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Machines, Volume 9, Issue 12

December 2021 - 74 articles

Cover Story: Fuel cells are a key technology for low-emission mobility in the future. An electric air compressor—one of the most important system components and the highest parasitic power consumer —is necessary to supply the fuel cell with the required air mass flow at the fuel cell’s operating pressure. Fuel cell air supply systems often combine a compressor with a downstream turbine to recover energy from the fuel cell exhaust gas and thus improve system efficiency. The objectives of current research and this article are to improve the efficiency and extend the operating range of air supply units. For this purpose, an experimentally validated CFD study was performed on an existing air supply system. The features investigated for the compressor diffuser and turbine nozzles significantly improved the performance. View this paper.
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Articles (74)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,866 Views
13 Pages

Industrial Upper-Limb Exoskeleton Characterization: Paving the Way to New Standards for Benchmarking

  • Vitor Neves Hartmann,
  • Décio de Moura Rinaldi,
  • Camila Taira and
  • Arturo Forner-Cordero

17 December 2021

Exoskeletons have been introduced in industrial environments to prevent overload or repetitive stress injuries in workers. However, due to the lack of public detailed information about most of the commercial exoskeletons, it is necessary to further a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,105 Views
18 Pages

17 December 2021

Mitigating fatigue damage and improving grasping performance are the two main challenging tasks of applying the soft manipulator into industrial production. In this paper, the grasping position optimization-based control strategy is proposed for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,509 Views
20 Pages

Optimization Design of Energy-Saving Mixed Flow Pump Based on MIGA-RBF Algorithm

  • Rong Lu,
  • Jianping Yuan,
  • Guangjuan Wei,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Xiaohui Lei and
  • Qiaorui Si

17 December 2021

Mixed flow pumps driven by hydraulic motors have been widely used in drainage in recent years, especially in emergency pump trucks. Limited by the power of the truck engine, its operating efficiency is one of the key factors affecting the rescue task...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,785 Views
14 Pages

The Development of a Gracilis and Quadriceps Tendons Calibration Device for Uniaxial Tensile Tests

  • Ivan Grgić,
  • Mirko Karakašić,
  • Željko Ivandić and
  • Tanja Jurčević Lulić

17 December 2021

To determine the biomechanical properties of the distal tendon of the gracilis muscle and the upper third of the quadriceps femoris muscle used for reconstruction of the medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL), it is necessary to develop a calibration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,611 Views
10 Pages

Evaluating Service Characteristics of Working Surfaces of Car Parts by Microgeometric Quality Parameters

  • Volodymyr Dzyura,
  • Pavlo Maruschak,
  • Stoyan Slavov,
  • Volodymyr Gurey and
  • Olegas Prentkovskis

17 December 2021

The correlation between the service characteristics of the working surfaces of car parts belonging to the rotary body class, and quality parameters—in particular, the height-related roughness parameter Ra—was estimated. Low values of Ra w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,689 Views
11 Pages

Method and Test Bench for Hydro-Mechanical Continuously Variable Transmission Based on Multi-Level Test and Verification

  • Hanzheng Dai,
  • Lirong Wan,
  • Qingliang Zeng,
  • Zhenguo Lu,
  • Zhiyuan Sun and
  • Wenting Liu

16 December 2021

According to the structural characteristics of Hydro-mechanical continuously variable transmission (HMCVT), a multi-functional test bench was developed, and the basic structure, working principle, and test functions of the test bench were introduced....

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,592 Views
12 Pages

16 December 2021

In this paper, a sensorless position detection method of a two-phase switched reluctance motor (SRM) at standstill is proposed based on the voltage pulse injection method. Due to the torque dead zone and the lack of starting capability in the two-pha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,844 Views
20 Pages

16 December 2021

This paper introduces a new intelligent fault diagnosis method based on stack pruning sparse denoising autoencoder and convolutional neural network (sPSDAE-CNN). This method processes the original input data by using a stack denoising autoencoder. Di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,575 Views
18 Pages

Influence of Blade Type on the Flow Structure of a Vortex Pump for Solid-Liquid Two-Phase Flow

  • Hui Quan,
  • Yanan Li,
  • Lei Kang,
  • Xinyang Yu,
  • Kai Song and
  • Yongkang Wu

15 December 2021

Vortex pumps have good non-clogging performance owing to their impellers being retracted into retraction cavities, but they are much less efficient than ordinary centrifugal pumps. In this paper, numerical simulations were performed on a model of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,967 Views
16 Pages

Research and Experimental Verification on Topology-Optimization Design Method of Space Mirror Based on Additive-Manufacturing Technology

  • Yanchao Fan,
  • Deyi Dong,
  • Chao Li,
  • Yuxin Sun,
  • Zhiyu Zhang,
  • Fanlu Wu,
  • Liwei Yang,
  • Quhao Li and
  • Yingjun Guan

15 December 2021

As one of the most-critical components in space optical cameras, the performance of space mirrors directly affects the imaging quality of space optical cameras, and the lightweight form of mirror blanks is a key factor affecting the structural qualit...

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Machines - ISSN 2075-1702