Relaxing machines

In the Mezzara relaxing machine (Fig. 5-14) the fabric suspended in loops from... 

Most of the textured apparel and industrial yams are woven or knitted directly into fabric. The carpet BCF yams can be tufted directly off package into loop pile or velvet constmctions. For the textured saxony constmctions, the BCF and the spun staple yams must be ply-twisted and heat-set. The heat-setting temperature for nylon-6 and nylon-6,6 is 180—220°C in hot—dry atmosphere, and 120—140°C in saturated steam. The yams are twist-set in pressurized autoclaves or continuously on the Superba and Suesson machines (121). Before setting the twist, the yam is heated and relaxed for predevelopment of the bulk. 

The coiled cable is not acceptable for low-speed (i.e., less than 300 rpm) applications or where there is a strong electromagnetic field. Because of its natural tendency to return to its relaxed length, the coiled cable generates a low level frequency that corresponds to the oscillation rate of the cable. In low-speed applications, this oscillation frequency can mask real vibration that is generated by the machine. 

Spacing between the mating parts of the coupling must be within manufacturer s tolerances. For example, an elastomeric coupling must have a specific distance between the coupling faces. This distance determines the position of the rubber boot that provides transmission of power from the driver to the driven machine component. If this distance is not exact, the elastomer will attempt to return to its relaxed position, inducing excessive axial movement in both shafts. 

Dynamic loading in the present context is taken to include deformation rates above those achieved on the standard laboratorytesting machine (commonly designated as static or quasi-static). These slower tests may encounter minimal time-dependent effects, such as creep and stress-relaxation, and therefore are in a sense dynamic. Thus the terms static and dynamic can be overlapping. 

At this point the lower-bounding scheme consists of solving a single machine scheduling problem where for each job i, the release time is the due date is, and the processing time is This nonbottleneck scheme can be further simplified in two steps. First, we can assume that for a/8 =. ., avoiding the need to consider release times of and due dates of, which turns an NP-complete problem, into one solvable in polynomial time. If only one of these were to be relaxed, the schedule can still be foimd in polynomial time by Jackson s rule (Jackson, 1955). Second, we can avoid the computation of completely, by assuming that the maximum is obtained at / = m for all values of i. 

Most pigmented systems are considered viscoelastic. At low shear rates and slow deformation, these systems are largely viscous. As the rate of deformation or shear rate increases, however, the viscous response cannot keep up, and the elasticity of the material increases. There is a certain amount of emphasis on viscoelastic behavior in connection with pigment dispersion as well as ink transportation and transformation processes in high-speed printing machines (see below). Under periodic strain, a viscoelastic material will behave as an elastic solid if the time scale of the experiment approaches the time required for the system to respond, i.e., the relaxation time. Elastic response can be visualized as a failure of the material to flow quickly enough to keep up with extremely short and fast stress/strain periods. 

In some ways modem tensile testing machines have reduced the need for a separate, particularly simple, routine control test. However, a test which is both simple in the sense of measuring one parameter and provides a relaxed modulus is intrinsically attractive. Such tests in various forms have existed for a long time but do not seem to have attained widespread popularity. A version in which a fixed stress is applied and the elongation after 1 min noted is given in ASTM D145689. A specific instrument developed for this... 

The Dynaliser51,52 is rather different to most dynamic test machines, the mode of deformation being indentation and the dynamic characteristics are deduced from a force relaxation curve. McGuiggan and Yarusso53 used a modified atomic force microscope to measure dynamic properties of a polymer and compared to results for tanS obtained with a hemispherical indentor. 

All these tests are in common use to measure the tensile stiffness of polymers. For example, tests at constant extension rate are often carried out on an Instron tensile testing machine. Tensile creep is used in many cases while stress relaxation is not so common. Dynamic testing is commonly performed using the Rheovibron or other commercial equipment32 or home made equipment33,... 

Terzopoulos D 1986 Image analysis using multigrid relaxation methods. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence PAMI-8(2), 129-139. 

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Example 6.2 The Synthesis of the Inverse Single Screw Pump There is, however, another, more elegant way to relax the channel-length constraint, as shown in Fig. E6.2. After one circumference, a flow channel formed by the moving and stationary planes of a given width can be twisted helically by an amount equal to the width of the channel to create a much longer helical channel on the same roll or shaft. The channel itself can be simply machined onto the inner surface of the stationary cylinder or barrel. 

As in the inverse screw pump, we relax the channel length constraint to one circumference by twisting it and making it helical [Fig. E6.4(d)]. We create the helical channel by machining it onto a solid shaft, resulting in a screw. We now have a single... 

Fig. E6.4 The synthesis of the SSE for building block 1. (a) The building block (b) a rotary hollow cylinder forms the moving plane (c) the shallow channel of certain width spread over one circumference of the cylinder (d) a twisted helical channel relaxes the length constraint (e) the channel machined onto a solid shaft, the rotation of the cylinder interchanged with that of the shaft, and feeding and discharge ports fixed on the cylinder or barrel, resulting in an SSE.

This is another ramification of incomplete response of polymers, because the experimental time is smaller than the relaxation time of the system of macromolecules. As expected, weld lines are mechanically weak and have optical properties that differ from those of the bulk, making them visible. Furthermore, they result in film or tube gauge nonuniformities, probably because of the different degree of swelling of the melt in the neighborhood of the weld line. They also induce cross-machine pressure nonuniformities. To overcome these problems, basic cross-head die designs (Fig. 12.42) have been devised in which the mandrel is mechanically attached to the die body in such a way that obstacles are not presented to the flow in the annular region. 

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