{"title":"MONITORING AND ANALYZING THE CLASSICAL COUNTER CURRENT INDUSTRIAL TUNNEL DRYER FOR MASONRY CLAY UNITS","authors":"M. Vasić","doi":"10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.2.286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.2.286","url":null,"abstract":"This paper goal was to increase the quality of the drying ware and to lower the drying scarp rate in one local brick factory. The registration of drying air parameters (temperature, humidity and velocity) along the dryer channels as well as the drying ware linear shrinkage and mass change were monitored for a month. Material and Energy balances were also recorded. Results have revealed that the drying air humidity and temperature profiles were not evenly distributed along the height of the drying tunnels. The ambient air breakthrough into the dryer was experimentally identified and quantified. It was the cause of the product quality deterioration and the reason why the critical and residual moisture in some of the products was larger than the desired one. Based on monitored data and mass and energy balances a solution was proposed for preventing the “false” air breakthrough, upgrade of the existing dryer fans and installation of the novel, measuring equipment. A hypothetical solution for increasing the capacity of the dryer, which uses the registered material and energy balances as well as factory management expectation, that the production of 50.000 masonry units per day will be achieved soon, was given also.","PeriodicalId":38009,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Manufacturing Technologies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45266700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HYBRID ALUMINUM MATRIX COMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH IN SITU MG2SI AND AL3NI PHASES","authors":"H. Ramezanalizadeh","doi":"10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.2.220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.2.220","url":null,"abstract":"Aluminum matrix cast composites (AMCCs) are engaged materials for the fabrication of accountable and especially acute pieces utilized in the high-tech scope of industry such as automotive, aerospace, electronics, etc. In the present study, hybrid aluminum base composite reinforced with in-situ produced Mg2Si and Al3Ni particles were fabricated successfully in casting moods, and the structural features of inborn reinforcing compounds was evaluated in different thermal situations of solidification. For this issue, the composite microstructure was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and optical microscope (OM). In addition, the mechanical properties were evaluated by hardness test. According to the results, increasing in the cooling rate during solidification leads to the reduction of mediate size of the Mg2Si initially crystals, enhancement of their dispensation uniformity and clear increasing of their final amount; meanwhile, the average size of Al3Ni particles decreases significantly but their content is almost the same for different conditions.","PeriodicalId":38009,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Manufacturing Technologies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47123474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cristina Georgiana Lateş, Cristina Mihaela Dragan, C. Dumitraș
{"title":"HEAT TRANSFER OPTIMIZATION OF AN ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT IMMERSED IN NATURAL CONVECTION COOLANT","authors":"Cristina Georgiana Lateş, Cristina Mihaela Dragan, C. Dumitraș","doi":"10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.92","url":null,"abstract":"The current paper aims to present a thermal dissipation optimization for an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) cooled with thermal paste. The improvement consists of replacing the inside air of the module with four single-phase dielectric coolants in natural convection and one silicone elastomer compound, each of which has a higher thermal conductivity than air. Two distinct experiments were performed: electronics immersed in coolant with and without thermal paste, exposed to an ambient temperature of between -40°C and 105°C. Temperature measurements on the hot spots of these solutions were compared to electronic modules that are cooled only with thermal paste.","PeriodicalId":38009,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Manufacturing Technologies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41751894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELLING OF RAILS / WHEELS MANUFACTURED BY ER6 AND ER7 IN TRAMWAY APPLICATIONS \"","authors":"E. Chiba, M. Abdelkrim, A. Belloufi, I. Rezgui","doi":"10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.38","url":null,"abstract":"The wheels and rails of the train, tram etc. are often verified from their microstructure and plastic deformation, which usually appear in the outer layer of a wheel and rail, to analyse the causes of geometrical defects by monitoring the applied loads and variation of the temperature as suggested in the literature. This paper studies the effect of thermal stress applied with variations of the loads in contact on wheel/rail for the tramway, tracking through the state of the rail to discover the causes of geometric defects started by temperature variations and loads, and applying these variations of temperature and loads to know its resistance to these climatic conditions. 3D model of temperature distrubtion and heat flow in the wheel and the rail ER6 and ER7 has been developped using the finite element method based on the COMSOL Multiphisics.","PeriodicalId":38009,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Manufacturing Technologies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47901526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Căpățână, M. A. Potîrniche, D. G. Muscă (Anghelache)
