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SYMPOSIA: AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING BIOENGINEERING COMBUSTION AND ENVIRONMENT ENGINEERING DYNAMICS, SOLID MECHANICS AND OPTIMIZATION ENERGY AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA ENGINEERING EDUCATION MANUFACTURING PROCESSES MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING MECHATRONICS OFFSHORE & PETROLEUM ENGINEERING   AEROSPACE ENGINEERING 5N THRUSTER THERMO-ELASTIC ANALYSIS A DAMAGE MECHANICS BASED FAILURE MODEL FOR DYNAMIC IMPACT ON COMPOSITE LAMINATES A HYBRID INVERSE AERODYNAMIC DESIGN USING A VARIABLE METRIC OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM A MONTE CARLO COMPUTATION OF THE FIRING ENVELOPE OF A VISUALLY GUIDED MISSILE: INTEGRATED GUIDANCE, CONTROL AND IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHMS A NEW CORRECTION METHOD FOR UNSTEADY PRESSURE COMPUTATIONS AND TRANSONIC AEROELASTIC STABILITY ANALYSES A PLANAR DOUBLET-LATTICE CODE FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN AEROELASTICITY A PROJECT FOR A NAVIGATION AND TELEMETRICS SYSTEM FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES A REVIEW OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SUBMERGED AIR INTAKES A ROBUST WEIGHTED-BY-AREA INTERPOLATION METHOD FOR 3D FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION A SIMPLE EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF AEROELASTIC INSTABILITIES A VERIFICATION TEST OF A DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION CODE THAT USES A HIGH ORDER DISCRETIZATION SCHEME ACTIVE AEROELASTIC CONTROL OF VARIABLE CAMBER AIRFOIL IN THE PRESENCE OF STRUCTURAL NONLINEARITIES ADVANCED CFD ANALYSIS OF 14-BIS AIRCRAFT AERODYNAMIC HEATING ON VSB-30 SOUNDING ROCKET AEROTHERMODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF ROUND AND FLAT-NOSE LEADING EDGES AT HYPERSONIC FLIGHT SPEED AIRCRAFT PARAMETER ESTIMATION USING ADAPTIVE FUNCTIONAL LINK NETWORK AN APPLICATION OF A BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHOD FOR SIMULATING POTENTIAL FLOW AROUND THREE-DIMENSIONAL BODIES AN ENVIRONMENT FOR TESTING AND SIMULATING ALGORITHMS FOR AUTONOMOUS STAR SENSORS AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON VIBRATION FREQUENCIES AND DAMPING PARAMETERS OF NANOCOMPOSITE PLATES AN H ADAPTIVE HIERARCHICAL PANEL METHOD FOR SOLVING A BIDIMENSIONAL POTENTIAL SUBSONIC FLOW AN INTERPLANETARY MISSION TO NEPTUNE SYSTEM: ON THE DYNAMICS OF THE NEPTUNE SYSTEM ORBITER ANALYSES OF NAVIGATIONAL ALGORITHMS FOR A REAL TIME DIFFERENTIAL GPS SYSTEM ANALYSING THE PERFORMANCE OF AN AEROSPACIAL VEHICLE CONTROLLER CONSIDERING UNCERTAINTIES AT THE STATES ANALYSIS OF CONVERGENCE ACCELERATION TECHNIQUES USED IN UNSTRUCTURED ALGORITHMS IN THE SOLUTION OF AERONAUTICAL PROBLEMS - PART I ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC PACKAGE COOLING IN AN AIRCRAFT USING CFD ANALYSIS OF THE AERODYNAMICS CHARACTERISTICS OF A WING-CANARD CONFIGURATION WITH CANARD DEFLECTION, USING PANEL METHOD ANALYSIS OF THE FLOW IN LIQUID PROPELLANT ENGINE SWIRL INJECTORS USING CFD ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF FLOW BOUNDARY CONDITIONS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF A LEAN-PREMIXING COMBUSTOR MODEL ASSESSMENT OF TRANSITION MODELS FOR AERODYNAMIC APPLICATIONS AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR ROCKET MOTORS ANOMALIES DETECTION THROUGH TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES - AN INITIAL PROPOSAL CHAOS PREDICTION OF STALL-INDUCED OSCILLATIONS VIA LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EXPERIMENTAL OPERATION, IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND VACUUM, OF A SMALL PLASMA TORCH, DEVELOPED FOR THERMAL PROTECTION MATERIALS TEST. CLOSE APPROACH TO NEPTUNE USING GRAVITY ASSISTS COMPARISON BETWEEN A CENTERED AND A HIGH RESOLUTION UPWIND SCHEMES IN THE SOLUTION OF AEROSPACE PROBLEMS USING UNSTRUCTURED STRATEGY COMPARISON BETWEEN CONVENTIONAL FLIGHT TEST MANEUVERS FOR AIRCRAFT AERODYNAMIC DERIVATIVES ESTIMATION COMPARISON BETWEEN MODERN PROCEDURES FOR AERODYNAMIC CALCULATION OF SUBSONIC AIRFOILS FOR APPLICATION IN LIGHT AIRCRAFT DESIGNS COMPARISON BETWEEN THE ELASTIC MODULUS OBTAINED BY TENSILE AND FREE VIBRATION EXPERIMENTS FOR GLARE MATERIAL COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION OF AN AIRCRAFT CABIN PRESSURE CONTROL SYSTEM COMPUTER MODELS FOR TROPICAL AND MIDLATITUDE ATMOSPHERES CONSTRUCTION OF THIRD-ORDER ENO AND WENO FINITE VOLUME SCHEMES FOR GENERIC UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS CONVECTIVE FLUX SCHEMES FOR HIGH-REYNOLDS-NUMBER TURBULENT COMPRESSIBLE FLOWS COVARIANCE INTERSECTION-BASED SENSOR FUSION WITH LOCAL MULTIPLE MODEL HYPOTHESIS TESTING FOR SOUNDING ROCKET TRACKING AND IMPACT POINT PREDICTION CRACK GROWTH RETARDATION EFFECTS IN CIVIL AIRPLANE STRUCTURES DAMAGE TOLERANCE OF NANOCOMPOSITES UNDER IMPACT LOADINGS DEGRADATION OF CARBON-BASED MATERIALS DUE TO IMPACT OF HIGH-ENERGY AIR PLASMA DESIGN AND FLIGHT TEST OF A PARAFFIN BASED HYBRID ROCKET DESIGN POINT EFFICIENCY OPTIMIZATION OF A MULTI-STAGE AXIAL-FLOW COMPRESSOR FOR AERO APPLICATION APPLYING A SPECIALLY DEVELOPED COMPUTER CODE DESIGN PROCEDURE FOR A FOWLER FLAP MECHANISM DETERMINATION OF THE OUTFLOW VALVE OPENING AREA OF THE AIRCRAFT CABIN PRESSURIZATION SYSTEM DETTACHED EDDY SIMULATION OF THE TRANSONIC FLOW OVER A CIRCULAR CYLINDER DEVELOPMENT AND ANALYSIS OF A GROUND IMPACT ATTENUATOR FOR THE RE-ENTRY SATELLITE SARA DEVELOPMENT OF A CODE FOR A DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF COMPRESSIBLE SHEAR FLOW INSTABILITIES DEVELOPMENT OF A DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR LIGHT AIRPLANES FLIGHT TESTS DEVELOPMENT OF A METODOLOGY FOR 2-D HIGH LIFT TESTING USING A BOUNDARY LAYER CONTROL SYSTEM BY AIR BLOWING DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF THE MULSTISTAGE PARACHUTE-STORE SYSTEM DYNAMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF A LIQUID PROPELLED ROCKET COMBUSTION CHAMBER EFFECT OF THE HYGROTHERMAL CONDITIONING ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CARBON FIBER/EPOXY COMPOSITES EFFECTS OF A SYNTHETIC JET ACTUATOR ON THE DELAY OF SEPARATION IN A BOUNDARY LAYER ENERGY ABSORPTION CAPABILITY OF COMPOSITE TUBES UNDER COMPRESSION LOAD ENGINE AIRFRAME INTEGRATION STUDIES USING THE CFD++ CODE ESTIMATING THE FRETTING FATIGUE LIMIT BY FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ESTIMATION OF TORQUE IN A REACTION WHEEL USING A BRISTLE MODEL FOR FRICTION EVALUATION OF A SIDEWALL BOUNDARY-LAYER CONTROL SYSTEM BY AIR BLOWING EVALUATION OF AN ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR ADHESIVELY BONDED REPAIR IN COMPOSITE PLATES EVALUATION OF COMPRESSION AFTER IMPACT STRENGTH OF CARBON/EPOXY COMPOSITES USED IN AERONAUTICAL AREA EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE AERODYNAMICS CHARACTERISTCS OF A TWO ELEMENT WING WITH CERRATED MAIN ELEMENT TRAILING EDGE EXTINCTION OF METHANE DIFFUSION FLAMES ENRICHED BY HYDROGEN FAULT DIAGNOSE IN THE AUTONOMY MICRO-SATELLITE ATTITUDE DETERMINATION USING GPS AND GYROS: SIMULATION RESULTS FIRST STEPS OF THE INFRARED SIMULATION DEVELOPMENT BY TUNGSTEN FILAMENT LAMPS FLIGHT PATH OPTIMIZATION FOR COMPETITION SAILPLANES THROUGH STATE VARIABLES PARAMETERIZATION FLIGHT PATH RECONSTRUCTION USING THE UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER ALGORITHM FLIGHT TEST MANEUVERS OPTIMIZATION FOR PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION FLIGHT TESTS FOR PARAMETER INDENTIFICATION IN LIGHT AIRPLANES FLOW CASCADE ANALYSIS EMPLOYING HESS & SMITH MODIFIED PANEL METHOD AND A CDF CODE FREQUENCY DOMAIN AERODYNAMIC RESPONSES FOR AEROELASTIC ANALYSES IN THE UNSTEADY TRANSONIC REGIME GAS TURBINE IDENTIFICATION WITH LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR TECHNIQUES GAS-SURFACE INTERACTION IMPACT ON AERODYNAMIC SURFACE QUANTITIES OF LOW-DENSITY HYPERSONIC FLOW OVER FLAT-NOSE BODIES GAS-SURFACE INTERACTION IMPACT ON FLOWFIELD STRUCTURE OF LOW-DENSITY HYPERSONIC FLOW OVER FLAT-NOSE BODIES GAS-SURFACE INTERACTION IMPACT ON SHOCK WAVE STRUCTURE OF LOW-DENSITY HYPERSONIC FLOW OVER FLAT-NOSE BODIES GENETIC APPROACH ON LQWEIGHTING MATRICES SELECTION AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE VLS ATTITUDE CONTROL GRAVITATIONAL CAPTURE OF A SATELLITE BY THE MAJOR PRIMARY HIGH SPEED FLOW OVER A FLAT PLATE AND ON A STEP OBSTACLE IDENTIFICATION OF THE AERODYNAMIC AND CONTROL DERIVATIVES AND FLIGHT PATH RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SZD-50-3 PUCHAZ SAILPLANE IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF RANS TURBULENCE MODELS IN THE BRU3D CODE IMPLEMENTATION OF A POSITIONING SYSTEM BASED ON INS/GPS INTEGRATION INDICIAL RESPONSE OF THIN WINGS IN A COMPRESSIBLE SUBSONIC FLOW. INVESTIGATION OF MICROSCOPIC DEFECTS IN AIRCRAFT WINGS WITH THE HELP OF VIRTUAL TOOLS INVESTIGATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF A 200 N SATTELITE THRUSTER OPERATING IN DIFFERENT ALTITUDES LOAD SPECTRUM EVALUATION FOR FAB T-25 DTA PROGRAM LOW-COST ALTERNATIVE PATHS FOR DIRECT EARTH-MOON TRANSFER METHOD FOR GLOBAL AND LOCAL LEAK DETECTION APPLICATION FOR HYDRAZINE PROPULSION SYSTEMS METRICS CONVERSION IN AIRPORT NOISE MODELING OF A CALIBRATION CURVE OF AN EXTERNAL AERODYNAMIC BALANCE USING MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS MULTI-CRITERIA DESIGN OF AIRCRAFT CONTROL SYSTEMS USING A-TEAMS MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION APPLIED TO A SATELLITE CONSTELLATION CONSIDERING UNCERTAINTIES IN THE POSITION MEASURES AND ERRORS IN THE ORBITAL MANEUVERS MULTI-POINT ALGORITHM FOR INVERSE AERODYNAMIC DESIGN NONLINEAR PHENOMENA IN COMPUTATIONAL TRANSONIC AEROELASTICITY NOVEL LOOP HEAT PIPES DEVELOPMENT FOR GROUND AND SPACE APPLICATIONS NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTAL SHOCK MEASUREMENTS ON A SATELLITE LAUNCHER INERTIAL SENSOR MODULE NUMERICAL CALCULATION OF THE USTEADY TWO-DIMENSIONAL INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW AROUND NACA AIRFOILS USING THE VORTEX METHOD NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF THE FLOW INSIDE THE TRANSONIC NOZZLE OF A DIRECT-CONNECT SUPERSONIC COMBUSTION RESEARCH FACILITY NUMERICAL METHODS TO MANEUVER A SATELLITE USING A LOW THRUST ENGINE NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF FLOW AROUND A NACA 0012 AIRFOIL IN TRANSIENT PITCHING MOTION USING IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD WITH VIRTUAL PHYSICAL MODEL NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOWS OVER CIRCULAR CYLINDERS USING THE IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE TRANSONIC LAMINAR FLOW IN AIRFOILS WITH PITCHING AND PLUNGING MOTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF TURBULENCE IN OPEN-CHANNEL FLOWS NUMERICAL STUDY OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL HIGH-LIFT CONFIGURATIONS USING THE MSES CODE ON THE BEHAVIOR OF UPWIND SCHEMES APPLIED TO COLD GAS HYPERSONIC FLOWSIMULATIONS OF INLET CONFIGURATIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 3-D MULTIGRID UNSTRUCTURED CODE FOR COMPLEX AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS ON THE FATIGUE LIMIT FOR CYLINDRICAL CONTACTS UNDER A PARTIAL SLIP REGIME OPTIMIZATION OF AIRPLANE TAKEOFF PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF LOW-THRUST LIMITED-POWER TRANSFERS BETWEEN COPLANAR CIRCULAR ORBITS OVERVIEW ON NACELLE DESIGN OVERVIEW ON THRUST REVERSER DESIGN PARAMETRIC OPTIMIZATION OF INTEGRALLY MACHINED PANELS REGARDING FOUR STABILITY CRITERIA POST BUCKLING ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL PLATES IN THE PRESENCE OF THERMAL RESIDUAL STRESSES PROJECT OF A MODEL FOLLOWING FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM OF A VARIABLE STABILITY AIRCRAFT PROPOSAL OF A TRADE OFF DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM THROUGH INTEGRATIVE PARAMETERS FOR SATELLITE DESIGN PROCESS QUASI-STEADY DROPLET COMBUSTION WITH FUEL LEAKAGE REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATION OF A LOW COST INS/GPS KALMAN FILTER BASED NAVIGATION SYSTEM REGRESSION RATE STUDIES OF A PARAFFIN-BASED HYBRID ROCKET SECONDARY KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY IN A STABLY STRATIFIED MIXING LAYER SIMULATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF A FLIGHT ENVELOPE USING NEURAL NETWORKS SIMULATION OF GUST RESPONSE OF COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT USING THE PEELE METHOD SIMULATION OF ROUND LEADING EDGE AEROTHERMODYNAMICS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION FOR SUBSONIC AND TRANSONIC AIRCRAFT CLASS 2 DRAG POLAR DETERMINATION SOLUTION OF THE EULER EQUATIONS IN THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE USING THE MACCORMACK ALGORITHM - PART I SOLUTION OF THE EULER EQUATIONS IN THREE-DIMENSIONS USING THE JAMESON AND MAVRIPLIS ALGORITHM - PART I SOLUTION OF THE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS IN THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE USING THE MACCORMACK ALGORITHM - PARTE II SOLUTION OF THE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS IN THREE-DIMENSIONS USING THE JAMESON AND MAVRIPLIS ALGORITHM - PART II STABILITY PREDICTION AND HANDLING QUALITIES ANALYSIS OF HYPERSONIC FLIGHT VEHICLES DURING ACCELERATION STUDIES ON THE CONVERGENT-DIVERGENT NOZZLES FOR SIMULATION OF REENTRY AERODYNAMIC FLOWS ON THE PLASMA SYSTEM OF THE LABORATÓRIO DE PLASMAS E PROCESSOS OF THE INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE AERONÁUTICA (LPP-ITA) STUDY OF THE AIR BLEED INFLUENCE IN THE INDUSTRIAL GAS TURBINE PERFORMANCE STUDY OF THE HYGROTHERMAL EFFECTS ON THE COMPRESSION STRENGTH OF CARBON TAPE/EPOXY COMPOSITES THE DETERMINATION OF THE VELOCITIES AFTER IMPACT FOR THE CONSTRAINED BAR PROBLEM THE SPECIFICATION FOR THE QUALIFICATION OF THE AFT COVER FIXATION SCREW OF THE SATELLITES LAUNCH VEHICLE VLS-1 ENGINES THEORY OF INVENTIVE PROBLEM SOLVING APPLIED TO BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT PROJECTS (BPM-TRIZ) TIME DOMAIN IDENTIFICATION OF LOW ORDER EQUIVALENT SYSTEM FROM FLIGHT DATA TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION FOR FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES TRANSIENT PERFORMANCE OF GAS TURBINES. UNSTEADY COMPRESSIBLE AERODYNAMICS CAUSED BY VERTICAL GUSTS AND VORTICES USING SINGULAR AND NON-SINGULAR ELEMENTS AND BEM AND FEM STRATEGIES FOR THE COMPUTATION OF K-I IN LEFM VISCOUS-INVISCID INTERATION FOR THE SOLUTION OF THE FLOW ABOUT AIRFOILS VOLUMETRIC