflet and Meyer have been used for the Continuous Wavelet Transform to investigate the most suitable function for defect detection. This research also investigates the effect of surrounding soil on wavelet transforms for different mother wavelet functions.展开更多
This work deals with an application in parametric modeling of problems regarding pipelines buried in static system, written in C＋＋ using ObjectARX functions. The application is fully integrated with AutoCAD through ...This work deals with an application in parametric modeling of problems regarding pipelines buried in static system, written in C＋＋ using ObjectARX functions. The application is fully integrated with AutoCAD through saproms.dll and saproms.arx libraries where the stages of pre-processing, processing and post-processing are done in AutoCAD sotlware environment itself without having to export data to another processing environment. The analysis processing is done by functions whose algorithms are based on the solution of the coupling between the FEM （finite element method） and the BEM （boundary element method）. The representation of the homogeneous pipeline is made by the FEM using a finite element in the form of a cylindrical panel called CYS （cylindrical shell）, developed from the homogeneous isotropic model proposed initially by Djoudi Bahai, who uses the philosophy of the assumed deformation model （assumed strain based model）. The soil is taken to be a continuum infinite or semi-infinite elastic solid patterned by BEM where special boundary elements are proposed with curved surface or curved edges to represent the soil-structure interaction mainly in the areas of contact with the pipeline.展开更多
Circular aperture antenna recently has been regarded as a nature source to generate high power radio orbital angular momentum （OAM） in millimeter （mm） wave; however, the radiation pattern was not investigated. The...Circular aperture antenna recently has been regarded as a nature source to generate high power radio orbital angular momentum （OAM） in millimeter （mm） wave; however, the radiation pattern was not investigated. Theoretical derivation of radiation pattern of circular aperture OAM antenna is conducted to evaluate the performance. Extensive simulations verify the validity of the theoretical result. Furthermore, performance of such antenna excited by orthogonal TE and TM modes is compared, which shows the potential application for TEgl mode to create pure OAM g-1 mode in a practical system, providing guidance for generation of twisted radio waves in mm-wave bands.展开更多
文摘Over the past decade, wavelets provided a powerful and flexible set of tools for handling fundamental problems in science and engineering. Wavelet analyses are being used for solving problems in different engineering areas like audio de-noising, signal compression, object detection, image decomposition, speech recognition etc. Wavelet analysis employs orthonormal as well as non-orthonornal functions. This research investigates the effectiveness of wavelet analysis in detecting defects in underground steel pipe networks. Continuous Wavelet Transforms （CWT） has been performed on the received signals of cylindrical guided waves. Cylindrical Guided waves are generated and propagated through the pipe wall boundaries in a pitch-catch system. Piezo-electric transducers are used to generate as well as receive guided waves. Several mother wavelet functions such as Daubechies, Symlet, Coiflet and Meyer have been used for the Continuous Wavelet Transform to investigate the most suitable function for defect detection. This research also investigates the effect of surrounding soil on wavelet transforms for different mother wavelet functions.
文摘This work deals with an application in parametric modeling of problems regarding pipelines buried in static system, written in C＋＋ using ObjectARX functions. The application is fully integrated with AutoCAD through saproms.dll and saproms.arx libraries where the stages of pre-processing, processing and post-processing are done in AutoCAD sotlware environment itself without having to export data to another processing environment. The analysis processing is done by functions whose algorithms are based on the solution of the coupling between the FEM （finite element method） and the BEM （boundary element method）. The representation of the homogeneous pipeline is made by the FEM using a finite element in the form of a cylindrical panel called CYS （cylindrical shell）, developed from the homogeneous isotropic model proposed initially by Djoudi Bahai, who uses the philosophy of the assumed deformation model （assumed strain based model）. The soil is taken to be a continuum infinite or semi-infinite elastic solid patterned by BEM where special boundary elements are proposed with curved surface or curved edges to represent the soil-structure interaction mainly in the areas of contact with the pipeline.
文摘Circular aperture antenna recently has been regarded as a nature source to generate high power radio orbital angular momentum （OAM） in millimeter （mm） wave; however, the radiation pattern was not investigated. Theoretical derivation of radiation pattern of circular aperture OAM antenna is conducted to evaluate the performance. Extensive simulations verify the validity of the theoretical result. Furthermore, performance of such antenna excited by orthogonal TE and TM modes is compared, which shows the potential application for TEgl mode to create pure OAM g-1 mode in a practical system, providing guidance for generation of twisted radio waves in mm-wave bands.