{"title":"CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING 3D MODELLING AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF A CULTIVATOR TYPE EQUIPMENT","authors":"G. Căpățână, M. A. Potîrniche, D. G. Muscă (Anghelache)","doi":"10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.27","url":null,"abstract":"Although it has been neglected in recent years, cultivation is once again finding its place in the field of agricultural crop management. The basic activities carried out by farmers in modern agriculture include plowing, opening the top layer of the soil and mechanical removal of weeds. Tools such as harrows or cultivators are used for these activities. This work presents in the first phase the modeling of a cultivator that can be mounted on an agricultural tractor with a power of up to 20 kW. The 3D model of the cultivator was analyzed in a second phase using a specialized software, Autodesk Inventor Professional 2020. The finite element analysis aimed at highlighting the behavior of the cultivator type equipment during the work process, a very important aspect for the specialists in domain who must permanently ensure that the operation of these machines is carried out at optimal parameters. Following the analysis, the results chosen for visualization were the stresses and deformations of the cultivator's work equipment, as well as the displacements of the structure nodes.","PeriodicalId":38009,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Manufacturing Technologies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48614118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Hudișteanu, Cristian Chereches, F. Țurcanu, N. Taranu, M. Verdeș, Ana-Diana Ancaş, I. Hudișteanu, D. Ungureanu, RA Polcovnicu
{"title":"SOLAR RADIATION SIMULATION DEVICE FOR INVESTIGATION OF THERMAL AND PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS","authors":"S. Hudișteanu, Cristian Chereches, F. Țurcanu, N. Taranu, M. Verdeș, Ana-Diana Ancaş, I. Hudișteanu, D. Ungureanu, RA Polcovnicu","doi":"10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.76","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the design and execution of a solar radiation simulation device, which ensures the adequate operation of thermal and photovoltaic panels by using light sources which have a spectrum close to the one produced by sun at minimum investment costs. The equipment is used for the experimental tracking of the behaviour of photovoltaic panels and solar thermal panels for both short and longer time intervals. The solar radiation simulation device has been developed to provide the radiation necessary for the evaluation of the efficiency and the heating of the solar panels exposed to sun. A system consisting of six OSRAM Ultravitalux 300W high-pressure lamps has been adopted, offering an optimized solution, both qualitatively and economically. The main steps achieved during its execution were: design, pre-dimensioning, verification, final dimensioning, execution and testing. According to the final tests, it was concluded that the proposed device can provide the quantitative and qualitative parameters required for solar radiation simulation in case of laboratory tests.","PeriodicalId":38009,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Manufacturing Technologies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48621447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Vilcu, I. Herghiligiu, I. Verzea, Raluca P. Lazarescu
{"title":"A NEW PSO-BASED ALGORITHM FOR AN OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT PROBLEM","authors":"A. Vilcu, I. Herghiligiu, I. Verzea, Raluca P. Lazarescu","doi":"10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.299","url":null,"abstract":"Operational management issues represent a permanent challenge for the current economic environment and the research activity. This research will model a Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). The complexity of this fundamental problem (np-hard) allows a chance to apply and develop heuristic methods and evolutionary algorithms along with exact methods (dynamic programming, branch & bound). This paper proposes a new discrete algorithm to solve the TSP based on the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique. The features of this method are fast determination through an iterative process of the optimal problem, the generalised search in all the solutions, and the avoidance of the local optimal. To avoid premature convergence, we have introduced a new operator with a new mathematical function, and we have proposed new techniques for measuring and maintaining population diversity. We tested the algorithm's performance by applying it to numerical instances and compared it to the solutions and performance provided by other evolutionary algorithms. By delaying the convergence process, the new algorithm PSO offers reasonable solutions in terms of quality comparable to those offered by different evolutionary algorithms tested. At the end of the research, we highlighted the conclusions, limitations, and new techniques based on the PSO algorithm.","PeriodicalId":38009,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Manufacturing Technologies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42586706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"HOLONIC DIGITALIZATION OF MANUFACTURING – THE TOOL OF 4-TH MANUFACTURING REVOLUTION\"","authors":"G. Frumuşanu, A. Epureanu","doi":"10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.62","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays increased expectations regarding the industrial processes combined with the outstanding progress in the field of computers and information technology have led to the occurrence and development of the Industry 4.0 concept. The