Posts tagged with 'engineering'

 

I am going around and around. I looked through my notes at “negative feedback” and once I filtered out the psychology-term “negative feedback”, what’s left is the engineering / physics / math / cybernetics / systems term. Hoping this means it’s knitting together. “Dynamic systems can have any scope. Systems are generally closed + strive towards a balance by their nature generally but the set points also change as well. Negative feedback is common. Some systems seem open but if nothing else they’re closed by the Universe”

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Stick-Slip – KNEW there was a fractal connection. [next read] Transient Effects in Friction: Fractal Asperity Creep Andreas Goedecke (auth.) Transient friction effects determine the behavior of a wide class of mechatronic systems. Classic examples are squealing brakes, stiction in robotic arms, or stick-slip in linear drives. To properly design and understand mechatronic systems of this type, good quantitative models of transient friction effects are of primary interest. The theory developed in this book approaches this problem bottom-up, by deriving the behavior of macroscopic friction surfaces from the microscopic surface physics. The model is based on two assumptions: First, rough surfaces are inherently fractal, exhibiting roughness on a wide range of scales. Second, transient friction effects are caused by creep enlargement of the real area of contact between two bodies. This work demonstrates the results of extensive Finite Element analyses of the creep behavior of surface asperities, and proposes a generalized multi-scale area iteration for calculating the time-dependent real contact between two bodies. The toolset is then demonstrated both for the reproduction of a variety of experimental results on transient friction as well as for system simulations of two example systems.

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