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Kinematic And Dynamic Analyses Of General Robots By Applying The C-B Notation-Ramip (Robot And Mechanism Integrated Program), Bernardo Donoso Apr 1992

Kinematic And Dynamic Analyses Of General Robots By Applying The C-B Notation-Ramip (Robot And Mechanism Integrated Program), Bernardo Donoso

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, a new symbolic representation based on 4x4 homogeneous matrices, C-B (Cylindrical Coordinates - Bryant Angles) notation, has been applied to the kinematic and dynamic analyses of general robots, and a computer algorithm named RaMIP (Robot and Mechanism Integrated Program) has been developed on a Sun workstation for the design and analysis of robots and mechanisms. RaMIP can be used to model most industrial robots currently in use. It performs three-dimensional kinematic and dynamic analyses and takes advantage of the computational efficiency of C-B notation. The C-B notation allows the user to model an arbitrary mechanism consisting of …


Chemical And Evaporative Behaviors Of Synthetic Liquid Nuclear Waste, Donna Macgrath Cline Aug 1991

Chemical And Evaporative Behaviors Of Synthetic Liquid Nuclear Waste, Donna Macgrath Cline

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In the 1960's the Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed eight 50,000 gallon storage tanks for the liquid nuclear waste. Each tank was designed with its own ventilation system to purge radiolytic hydrogen and oxygen from the tank. This design induced water removal and necessitated the additional requirement of entraining radioactivity from the exiting system by the use of demisters and HEPA filters.

Up until the 1980's this was a sufficient method, via the hydrofracture process, of disposing the liquid nuclear waste. However since then, this method has been terminated and the tanks are nearing capacity. In …