MESH MOVEMENT GUIDED BY GEOMETRIC INFORMATION WELDING HEAD DEVELOPMENT AND QUALIFICATION FOR SOLAR ARRAY MANUFACTURING FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS WHICH IS THE BEST HELICOPTER? WIND TUNNEL TEST OF A THREE-ELEMENT AIRFOIL CONFIGURATION: INFLUENCE OF THE DIRECTION AND THE DISTANCE OF A BLOWER USED TO MINIMIZE THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW ALONG THE MODEL SPAN WINGS CONSTRUCTION USING A FOAM CNC CUTTER   top   AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING A METHODOLOGY PROPOSAL FOR A REAL DRIVING CITY CYCLE IMPLEMENTATION IN CHASSIS DYNAMOMETER FOR EMISSION TESTS A PIECEWISE NONLINEAR CONTROL APPLIED TO VEHICULAR DYNAMICS. A STUDY OF NON-TRADITIONAL GEOMETRIES AND ALTERNATIVE ALLOYS FOR NGV STORAGE GAS TANKS AIR/FUEL MIXTURE FORMATION IN TURBOCHARGED SPARK-IGNITION ENGINES: EFFORTS TOWARDS MITIGATION OF POLLUTANT FORMATION AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH FOR THE TREATMENT OF THE DYNAMICS OF GROUND VEHICLES ON SUSPENSION. AN ALTERNATIVE HYBRID AUTOMOTIVE POWERTRAIN SYSTEM AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL TO STUDY THE VEHICLE DYNAMIC RESPONSE DURING RIDE ANALYSIS ANALYSIS OF AN OTTO CICLE ENGINE PERFORMANCE REGARDING TO ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION IN GASOLINE AND CNG USAGE ANALYSIS OF THE LATERAL STABILITY OF CARGO VEHICLES COMBINATIONS - CVCS. ANALYSIS OF THE PERFORMANCE OF A POROUS FOAM SOOT REGENERATIVE FILTER FOR DIESEL ENGINES ANTI-LOCK BRAKING SYSTEM MODEL APPLICATION OF THE TWO-LOAD METHOD ON THE EVALUATION OF THE ACOUSTICAL EFFICIENCY OF HELMHOLTZ RESONATORS AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS IN BRAZIL: FACTS, TRENDS AND PROPOSALS. COMPARISON OF SIMULATION METHODOLOGIES FOR SUCTION AND DISCHARGE SYSTEMS COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINE MODELING COMPUTACIONAL SIMULATION OF THE EXHAUST GASES FLOW THROUGH A PLATINUM/PALADIUM CATALYTIC CONVERTER COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE AIR FLOW AROUND A COMMERCIAL BUS MODEL COMPUTATIONAL BLOCK-DIAGRAM EXECUTION OF MULTIPORT FIELDS MODELS WITH CAUSAL CONSIDERATIONS CONVERSION METHODOLOGY OF AN AUTOMOTIVE ENGINE INTO AN AERONAUTICAL ENGINE DAMPING CONTROL IN HYDROPNEUMATIC SUSPENSION DYNAMICAL PERFORMANCE OF A BUS UNDER DIRECTIONAL MANEUVER ENGINES CAMSHAFT EVALUATION REGARDING TAPPETS ROTATION FLEXIBLE VEHICLE MODEL FOR PLANAR COLLISIONS ANALYSIS FOUR-WHEEL VEHICLE SUSPENSION MODELING FOR CONTROL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT GASOLINE "A" AND HYDRATED ETHANOL BLENDS: EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS ON THE VIABILILITY OF UTILIZATION IN A CYCLE OTTO ENGINE IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTS OF A VARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEM OF SPARK TIME IGNITION AND INJECTION TIME, USING DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR - DSP. INFLUENCE OF FRICTION MODIFIER ADDITIVES ON THE TRIBOLOGY OF LUBRICATING OILS INFLUENCE OF SHIELDING GAS MIXTURES ON WELDING PROCESS OF GALVANIZED SHEET LIGHT DUTY VEHICLES EXHAUST EMISSION EVALUATION FOLLOWING BRAZILIAN AND ARGENTINEAN LEGISLATIONS METALLIC PARTICLE DETECTION IN LUBRICANT OIL USING IMAGE PROCESSING MODELING OF A VEHICLE SUSPENSION WITH NON LINEAR ELEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE COMPARISON TO A SEMI-ACTIVE MODEL OPACITY EMISSION INSPECTION FROM THE EXHAUST PIPE ON DUTY VEHICLES IN BELO HORIZONTE, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL. PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF AN CNG-FUELLED FLEX ENGINE TO DIFFERENT COMPRESSION RATIOS PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF A MULTI-FUEL SPARK IGNITION ENGINE PNEUMATIC REGENERATIVE BRAKE EQUIPPED WITH ABS PNEUMATIC REGENERATIVE BRAKE SYSTEM PROJECT AND ADAPTATION OF TORCH IGNITION SYSTEM IN AN OTTO CYCLE ENGINE PROJECT OF EMBARKED SYSTEM OF INSTRUMENTATION TO MONITORING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE URBAN BUS ENGINE USE GNV FUEL. RADIAL TURBO-COMPRESSOR MODELING STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS OF THE CHASSIS OF A LIGHT TRAILER THE CALIBRATION AND ADJUSTMENT METHODOLOGY APPLIED TO GENERAL ENGINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR SPARK IGNITION TURBO ENGINES THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN EDUCATIONAL ODS TOOL USED TO VERIFY DYNAMIC VEHICULAR RESPONSES THE MULTI-BODY MODELING AS A DEVELOPMENT TOOL IN VEHICULAR PROJECTS THE THERMOELASTIC TECHNIQUES FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF STRESSES DISTRIBUTION ON COMPONENT OF STRUCTURES OR MACHINES THE USE OF PALM OIL IN DIESEL ENGINE TWO DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF PRECISION INSERT BEARING INTERFERENCE FIT VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING : A VEHICLE MODEL FOR INTEGRATED MOTION CONTROL STUDIES   top   BIOENGINEERING A BLACK-BOX BACK-PROJECTION ALGORITHM FOR ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY A NUMERICAL COMPARISON BETWEEN AXISYMMETRIC AND 2-D FINITE VOLUME FORMULATIONS USED IN THE THERMAL ANALYSIS OF OCULAR TISSUES A SINGLE DOF HAPTIC INTERFACE FOR COMPUTER INTERACTION ADHESION AND MORPHOLOGY OF FIBROBLASTIC CELLS CULTURED ON DIAMOND-LIKE CARBON (DLC)-COATED AND UNCOATED TI-13NB-13ZR AIR FLOW AND THERMAL STATE IN LARGE AERATED GRAIN STORAGE ANALYSIS OF STRESS PRODUCED BY SPLINTED IMPLANTS WITH SOLDERED BAR ANALYSIS OF THE INCOMING FLOW IN A BLOOD FILTER ANALYSIS OF WEAR OF THE ACETABULAR COMPONENT OF TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS: EFFECTS OF MATERIAL AND ORIENTATION ANTROPOMETRIC-ANTROPOMORFIC 3D VOXEL MODEL REPRESENTATIVE OF A THORAX'S RABBIT FOR DOSIMETRIC PROPOSALS ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF THE IONIC IMPLANTATION BY PLASMA IMMERSION ON THE FLEXIBILITY OF THE NICKEL-TITANIUM ENDODONTIC FILES AUTOMATIZATED PROCESSING FOR PHOTOELASTIC PARAMETERS. AUXILIARY TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEART MONITORING OPERATION IN LABVIEW® BIOMECHANICAL MODEL FOR NET JOINT TORQUES ESTIMATION IN PEDALING BIOMECHANICAL STUDY OF VOLAR PLATE LESIONS IN THE FINGERS INTERPHALANGEAL JOINTS BLOOD FLOW NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF AN IDEALISED STENOSED ARTERY: FINITE ELEMENT METHOD AND FINITE VOLUME METHOD COMPARISON CHARACTERISTIC CURVES OF PNEUMATIC MUSCLE FOR THE USE IN THE UFMG EXOESKELETON COMPARISON BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE GAIT MODES PART I: KINEMATICS OF THE ANKLE, KNEE AND HIP JOINTS COMPUTATIONAL BLOOD FLOW BEHAVIOUR FOR TWO RHEOLOGICAL MODELS DEPOSITION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF HARD AMORPHOUS FILMS ON BIOMEDICAL POLYETHYLENE AND METALLIC SUBSTRATES DESIGN OF A THREE-AXIAL TRANSDUCER OF FORCE AND MOMENT FOR AMPUTEE GAIT ANALYSIS DETERMINATION OF THE INLET PORT`S ANGLE FOR A CENTRIFUGAL BLOOD PUMP BY THE HYDRODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS DEVELOPMENT OF A DEVICE AND AN EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOL TO PRODUCE THROMBI IN VITRO. DEVELOPMENT OF A FUNCTIONAL HAND ORTHOSIS DEVELOPMENT OF A HIP ORTHOSIS USING PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES TO CONTROL THE JOINT ROTATION DEVELOPMENT OF A SOFTWARE FOR THE PLANTAR FOOT PRESSURE MEASUREMENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE AGGREGOMETER FOR NEAR-INFRARED SENSORS THAT STUDY OF THE PLATELET AGGREGATION DEVELOPMENT OF THE JOINT POSITION SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING THE EXOSKELETON BASED ON PNEUMATIC MUSCLES DEVELOPMENT OF TI-13NB-13ZR IMPLANTS BY POWDER METALLURGY DEVELOPMENT, INSTRUMENTATION AND STANDARDIZATION OF THE EQUIPMENT FOR MODIFIED THOMAS TEST DRAG REDUCTION IN VASCULAR SYSTEMS DYNAMIC TESTINGS ANALYSIS OF ARTERIAL BLOOD FILTERS EAP ACTUATORS FOR MICRO ROBOTICS: A NEW PERSPECTIVE EFFECT OF INORGANIC FILLER ON THE MECHANICAL AND TRIBOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS EFFECT OF INTRA-RADICULAR POSTS FOR STRESS DISTRIBUTION IN RADICULAR DENTIN EFFECTS INDUCED BY INITIAL CHITOSAN SOLUTION CONCENTRATION AND CHITIN AND GLYCEROL INCORPORATION ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF DENSE CHITOSAN MEMBRANES WITH POTENTIAL USE AS BURN DRESSINGS ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE METHOD APPLIED TO THE STUDY OF ACUTE EDEMAS ELECTRO-FLUID-DYNAMIC SIMULATOR OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM FOR THE RESEARCH IN ASSISTED CIRCULATION AREA ESTIMATION OF HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT OF CRYOGENIC SPRAY COOLING EVALUATION OF INTRAMUSCULAR TISSUE RESPONSE TO ZIRCONIA-HYDROXYAPATITE (ZH) CERAMIC IMPLANTS IN DOGS. EVALUATION OF THE EXTERNAL HEXAGON DENTAL IMPLANTS AFTER SIMULATING SURGICAL PLACEMENT AND THE ROTATIONAL FREEDOM OF IMPLANT COMPONENTS EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF ORTHODONTICS ELASTICS UNDER PRE STRESSED LOADING EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS ON THE FASTENING OF COMPONENTES OF AN IMPLANT-SUPPORTED DENTAL PROSTHESIS EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE ESCHERICHIA COLI RETENTION MAKING USE OF CROSSFLOW MICROFILTRATION WITH DIFFERENT MICRO-POROUS STRUCTURES IN VITRO ANALYSIS OF ORTHODONTICS ELASTICS IN ACID AND IN BASIC ACQUOUS SOLUTIONS INFLUENCE OF LYOPHILIZATION, STERILIZATION AND REHYDRATION ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BOVINE CORTICAL BONE INFLUENCE OF ORIFICE DEPTH AND PREPARATION ON THE INSERTION TORQUE AND PULLOUT STRENGTH OF PEDICULAR SCREWS INFLUENCE OF ORIFICE DEPTH AND PREPARATION ON THE INSERTION TORQUE AND PULLOUT STRENGTH OF PEDICULAR SCREWS INFLUENCE OF THE GEOMETRIC SHAPE OF PROSTHESIS ON THE STRESS DISTRIBUTION IN THE DENTAL IMPLANTS INFLUENCES OF THE FORCE OF PROPULSION WHEELCHAIR STANDARD OVER THE WHEELCHAIR VELOCITY MEASUREMENT OF THE MEDIAL PLANTAR ARCH USING SHADOW MOIRÉ MECHANICAL AND METALLURGICAL EVALUATION TO VALIDATION OF ASTM F136 6AL- 4V ORTHESIS´S FORMING MANUFACTURING FOR SURGICAL IMPLANTS MECHANICAL PROPERTIES CHARACTERIZATION OF KNEE CRUCIATE LIGAMENTS THROUGH TENSILE TESTS MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF TI-13NB-13ZR ALLOY COLD WORKED BY SWAGING AND ROLLING MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF VERTEBRAL FIXATION USING AN INTERNAL FIXATOR WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF THE GRAFT AND OF A LATERAL STABILIZER MECHATRONIC DESIGN METHOD FOR SURGERY DEVICES MECHATRONIC PUMP CHARACTERIZATION: THE "MECH-PUMP" MEDICAL PRODUCT DESIGN: EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION? MODIFIED WEIGH FUNCTION IN BACKPROJECTION METHOD MODULATION OF CELL MOTOGENIC BEHAVIOUR USING BIOFABRICATION TECHNIQUES TO MIMIC THE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX NEW ALGORITHM FOR CONVERTING A CSG REPRESENTATION INTO A B-REP REPRESENTATION OPTIMIZATION OF IMPLANTODONTIC SURGERY BY BIOMODELS OBTAINED VIA RAPID PROTOTYPING (RP): CASE STUDY PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE SIMULATION FOR STRENGHT TESTS PODE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A LOW COST FORCE FEEDBACK MANIPULATOR PREPARATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND SINTERING OF TI-35NB-7ZR-5TA ALLOY FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS PROCESSING THE RAMAN SPECTRUM USING WAVELETS AND NEURAL NETWORK TO DIAGNOSE HUMAN BASAL CELL CARCINOMA PROJECT OF A MECHANICAL DEVICE TO EFFECT THE POSTURAL DRAINAGE SPATIOTEMPORAL DECOMPOSITION OF GAIT DATA TO ESTABLISH THE MAIN GAIT MODES THAT FORM THE FINAL WALKING KINEMATICS STIMULON: NEW METHOD AND DEVICE IN PHYSICAL THERAPY AND REHABILITATION. STRAIN DISTRIBUTION ON ORAL IMPLANTS WITH DIFFERENT DESIGNS OF CONNECTIONS STRESS/STRAIN FIELD ANALYSIS IN THE MANDIBULOTOMY TECHNIQUE USING THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF AN AUXILIARY TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEART: TWO HYPOTHESES FOR THE LOSS OF RESISTANCE DURING "IN VIVO" ANIMAL TESTS STUDY OF PROJECTION MOIRÉ TECHNIQUE APPLIED ON FREE CONTOURS MEASUREMENT OF BIOENGINEERING STUDY OF THE NECESSARY MECHANICAL MODIFICATIONS FOR THE OPERATIONAL OPTIMIZATION OF THE SANTA CLARA DAM'S FISH LIFT SUCTION PRESSURE BEHAVIOR IN FUNCTION OF THE HOLES IN THE SUCTION DEVICES OF LUNG SECRETIONS THE USE OF SUPERVISORY SOFTWARE AS A OPTIMIZATION TOOL FOR CAN STERILIZATION PROCESSES THE USE OF ULTRASOUND AND MICROBUBBLES FOR THROMBUS FRAGMENTATION. THERMAL STRESS ANALYSIS FOR RESTORED AND SANE LOWER SECOND MOLAR TRIBOCHEMICAL TOOTH WEAR IN COLA BEVERAGES WEAR BEHAVIOUR IN ACETABULAR METAL-ON-METAL COMPONENTS - RETRIEVAL ANALYSIS   top   COMBUSTION AND ENVIRONMENT ENGINEERING A COMPARISON BETWEEN THERMOELETRIC POWER PLANTS OPERATIGN WITH NATURAL GAS AND DIESEL: ENVIRONMENT IMPACTS A KINETICS STUDY ON THE SORPTION OF SO2 BY LIMESTONE THROUGH THERMOGRAVIMETRY A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON DROPLET COMBUSTION IN LOW GRASHOF NUMBER REGIME A PROPOSAL OF FUZZY MULTIVARIABLE IDENTIFICATION FOR LIQUID INCINERATION NONLINEAR PROCESS COMBUSTION CONTROL A TURBULENT COMBUSTION MODEL BASED ON LARGE SCALE MOTION COUPLED TO PERFECTLY STIRRED REACTOR COMPARED TO A PARTIALLY STIRRED REACTOR ANALYSIS OF FLAME BEHAVIOUR IN SMALL COMBUSTION CHAMBERS USING CFD ANALYSIS OF THE THERMAL IGNITION AND INDUCTION TIME OF PREMIXED ETHANOL AND AIR COMBUSTION ANALYTICAL MODEL OF ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANT DISPERSION RELEASED FROM LINE SOURCE ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE EXCESS ENTHALPY IN THE COMBUSTION WITHIN POROUS MEDIA APPLICATION OF THE MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRINCIPLE TO THE ANALYSIS OF A DIESEL ENGINE FUEL SPRAY. BI-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION OF A BUNSEN BURNER FLAME CHEMILUMINESCENCE SENSOR FOR 3D NOX CHARACTERIZATION IN LEAN-PREMIXED FLAME COMBUSTION PROCESSES COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EMISSIONS LEVELS/PASSENGER RATES BETWEEN HEAVY-DUTY AND LIGHT-DUTY VEHICLES IN URBAN TRAFFIC DETERMINATION OF ACTIVATION ENERGY IN THE COMBUSTION PROCESS BY THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS DEVELOPMENT OF A RADIANT POROUS BURNER WITH A COMBINED THERMAL AND FLUIDYNAMIC MECHANISM OF FLAME STABILIZATION DIRECT CLIMATIC FORCING DUE TO ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS FROM BIOMASS BURNING IN BRAZIL ECOTEC - ECONOMY, ECOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY. A RATIONAL APPROACH TO