Investigation of the Application of adhesively bonded lifting lugs in ship building

Defects are produced when lifting lugs being welded on ship sections during the building process. The large amount of heat produced in the welding work causes “heat affected zone” in the base metal on sections and destroys painted coatings on the plates; and residual stress decreases the mechanical performance of the steel plates. To eliminate...

A Hybrid Box Trainer for Training of Technical Skills in Laparoendoscopic Single Site Surgery (LESS)

The goal of this thesis is to design a hybrid trainer that can quantitatively measure the LESS performance while investigating the difference between LESS and CLS, finally propose a novel objective assessment tools for future research. A force platform is developed, which measures tissue manipulation force in the range of 0-20N with an accuracy...

Identification of Models of Industrial Batch Cooling Crystallization system

Internal heat exchange in a concentric tray Heat Integrated Distillation Column (HIDiC): Experimental validation of predictive models

Experiments with a water/ethanol mixture are performed to determine the internal heat transfer rate of a concentric tray HIDiC and its characteristics. The experimental setup is tested at different process conditions, while measuring intercolumn heat transfer. The process parameters varied are column operating pressure and steam pressure. The...