Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Energy

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: The 330 selected and peer-reviewed papers cover mechatronics and automation, mechanical manufacturing systems, signal processing, manufacturing technology and processing, material science and technology, energy systems, and materials and energy saving. Among specific topics are isolating and characterizing a sulfanilic acid-degrading bacteria strain, the finite element study of the windage of suspension insulator string under steady wind and gusts, stem characteristics of litchi and the end-effector of a litchi-picking robot, the optimal cleaning schedule of refinery crude preheat trains subject to fouling and aging, a vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands and simultaneous delivery and pickup, the buckling and vibration of carbon nanotubes embedded in polyethylene polymers, a control strategy for the braking system of a hybrid electronic bus, the effect of rare earth salt on ceramic membranes formed by micro-arc oxidation, and the theoretical analysis of meniscus forces between two spherical nanoparticles at various humidities. The two volumes are paged and indexed together.