THE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT PROBLEM EFFECTS OF DIAMETER AND HEAT FLUX ON BURNING CHARACTERISTICS OF WOOD CYLINDERS EFFECTS OF MOISTURE CONTENT ON BURN RATES AND CHARACTERISTIC TIMES OF BRAZILIAN WOODS EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THERMAL REGENERATION OF FOUNDRY SAND IN A FLUIDIZED BED INCINERATOR FUEL CONTROL NETWORK FOR A MULTIPLE FUEL BOILER HEAVY METALS RECOVERY FROM INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER USING FLUIDIZED BED ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR INFLUENCE OF INTEGRAL LENGTH SCALES ON SAND EROSION TECHNIQUES LOW COST ENERGY GENERATION SYSTEM USING BIOGAS FROM A SANITARY LANDFILL MATHEMATICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF A DOWNDRAFT GASIFIER. NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF THE CUTTING FLUID APPLICATION IN METAL-WORKING PROCESS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND WORKERS' HEALTH NOX FORMATION IN CO-PROCESSING OF USELESS TIRES IN THE CEMENT INDUSTRY CLINKER KILNS NUMERICAL ANALYSES OF NOX FORMATION IN CYCLONE COMBUSTORS FED WITH AIR AND SAWDUST NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS OF INDUCED EDDIES IN THE COASTAL OCEAN NUMERICAL MODEL OF A BURNING WOOD CYLINDER PARAMETRIC STUDY OF A CONFINED STAGNATION METHANE-AIR DIFFUSION FLAME PREDICTION OF THE REYNOLDS STRESSES IN TURBULENT SHEAR FLOWS WITH THE USE OF STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS RELATIONS BETWEEN PHYSICALS PROPERTIES OF SOLID FUELS AND ITS REACTIVITY SIMULATION OF COMBUSTION IN CLYLINDRICAL CHAMBER STILL FURNACE OPTIMIZATION TESTING OF A 30 KWE STATIONARY RECIPROCATING ENGINE IN DIFFERENT OPERATIONAL LOADS - PERSPECTIVE OF THE MICROCOGENERATION USING NATURAL GAS THE INFLUENCE OF RECIRCULATION INTENSITY ON CO AND NO EMISSIONS THE PERFORMANCE OF REFLECTIVE AND ABSORPTIVE NOISE BARRIER IN CITROSUCO`S INDUSTRY IN MATÃO (SP) - BRAZIL THERMAL ANALYSIS OF THE BURN OF DIESEL OIL AND BIODIESEL IN A FLAME TUBE FURNACE THERMOHIDRAULIC DESIGN AND ECONOMICAL ANALYSIS OF A HEAT RECOVERY PROCESS IN A FLUIDIZED BED HEAT EXCHANGER USE OF BIOGAS ON SMALL POWER GENERATORS VALIDATION OF A NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE COMBUSTION OF NATURAL GAS IN A CYLINDRICAL CHAMBER WIND TUNNEL SIMULATION OF THE ATMOSPHERIC FLOW AND DISPERSION PROCESS IN AN URBAN AREA   top   DYNAMICS, SOLID MECHANICS AND OPTIMIZATION 2D ELASTODYNAMIC WITH BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD AND THE OPERATIONAL QUADRATURE METHOD 3D EFFECTS ON J-Q TRAJECTORIES FOR FRACTURE SPECIMENS AND APPLICATIONS TO CORRELATE FRACTURE BEHAVIOR A COMBINED LAYOUT OPTIMIZATION WITH AN H-ADAPTIVE PROCEDURE APPLIED TO PLATE PROBLEMS A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NEURAL NETWORKS AND SENSITIVITY MODAL ANALYSIS FOR DAMAGE ASSESMENT A COMPARISON OF METAMODELING TECHNIQUES ADDRESSING THE NUMBER OF INDEPENDENT VARIABLES AND THE PRESENCE OF NOISY DATA A COMPARISON OF TWO MODAL CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR THE ACTIVE VIBRATION CONTROL OF A TRUSS STRUCTURE. A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THREE MODELS OF EXTERNAL BALLISTICS A FEATURE BASED DESIGN (FBD) METHOD EMBEDDED WITH DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING (DFM) CAPABILITY. A FRAMEWORK FOR METAL FORMING SIMULATION A LOCKING-FREE LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATE FINITE ELEMENT A MATRIX METHOD FOR TORSIONAL VIBRATION OF MULTI-STEP NON-UNIFORM RODS A MIXED MODEL AND AN ALGORITHM FOR VISCOPLASTICITY A NEW MOUNTING DESIGN FOR STEAM DISTRIBUTOR PLATES IN FIRST STAGE DEHYDROGENERATOR MIXERS A NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ON TRANSIENT WAVE PROPAGATION PHENOMENA AT 2D HALF-SPACES AND THE TRANSIENT RESPONSE OF RIGID SURFACE FOUNDATIONS A PLATE FINITE ELEMENT COUPLING FIRST ORDER MODEL AND A POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATOR A PROCEDURE TO DETERMINE THE IMPACT COEFFICIENT IN A LINEAR ELASTIC STRAIGHT BEAM CONSIDERING THE EXACT CURVATURE OF THE ELASTICA A SHAPE OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURE FOR FLUID FLOW PROBLEMS A STRESS BASED H-ADAPTIVE TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION METHOD A VARIATIONAL FORMULATION OF NONLINEAR VISCOELASTIC MODELS IN FINITE STRAIN REGIME ACCELERATION OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR THE DESIGN OF RANDOM MICRO-HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS ACTIVE SHAPE CONTROL OF A BEAM BY MEANS OF SHAPE MEMORY ACTUATORS AN APPLICATION OF ARMAV MODEL TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF MODAL PARAMETERS AN ERROR ESTIMATOR AND A MESH REFINEMENT STRATEGY FOR THE MODIFIED ELEMENT-FREE GALERKIN METHOD AN EXACT SOLUTION FOR THE HARDY CROSS METHOD THROUGH A MATRICIAL FORMULATION APPLIED TO CONTINUOUS BEAMS AN EXTENSION OF THE MODIFIED ELEMENT FREE GALERKIN METHOD APPLIED TO LARGE DEFORMATION PROBLEMS AN INDUCED ANISOTROPY DAMAGE MODEL APPLIED TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL SOLID ANALYSIS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ACTIVE CONTROL OF VIBRATION IN ROTOR UNBALANCE USING MAGNETIC BEARING ANALYSIS AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE DYNAMICS OF VIBRATION'S COMPLEX SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF BIFURCATION AND CHAOS IN A COUPLED RAYLEIGH OSCILLATORS SYSTEM APPLIED IN THE LOCOMOTION OF A BIPEDAL ROBOT ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE SLEEVE REINFORCEMENT SYSTEMS FOR METALLIC PIPELINES WITH LOCALIZED IMPERFECTIONS OR DAMAGE ANALYSIS OF INTERNAL SUBLOOPS DUE TO INCOMPLETE PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS IN SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATES WITH TRANSVERSE CRACKS BY MLGFM SOLUTION ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT NUMERICAL METHOD TO CAPTURE THE SCALE EFFECT ANALYSIS OF ROTOR DYNAMICS DEFECTS USING VIBRATION BASED MONITORING ANALYSIS OF SIMPLIFIED PROJECTION TECHNIQUES TO ESTIMATE THE STRESS AND STRAIN HISTORIES IN NOTCHED METALLIC PARTS UNDERGOING CYCLIC INELASTIC DEFORMATIONS ANALYSIS OF THE S PACER GRIDS STIFNESS INFLUENCE IN THE DETERMINATION OF THE NATURAL FREQUENCIES OF NUCLEAR PLANTS FUEL AS SEMBLIES ANALYSIS OF VIRTUAL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS FOR THE VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING OF A MOBILE AGRICULTURAL PLATFORM ANALYTIC MODEL OF THE CYLINDRICAL SHELL MOTION EQUATIONS APPLICATION OF A MESOSCOPIC SCALE APPROACH ASSOCIATED WITH A NOTCH ANOLOGUE TECHNIQUE FOR FRETTING FATIGUE APPLICATION OF NUMERICAL METHODOLOGIES IN THE DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF HYDROGENERATORS. ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK STUDY APPLIED TO RIGID ROTOR DYNAMIC BALANCING ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF PRODUCT DESIGN FROM THE DESIGNER'S POINT OF VIEW ASYMPTOTIC WAVE PROPAGATION ALONG CHAINS OF REPETITIVE SYSTEMS BALANCING METHODOLOGY OF A RIGID ROTOR USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BOUNDARY ELEMENT FUNDAMENTAL TENSORS FOR AXISYMMETRIC LINEAR ELASTICITY PROBLEMS CLASSIFYING SYNTHESIZED AND REAL VOICE PATTERNS USING NEURAL NETWORKS COMPLEX BEHAVIOR OF AN EXPERIMENTAL NONLINEAR PENDULUM: CHAOS AND TRANSIENT CHAOS COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS OF TWO DIFFERENT GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL TIME DISCRETIZATION MODELS FOR FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION PROBLEMS COMPUTING THE EFFECTIVE HOMOGENIZED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES FOR TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION CORRELATION OF KT MAGNITUDE AND LEVEL OF CONSERVATISM OF LOCAL STRAIN ELASTOPLASTIC MODELS CRACK PROPAGATION STRENGTH OF A ENVIRONMENT CORROSION RESISTANT STRUCTURAL STEEL DAMAGE IDENTIFICATION USING FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTIONS DEFLECTIONS OF THIN PLATES: INFLUENCE ANALYSIS OF THE SLOPE OF THE PLATE IN THE APLICATION OF LINEAR AND NONLINEAR THEORY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A PRECRACKING FOR FATIGUE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE FRACTURE TOUGHNESS DETECTION OF IMPERFECTIONS IN ROTATING MACHINES THROUGH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS DETERMINATION OF 5052 ALUMINUM ALLOY ACOUSTOELASTIC COEFFICIENTS DETERMINATION OF STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS DUE TO THERMAL STRESSES USING ISOCHROMATIC FRINGE PATTERS DETERMINATION OF TRUE STRESS-STRAIN CURVE FOR ISOTROPIC MATERIALS WITH THIN SHEET TENSILE SPECIMENS DETERMINATION OF UNCERTAINTY OF A REFERENCE PRESSURE TRANSDUCER TRANSFER FUNCTION IN FREQUENCY BELOW 100 HZ DIAGNOSE OF FAULTS IN MECHANICAL SYSTEMS WITH UNKNOWN INPUTS USING PROPORTIONAL AND INTEGRAL STATE OBSERVERS DISC-DISC GEOMETRY AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE FZG TEST METHOD DISPLACEMENT OF SEMI-INFINITE BEAMS ON AN ELASTIC FOUNDATION UNDER BENDING-COMPRESSION LOADING DISPLACEMENT-BASED FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATION OF ACOUSTIC FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION WITH LOCALIZED LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF A ROTOR-BEARING SYSTEM BY FINITE ELEMENTS DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF SLENDER COLUMNS UNDER SELF-WEIGHT USING DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF FLEXIBLE BEAMS WITH VISCOELASTIC LAYER TREATMENT DYNAMIC MODELLING OF THE CRANK MECHANISM AND HYDRODYNAMIC BEARINGS OF COMBUSTION ENGINES DYNAMICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSMISSION LINE CABLES THROUGH NONLINEAR MODELS DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOUR OF A WHEELCHAIR UNDER MOST COMMON DEFORMITY OF PROPULSION CYCLE DYNAMICS OF MARINE PIPELINES - A NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS EFFECT OF THE PRESENCE OF SOLID CONTAMINATION AND THE RESULTING WEAR ON THE MECHANICAL SIGNATURE OF BALL BEARINGS EFFICIENT PROCEDURE TO CALCULATE TRANSMISSION ERROR OF HELICAL GEAR PAIRS WITH GLOBAL TOOTH CONTACT ANALYSIS USING A COMBINED PSEUDO-INTERFERENCE AND LINEAR PROGRAMMING SOLUTION ELASTOPLASTIC ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS ENHANCING TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATIONS FOR FAULT ANALYSIS IN GEARED SYSTEMS ENLARGED COMPRESSION CHAMBER IN HIGH PRESSURE - HIGH TEMPERATURE MULTI-ANVIL DEVICE. ESTIMATE OF THE RENDEZVOUS TRAJECTORY THROUGH THE DYNAMICS OF THE RELATIVE MOTION - FORMATION FLYING EVALUATION OF LOCAL STRAIN MODELS IN THE SIMULATION OF ELASTOPLASTIC CONDITION AT THE NOTCH ROOT OF THICK PLATES EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF A CRACKED BEAM EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF OIL FILM THICKNESSES IN A TILTING PAD HYDRODYNAMIC THRUST BEARING. EXPERIMENTAL IDENTIFICATION OF IN-PLANE LOADS IN RECTANGULAR PLATES USING LIFECYCLE MODEL EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF STOCKBRIDGE DAMPERS EXPERIMENTAL, NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PRYING ACTION AND CONTACT STRESSES IN T-STUB STEEL CONNECTIONS FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOUR OF A USI-SAC-50 HOT-ROLLING STEEL IN THICKNESS DIFFERENTS FAULT IDENTIFICATION IN ROTOR SYSTEM USING MODEL BASED METHODS, EXPERIMENTAL DATA AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK FINITE DEFORMATIONS AND INSTABILITIES OF STRESSED CYLINDRICAL TUBES UNDER HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS APPLIED TO SHAPE MEMORY TRUSSES USING ABAQUS FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF THE THERMOMECHANICAL COUPLING EFFECTS ON DAMAGE LOCALIZATION IN ELASTOPLASTIC METALLIC BARS FINITE STRAINS AND VOLUMETRIC LOCKING STUDIES ON THE MEFG GENERALIZED EXTREMAL OPTIMIZATION APPLIED TO THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRUSS DESIGN GENERALIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD ON THE LOCKING PROBLEM OF DEGENERATED 3-D TRIANGULAR SHELL ELEMENTS H-INF CONTROL WITH POLE PLACEMENT CONSTRAINTS FOR FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES VIBRATION REDUCTION HIERARCHICAL METHODS APPLIED TO FREE VIBRATION OF EULER-BERNOULLI BEAMS HOW TO PREDICT THE VIBRATION EFFECT DUE TO THE MACHINE OPERATION ON ITS VICINITY HYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION APPLIED TO BEARINGS WITH OSCILLATING MOTION IDENTIFICATION OF A RANDOM ELASTIC MEDIUM BY VIBRATION TESTS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HYBRID PARADIGM OF WEIGHT'S INITIALIZATION FOR APPLICATION IN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS MULTILAYER IMPORTANCE OF THE RELIABILITY REQUIREMENTS EVALUATION IN THE INITIAL PHASES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EQUIPMENT FOR THE MECHANIZATION OF THE MARICULTURE INFLUENCE OF THE AXIAL WEDGE EFFECT ON THE STATIC EQUILIBRIUM POSITION OF HYDRODYNAMIC JOURNAL BEARINGS. INFLUENCE OF THE BACKING AND COVERING LAYERS THICKNESSES IN THE STRESS FIELDS IN AUTOMOTIVE JOURNAL BEARINGS INFLUENCE OF THE GEOMETRICAL NON-UNIFORMITY HOUSING SUPPORTS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE JOURNAL BEARINGS STRESSES DISTRIBUTION INFLUENCE OF TOOTH GEOMETRY ON THE STRENGTH OF PLASTIC SPUR GEARS. INTERNALLY PRESSURIZED ALUMINIUM PIPES STRENGTHENED WITH A COMPOSITE REPAIR JOURNAL BEARING ORBITS FITTING WITH HYBRID META-HEURISTIC METHOD LOOKING FOR OPTIMAL TOPOLOGIES IN 2D POTENTIAL PROBLEMS WITH GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND BEM MATERIAL AND GEOMETRIC DISPERSION EFFECTS ON LONGITUDINAL ACOUSTIC DISTURBANCES IN A DUMILOAD FOR SONAR TRANSDUCERS MEASURING THE STRESS AMPLITUDE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF MULTIAXIAL FATIGUE MECHANICAL DESIGN OF TWO INSTRUMENT SUPPORT MODULES FOR THE SOAR TELESCOPE METHODOLOGY TO EVALUATE VIBRATION INCREASE DUE TO THERMAL ROTOR BOW - A COMPARISON BETWEEN ALUMINUM AND COPPER CAGES USED IN INDUCTION MOTORS MODAL ANALYSIS OF HYDROGENERATORS USING CONDENSATION TECHNIQUES MODELING AND CONTROL OF AN EULER-BERNOULLI BI-SUPPORTED BEAM. MODELING RESIDUAL STRESSES IN WELDED STEEL PLATES USING A CONSTITUTIVE MODEL WITH PHASE TRANSFORMATION MODELING TRANSFORMATION INDUCED PLASTICITY IN SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS MODELLING AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION OF TRANSMISSION LINES MODELS OF SPACE ENERGETICS OF COUPLED STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS AT AN ARBITRARY ANGLE NEW CRITERION OF AUTOMATIC CHOICE OF MODES USED IN MODAL