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Towards Practice-oriented Higher Education for Sustainable Rural Development in Western Kenya
(2021)
The workshop proceedings contain the written versions of the presentations of the Kenyan participants of the final workshop of the DAAD-funded cooperation project "Practice-oriented Higher Education in Western Kenya" (ProUniEdu-WeK) in August 2021 at the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences (THB).
The contributions give an impression of what has been achieved in the last years on the way to practice-oriented higher education in the participating departments of the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) in cooperation with its partners from the THB and what is planned to be done in the years to come.
Three-dimensional vibration of a ring with a noncircular cross-section on an elastic foundation
(2018)
Probing joint strength and distortion in gas metal arc lap joining of aluminum and steel sheets
(2019)
Low-cost Locomotion Sensors
(2012)
A theoretical model for the tread slip and the effective rolling radius of the tyres in free rolling
(2017)
Conceptual ontology of prospective risk analysis in medical environments - the OPT-Model-Ontology
(2015)
German safety regulations and best practices to prevent accidents regarding the Gumi accident
(2013)
Arc attachments on aluminium during tungsten electrode positive polarity in TIG welding of aluminium
(2011)
In modem AC power sources, both balance and current of EP (tungsten electrode positive) and EN (tungsten electrode negative) can be readily adjusted. According to conventional assumptions the surface of aluminium workpieces is cleaned during EP but the tungsten electrode is more heated due to electron work function. During EN the tungsten electrode cools down and the workpiece is melted. Therefore, optimal settings of the power source mostly aim for maximal penetration and minimal electrode wear. This paper presents a study of arc attachments in TIG welding on aluminium. Two different arc attachments to the cathodic workpiece could be attested with only one of them actually cleaning the surface. The first one is a spot mode (highly dynamic) that attaches to the edges of oxide layers and cracks them. The second one is also a spot mode, but it attaches to weld pools. It does not clean the surface but heats the base material intensively. Both arc attachment modes compete against each other. As a result, the cleaning area narrows with wider weld pools due to an increasing attachment to the weld pool during EP. The influences on the arc attachment to the aluminium cathode as well as the contradictions in present literature are discussed. Possible adjustments of the AC balance for optimized processes are proposed.
There are two aims for the second part of this paper: verifying the theory presented in the first part through parameter variation and comparison between simulation and experiment, and to study the effect of the belt structure on the cornering properties of radial tyres. Research has been carried out with a passenger car radial tyre and two different kinds of truck or bus radial tyres using both simulation and experiment. This second part of the paper shows that belt structure plays an important role in the generation of tyre forces and moments in addition to the effects of the tread stiffness and friction coefficients. The theory and method presented in this paper opens a new robust way to predict the tyre forces and moments from the tyre design and provides a reliable model for a generation mechanism.
Tyre rolling kinematics and prediction of tyre forces and moments: part I - theory and method
(2012)
A new method to describe tyre rolling kinematics and how to calculate tyre forces and moments is presented. The Lagrange–Euler method is used to calculate the velocity and contact deformation of a tyre structure under large deformation. The calculation of structure deformation is based on the Lagrange method, while the Euler method is used to analyse the deformation and forces in the contact area. The method to predict tyre forces and moments is built using kinematic theory and nonlinear finite element analysis. A detailed analysis of the tyre tangential contact velocity and the relationships between contact forces, contact areas, lateral forces, and yaw and camber angles has been performed for specific tyres. Research on the parametric sensitivity of tyre lateral forces and self-aligning torque on tread stiffness and friction coefficients is carried out in the second part of this paper.
Reusable solid wheels manufactured of the old steel BV1 (nearly equivalent to the solid or monobloc wheel steel R1 according to the new nomenclature) show in some cases rolling defects on the surface of the wheel disc. The fatigue behaviour of such defects is analysed by means of the linear-elastic fracture mechanics and Monte Carlo simulation and assessed to be able to derive the allowable defect size for the non-destructive testing. This paper was firstly presented at the Second International Symposium on Fatigue Design FD’95, held in Helsinki (Finland) on 5 – 8 September 1995. The complete research report is published under the title „Oberflächendefekte im Scheibenbereich” (Manufacturing surface defects in the disc area of solid wheels). The research work was sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Rolling contact fatigue generates cracks on the running surface of high strength railway rails which grow under a small angle into the rail head. These cracks can cause in its last stage the fracturing of the rail. The crack extension behaviour is – as the origin of these cracks too – influenced by the cold working of the rail steel. The crack growth in the first stage is fracture mechanically analyzed by means of two-dimensional modelling. The simulation results are assessed for the use of rail grinding. A criterion for the change of the crack growth direction could not be derived, but the following stages of the crack growth in the transverse direction and the final fracture and the conditions for secondary fractures are considered. Rolling contact fatigue generates cracks on the running surface of high strength railway rails which grow under a small angle into the rail head. These cracks can cause in its last stage the fracturing of the rail. The crack extension behaviour is – as the origin of these cracks too – influenced by the cold working of the rail steel. The crack growth in the first stage is fracture mechanically analyzed by means of two-dimensional modelling. The simulation results are assessed for the use of rail grinding. A criterion for the change of the crack growth direction could not be derived, but the following stages of the crack growth in the transverse direction and the final fracture and the conditions for secondary fractures are considered.