Data-driven improvement of flight training safety at Purdue University

The School of Aviation and Transportation Technology at Purdue University utilizes a wide range of resources to train aspiring pilots, technicians, and managers. Aircraft operate in one of four practice areas located within a 30 nautical mile radius of the Purdue University Airport. Due to factors such as poor weather conditions, inexperience of...

3-D stochastic finite elements for thermal creep analysis of piping structures with spatial material inhomogeneities

A stochastic finite element-based methodology is developed for creep damage assessment in pipings carrying high-temperature fluids. The material properties are assumed to be spatially randomly inhomogeneous and are modelled as 3-D non-Gaussian fields. A spectral-based approach for random field discretization that preserves exactly the non...

Cluster management system design for big data infrastructures

In recent years,we have seen amajor shift in computing systems: data volumes are growing very fast, but hardware capabilities to store, process, and transfer the massive data are not speeding up at the same rate. Today, data are generated from a variety of sources, such as social networking websites, business transactions, banking sectors, etc....

Hip Fracture Reduction Robot: Design and Low-level Control

Missions to Mars: MSL and Mars 2020; interview with AE alumnus Gerhard Kruizinga working at JPL

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) located in Pasadena, California is the leading organisation for planetary missions and a point of attraction for many Aerospace Engineers. The Leonardo Times interviewed a former student of our faculty who made the big leap overseas and dedicated his career to planetary exploration from JPL. We talk to him...

The times they are a-changin'

The global civil aviation industry is currently dominated by two major powers in the form of Boeing and Airbus. The market has been characterized as a duopoly. However, this status quo is by no means immutable. Over the coming decades, growing demand might lead to other companies making their mark on the global aviation market. High time to look...

Airborne aerospace; interview with business development manager space

Airborne Composites designs and manufactures composite parts for the Aerospace, Oil & Gas, Marine and other industries since 1995. They are involved in notable hightech projects, from the Galileo Satellites, to the Gulfstream aircraft for Fokker and the ALMA astronomical telescope. The Leonardo Times sat down to talk to Sandor Woldendorp,...

One-dimensional lattice of oscillators coupled through power-law interactions: Continuum limit and dynamics of spatial Fourier modes

We study synchronization in a system of phase-only oscillators residing on the sites of a one-dimensional periodic lattice. The oscillators interact with a strength that decays as a power law of the separation along the lattice length and is normalized by a size-dependent constant. The exponent ? of the power law is taken in the range 0??<1. The...

Guidelines for reporting of phase equilibrium measurements (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)

Recommendations are given for reporting in the primary scientific literature of measurements involving phase equilibrium. The focus is on documentation issues, and many of the recommendations may also be applied to the more general fields of thermodynamic and transport properties. The historical context of the work and specific plans for...

ANTARES: Automatic Diagnosis of Software/Hardware Systems

With the market becoming increasingly competitive, there is a pressure to deliver systems with more functionality and at the same cost, which thus leads to more complexity in terms of number of components. Moreover, the society is becoming increasingly dependent on these systems for its critical functions. This coupled with shrinking time-to...

Stress analysis of scapula: Design considerations of glenoid prostheses