SYNTHESIS METHOD NOISE SOURCES IDENTIFICATION ON A LARGE STAMPING PRESS NON LINEAR MODEL FOR COUPLED AXIAL/TORSIONAL VIBRATIONS OF DRILL-STRINGS NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS OF BUILDING FLOOR STRUCTURES BY THE BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF A SHAPE MEMORY OSCILLATOR USING A CONSTITUTIVE MODEL WITH INTERNAL CONSTRAINTS NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS IN NON-SMOOTH SYSTEMS WITH DISCONTINUOUS SUPPORT NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF COLDWORKED RIVETED JOINTS NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ORTHOTROPIC PLASTICITY MODEL IN THE ABAQUS FINITE ELEMENT CODE AND ASSOCIATED SIMULATIONS OF SHEET METAL FORMING TESTS NUMERICAL SCHEMES FOR SIMULATION OF COUPLED AXIAL/TORSIONAL VIBRATIONS OF DRILL STRINGS NUMERICAL STABILITY ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE PLATES THERMALLY STIFFENED BY FINITE ELEMENT METHOD ON A THEORY OF ELASTICITY COUPLED WITH DAMAGE AND DIFFUSION ON LINE MONITORING OF RELIABILITY OF SIGNALS TO BE USED TO CONTROL PURPOSES ON MEASURES OF NONLINEARITIES FOR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS WITH UNCERTAINTIES. ON NON-LINEAR DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF THE HODGKIN-HUXLEY MODEL ON THE HYPOTHESIS AND LIMITATIONS OF TRADITIONAL METHODOLOGIES FOR MECHANICAL DESIGN OF A FILLET WELDED SIMPLE STRUCTURE ON THE INTERACTION BETWEEN FATIGUE CRACK BRANCHING AND CLOSURE ON THE PHASE TRANSFORMATION EFFECT IN RESIDUAL STRESSES GENERATED BY QUENCHING IN NOTCHED STEEL CYLINDERS ON THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN THE ESTIMATION OF RESIDUAL LIFE OF FATIGUE-CRACKED SHEET SAMPLES OPTIMAL DESIGN AND LOCATION FOR A VISCOELASTIC DYNAMIC NEUTRALIZER SYSTEM USING GENETIC ALGORITHM OPTMIZATION OF PI CONTROLLER BASED ON HYBRID SIMPLEX-GENETIC APPROACH APPLIED TO A THERMAL SYSTEM OUTPUT-ONLY MODAL ANALYSIS USING FREQUENCY DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED THERMAL BARRIERS PRODUCT STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT (PSD) IN THE AVIATION SEGMENT PRODUCTIVITY CENTERED PRODUCT DESIGN RISK BASED DECISION MAKINBG APPLIED TO MAINTENANCE POLICY SELECTION ROBOT PATH PLANNING: AVOIDING OBSTACLES ROBUST-H-INFINITE CONTROL FOR FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES WITH REDUCED DYNAMICS ROTOR BALANCING IN NON-STATIONARY CONDITION BY THE USE OF ADAPTIVE FILTER SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF MECHANICAL COUPLINGS MODEL APPLYING FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTIONS SIMULATION OF RADIATION CONDITION IN ROTATING MACHINERY USING SIMPLIFIED MODELS SOLUTION OF BUCKLING EIGENPROBLEMS THROUGH A NEW VARIANT OF THE LANCZOS ALGORITHM SOME ASPECTS IN THE USE ON THE KARHUNEN-LOÈVE DECOMPOSITION FOR ANALYZING VIBRATING SYSTEMS SOME INSIGHTS INTO THE DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF FLEXIBLE ROTORS SUPPORTED ON FLUID FILM BEARINGS STABILITY AND VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF SLENDER L-FRAMES WITH SEMI-RIGID CONNECTIONS STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF VIBRATION SIGNALS FOR CONDITION MONITORING OF DEFECTS IN ROLLING ELEMENT BEARINGS. STICK-SLIP ANALYSIS IN DRILL STRINGS STRESS RELAXATION IN WELDING JOINTS OF 5052 ALUMINUM USING THE ULTRASONIC METHOD STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS IN DESIGNING CONICAL DISCS OF ROTATION STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY ASSESSMENTS OF AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL PIPES WITH AXIAL FLAWS SYSTEMS DYNAMICS TECHNIQUES UTILIZATION IN BUSINESS STRATEGY MODELING TECHNIQUE OF PARAMETERS AND INPUTS IDENTIFICATION IN MECHANICAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT IN PRODUCT DESIGN PROCESS FOR MICRO AND SMALL-SIZED METAL MECHANIC COMPANIES THE EFFECTS OF UNBALANCE AND CLEARANCE ON THE BEARINGS OF AN OVERHUNG ROTOR THE IMPLICITLY RESTARTED ARNOLDI METHOD APPLIED TO TUNED VIBRATION ABSORBERS PROBLEMS THE IMPOSITION OF THE INJECTIVITY CONSTRAINT ON A FAMILY OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL ELASTICITY PROBLEMS THE INFLUENCE OF SHEET THICKNESS ON DRAWBEAD RESTRAINING FORCE IN SHEET METAL FORMING THE PRINCIPLES OF INCLUSIVE DESIGN THE WIND CONSIDERED AS A NON-IDEAL EXCITATION IN MODEL OF A WIND TURBINE TOWER WITH IMPACT DAMPER THERMOMECHANICAL COUPLING EFFECTS ON LOW-CYCLE FATIGUE LIFE OF METALLIC MATERIALS TOPOLOGICAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS APPLIED TO THREE-DIMENSIONAL LINEAR ELASTICITY TOPOLOGY DESIGN TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION METHOD APPLIED TO DESIGN HYDRO GENERATOR COMPONENTS UNDER BODY FORCES TRAJECTORY MODELING OF CAPAMAN (CASSINO PARALLEL MANIPULATOR) BY USING 4TH ORDER B-SPLINES . UNDERWATER VEHICLE DYNAMIC MODELING VARIABLE STRUCTURE CONTROL DESIGN BASED ON DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION OPTIMIZATION WITH NEW SINOSOIDAL GAUSSIAN OPERATOR VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF ROTATING SHAFTS COUPLED BY RIGID DISKS   top   ENERGY AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA 3-D TRANSIENT SIMULATION OF AN AXISYMMETRIC MICRO HEAT PIPE A CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM BASED MODEL FOR BIOMASS GASIFICATION A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FINITE VOLUMES, FINITE DIFFERENCES AND MESHLESS METHODS FOR DRIVEN CAVITY PROBLEM A COMPARISON BETWEEN NUMERICAL AND LABORATORY DATA FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL STEEP TOPOGRAPHIC ELEVATION A FINITE VOLUME METHOD FOR SIMULATION OF POLYMER MELT FLOW IN CLOSED CHANNELS A MIXTURE THEORY DESCRIPTION FOR UNSATURATED FLOWS CONTAINING POLLUTANTS A MODEL FOR FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT FRICTION IN ONEDIMENSIONAL UNSTEADY FLUID FLOWS A NEW MAINTENAINCE METHODOLOGY APPLIED TO A HVAC SYSTEM A NEW TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE COMPLETENESS CONDITIONS IN QUASI-DUAL BOUNDARY ELEMENT FORMULATION A NUMERICAL STUDY OF INFLUENCE OF THE ASPECT RATIO IN COMBINED FORCED AND FREE CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER IN A SEMIPOROUS OPEN CAVITY A NUMERICAL STUDY OF NATURAL CONVECTION IN AN INTERNAL FINNED ANULUS WITH CONDUCTION IN THE HORIZONTAL CYLINDERS AND FINS A PARTICLE METHOD FOR AIRCRAFT WAKE BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS NEAR THE GROUND USING TURBULENCE MODELING A SEMI EMPIRICAL METHOD FOR DESIGN OF A STEAM PIPING AND ITS CONDENSATE RECOVERY SYSTEM A SIMPLIFIED APPROACH TO NATURAL CONVECTION MODELLING IN COOLING TOWERS BY NEURAL NETWORKS A STUDY OF INCREMENT CASE OF THE COGENERATION IN SUGAR INDUSTRY FOR THE ECUADORIAN CONTEXT A THEORETICAL STUDY OF AN EMULSION OF HIGH VISCOSITY DROPS UNDER SHEAR A TURBULENCE MODEL FOR THE PREDICTION OF THE HEAT TRANSFER REDUCTION OF VISCOELASTIC FLUID FLOWS ABSORPTION OF REFRIGERANT MIXTURES IN LUBRICANT OIL ACCELERATION LENGTHS IN VERTICAL PNEUMATIC CONVEYING OF CORK STOPPERS AN ANALYTICAL SOLUTION FOR THE SECOND ORDER MATRIX GITT TRANSFORMED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION BY THE LAPLACE TRANSFORM TECHNIQUE AN EFFICIENT NUMERICAL MODEL FOR ISOTHERMAL AND THERMALLY COUPLED INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOWS AN EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF A PEM FUEL CELL COOLING SYSTEM AN INVERSE ANALYSIS FOR SIMULTANEOUS THERMAL PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN ADSORPTIVE POROUS PACKED BEDS ANALISYS OF THE ANALYTICAL RESOLUTION OF THE RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION BY FOR AN OBLIQUELY INCIDENT COLLIMATED BEAM ONTO THE SURFACE ANALYSIS OF A HIGH TEMPERATURE THERMOSYPHON ANALYSIS OF CONTACT ANGLE IN CAPILLARY INVASION ANALYSIS OF DAYLIGHTING IN THE ENERGY SAVINGS OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS OF COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS ANALYSIS OF PLUVIAL FLOW IN METALLIC TILES ANALYSIS OF POWER AND ENERGY IN ELECTROCHEMICAL PORTABLE POWER SYSTEMS ANALYSIS OF PURELY KINEMATIC CRITERIA FOR FLOW CLASSIFICATION ANALYSIS OF RADIATIVE PROPERTIES IDENTIFICATION WITH REFRACTIVE INDEX ANALYSIS OF SWIRL TUBE AS DOWNHOLE DESANDER DEVICE ANALYSIS, SIMULATION AND FEASIBILITY STUDY OF A DIRECT COMPRESSION DESALINATION SYSTEM ANALYTICAL DEDUCTION OF THE RELATION BETWEEN THE MAXIMUM AND AVERAGE VELOCITIES IN PIPES OF SQUARE AND RECTANGULAR SHAPED SECTION ANISOTROPIC CORRECTIONS AS A FUNTION OF THE CLEARNESS INDEX KT FOR THE DIFFUSE SOLAR IRRADIANCE MEASURED BY THE MELO-ESCOBEDO SHADOWRING METHOD APPARENT WALL SLIP IN THE FULLY DEVELOPED LAMINAR FLOW OF VISCOPLASTIC LIQUIDS THROUGH TUBES APPLICATIONS OF HIGHER-ORDER UPWIND DISCRETIZATIONS FOR CALCULATING INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID FLOWS ASSESSMENT OF TURBULENCE MODELLING FOR CFD SIMULATIONS OF HYDROTURBINES: DRAFT TUBES ASYMMETRIC RECTANGULAR OBSTRUCTIONS ON ENTRANCE REGIONS OF FLAT PLATE CHANNELS ATTAINMENT OF KINETIC MECHANISM GENERAL EQUATION OF THE CARBONIZATION OF EUCALYPTUS SPP WITH DETERMINATION OF HEMICELULOSE, CELLULOSE AND LIGNINA CONTENT BI-PHASE FLOW CHARACTERIZATION BY ULTRASONIC METHODOLOGY BIOMASS GASIFICATION AND FUEL CELL INTEGRATION: THE POTENTIAL AND EFICIENCY BOND GRAPH MODELING OF INCOMPRESSIBLE THERMOFLUID FLOWS. CALIBRATION METHODOLOGY OF A F101-F201 GLOBAL FLOW PROBE USING A LASER DOPPLER ANEMOMETER CAPACITIVE SENSOR FOR DYNAMIC GAS-LIQUID PHASE DETECTION IN TWO-PHASE FLOWS CHARACTERISTICS OF AIR-WATER VERTICAL TWO-PHASE FLOW ACROSS A SUDDEN EXPANSION CHARACTERIZATION OF SLUG FLOWS IN HORIZONTAL PIPING BY SIGNAL ANALYSIS FROM A CAPACITIVE PROBE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN HEATING CIRCUITS FOR BASEBOARD CONVECTORS COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN SAVONIUS ROTOR MADE ON TWO OR THREE BLADES OF POLYETHYLENE COMPARISON OF INDEPENDENT HEAT TRANSFER RESULTS AND PREDICTION METHODS FOR FLOW BOILING IN MICRO-SCALE CHANNELS COMPARISON OF MODELS FOR THE STEADY-STATE ANALYSIS OF TILTING-PAD THRUST BEARINGS COMPOSITE FOR THERMAL ISOLATION IN HOT WATER CONDUCTORS TUBES IN SYSTEMS OF HEATING FOR SOLAR ENERGY COMPUTATIONAL MODELING AND THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF COMBINED CYCLES USING BLACK LIQUOR GASIFICATION CONFINED NUCLEATE BOILING OF FC72 ON A DOWNWARD OR UPWARD FACING COPPER DISC CONJUGATE NATURAL CONVECTION APPLIED TO THE ELECTRONIC COMPONENT COOLING CONSTRUCTAL DESIGN OF A TRAPEZOIDAL ISOTHERMAL CAVITY INTO A SOLID CONDUCTING WALL CONTAMINANT DISPERSION SIMULATION BY SOLVING THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION COMBINING THE GILTT AND ADMM METHODS CONTINUOUS AND INTERMITTENT DRYING (TEMPERING) OF OBLATE SPHEROIDAL BODIES: MODELING AND SIMULATION COOLING WATER INFLUENCE IN TEMPERATURE PROFILE OF CONTINUOUS CASTING MOLD CORRELATIVE ANALYSIS IN TIME AND SPACE OF TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER OVER PERMEABLE POROUS SLAB CRITICAL EVALUATION OF TECHNICAL-ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF ELECTRIC ENERGY SELF-GENERATION IN BRAZIL CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE SHEAR-STRESS TRANSPORT (SST) K-W TURBULENCE MODEL CYLINDRICAL ENCAPSULATED COLD STORAGE DES SIMULATION OF A FINITE CYLINDER MOUNTED ON A FLAT PLATE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A 10 KW HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE (HAWT) WITH VARIABLE SPEED DETERMINATION OF ENERGY PERFORMANCE OF AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS USING PSYCROMETRIC ANALYSIS DEVELOPMENT OF A PIV SYSTEM USING A LASER-DIODE DEVELOPMENT OF A TEST RIG FOR SONIC NOZZLES DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADAPTIVE MULTIVARIABLE CONTROLLER FOR A REFRIGERATION SYSTEM USING TRANSFER FUNCTIONS GENERATED BY A WHITE BOX MATHEMATICAL MODEL DEVELOPMENT OF METHODOLOGY AND SOFTWARE FOR ANALYSIS OF ENERGY AND ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF THE INTRODUCTION OF INSTALLATIONS FOR NATURAL GAS IN THE RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL SECTOR DISTRIBUTED NON HOMOGENEOUS MODEL FOR FLOW SIMULATION IN FINNED TUBE COIL EVAPORATORS DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE NATURAL CONVECTION IN A POROUS CAVITY DRYING OF SILKWORM COCOON IN CROSS FLOW BELT CONVEYOR DRYER: A NUMERICAL SIMULATION USING THE FINITE-VOLUME METHOD DUAL LAYER SLOT COATING EFFECT OF MEDIUM MORPHOLOGY ON LAMINAR FLOW IN A CHANNEL PARTIALLY FILLED WITH A POROUS BED EFFECT OF PARAMETERS OF A MULTIGRID METHOD ON THE CPU TIME FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS EFFECT OF RADIUS OF CURVATURE OF COATING DIE EDGES ON THE PINNING OF STATIC CONTACT LINE EFFECTS OF POWER PUMP VARIATIONS IN THE THERMALHYDRAULICS BEHAVIOR OF A TEST SECTION DURING A CRITICAL HEAT FLUX EXPERIMENT ELASTOHYDRODYNAMICS OF SLOT COATING PROCESS WITH DEFORMABLE ROLL ENERGETIC AND EXERGETIC ANALYSIS OF A THERMAL SYSTEM AIMING COGENERATION ENERGETIC AND EXERGETIC ANALYSIS OF A THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANT ENERGETIC, EXERGETIC AND COGENERATON FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS OF A GRANULATED BLAST FURNACE SLAG DRYING SYSTEM ESTIMATION OF THE THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY IN SOY GRAINS AT FUNCTION OF GRAINS MOISTURE CONTENT EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT TURBULENCE MODELS TO PREDICT A TURBULENT FREE JET EVALUATION OF THE WIND POTENTIAL FOR REGIONS OF THE STATE OF ESPIRITO SANTO EXACT ANALYTICAL SOLUTION OF STRATIFIED THREE-PHASE LAMINAR FLOW IN A HORIZONTAL RECTANGULAR DUCT EXEREGOCONOMIC ANALYSIS IN TWO COGENERATIONS FOR A SHOPPING CENTER IN SALVADOR EXERGOCONOMIC ANALYSIS IN TWO COGENERATION PLANTS FOR A SHOPPING CENTER IN SALVADOR EXERGOECONOMIC ANALISYS AND EVALUATION OF DIFERENT COGENERATION SYSTEMS EXERGOECONOMICS ANALYSIS OF A DOUBLE-EFFECT LITHIUM BROMIDE-WATER ABSORPTION REFRIGERATION SYSTEM EXERGY ANALYSIS OF A COGENERATION THERMOELECTRICAL UNITY IN A PETROCHEMICAL COMPLEX EXERGY ASSESSMENT OF A COGENERATION SYSTEM WITH MICRO-TURBINE AND ABSORPTION CHILLER EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE KINETICS OF TRANSFER AND DECOMPOSITION PROCESSES FOR MODELLING OF FILLING OF RESERVOIRS EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL EVALUATION OF A SOLAR CHIMNEY TEST PLANT PART I: THEORETICAL TREATMENT EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL EVALUATION OF A SOLAR CHIMNEY TEST PLANT PART II: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDY OF