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The Design And Analysis Of An Electro-Pneumatic Signal Converter, Richard K. Thornton
The Design And Analysis Of An Electro-Pneumatic Signal Converter, Richard K. Thornton
Theses and Dissertations
In the field of process control it is desirable to study dynamic characteristics such as frequency response and distortion when determining just how equipment is to be controlled. Pneumatic controllers, transmitters, control valves, etc., all have dynamic behaviors which can be expressed mathematically as transfer functions. Each component plays an important role in determining the entire system behavior. Frequency response is one technique used in developing a component’s transfer function. By driving a device with a sinusoidal signal of fixed amplitude and frequency the output amplitude and phase shift are measured and compared with that of the input. Varying the …
A Feasibility Study Of The Application Of Bondgraph Modeling And Computerized Nonlinear Model Parameter Identification Techniques To The Cardiovascular System, Randall L. Taylor
A Feasibility Study Of The Application Of Bondgraph Modeling And Computerized Nonlinear Model Parameter Identification Techniques To The Cardiovascular System, Randall L. Taylor
Theses and Dissertations
Recent years have witnessed an increasing trend for people in the medical and engineering professions to couple their talents in a more united effort to better understand the functioning of the human body. This union of technologies has meant the introduction of new viewpoints and techniques in the field of physiological research. The engineers' basic tool, mathematical modeling, has perhaps been one of the most noticeable additions. There has been a significant amount of work done in recent years along these lines of deriving mathematical models to express the functioning of a subsystem of the body, and then, using analog, …