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Robotic path planning for non-destructive testing – A custom MATLAB toolbox approach
2016
AbstractThe requirement to increase inspection speeds for non-destructive testing (NDT) of composite aerospace parts is common to many manufacturers. The prevalence of complex curved surfaces in the industry provides motivation for the use of 6 axis robots in these inspections. The purpose of this paper is to present work undertaken for the development of a KUKA robot manipulator based automated NDT system. A new software solution is presented that enables flexible trajectory planning to be accomplished for the inspection of complex curved surfaces often encountered in engineering production. The techniques and issues associated with conventional manual inspection techniques and automated s…
Analisi di alcuni aspetti dell'Ingegneria dell'Autoveicolo per una Mobilità Sostenibile: Ambiente, Incidentalità e Materiali.
2018
Sin dai tempi antichi l’uomo, per andare incontro ai suoi bisogni ha avuto la necessità di spostarsi; da questo suo insito bisogno è nato, dunque, il concetto di mobilità, che riguarda non solo lo spostamento di persone da un luogo ad un altro, ma anche lo spostamento di beni di consumo utili alla vita di tutti i giorni, tramite gli odierni mezzi di trasporto. La mobilità in quanto forma di spostamento, ovvero le modalità di trasporto, hanno necessariamente bisogno di energia per poter funzionare. La portata di energia necessaria alla mobilità è ingente, data l’enorme entità di persone, merci ed informazioni che necessitano di spostarsi oggigiorno. Per una mobilità efficiente e veloce è anc…
Investigating the effect of residual stress on hydrogen cracking in multi-pass robotic welding through process compatible non-destructive testing
2021
Abstract In this paper, the effect of Welding Residual Stress (WRS) on the size and morphology of hydrogen-induced cracks (HIC) is studied. Four samples were manufactured using a 6-axis welding robot and in two separate batches. The difference between the two batches was the clamping system used, which resulted in different amounts of welding deformation and WRS. The hydrogen cracks were intentionally manufactured in the samples using a localised water-quenching method, where water was sprayed over a specific weld pass in a predetermined position. The Phased-Array Ultrasonic Testing (PAUT) system was implemented during the welding process (high-temperature in-process method), to detect the …
Implementation of active infrared NDT techniques using long square heating pulses
2012
The present work describes the implementation of active IR Thermography techniques for the NDT of thick polymer and glass-fibre reinforced polymer (GRP) composite panels. A low cost Thermal NDT set-up is proposed, comprising a single-detector IR camera with low thermal resolution and low frame rate, and common low-power halogen lamps as external heat source devices. The use of halogen lamps in particular requires several seconds of switch-on time in order to deliver meaningful and effective heat quantities. The influence of such long heat deposition intervals is investigated on the possibility to implement Transient Thermography and Lock-In Thermography techniques. Regarding the Transient T…
PAUT inspection of complex shaped composite materials through 6 DOFs robotic manipulators
2015
The requirement to increase inspection speeds for the non-destructive testing (NDT) of composite aerospace parts is common to many manufacturers. The prevalence of complex curved surfaces in the industry provides significant motivation for the use of six-axis robots for the deployment of NDT probes in these inspections. The IntACom project, developed by TWI Technology Centre (Wales) and supported by a number of major aerospace partners and the Welsh government, has produced a prototype robotic NDT system. The prototype system is capable of inspecting complex-geometry composite components with great time savings. Two six-axis robotic arms deploy end effectors carrying phased array ultrasonic…
Electrical Conduction in Carbon Nanotubes under Mechanical Deformations
2009
The enormous potential of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as primary components in electronic devices and NEMS necessitates the understanding and predicting of the effects of mechanical deformation on electron transport in CNTs. In principle, detailed atomic/electronic calculations can provide both the deformed configuration and the resulting electrical transport behavior of the CNT. However, the computational expense of these simulations limits the size of the CNTs that can be studied with this technique and a direct analysis of CNTs of the dimension used in nano-electronic devices, particularly multi-wall CNTs (MWNTs), seems prohibitive at the present. Here a computationally effective mixed finit…
Simulation of the electromechanical behavior of multiwall carbon nanotubes.
2009
The enormous potential of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as primary components in electronic devices and NEMS necessitates the understanding and predicting of the effects of mechanical deformation on electron transport in CNTs. In principle, detailed atomic/electronic calculations can provide both the deformed configuration and the resulting electrical transport behavior of the CNT. However, the computational expense of these simulations limits the size of the CNTs that can be studied with this technique, and a direct analysis of CNTs of the dimension used in nanoelectronic devices seems prohibitive at the present. Here a computationally effective mixed finite element (FE)/tight-binding (TB) appro…
Modello numerico per la caratterizzazione elettromeccanica dei nanotubi di carbonio
2016
Nell’ultimo decennio i nanotubi di carbonio (Carbon nanotubes, CNTs) hanno suscitato un considerevole interesse nella comunità scientifica internazionale a causa delle loro proprietà meccaniche, bassa densità ed elevata conducibilità termica. I CNT possiedono inoltre peculiari proprietà elettroniche dipendenti da elicoicità e stato di deformazione, rendendoli potenziali elementi costruttivi di una nuova tecnologia nano-elettronica. Numerosissimi dispositivi elettronici basati sui CNTs (transistors, nano-switches, attuatori, ecc.) sono già stati realizzati. Un nuovo approccio è stato sviluppato per investigare la deformazione dei CNTs e si basa su modelli agli elementi finiti accuratamente s…
La mente in gioco. Percorsi didattici tra Neuroeducation e Video Education
2015
Il gioco svolge una funzione preziosa in tutte le fasi della vita, in quanto fa emergere le peculiari eccellenze personali di ciascuno. Il libro di Giuseppa Compagno e di Giuseppa Cappuccio indaga la dimensione educativa del gioco a partire da due dall'ambito della Neuroeducation e quello della Video education rispetto a due distinti angoli visuali: il mondo dei videogame con il comune intento di porre in risalto le potenzialità della pratica ludica e le possibili applicazioni metodologiche dell’utilizzo del gioco in campo pedagogico-didattico. Il libro fornisce non solo alcuni spunti utili ad una ricognizione sul gioco nella prospettiva brain-based e nell’ambito della Video Education ma pr…
Indentation of rigidly supported sandwich beams with foam cores exhibiting non-linear compressive behaviour.
2011
A generalized analytical approach to investigate the indentation of sandwich beams under concentrated loads is presented, based on the Winkler foundation theory. A segment-wise model is implemented to the case of fully backed sandwich beams with polymeric foam cores exhibiting generic non-linear compressive behaviours. Closed-form analytical solutions of the indentation curve are obtained for simplified foam compression behaviours: elastic-perfectly-plastic, bilinear and bilinear-perfectly-plastic. Analytical predictions are compared with experimental data from sandwiches employing foam cores with peculiar non-linear behaviours. The proposed models are found to give a better match of the e…