SLUG LENGTHS IN HORIZONTAL AIR-WATER INTERMITTENT FLOWS EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION O THE MASS DIFFUSIVITY IN PLASTER PLATES FOR USE IN THE CIVIL CONSTRUCTION EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF TRANSPORT COEFFICIENTS FOR ICE SLURRY IN PLATE HEAT EXCHANGER EXPERIMENTAL DRYING OF CERAMIC BRICKS INCLUDING SHRINKAGE EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION ON THE TRIGA-IPR-R1 RESEARCH NUCLEAR REACTOR AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER MEASURING CHANNELS BY THERMAL PROCESSES EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON LIQUID-LIQUID DISPLACEMENT OF VISCOELASTIC MATERIALS IN CAPILLARY TUBES. EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE OTIMIZATION OF A REFRIGERATOR WITH NATURAL GAS AS ITS HEAT SOURCE EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATION OF THE FLOW AROUND THE KEEL OF A YACHT EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF A VORTEX TUBE FIELD PERFORMANCE TESTING OF TURBOMACHINERY FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATION APPLIED TO LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS OF VISCOUS FLOWS FLOW BEHIND A TWO-DIMENSIONAL BLUNT-TRAILING-EDGED BODY; PART I: OVERALL ANALYSIS. FLOW BEHIND A TWO-DIMENSIONAL BLUNT-TRAILING-EDGED BODY; PART II: PHYSICS OF THE WAKE. FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS OF A SWIRL JET IMPINGEMENT FLUID INTERFACES IN PHASE TRANSITION PROBLEMS: LATTICE-BOLTZMANN METHOD FRANCIS HYDRO TURBINE-GENERATOR MODEL FOR MODEL PREDICTIVE SPEED CONTROL GALERKIN LEAST-SQUARES MULTI-FIELD APPROXIMATIONS FOR NON-NEWTONIAN FLOWS GAS TRANSFER ACROSS GAS-LIQUID BOUNDARIES: PREDICTIONS AND EXPERIMENTS ON CONCENTRATION FLUCTUATIONS GENERATION OF THERMAL AND ELECTRIC LOAD PROFILES FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF A COGENERATION SYSTEM GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM APPLIED IN TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION: THE STUDY OF A HIGH POROSITY BRICK GRAY RADIATIVE CONDUCTIVE 2D MODELING USING DISCRETE ORDINATES METHOD WITH MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPATIAL SCHEME HEAT REMOVAL ENHANCING IN CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS HEAT TRANSFER IN SQUARE CAVITIES FILLED WITH CIRCULAR RODS HYBRID ANALYTICAL-NUMERICAL SOLUTION TO THE BIOHEAT TRANSFER EQUATION HYDRODYNAMIC AND MAGNETIC PAIRWISE INTERACTIONS OF PARTICLES IN A SUSPENSION IDENTIFICATION OF TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT THERMAL PROPERTIES OF SOLID MATERIALS IDENTIFICATION OF THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF A COMPOSITE ONE-DIMENSIONAL REGION IMAGING THE VELOCITY FIELD IN FILM SPLITTING FLOWS OF DILUTE POLYMER SOLUTIONS IMPINGING FLOW PARALLEL PLATES HEAT SINKS IMPROVED LUMPED PARAMETER FORMULATIONS FOR THE SOLUTION OF CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT PROBLEMS INFLUENCE OF A MOVING WALL CONTOUR IN THE VORTEX STREET OF A CIRCULAR CYLINDER INTEGRATION OF A THERMODYNAMIC PROCESS SIMULATOR WITH GENETIC OPERATORS FOR MATHEMATICAL EXERGOECONOMIC OPTIMIZATION OF THERMAL SYSTEMS INTEGRATION OF BIGCC BASED-SYSTEMS TO SUGARCANE MILLS INTERFACIAL CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT FOR LAMINAR FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA INVERSE PROBLEM OF SPACE DEPENDENT ALBEDO ESTIMATION WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND HYBRID METHODS INVESTIGATION OF TURBULENT FLOW OVER A STEEP HILL USING LASER DOPPLER ANEMOMETRY IRREVERSIBILITY OF THE PHASE CHANGE PROCESS IN DYNAMIC CAVITIES LAMINAR FLOW NUMERICAL STUDY USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD AND CHARACTERISTIC-BASED SPLIT ALGORITHM FOR A SAME PRESSURE AND VELOCITY INTERPOLATION ORDER. LARGE EDDY SIMULATION OF AIR FLOW WITHIN A SQUARE ENCLOSURE WITH A PARTIALLY HEATED BOTTOM SURFACE AND COOLED VERTICAL WALLS LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL UNSTABLE FLOW IN A LID-DRIVEN CAVITY LATTICE-BOLTZMANN SIMULATION OF TWO-PHASE FLUID FLOW THROUGH POROUS MEDIA LIMITING THERMAL ENERGY RATE INSIDE NUCLEAR FUEL RODS WITH VARIABLES SOURCES LOW COST ALTERNATIVE SOLAR COLLECTOR WITH PVC TUBES ABSORPTION SURFACE MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION OF THE FLUID FLOW DURING THE SOLIDIFICATION OF BINARY MIXTURES IN ENCLOSURES MASS TRANSFER SIMULATION OF A FLUIDIZED-BED GASIFIER USING PVC AS RAW MATERIAL MASS TRANSFER SIMULATION OF A FLUIDIZED-BED GASIFIER USING SUGAR CANE BAGASSE AS FUEL MATHEMATICAL MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF MASS TRANSFER IN HORIZONTAL EXTRACTOR METHOD FOR ANALYSING THE COMPOSITION OF THE ELECTRICITY COST GENERATED IN GAS-FIRED COMBINED CYCLE PLANTS METHODOLOGY FOR THE OPTIMZATION OF BIOMASS GASIFICATION POWER PLANTS METHODOLOGY FOR THERMOGRAPHY APPLICATION IN EVALUATION OF DEFECTS AND NON-APPARENT INCLUSIONS IN MATERIALS MIXED CONVECTION EFFECTS IN CAVITIES WITH OSCILLATING BOUNDARIES MIXED CONVECTION IN VERTICAL CONCENTRIC CYLINDERS MODELING AND SIMULATION OF A SOLAR-POWERED ABSORPTION COOLING SYSTEM LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST BRAZIL MODELLING OF WOOD WASTE FUEL CELL/GAS TURBINE FOR SMALL POWER GENERATION MOLD FILLING SIMULATION USING A CONTROL VOLUME FINITE ELEMENT METHOD MULTIPLE-RELAXATION-TIME LATTICE-BOLTZMANN MODEL FOR IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS NATURAL CONVECTION AT ISOTHERMAL VERTICAL PLATE: NEIGHBOURHOOD INFLUENCE NATURAL CONVECTION IN AN ARBITRARY INCLINED PLATE WITH PROTRUDING HEATED ELEMENTS. NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN WAVE GROUPS AND CURRENTS NONLINEAR RESPONSE OF AN OLDROYD FLUID IN STRONG FLOWS NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF IMPURITIES DEPENDENCE OF THE TEMPERATURE FREEZING OF ZINC NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF AXI-SYMMETRIC FLOWS OF VISCOPLASTIC LIQUIDS THROUGH AN EXPANSION FOLLOWED BY A CONTRACTION NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF A HEAT PUMP FOR RESIDENCIAL APPLICATION NUMERICAL DETERMINATION OF TRANSVERSE MASS DISPERSION COEFFICIENTS IN POROUS MEDIA NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF ANGRA I AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM RELIABILITY BY THE METHOD OF SUPLEMENTARY VARIABLES. NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF TIME INTEGRATION SCHEMES IN A DISTURBED FLOW SIMULATION NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF FLUID FLOW IN RADIAL DIFFUSERS WITH IRREGULAR BOUNDARIES NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ON GAS-DISPLACEMENT OF VISCOPLASTIC MATERIALS IN CAPILLARY TUBES NUMERICAL MODEL VALIDATION OF ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER OVER COMPLEX TERRAIN NUMERICAL MODELING OF A NEWTONIAN AND NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID FLOW IN TUBULAR MEMBRANES APPLIED TO THE MICROFILTRATION AND ULTRAFILTRATION PROCESSES NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF 2D FLOW IN CARTRESIAN GEOMETRY USING FINITE VOLUMES NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A CROSS-FLOW HEAT EXCHANGER NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A FLOW OVER A CIRCULAR CYLINDER USING IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD IN VORTICITY-VELOCITY FORMULATION NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF ADSORPTION COLUMNS: MODEL COMPARISON AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF AIRFOIL-VORTEX CLOUD INTERACTION IN GROUND EFFECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER THROUGH A TUNNEL KILN NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE FLOW AROUND A SPHERE USING THE IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE FLOW AROUND THE KEEL OF A YACHT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE TEMPERATURE AND CONCENTRATION PROFILES IN A REFRIGERATOR ADSORBER HEATED BY NATURAL GAS NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE TURBULENT TRANSITION IN FREE ROUD JETS NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW AROUND AN ELLIPTIC CYLINDER USING THE VORTEX METHOD NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF TURBULENT HEAT TRANSFER IN A PIN-FINNED CHANNEL NUMERICAL STUDY OF NATURAL CONVECTION IN A PARTIALLY OPEN ENVIRONMENT WITH A HEAT GENERATING SOURCE NUMERICAL STUDY OF THE PULTRUSION PROCESS USING A PARABOLIC APPROACH NUMERICAL STUDY OF THE SIMULTANEOUS HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER IN PROLATE SPHEROIDAL BODIES BASED ON THE NONEQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS ON EXERGY DESTRUCTION AND MAXIMUM POWER OUTPUT IN HEAT ENGINES. ON THE DYNAMICS OF HUMIDITY ADSORPTION ON THE GRID REFINEMENT RATIO FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL ADVECTIVE PROBLEMS WITH NONUNIFORM GRIDS ON THE NUMERICAL CALCULATION OF IMPINGING JETS ON THE STABILITY PROBLEM FOR THE FLOW AROUND A 2D CYLINDER BY THE SOLENOIDAL SUB-SPACE PROJECTION METHOD. ON THE UNSTEADY MOTION OF AN ISOLATED SEDIMENTING PARTICLE OPTIMIZATION IN THE CO-PROCESSING OF WASTES IN CEMENT INDUSTRY COMPRISING COST, QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OPTIMIZATION PROJECT OF THE CONSTRUCTION AND EFFICIENCE ANALYSIS OF A SOLAR COOK FOR FOOD COOKING OPTIMIZED DESIGN OF AXIAL-FLOW HYDRAULIC TURBINE PARALLEL SIMULATION OF TURBULENT FLOW IN A BACKWARD-FACING STEP PASSIVE PROTECTION AGAINST FIRE FOR STRUCTURES AND ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS IN A PETROLEUM REFINING UNIT PERFECTIONING OF AN EXPERIMENTAL CHAMBER FOR DETERMINATION OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITIES PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS BETWEEN DIFFERENTS LINEARIZATIONS SCHEMES IN THE DISCRETIZATION OF MOVEMENT EQUATIONS WITH VORONOI DIAGRAMS PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF TAYLOR-SERIES LINEARIZATION SCHEME OF 1ST ORDER ON THE DISCRETIZATION OF MOVEMENT EQUATIONS WITH VORONOI DIAGRAMS PERFORMANCE AND OPTIMISATION OF EXTERNALLY FIRED GAS TURBINES FUELLED WITH BIOMASS PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS CURVES FOR GAS LUBRICATED HERRINGBONE GROOVE JOURNAL BEARINGS PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ADSORPTIVE MATERIALS FOR DESICCANT COOLING SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE OF GAS TURBINE WITH CARBON DIOXIDE AS THE WORKING FLUID PIPE AND CHANNEL FLOW OF MULTIMODE PTT FLUIDS POLLUTANT DISPERSION SIMULATION IN THE ATMOSPHERE NEAR SOURCE BY THE GILTT METHOD POROSITY EFFECT ON FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER IN A PARALLEL PLATE CHANNEL WITH POROUS AND SOLID BAFFLES PREDICTION OF INTRINSIC PERMEABILITIES WITH LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD PRELIMINARY STUDY ON THE SPOUTED BED DRYING OF CORK STOPPERS PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN USING HIGH-TEMPERATURE FUEL CELL: ENERGY AND EXERGY ANALYSIS RADIATIVE AND CONVECTIVE EFFECTS INSIDE GREENHOUSES RADON-222 TRANSPORT INTO OPEN AIR FROM A PHOSPHOGYPSUM STACK: NUMERICAL SIMULATION FOR DIFFERENT ASPECT RATIOS RAIN, SUN AND SHADING EFFECTS ON THE THERMODYNAMICS OF SOILS REAL TIME SIMULATION OF REGENERATORS WITH FLUID CHANGE OF PHASE FOR ABSORPITON REFRIGERATORS REFRIGERANT R134A LEAKAGE THROUGH THE RADIAL CLEARANCE IN ROLLING PISTON COMPRESSORS REPRESENTATION OF SOLAR COLLECTORS VIA NEURAL NETWORKS WITH REDUCTION OF THE TRAINING SET NUMBER ROTATING DISK FLOW STABILITY IN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS: EFFECT OF THE TRANSPORT OF A CHEMICAL SPECIE SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF A RANKINE CYCLE SIMULATION OF A SEMI-CONFINED IMPINGING JET SIMULATION OF TURBULENT FLOW IN A SUDDEN CONTRACTION WITH A POROUS INSERT SISAL FIBER (AGAVE SISALANA) AS THERMAL INSULATOR OF MANIFOLD SOLAR PARABOLIC CYLINDRICAL HEATER WITH FILM OF POLYETHYLENE FOR HEATING OF WATER AND DRYING OF GRAINS SPREADING DYNAMICS WITH LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD STEADY STATE SIMULATION OF DESSULFURIZATION IN CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BEDS STEADY STATE SIMULATION OF HYDRODYNAMICS IN CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BEDS STOCHASTIC APPROACH TO HEAT CONDUCTION PROBLEM USING THE GALERKIN METHOD STROUHAL NUMBER FLUCTUATIONS IN A CYLINDER WAKE STUDIES ON THE APPLICABILITY OF INFRARED IMAGING OF THERMAL PROCESSES IN TROPICAL REGIONS STUDY FOR THE PREDICTION OF STRATIFIED PIPE FLOWS STUDY OF A DIFFUSION-ABSORPTION REFRIGERATION CYCLE USING AMMONIA-WATER-HELIUM AS WORKING FLUIDS STUDY OF LAMINAR CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN HEATED CYLINDERS ROTATING INSIDE OF A RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE STUDY OF LINEAR CASCADE-VORTEX CLOUD INTERACTION STUDY OF OPERATION PARAMETERS OF POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS ON SUGAR CANE MILLS STUDY OF POWER CAPACITY THROUGH THE AUXILIARY WATER FLOW OF THE IGARAPAVA DAM FISHWAY STUDY OF THE APPLICATION OF A NUMERICAL MODEL OF SIMULATION OF THE DRYING PROCESS FOR DIMENSIONING OF ROTARY DRYERS STUDY OF THE THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF THE STRUCTURAL HIGH POROSITY BRICK IN BUILDINGS USING THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD STUDY ON HEAT TRANSFER IN TURBULENT FILM FLOW SUGAR CANE JUICE EXTRACTION SYSTEMS COMPARISON - MILL VERSUS DIFFUSER SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS OF BIODIESEL PRODUCTION CHAIN TECHNO-ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF VIABILITY OF A PLANT FOR GENERATION OF ELECTRIC ENERGY IN THE AREA OF PARAGOMINAS-PARÁ TROUGHT THE RANKINE CYCLE. TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION IN A ROTARY HEAT EXCHANGER TERMOECONOMIC STUDY OF THE INCREASE IN CAPACITY OF A COGENERATION SYSTEM IN A SUGARCANE ALCOHOL DISTILLERY, ANALYZING THE RESULTS OF THE BAGASSE COMMERCIALIZATION AND OF THE ENERGY THE CHALLENGE OF THE PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS FOR ENERGY SAVINGS THE COOLING AND FREEZING OF PARALLELEPIPED FOOD PRODUCT: INFLUENCE OF THE SIZE AND INICIAL MOISTURE CONTENT THE DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOR OF A MAGNETIC FLUID FLOW IN A CYLINDRICAL TUBE THE EFFECT OF A CELL-DEPLETED LAYER NEAR THE WALL ON THE BLOOD FLOW THE EFFECTS OF INTERFERENCE BETWEEN TWO CIRCULAR CYLINDERS ARRANGED IN TANDEM BY VORTEX METHOD THE INFLUENCE OF CARBONIZATION TEMPERATURE AND CARBONIZATION HEATING RATE IN THE CHARCOAL PRODUCTION THE LOG-LAW METHOD AS A MEANS FOR EVALUATION OF SKIN-FRICTION ON FLOWS OVER