Compression couplings

Le Riehe, R., Saouab, A. and Bieard, J., 2003. Coupled compression RTM and composite layup optimisation . Composites Science and Technology, 63, 2277-2287. 

FIG. 13-2 Complex distillation operations with single columns, a) Use of intermediate heat exchangers, (h) Coupling of intermediate heat exchangers with heat pump, (c) Heat pump with external refrigerant, (d) Heat pump with vapor compression, (e) Heat pump with hottoms flashing. 

The gas turbine in the simple cycle mode consists of a compressor (axial or centrifugal) that compresses the air, a combustor that heats the air at constant pressure and a turbine that expands the high pressure and high temperature combustion gases and produces power to run the compressor and through a mechanical coupling to the driven equipment. The power required to compress the gases varies from about 40-60 percent of the total power produced by the turbine. 

Computational methods have played an exceedingly important role in understanding the fundamental aspects of shock compression and in solving complex shock-wave problems. Major advances in the numerical algorithms used for solving dynamic problems, coupled with the tremendous increase in computational capabilities, have made many problems tractable that only a few years ago could not have been solved. It is now possible to perform two-dimensional molecular dynamics simulations with a high degree of accuracy, and three-dimensional problems can also be solved with moderate accuracy. 

The elastomer compression coupling provides both tuning and damp ing to the system. In some cases, the two functions interact, that is, the stiffness K or damping C may be a function of the other. The elastomers are torsionally softer than the metal-metal resilients, but will introduce higher levels of damping into the system. 

There are two major types of elastomer compression couplings. One is the torus type in which the elastomer is attached directly to the coupling hubs (see Figure 9-18). The other is the compression type with the elastomer held in compression by the hub geometry (see Figure 9-19). 

On the bad side, many of the elastomeric types are highly nonlinear in their characteristics. The elastomeric compression-type couplings are very soft at small wind-ups under low loads, but once the elastomer has filled the available squeeze space, the coupling is effectively rigid. This makes prediction of system response difficult unless the load and coupling characteristics are well defined prior to installation. 

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In order to overcome such disadvantages the injection-compression process has been developed. A conventional compression press is coupled to a screw preplasticising unit which can deliver preheated and softened material direct to a compression mould cavity. 

Uncoupled solutions for current and electric field give simple and explicit descriptions of the response of piezoelectric solids to shock compression, but the neglect of the influence of the electric field on mechanical behavior (i.e., the electromechanical coupling effects) is a troublesome inconsistency. A first step toward an improved solution is a weak-coupling approximation in which it is recognized that the effects of coupling may be relatively small in certain materials and it is assumed that electromechanical effects can be treated as a perturbation on the uncoupled solution. 

The contrast in knowledge is a result of the degree of complexity of materials properties elastic piezoelectric solids have perhaps the least complex behaviors, whereas ferroelectric solids have perhaps the most complex mechanical and electrical behaviors of any solid under shock compression. This complexity is further compounded by the strong coupling between electrical and mechanical states. Unfortunately, much of the work studying ferroelectrics appears to have underestimated the difficulty, and it has not been possible to carry out careful, long range, systematic efforts required to develop an improved picture. 

From the mechanical viewpoint, ferroelectrics exhibit unsteady, evolving waves at low stresses. Waves typical of well defined mechanical yielding are not observed. Such behavior is sensitive to the electrical boundary conditions, indicating that electromechanical coupling has a strong influence. Without representative mechanical behavior, it is not possible to quantitatively define the stress and volume compression states exciting a particular electrical response. 

Studies of the electrical and mechanical responses of ferroelectric solids under shock compression show this technical problem to be the most complex of any investigated. The combination of rate-dependent mechanical and electrical processes along with strong electromechanical coupling has clouded physical interpretation of the numerous investigations. 

A third incident occurred at a U.S. government facility. An employee connected his air mask onto a nitrogen line and immediately blacked out, fell, and hit his head. Fortunately, a stand-by man came to his assistance, and he recovered without serious injury. The compressed air and nitrogen lines used the same couplings, and the nitrogen lines, which should have been a distinctive color, had not been painted [22]. 

J. C. Giddings, Plate height of nonuniform cliromatographic columns. Gas compression effects, coupled columns and analogous systems . Anal. Chem. 35 353-356 (1963). 

F. Silan, P. Jadaud, F. R. Whitheld and I. W. Wainer, Determination of low levels of the stereoisomers of leucovorin and 5-methylteti ahydrofolate in plasma using a coupled clii-ral-achiral liigh-performance liquid chromatograpliic system with post-cliiral column peak compression , 7. Chromatogr. 532 227-236 (1990). 

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