currently accepted meaning of digitalization is the use of digital technologies to transform an object/process in order to provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities. Industry 4.0 means the entrance of industrial manufacturing into the digitalization era. This paper intends to be a contribution to the implementation of Europe’s strategy for digitalization and proposes the holonic digitalization concept introduced in manufacturing and tailored for supporting the development of the 4th industrial revolution. The implementation of manufacturing holonic digitalization consists of the accomplishment of the following four steps: sampling, holonization, digital representation of the holons, and building of holon dataset. Holonization of the manufacturing activity means its deep multi-level configuration into several stand-alone components, each component being a holon of manufacturing i.e., a sequence of manufacturing seen as a holon. The digital description of a holon refers to both holon attributes and causality, and it is obtained by holistic monitoring of the holon operation. The building of holonic cyber-tooling means to design both the flow of information and the decision-making procedure, and to build perennial cyber-tools needed to support the flow and procedure. This building lays on approaching the information processing as a decision-making process, and on the implementation of appropriate performant digital technologies.","PeriodicalId":38009,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Manufacturing Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41392944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mihail-Vlad Vasilescu, F. Panaitescu, M. Panaitescu, A. Scupi, I. Voicu
{"title":"THE EFFECT OF USE OF UNCONVENTIONAL POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS ON THE SAFETY OF NAVIGATION","authors":"Mihail-Vlad Vasilescu, F. Panaitescu, M. Panaitescu, A. Scupi, I. Voicu","doi":"10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.3.282","url":null,"abstract":"By using a hybrid system formed from two unconventional energy devices large vertical wind turbines and FLETTNER Balloon and a conventional source of energy, ship owners can save a great deal of fuel, thus making substantial savings and not least, reducing pollution, making environmentally friendly ships. Unfortunately, the legislation in force does not allow ships to enter ports with unconventional energy sources. For this reason, unconventional energy sources will be used only during transoceanic crossings or during longer journeys. In this article major points are: 1) the influence of the FLETTNER helium Balloon on the manoeuvrability and road stability of the ship; 2) the influence of large Vertical wind turbines installed on the deck of the container ship on the manoeuvrability and road stability of the ship; 3) the calculation of the stability of the ship with the FLETTNER Balloon with helium coupled and with the 4 Vertical wind turbines installed on the ship's deck; 4) modelling the phenomena regarding the comparative analysis of the forces in the FLETTNER Balloon and in the large Vertical wind turbines. As results were obtained: 1) velocity and pressure distributions, forces and kinetic energies for the FLETTNER Balloon in various weather conditions, with winds of 10 and 20 m / s respectively from different directions: 00, 300, 600, 900 in various planes; 2) the distributions of speeds and pressures, forces and kinetic energies studied individually for each of the four large vertical wind turbines at winds of 10 m/s and 20 m/s respectively in various planes, segregated according to the position of port bow, starboard and stern port, starboard. This development was due to the growing demands to solve various problems at the industrial level, coming to the aid of many engineers who wanted an improvement in the equipment used, but did not have the financial support to perform experiments.","PeriodicalId":38009,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Manufacturing Technologies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42362093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"STUDY OF LASER CLADDING OF COMPOSITE COATINGS","authors":"A. Lisiecki","doi":"10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.2.121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54684/ijmmt.2022.14.2.121","url":null,"abstract":"Laser cladding is often used for manufacturing of protective coatings due to limited heat input. The thermal conditions are decisive for the microstructure and thus the properties. In this study Ni-based powder with addition of WC particles was used laser cladding with the TruDisk 3302 laser. Tests were conducted at different energy input (heat transfer efficiency not considered). Powder was fed directly into the melt pool by a single coaxial nozzle set in front of the melt pool. The influence of basic laser cladding parameters on the geometry, microstructure and hardness was determined. The heat input of laser cladding has significant effect on chemical and phase composition, as well as microstructure. The obtained coatings have typical composite structure with NiCr metallic matrix and WC carbides. The lower energy input of laser cladding is beneficial providing limited penetration depth, dilution, and preferable distribution and high share of tungsten carbides. However, too low energy input at the chosen technological conditions will lead to the lack of fusion. The share of carbides on cross section of the coatings produced at minimum heat input is over 50%, while for the maximum heat input the share is below 20%.","PeriodicalId":38009,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Manufacturing Technologies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47477182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}