ABRUPT CHANGES IN SURFACE ROUGHNESS THE USE OF HYDROCARBONS PROPANE AND ISOBUTANE IN REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF AIR CONDITIONING BY EVAPORATIVE COOLING INFLUENCE ON GAS TURBINE CYCLES PERFORMANCE. THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HEAT DIFFUSION IN STRUCTURES WITH INTERNAL FLAWS THEORETICAL STUDY OF A CONCENTRIC TUBES EVAPORATOR OF A REFRIGERATION SYSTEM THEORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CHANNEL FLOW WITH RADIATION IN PARTICIPATING MEDIA THROUGH THE USE OF THE GENERALIZED INTEGRAL TRANSFORM TECHNIQUE THEORY AND OCCURRENCE OF EVAPORATION WAVES THERMAL EVALUATION OF CONSTRUTIVE MODEL MANUFACTURED IN LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE THERMAL EXCHANGES IN A BI-FACIALLY IRRADIATED COLLECTOR INTEGRATED TO AN ADSORPTIVE SOLAR REFRIGERATOR THERMOECONOMIC APPLICATION FOR COST ALLOCATION IN A DUAL-PURPOSE POWER AND DESALINATION PLANT THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE TEMPERATURE AND VELOCITY FIELDS IN CYLINDRICAL THERMAL TANKS TRANSIENT THERMAL ANALYSIS OF AN INDUCTION ELECTRIC MOTOR TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN RAREFIED GASEOUS SYSTEMS TURBULENCE MEASUREMENTS IN THE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER:A COMPARISON BETWEEN HOT-WIRE AND SONIC ANEMOMETER DATA. TURBULENT IMPINGING JET IN A CYLINDRICAL ENCLOSURE WITH A POROUS LAYER AT THE BOTTOM TWO-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF FLOWS OVER A VIRTUAL WAVY SURFACE TWO-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A FREE FALL CYLINDER USING THE IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD WITH THE VIRTUAL PHYSICAL MODEL UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATE OF THE TEMPERATURE DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT BY SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION METHODS UPWIND SCHEMES FOR CONVECTION DOMINATED PROBLEMS USE OF SELF-ORGANIZING NEURAL NETWORKS TO IDENTIFY TWOPHASE AIR-WATER FLOW REGIMES IN A HORIZONTAL PIPE VELOCITY PROFILE AND TURBULENCE INTENSITY MEASUREMENTS IN THE TA-2 WIND TUNNEL. VERIFICATION OF THE DISCRETIZATION ERROR OF NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS OF FLOWS USING UNSTRUCTURED MESHES WAVE SLOSHING INSIDE A 2D RESERVOIR WAVES ENERGY NEAR THE BAR OF RIO GRANDE`S HARBOR ENTRANCE   top   ENGINEERING EDUCATION A GRAPHIC TOOL TO TEACHING AND VISUALIZATION OF THE STRUCTURAL STEEL BEAM DESIGN: LATERALLY UNSUPPORTED A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO CONTROL SYSTEMS LABORATORY DESIGN A MODEL FOR KNOWLEDGE DOMAIN, PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES, AND TEACHING STRATEGIES REPRESENTATION IN INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS APPLIED TO ENGINEERING EDUCATION A PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL - INDUSTRY BENEFITING THE INTEGRATION OF THE UNITS OF THE UNIVERSITY AN ENGINEERING COURSE EVALUATION: MEASURING THE STUDENT'S SATISFACTION LEVEL BRINGING ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULA CASE STUDY: NON-LINEAR RESONANT OBJECT CONTROL CHALLENGES OF TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN HISTORY CHANGES IN THE CONCEPT OF TECHNOLOGY OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS AFTER THE TECKIDS PROJECT COMPUTER MEETS (DAMIÃO DE) GOIS CONSTRUCTION OF A BALL`S MILL: AN EXAMPLE OF INTEGRATION BETWEEN THE BASIC CYCLE AND THE PROFESSIONAL CYCLE IN THE COURSE OF FOOD ENGINEERING OF THE CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE BELO HORIZONTE DIDACTIC GAMES IN ENGINEERING TEACHING - CASE: SPAGHETTI BRIDGES DESIGN AND BUILDING CONTEST DIDACTIC TESTS BENCH: PROPOSAL OF INTEGRATION OF UNDERGRAD AND GRADUATE STUDIES IN CEFET/RJ DIGITAL CONTROL LABORATORY APPLIED TO TEACHING PURPOSES. DISTANCE LEARNING - POTENTIAL AND RISKS IN THE CURRENT SITUATION OF EDUCATION IN BRAZIL EDUCATION NETWORK: PRECISION ENGINEERING. EDUCATION OF THE NEW GLOBAL ENGINEER: THE DUAL MASTER DEGREE BETWEEN BRAZIL AND FRANCE. ENGINEER' COMPETENCES OR TEACHER' COMPETENCES? ENHANCING UNIVERSITY-SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP: A PILOT STUDY EVALUATION AND CONTINOUS IMPROVEMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM USING THE QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT TOOL FLOW AROUND SPHERES: A DIDACTIC EXPERIMENT FRESHMEN AND SENIORS IN ENGINEERING: HOW DO THEY PERCEIVE THE ABILITIES AND COMPETENCES, WHICH ARE IMPORTANT FOR THIS PROFESSION? GROUPWARE TOOLS APPLICATION EXPERIMENT IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT IMPACT OF THE USE OF AN EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE FOR STRUCTURAL DYNAMIC ANALYSIS ON THE TEACHING IN THE UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING COURSES OF THE FEN/UERJ INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY KNOWLEDGE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COURSES LEARNING EVALUATION IN TECHNOLOGICAL HIGHER EDUCATION: FROM TRADITION TO NEW PARADIGMS MECHATRONICS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PASSO FUNDO PATENTS OF COMPUTER SOFTWARES WHEN JOINED IN PRODUCTS OR EQUIPMENT TO IMPROVE THE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS: NEW DRAWING OF THE ENGINEERING TEACHING QUALITY IMPROVEMNT OF TEACHING PHYSICS: AN EXPERIENCE ON ENGINIEERING COURSES REFORMULATING THE WAY WE TEACH ENGINEERING: A NEW METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSAL SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON TESTS, EXAMS AND OTHER STUDENT EVALUATIONS AND ASSESSMENTS TEACHING ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS TO PROCRASTINATING STUDENTS (AND THE BOLOGNA PROCESS) THE BALANCED SCORECARD AS THE GUIDELINE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COURSES THE EXPERIENCE OF VIRTUAL TEAMS THE GAME OF KNOWLEDGE: A LUDIC AND EFECTIVE FORM OF CO-CONSTRUCTION OF SIGNIFICANT LEARNING WITHIN THE COLLECTIVITY OF A UNIVERSITY THE TEACHING OF UNIT OPERATIONS AT MECHANICAL ENGINEERING USING SCILAB FOR NONLINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT FOR DYNAMIC MODELING OF MULTI-DOMAIN SYSTEMS VIRTUAL TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS - AN EXPERIENCE THAT WORKS   top   MANUFACTURING PROCESSES 40 HRC PLASTIC MOULD STEELS: MANUFACTURING PROPERTIES CONSIDERATIONS. A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PREDICTING THERMAL CYCLES AT THE HAZ OF BEAD ON PLATE WELDS USING DIMENSIONS OF THE MOLTEN OR HEAT AFFECTED ZONE AS INPUT DATA A FINITE-VOLUME MODEL FOR THE SIMULATION OF THE HOT STRIP ROLLING PROCESS A PROCESS PLANNING APPLICATIVE FOR RAPID PROTOTYPING TECHNOLOGY A SIMULATION AND PRODUCTION CONTROL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE PROCESS MODELLING UTILISING SOFTWARE COMPONENTS A SYSTEMATICS TO DEFINE INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING (ABC) AND THROUGHPUT ACCOUNTING OF TOC (TA): A HYBRID SYSTEM IN THE MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING AGV MODELLING USING OBJECT ORIENTED TECHNIQUES THROUGH UML LANGUAGE IN FMC AN ERROR SYNTHESIZATION REDUCED MODEL FOR A CMM AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON THE PERFORMANCE OF GRAPHITE VERSUS COPPER ELECTRODES ON THE FINISH EDM OF TOOL STEEL AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF DIE SINKING ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING OF AISI D2 TOOL STEEL USING DIFFERENT ELECTRODE MATERIALS AN INVESTIGATION ABOUT THE MACHINABILITY OF THE WELD DEPOSITED NICKEL BASED ALLOY INCONEL 625 ANALYSING THE VIABILITY OF MANUAL TROLLEY FLEET SUBSTITUTION OF ITEMS RETRIEVING PROCESS ANALYSIS OF GG25 GRAY IRON REAMING WITH CEMENTED CARBIDE TOOLS ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMIC STABILITY OF HIGH SPEED FINISHING END MILING AND BALL-END MILLING APPLICATION OF DESIGN OF EXPERIMENT METHODOLOGY ON TURNING PARAMETERS OF THE SAE 52100 HARDENED STEEL ASPECTS OF PERFORMANCE INFORMATION INTEGRATION IN THE INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE AUTOMATIC MONITORING AND DIAGNOSIS OF THE DRESSING OPERATION THROUGH THE CLASSIFICATION OF TEXTURAL PATTERNS IN ACOUSTIC MAPS AUTOMATIC MONITORING OF POLYMERS FLUX USING IMAGE PROCESSING BEAD-ON-PLATE STUDY OF POLYCARBONATE HOT-GAS WELDING CHARACTERIZATION OF BURR FORMED ON ENGINE BLOCKS USING METALOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SURFACE GENERATED DURING THE TURNING OF ANNEALED AND AGED AISI 303, 304 AND 310 AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DRILLING PROCESS FOR VP 50IM AND DIN 1.2711 MOULD STEELS COMPARING DIFFERENT STRATEGIES TO THE MILLING PROCESS OF POCKETS IN DIES WITH INTERCHANGEABLE INSERT MILLS. COMPARISON OF TOOL PATH INTERPOLATION ON THE APPLICATION OF THE HSC TECHNOLOGY CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS FOR AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEELS HOT DEFORMED AT HIGH STRAIN RATES CORRELATING SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND ACOUSTIC EMISSION SIGNALS WITH THE RELATIVE POSITION BETWEEN TOOL AND WORKPIECE DURING CYLINDRICAL TURNING DEEP DRILLING IN GG25 GRAY CAST IRON USING TUNGSTEN CARBIDE DRILLS WITH STRAIGHT FLUTES DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR RECONFIGURABLE PRECISION SYSTEMS APPLIED TO AN ULTRAPRECISION LATHE DESIGN OF PIECES TO BE SUBMITTED TO HEAT TREATMENT: CONCEPTS, PRINCIPLES AND RECOMMENDATIONS. DETERMINATION OF THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF AISI 304 AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL IN MACHINING PROCESSES DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF SOFTWARE FOR IMAGE ANALYSES OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLAMENTATION OF A METHODOLOGY TO CREATE A TECHNICAL/COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIP WITH SUPPLIERS DEVELOPMENT OF A DEDICATED ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR STRAIGHTNESS ERROR MEASUREMENT WITH DATA REDUNDANCY DEVELOPMENT OF A METHODOLOGY BASED ON A GENERATIVE SYSTEM FOR A CAD/CAPP/CAM SOFTWARE IN MACHINING 2(1/2)D DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW WELDED CONSTRUCTION OF INTEGRAL TRUCK TYPE TO RAILWAY FREIGHT CAR TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUMENTED GRIPPER FOR ROBOTIC SHIELDED METAL ARC WELDING DIFFUSION BONDING IN STAINLESS STEEL DRILLING FORCES OF TI6AL4V WITH MINIMAL QUANTIFY OF LUBRICANT DRILLING POLYMERIC MATRIX COMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH GLASS FIBRES EFFECT OF MACHINING PARAMETERS ON CUTTING FORCE OF THREE AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEELS EFFECT OF THE MINIATURIZATION IN THE FORMING PROCESS EFFECT OF WELDING PARAMETERS ON THE PARTIALLY DILUTED ZONES FORMATION AT DISSIMILAR METAL WELDS ELASTIC DEFORMATION ANALYSIS ON GRINDING CYCLES THROUGH VIBRATION SIGNALS END MILLING FORCES BEHAVIOR STUDY BY SIMULATION AND FINITE ELEMENTS DINAMIC ANALISYS ENGINE DESIGN USING RAPID PROTOTYPING TECHNIQUES EVALUATION OF INFLUENCE OF CONTINUOUS ANNEALING PROCESS AND BATCH HEATING IN THE DRAWABILITY OF INTERSTITIAL FREE STEEL EVALUATION OF MACHINED SURFACE ROUGHNESS THROUGH ACOUSTIC EMISSION EVALUATION OF THE MACHINABILITY OF TI-6AL-4V ALLOY WITH (SICW) WHISKER REINFORCED ALUMINA CERAMIC CUTTING TOOL UNDER VARIOUS COOLING ENVIRONMENTS EVALUATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF COATED HSS DRILLS IN MACHINING OF AL-SI ALLOYS EXTENDED VALUE STREAM MAPPING APPLIED IN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY TO DESIGN A LEAN SUPPLY CHAIN FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF TIG WELDING: STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF TIG WELDING: THERMAL ANALYSIS FUZZY MODELING OF TOOL WEAR IN DRILLING HIGH PRESSURE PHASE TRANSFORMATION IN SINGLE CRYSTAL SILICON DURING DUCTILE REGIME DIAMOND TURNING HIGH SPEED IMAGES OF RESISTANCE SPOT WELDING SYNCHRONIZED WITH ELECTRICAL SIGNALS HIGH TEMPERATURE BRAZING OF INCONEL AND STAINLESS STEEL COMPONENTS FOR A SATELLITE THRUSTER PROPULSION IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL OF METAL TRANSFER IN PULSED GMAW IMAGE PROCESSING APPLIED TO THE CNC PROGRAMMING IN DRILLING PROCESS. INCREASE OF THE PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY DUE TO THE SETUP REDUCTION: CASE STUDY IN THE INDUSTRY OF MEDICAL PRODUCTS INCREASING TOOL LIFE IN GRINDING THROUGH CUTTING FLUID SUPPLY WITH SHOE NOZZLES INFLUENCE OF THE LUBRI-COOLING SYSTEM ON THE LIFE OF TIALN COATED HSS TWIST DRILLS WHEN MACHINING BLIND AND THROUG HOLES INFLUENCE OF THE SHIELDING GAS COMPOSITION ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND ARC STABILITY IN GMA WELDING OF THE ASTM A516 STEEL INFLUENCE OF TOOL OVERHANG ON TOOL WEAR IN HARDENED STEEL MILLING INTELLIGENT AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF PROBLEMS IN PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF TURNING INTERNAL SIGNAL FROM AN OPEN ARCHITECTURE CNC APPLIED TO THE CUTTING TOOL WEAR MONITORING: IMPLEMENTATION AND VALIDATION MANUFACTURE SYSTEM OF COMPLEX PRODUCTS MODELING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING CELL (FMC) MODELING AND SIMULATION OF CUTTING TOOL EDGE ERRORS ON PRECISION MILLING MONITORING OF THE DRILLING PROCESS IN DUPLEX STAINLESS STEEL NEAR DRY MACHINING (NDM) BY DROPPING IN TURNING OF STAINLESS STEELS NEURAL NETWORK FOR CONSTANT FORCE CONTROL OF END MILLING NUMERICAL MODEL FOR FLATNESS ANALYSIS OF THIN STEEL SHEET IN TENSION LEVELLING PROCESS OPTIMISATION OF CUTTING TOOLS USING CA-TECHNOLOGIES OPTIMISATION OF EDM FAST HOLE-DRILLING THROUGH EVALUATION OF DIELECTRIC AND ELECTRODE MATERIALS OPTIMIZATION OF A MULTI-RESPONSE GMAW-P PROCESS BY DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS PARAMETRIC AND NEURAL METHODS FOR COST ESTIMATION OF PROCESS VESSELS PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF CUTTING TOOLS PRODUCED BY BRAZING OF A CVD DIAMOND FILM ON A WC-CO SUBSTRATE PERFORMANCE OF COOLING/LUBRICATION CONDITIONS IN THE ROUGH MILLING OF THE 15-5 PH STAINLESS STEEL PINCH EFFECT OBSERVATION IN MIG/MAG WELDING OF AWS ER 309L WIRE PROFILE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN THE SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES OF THE METAL-MECHANICS SECTOR. RECONFIGURABLE ULTRAPRECISION LATHE QUALITY EVALUATION THROUGH COMPARISON BETWEEN ITS MACHINED PARTS AGAINST A REFERENCE REPAIR WELDING OF INJECTION MOLDS MANUFACTURED IN AISI P20 AND VP50IM STEELS RESIDUAL STRESS ON STAINLESS STEEL A304 TUBE DRAWN WITH FIXED PLUG SIMULATION OF THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS OF SEAMLESS TUBES AT V&M DO BRASIL SIMULTANEOUS 5-AXES AND 3-AXES MILLING COMPARISON APPLIED ON A AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENT SOME EFFECTS OF STOCK VARIATIONS DUE TO THE USE OF 2½ AXES STRATEGY ON ROUGHNING STUDY OF SHORT-TERM MACHINABILITY TESTS FOR THE SAE 12L14 FREE-CUTTING STEEL TAPPING OPERATION AT HIGH CUTTING SPEED TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF AN INSTALLATION PROJECT OF A PILOT PLANT IN THE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE LABORATORY OF A CERAMIC GLAZE PRODUCER THE BENEFITS THAT THE VISUAL MANAGEMENT CAN BRING FOR THE COMPANIES THE EFFECT OF CYCLIC BENDING ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF DRAWN STEEL BARS THE INFLUENCE OF SOME CUTTING PARAMETERS IN FINISHING MILLING OF HARDENED STEEL USING A BALL NOSE TOOL THE INFLUENCE OF THE FRICTION FACTOR ON THE TOTAL FORMING FORCE IN "T" METALLIC JUNCTIONS EMPLOYING ELASTOMERS THE LEAN MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STRATEGY OF A MANUFACTURING COMPANY. THE NEED FOR NEW PARADIGMS FOR INDICATORS OF INOVATION IN COMPANIES TOOL WEAR IN HIGH SPEED MILLING OF HARDENED STEEL TOPOGRAPHIC FUNCTIONAL PARAMETERS IN MACHINING OF AISI 4340 STEEL WITH COATED CEMENTED CARBIDE TOOLS ULTRAPRECISION LATHE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT THROUGH EFFECT ANALYSIS USE OF METHODS BASED ON TIME SERIES FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE ACCURACY OF THE DEMAND FORECAST IN A PARTS DISTRIBUTION CENTER: A CASE STUDY WAVELET PACKET FEATURE EXTRACTION FOR VIBRATION MONITORING IN HIGH SPEED MILLING WEAR RESISTANCE OF GREY CAST IRON WIRE ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING OF THIN TI6AL4V PLATES: ROUGH MACHINING ASSESSMENT   top   MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 3-D CONSTRAINT EFFECTS ON FRACTURE MECHANICS SPECIMENS A DAMAGE INTERFACE MODEL FOR ADHESIVE BONDED JOINTS A METHOD TO OPTIMIZE CERAMIC MASSES FOR COATINGS USING THE LOSS FUNCTION A MODEL OF FRACTIONAL FACTORIAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS IN AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS ENGINE A NEW BOUNDARY CONDITION FOR THE EVALUATION OF HYDROGEN TRANSPORT IN METALS USING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUE A STUDY ON HYDROGEN INDUCED CRACKING IN API STEEL WELD METAL USING THE MODIFIED G-BOP TEST A SURVEY ON CERAMIC COMPOSITES FOR APPLICATION IN POROUS BEARINGS A TWO-STAGE TRANSFORMATION IN CU-ZN-AL SMA WIRES AGING STUDY IN A CU-AL-MN SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF SANDWICH COMPOSITES WITH FUNCTIONALLY GRADED CORE UNDER TRANSVERSE LOADING ANALYSE OF THE INJECTION PARAMETER IN IMPACT PROPERTIES OF THE POLYPROPYLENE - PP ANALYSIS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF MECHANICAL TEST LABORATORIES BASED ON A PROFICIENCY TESTING APPLICABILITY OF THE HIGH VELOCITY COMBUSTION WIRE (HVCW) SPRAYING PROCESS FOR THE DEPOSITION OF PROTECTIVE METALLIC COATINGS APPLICATION OF LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETRY FOR STRUCTURAL DIAGNOSTICS ON COMPOSITE PANELS : NEW EXAMPLES ASPECTS RELATED TO THE GRAIN SIZE OF IRON SAMPLES SINTERED IN HOLLOW CATHODE DISCHARGE ASSESSMENT OF FATIGUE PROPERTIES AND S-N CURVES FOR DIN EN 10283 ALLOY STEEL BEHAVIOUR OF SI CONTAINING DLC FILMS IN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE COMPONENTS BENDING MOMENT DISTRIBUTION OF INTERNALLY PRESSURIZED REPAIRED PIPES BENDING RESISTANCE OF COMPOSITE STEEL-CONCRETE BEAMS IN FIRE SITUATION BIOCOMPATIBILITY OF TI-13ZR-13NB AND PASSIVATED 316L STAINLESS STEEL COATED WITH TICN CHARACTERIZATION OF CERAMIC COMPOSITES DERIVED FROM POLYSILOXANE/NB/AL/AL2O3 BY AFCOP PROCESS CHARACTERIZATION OF LIGHTWEIGHT MORTARS FOR STAINLESS STEEL SINK APPLICATIONS CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MAGNETIC NOISE BARKHAUSEN USING WAVELETS TRANSFORM CLASSIFICATION OF PULSE-ECHO AND TOFD ULTRA-SONIC SIGNALS USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TOUGHNESS AND WEAR RESISTANCE OF HIGH SPEED STEELS PM SINTER 23 AND CONVENTIONAL AISI M2 COMPOSITE TUBES AT LOWER FURNACE OF KRAFT PULPING PROCESS CHEMICAL RECOVERY BOILER-MATERIAL AND CRACKING PROCESS ANALYSIS COMPUTER SIMULATION OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE CORROSION PHENOMENA CONSTITUTIVE MODELING OF STRESS-STRAIN CURVE OF HOT DEFORMED IF AUSTENITE CORROSION CHARACTERISTICS OF COATING TYPE 309L STAINLESS STEEL PREPARED BY WELD OVERLAY CROSS-FLOW MICROFILTRATION WITH MICROPOROUS TUBES CHEMICALLY TREATED FOR DESEMULSIFYING MIXTURES OF WATER AND SUNFLOWER OIL DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF AISI 8620 STEEL SUBMITTED TO AXIAL FATIGUE DAMAGE IN STEEL BARS APPLIED FOR CIVIL CONSTRUCTION SUBMITTED TO CORROSION DETERMINATION OF THE ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES OF TUNGSTEN/EPOXY AND TUNGSTEN/POLYURETHANE COMPOSITES USING ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUE DETERMINATION OF THE EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS RELATED TO THE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CREEP STAGES OF THE TI-6AL-4V ALLOY WITH ATMOSPHERE CONTROLING DETERMINATION OF THE STRESS DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION BY X-RAY DIFFRACTION USING FOURIER ANALYSIS DEVELOPMENT OF AN ESTER VINYL POLYMERIC MATRIX FOR COMPOSITES DESIGNED FOR THE FILAMENT WINDING PROCESS AND EFFECT OF WATER ABSORPTION ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES DEVELOPMENT OF PLASTIC ETA FACTORS FOR DEEP AND SHALLOW CRACKED BEND SPECIMENS EMPLOYED IN J-R CURVE TESTING DEVELOPMENT OF THERMAL FATIGUE TESTING APPARATUS DIAMOND-LIKE CARBON DEPOSITION BY A TRIODE PECVD DIAMOND-LIKE CARBON FILMS DEPOSITED BY A TRIODE PECVD UNDER TWO LEVELS OF ACETYLENE FLOW RATE DISCONTINUITIES EVALUATION ON SUBMERGED WET WELDS ECOGENIC RESPONSE AND DOSIMETRIC EVALUATION OF HYDROXYAPATITE MACROAGGREGATES IMPLANTS EFFECT OF COPPER ADDITION ON DELAYED CRACKING PHENOMENON OF DEEP-DRAWN AND REDRAWN CUPS OF AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEELS EFFECT OF GRAIN REFINING AND HOMOGENIZING TREATMENT ON AL-FE-MN-SI CAST ALLOYS EFFECT OF HOLLOW CATHODE DISCHARGE PARAMETERS ON THE OXIDATION OF PLASMA-TREATED TITANIUM SURFACES EFFECT OF INITIAL SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON WEAR MECHANISMS OF CONTACT FATIGUE - TESTS WITH AUSTEMPERED DUCTILE IRON EFFECT OF PRESTRAIN AND BAKE HARDENING HEAT TREATMENT ON THE FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH AND CRACK CLOSURE OF TWO DUAL-PHASE STEELS EFFECT OF THE MICROSTRUCTURE AND THICKNESS OF NITRIDED CASES ON THE ABRASIVE WEAR RESISTANCE OF DUPLEX LAYERED TIN-PVD COATINGS EFFECT OF WATER AGING IN MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR FILAMENT WINDING EFFECT OF WATER AND OIL ON THE STRENGTH OF COMPOSITES MATERIALS EFFECTS OF CORROSION ON THE DAMAGE AND FAILURE OF CONCRETE ESTUDY OF THE GAS ATMOSPHERE IN PLASMA NITRIDING OF STEEL AISI H13 EVALUATION OF DYNAMIC FRACTURE MECHANICS IN AN AISI 316 STAINLESS STEEL USING INSTRUMENTED CHARPY IMPACT TESTING EVALUATION OF THE PVC DEGRADATION USED IN BUILDING. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES EXACT SOLUTION OF THE SPTT MODEL FOR FULLY DEVELOPED CHANNEL FLOWS EXPERIMENT OF RECYCLING AND USE OF SOLID WASTES ON BRICKS PRODUTION TO CIVIL ENGINEERING (BRICKWORK). EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE PERFORMANCE OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL USED AS CRACK FATIGUE REPAIR EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS FOR SE(B) AND SE(T) J-INTEGRAL FRACTURE TOUGHNESS TESTING EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUE FOR CREEP CRACK GROWTH RATE MEASUREMENT IN A LOW CARBON STEEL EXPERIMENTAL, NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FORCE DURING IF STEEL CUP DEEP DRAWING. FATIGUE BEHAVIOR OF API GRADE 5L X-65 AND X-70 STEELS WELDED JOINTS UNDER VARIABLE AMPLITUDE LOADING. FATIGUE BEHAVIOR OF FERRITIC STAINLESS STEELS USED IN EXHAUST SYSTEMS FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION RATES OF THE ALUMINIUM ALLOY FATIGUE FAILURE OF CENTRIFUGAL BOMB AXIS FATIGUE LIFE MODELING FOR INDUSTRIAL COMPOSITES MATERIALS FEM STUDY OF THE CONTACT AREA AND PRYING ACTION IN T-STUB STEEL CONNECTION FORMATION OF WEAR DEBRIS IN POLYMERIC TRIBOSYSTEMS FRACTURE PROPERTIES OF FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER CONCRETE UNDER MARINE ENVIRONMENT EXPOSURE FRICTION AND WEAR OF AL-SI/SICP COMPOSITES IN RECIPROCATING SLIDING AGAINST AISI 52100 STEEL GAS PRESSURE SINTERIZATION OF SILICON NITRIDE BASED CERAMICS USING RARE EARTH OXIDES AS SINTERING ADDITIVES GRAIN SIZE MEASUREMENT BY IMAGE ANALYSIS: AN APPLICATION IN THE CERAMIC AND IN THE METALLIC INDUSTRIES HARD, WEAR RESISTANT COATINGS DEPOSITED ON SINTERED TOOL MATERIALS. HEXAMETILDISSILOXANE PLASMA DEPOSITION ON AL2O3 CERAMICS: WATERPROOFING EFFECT HYBRID COMPOSITES WITH SYNTHETIC AND NATURAL FIBERS: DEGRADATION BY MOISTURE ABSORPTION IMPACT AND BALLISTIC EVALUATION OF POLYCARBONATE PROTECTORS FOR GLASS INSULATORS IN TRANSMISSION LINES INFLUENCE OF COPPER CONTENT ON WORKABILITY OF COLD ROLLED AL-MG-CU ALLOYS INFLUENCE OF INJECTION PARAMETER IN THE POLYPROPYLENE DIMENSIONS AND MASS INFLUENCE OF NITRIDING TIME ON THE MICROHARDNESS PROFILE OF PLASMA NITRITED AISI D6 STEEL INFLUENCE OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS ON STRUCTURAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF THE GD5.09GE2.03SI1.88 COMPOUND INFLUENCE OF THE MATERIALS MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ON THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT OF CRACKED PIPING OF PWR NUCLEAR REACTORS PRIMARY SYSTEMS INFLUENCE OF THE SUBMERGED ARC WELDING IN THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE P355NL1 STEEL. PART I: ANALYSIS OF THE CYCLIC ELASTOPLASTIC BEHAVIOUR INFLUENCE OF THE SUBMERGED ARC WELDING IN THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE P355NL1 STEEL. PART II: ANALYSIS OF THE LOW/HIGH CYCLE FATIGUE BEHAVIOURS INSTRUMENTED CHARPY IMPACT TEST: OPERATIONAL TIME REDUCTION FOR ACQUISITION AND PLOTING OF THE LOAD - TIME CURVE INVESTIGATION OF THE INCORPORATION OF ZIRCONIUM INTO THE HYDROXYAPATITE STRUCTURE OF ZIRCONIA-HYDROXYAPATITE COMPOSITES AND ZIRCONIUM HYDROXYAPATITE POWDERS. J-INTEGRAL VERSUS CTOD δ5 FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF UNIDIRECTIONAL FIBER-METAL LAMINATES LASER SURFACE TREATMENT OF SPHEROIDAL GRAPHITE CAST STEEL LAY-UP EVALUATION IN COMPOSITE MATERIAL TUBES MATRIX CONSOLIDATION MECHANISM IN THE TI/SIC/C COMPOSITES PRODUCED BY CONTINUOUS BINDER-POWDER COATING MEASUREMENT OF SENSITIZED STRUCTURES OBTAINED BY BRIEF TIME THERMAL TREATMENT IN AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL. MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TIO2 CERAMICS CONTAINING AL2O3 AND SIO2. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FIBERGLASS PRESSURE PIPES WITH SILICEOUS SAND FILLER METHODOLOGIES FOR LOAD DISTRIBUTION ON A KAPLAN HYDRO TURBINE BLADE METHODOLOGY FOR DETERMINATION OF THE OPTIMUM DIE ANGLE IN WIRE DRAWING MICROHARDNESS EVALUATION OF A DIRECT/INDIRECT HYBRID COMPOSITE RESIN AT COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVATION IN LIGHT OR HEAT MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF STAINLESS STEEL CLADDING DEPOSITED WITH PULSED CURRENT AND CONVENTIONAL CONTINUOUS CURRENT GMAW PROCESSES MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TI-20NB ALLOY FOR ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANTS MICROSTRUCTURE OF TI-CU AND TI-NB CAST ALLOYS FOR MEDICAL AND DENTAL IMPLANTS MODELING FLOW CURVES OF HLSA AND IF STEEL IN THE AUSTENITE MODELLING OF SOLIDIFICATION OF ATOMISED DROPLETS NIOBIUM CAVITATION ANALYSIS BY SEM NON-LINEAR BURGERS´ EQUATION SOLUTION FOR TWO DIMENSIONAL LID-DRIVEN CAVITY NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF PITTING CORROSION NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF VISCOELASTIC FREE SURFACE FLOWS USING THE SECOND ORDER FLUID CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION OBTAINING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BETA TITANIUM ALLOY FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS ON THE EXPERIMENTAL REALISATION OF MULTI-AXIAL STRESS STATES FOR CELLULAR AND POROUS MATERIALS: DETERMINATION OF ELASTO-PLASTIC PROPERTIES OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF FLEXIBLE ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES UNDER MECHANICAL STRAIN OVERHEATING INFLUENCE IN THE SOLIDIFICATION PARAMETERS AND MICROSTRUCTURE FORMATION OF ALUMINUM 5052 ALLOY PARALLEL SOLUTION ON A PC CLUSTER AND BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS OF BI AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS UTILIZING THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD PREDICTION MODELS OF MICRO-SCALE ABRASION OF THIN COATED SURFACES PROCESSING OF AN ULTRAFINE GRAINED C-MN STEEL AND ITS CORRELATION WITH MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR PROPOSAL OF AN AUTOMATIC SYSTEM OF INCORPORATION OF WATER IN THE PRODUCTION OF PIECES OF RED CERAMIC REMOVING MATERIAL NOISE IN EDDY-CURRENT INSPECTIONS OF STEAM GENERATORS TUBES USING WAVELET TRANSFORM RESIDUAL STRESS EVALUATION OF AA2024-T3 FRICTION STIR WELDED JOINTS RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR OF DENSE GRANULAR MEDIA SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR CUT TOOLS OF MOTORIZED MANUAL WEEDER FOIL SEM/EDS ANALYSIS OF MICROSTRUCTURE OF DENTAL RESTORATIVE SYSTEMS: INFLUENCE ON OPTICAL DENSITY SHOT PEENING ON THE FATIGUE STRENGTH OF AL7050-T7451 COATED BY HVOF SILICON NITRIDE CERAMICS OBTANING FOR ALTERNATIVE SINTERING ADDITIVE SLOT MACHINING EFFECTS ON RESIDUAL STRESS MEASUREMENTS USING THE CRACK COMPLIANCE METHOD SOLID PARTICLE EROSIOIN IN SUPERALLOY INCONEL 600 SOLIDIFICATION OF UNDERCOOLED AL-FE-ND ALLOY STRAIN AGING IN AISI 304 STAINLESS STEEL STRESS DISTRIBUTION DURING CAVITATION OF COMPACT GRAPHITE IRON STRESSES AND DISPLACEMENTS ANALYSES ON LAMINATED COMPOSITES IN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE WINGS STUDY OF CARBON FILMS DEPOSITION BY PECVD WITH SI INCORPORATION BY VACCUM EVAPORATION STUDY OF EFFECTS FROM THE ADDITION OF POLYMER ON THE COMPRESSION RESISTANCE IN BULK APPLIED IN THE CERAMIC INDUSTRY. STUDY OF PRECIPITATION HARDENING DURING THE AGING AND OVERAGING IN MARAGING CLASS 300 STEEL STUDY OF SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION OF A DUPLEX STAINLESS STEEL BY NON-DESTRUCTIVE TEST STUDY OF THE INTERFACE MATRIX-INCLUSION PROPERTIES ON FRACTURE PROPERTIES IN COMPOSITE MATERIALS STUDY OF THE THERMAL STRESS IN CERAMIC MATERIALS DURING COOLING SUPERPLASTIC BEHAVIOR OF A FE-MN-AL AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL SURFACE MODIFICATION OF TI6AL4V ALLOY BY DUPLEX PLASMA PROCESSING THE EFFECT OF CYCLIC TORSION ON THE DRAWING STRESS OF 304 STAINLESS STEEL AND 6063 ALUMINUM ALLOY BARS THE EFFECTS OF IMPURITIES CARBON AND OXYGEN ON THE TEMPERATURES AND ENTHALPIES OF MARTENSITIC TRANSFORMATION OF NITI SMA THE INFLUENCE OF SURFACE TREATMENT ON THE MOISTURE ABSORPTION OF COCONUT SHELL FIBER THE INFLUENCE OF TERNARY COATING (TI-C-N) ON SURFACE FINISH OF AISI 4340 AND AA 6262-T6 ALUMINUM AFTER TURNING THE INFLUENCE OF THE ADDITION OF NATURAL GYPSUM ON THE MICROSTRUCTURE OF THE SET PLASTER: STUDY OF THE MECHANICAL AND MICROSTRUCTURE PROPERTIES THE NEW COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT REQUIRES A NEW APPROACH FOR THE ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCES THE PERFORMANCE OF NEW GEAR OIL CONTAINING MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE THE USE OF ACOUSTIC EMISSION IN THE CHARACTERIZATION OF STEEL PIPELINE DAMAGE THE USE OF MAGNETIC BARKHAUSEN NOISE ANALYSIS FOR MECHANICAL STRESSES EVALUATION THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ANALYSES OF SISAL FIBER COMPOSITES THERMAL STRESSES IN THE INTERFACE OF AL2O3/TIO2 CERAMIC LAYERS THERMODYNAMIC CONSISTENT VERSION OF THE GRIFFITH FRACTURE CRITERION THERMODYNAMIC STUDY OF SIMPLIFIED SBF SOLUTIONS TI-6AL-4V MACHINING WITH SILICON NITRIDE CUTTING TOOLS: A SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTION ULTRASONIC IMMERSION TECHNIQUES FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF ELASTIC CONSTANTS IN FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITES. WATER SORPTION IN UNSATURATED POLYESTER COMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH JUTE AND JUTE/GLASS FIBER FABRICS: MODELLING AND SIMULATION WEAR MODE TRANSITION DURING THE MICRO-SCALE ABRASION OF WC-CO P20 AND M2 TOOL STEEL   top   MECHATRONICS 3-D MEASUREMENT FROM IMAGES USING A RANGE BOX A CARRIAGE POSITIONING CONTROL SYSTEM USING A CNC OPEN ARCHITECTURE FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES A COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM BASED ON MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRONS FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE ROBOTS A CONTROL AND AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR MEDICINE PREPARATION USING RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES A DESCRIPTION OF A VERY LOW COST UNDERWATER VEHICLE PROJECT A DIGITAL SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENTS IN GYPSUM MOLDS FOR ORTHODONTICS A DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATOR FOR MAGNETIC BEARINGS A FLEXIBLE DIGITAL PID CONTROLLER FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE TESTING SYSTEM A MASTER-SLAVE ROBOT FOR TELEMANIPULATION WITH HAPTIC FEEDBACK A NEW FAMILY OF 3-DOF PARALLEL ROBOT MANIPULATORS FOR PICK-AND PLACE OPERATIONS A NEW PROCEDURE FOR ROBUST CONTROL DESIGN OF COOLING MACHINES BASED ON VAPOR COMPRESSSION A PETRI NET BASED PLATFORM FOR DISTRIBUTED MODELING AND SIMULATION OF PRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS A REVIEW OF MODELING AND SIMULATION OF AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS AIDED BY SIMULATION SOFTWARE AND PETRI NETS A STUDY ON A PROGRESSIVE WAVE TYPE NOVEL PIEZOELECTRIC PUMP ACOUSTIC TRANSMISSION WITH MODE CONVERSION PHENOMENON ADAPTIVE CASCADE CONTROL OF A HYDRAULIC ACTUATOR WITH AN ADAPTIVE DEAD-ZONE COMPENSATION AN ADAPTIVE FAILURE DETECTION APPROACH FOR REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS OVER SHARED ETHERNET AN OPTIMIZED VISUAL TRACKING SYSTEM APPLIED TO ROBOT NAVIGATION ANALYSIS OF EXTREMES, OVERSHOOT AND UNDERSHOOT IN THE LINEAR CONTROL CONTINUOUS-TIME SYSTEM OF THIRD ORDER WITH REAL ZEROS AND POLES APPLYING THE SIMULATED ANNEALING TO THE PROBLEM OF POSITIONING ROTATIONAL NON CONVEX POLYGONS ASPECTS OF FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ELECTRO-THERMAL MICRO ACTUATORS BACTERIA COLONY APPROACHES WITH VARIABLE VELOCITY APPLIED TO PATH OPTIMIZATION OF MOBILE ROBOTS COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF METHODS FOR REDUNDANCY SOLUTION OF UNDERWATER VEHICLE-MANIPULATOR SYSTEMS COMPARISON OF CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR MOTORIZATION OF A SERVO ASSISTED WHEELCHAIR COMPARISON OF INTELLIGENT TECHNIQUES FOR A CASE STUDY IN CONTROL SYSTEMS COMPOSITION, COORDINATION AND SIMULATION OF REACTIVE FUZZY BEHAVIORS FOR AN MOBILE AGRICULTURAL ROBOT CONCATENATION OF THE MOVEMENTS OF THE MANIPULATOR AND THE CAMERA OF THE ROV CONTROL OF MOBILE ROBOTS VIA INTERNET CONVERGENCE AND DISCRETIZATION CHARACTERISTICS OF A STAGGERED ALGORITHM FOR MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS SIMULATION. COOPERATIVE AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES FOR DATA COMMUNICATION AND FOR MONITORING UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF A PIEZORESISTIVE PRESSURE MICROSENSOR DESIGN OF ELECTROTHERMOMECHANICAL MEMS DESIGN OF HIGH PRECISION POSITIONING AND MEASURING MACHINES USING VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING. DEVELOPMENT AND APLICATION OF A VISION SYSTEM FOR INDUSTRIAL ROBOT DEVELOPMENT OF A CLOSED-LOOP CONTROLLER FOR FILE TEETH MANUFACTURE USING AN INDUSTRIAL MACHINE DEVELOPMENT OF A MAGNETICALLY BORNE ELECTRICAL MOTOR PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEM INTERNET-BASED COLLABORATIVE CAD/CAPP/CAM IN A CONTEXT OF E-MANUFACTURING DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATIC INSPECTION EQUIPMENT BASED ON THE TOFD TECHNIQUE. DEVELOPMENT OF AN ELECTROTHERMOMECHANICAL XY MICROPOSITIONER DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPEN DISTRIBUTED APPROACH FOR BUILDING AUTOMATION DIRECT SINGULARITY AVOIDANCE STRATEGY FOR THE HEXA PARALLEL ROBOT DISCUSSING ACCURACY IN AN AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM USING COMPUTER VISION TECHNIQUES DYNAMIC MODELING OF A HIGH SPEED TROLLEY FOR TV TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS AND JACOBIAN ANALYSIS OF A PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE ROBOT: THE HEXA ELECTRICAL ACTIVATION UNDER CONSTANT LOAD OF TI-NI AND CU-ZN-AL SMA WIRE ACTUATORS EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PIEZOELECTRIC MECHANISMS DESIGNED USING TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION FAULT IDENTIFICATION IN FUEL CELLS BASED ON BAYESIAN NETWORK DIAGNOSIS FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTUATOR FORMAL COMPREHENSIVENESS AND UNIFORMITY AND SEMANTIC INTRA AND INTERMODEL CONSISTENCY IN THE REPRESENTATION OF DISCRETE EVENT DYNAMIC SYSTEM MODELS FUZZY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ALGORITHM FOR ONLINE MULTIVARIABLE NEURAL IDENTIFICATION GUN-TURRET MODELLING AND CONTROL HARDWARE RECONFIGURABLE CONTROL WITH OPENED ARCHITECTURE FOR MOBILE ROBOTS HIGH-PRECISION SLITS BASED ON A MONOLITHIC WEAK-LINK MECHANISM HOW TO ASSIGN TIME-OPTIMAL TRAJECTORIES TO PARALLEL ROBOTS - AN ADAPTIVE JERK-LIMITED APPROACH HYBRID DELIBERATIVE/REACTIVE ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION IBEX - A FRAMEWORK FOR HARDWARE IN THE LOOP SIMULATION IMPACT CONTROL DURING THE CONTACT TRANSITION OF A FLEXIBLE LINK MANIPULATOR IMPLEMENTATION OF 3D SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION FROM RANGE IMAGES FOR OBJECT DIGITAL MODELING INSTRUMENTATION ARCHITECTURE AND REAL-TIME CONTROL OF MICROTURBINE INTELLIGENT GAIN-SCHEDULING CONTROL FOR MULTIVARIABLE DISCRETE LINEAR TIME VARYING SYSTEMS. INTERDIGITATED-TYPE MICROSENSOR TO MEASURE SOLUTION CONCENTRATION INVERSE KINEMATICS OF A BINARY FLEXIBLE MANIPULATOR USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF A FOUR LEGGEG ROBOT SUSPENDED ON WIRE KINEMATIC CONTROL OF MOBILE ROBOTS TO PRODUCE CHAOTIC TRAJECTORIES KINEMATICS AND WORKSPACE ANALYSIS OF A PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE ROBOT: THE HEXA LEARNING BASED REGRASPING APPLIED TO AN ANTROPOMORPHIC ROBOT HAND LEARNING BAYESIAN NETWORKS FOR FAULT DETECTION: APPLICATION TO THE 747 LONGITUDINAL MOTION LEARNING OF B-SPLINE NEURAL NETWORK USING NEW PARTICLE SWARM APPROACHES LINE BALANCING WITH GENETIC ALGORITHMS LOW-COST PWM DRIVE FOR AN ELECTRIC MINI-BAJA TYPE VEHICLE MANAGEMENT AND COLLECTING DATA IN THE INFORMED MANUFACTURING MEMS SENSOR APPLICATION FOR THE MOTION ANALYSIS IN SPORTS SCIENCE MIDDLEWARE ARCHITECTURES IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS APPLICATION MIXED REALITY WITH HYPER-BONDS FOR MECHATRONICS DESIGN MOBILE ROBOT LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING USING SPACE INVARIANT TRANSFORMS MOBILE ROBOT PATH CONTROL USING LANDMARK INFORMATION MODELING OF A CONTROL ARCHITECTURE FOR A MINI-ROBOT NAVIGATION USING PETRI NETS MODELING OF DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS OF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS MODELING OF FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEMS IN INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS MOTION STRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND ERROR QUANTIFICATION - AN EPIPOLAR GEOMETRY BASED APPROACH MULTIPLE CHANNEL ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOTS IN A COOPERATING STRUCTURE MULTIVARIABLE H_2 AND H_INFINITY CONTROL FOR WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM - A COMPARISON MULTIVARIABLE PREDICTIVE CONTROL WITH CONSTRAINS OF REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS NAVIGATION SYSTEM OF AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT USING OMNIDIRECTIONAL VISION AND FUZZY CONTROLLER NEW METHODOGY FOR INDENTIFICATION OF THE DEAD ZONE IN PROPORTIONAL DIRECTIONAL HYDRAULIC VALVES NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY BY MICRO LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETER FOR THE DYNAMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF RF MEMS SWITCHES NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF A HIGH POWER PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER USED IN THE CUTTING AND WELDING OF THERMOPLASTIC TEXTILES NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS FOR MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES MANUFACTURED IN LTCC NUMERICAL MODELING OF A CIRCULAR PIEZOELECTRIC ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER RADIATING IN WATER OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE PROCEDURE FOR MOBILE ROBOTS OMNIDIRECTIONAL STEREOVISION SYSTEM WITH TWO-LOBE HYPERBOLIC MIRROR FOR ROBOT NAVIGATION OPTIMIZED DESIGN OF AN ELECTROSTATIC SIDE-DRIVE MICROMOTOR OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE OF A MOTOR-BEARING OUT-OF-PLANE MOTION MICROACTUATORS MADE OF THIN FILM METALLIC GLASS PATH PLANNING FOR MOBILE ROBOTS OPERATING IN OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS USING MAP OVERLAY AND TRIANGULAR DECOMPOSITION PATH PLANNING OF ROBOT WELDING TRAJECTORIES USING SCREW THEORY PHOTOELASTIC FRINGE PATTERN ANALYSIS BY IMAGE PROCESSING PREDICTIVE CONTROL APPLIED TO ROBOTICS JOINTS USING FPGA PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF A MAGNETIC LEVITATION SYSTEM WITH EXPLICIT TREATMENT OF OPERATIONAL CONSTRAINTS PROCESS MODELING AND FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF FLEXIBLE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS USING PETRI NET PROJECT OF CONTROL OF THE OPEN CNC IN AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM PROPOSAL OF A SENSOR MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A MECHATRONIC ORTHOPAEDIC SAW QUALITY ESTIMATION USING GENERIC MODEL PARAMETERS AND NEURAL NETWORK REAL TIME ACTION PLAN SYNTHESIS AND EXECUTION IN INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS RELIABILITY OF ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC EQUIPMENT: SYSTEMATIZATION AND ANALYSIS REMOTE SUPERVISION OF A DIDACTIC INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING PLANT ROBOT MANIPULATOR JOINT CONTROL WITH NEURO-FUZZY FRICTION COMPENSATION ROUGH-TERRAIN ROBOT MOTION PLANNING BASED ON TOPOLOGY AND TERRAIN CONSTITUTION SCANNING MIRRORS AS TUNNING DEVICE IN OSCILLATOR SYSTEMS. SIMULATION OF ULTRASONIC FIELDS GENERATED BY SINGLE AND ARRAY TRANSDUCERS THROUGH INTERFACES SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES SPECIFICATION AND ANALYSIS FOR AUTOMATED FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING STIFFNESS IMPROVEMENT OF A 1 - D.O.F CONTROLLED MAGNETIC LINEAR BEARING STUDY OF INFRARED SENSING AS WELD PENETRATION TIG PROCESS STUDY OF THE FRICTION BEHAVIOR IN INDUSTRIAL PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND MANUFACTURING PROCESSES INTEGRATION: SURVEY AND FUTURE TRENDS THRUSTER DYNAMICS COMPENSATION FOR THE POSITIONING OF UNDERWATER ROBOTIC VEHICLES THROUGH A FUZZY SLIDING MODE BASED APPROACH TOOL PATH GENERATION FOR FREE-FORM SURFACES MACHINING IN CNC MACHINE-TOOLS TREND OF PRECISION POSITIONING TECHNOLOGY UNCERTAINTY IN HYBRID SYSTEMS AND ITS APPLICATION TO AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS UNIDIMENSIONAL MODELING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A 1-3 PIEZOELECTRIC COMPOSITE TRANSDUCER USING MONITORING SYSTEMS IN MACHINE-TOOLS FOR REDUCTION OF SET-UP TIME VARIABLE STRUCTURE CASCADE CONTROL OF A PNEUMATIC POSITIONING SYSTEM VISUAL ROBOTIC TRACKING SYSTEM USING A TEMPLATE MATCHING ALGORITHM WAVELET ANALYSIS AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS APPLIED TO CONDITION MONITORING IN HIGH SPEED MILLING   top   OFFSHORE & PETROLEUM ENGINEERING A GANTRY TYPE SEMI-PASSIVE ARM TO SUPPORT AUV`S OFFSHORE ACTIVITIES A GIS-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY A METHOD FOR MEASUREMENT OF HYDRAULIC LOSSES IN CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS A METHODOLOGY FOR OPTIMIZATION OF PRODUCTION STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPED OIL FIELDS A NOTICEABLE QUESTION OF THE WATER ENTRY PROBLEM: THE SPLIT OF KINETIC ENERGY DURING THE INITIAL STAGE A RISKS QUANTIFICATION PROCEDURE BASED ON BAYESIAN INFERENCE ACTIVE CONTROL OF COUPLED AXIAL AND TORSIONAL DRILL-STRING VIBRATIONS ADHESIVENESS STUDY OF POLIMERYC MATRIX COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR PIPELINES REPAIR AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION DRILLING REPORT AN INVERTED FLOW PATTERN DEPENDENT MODEL FOR HORIZONTAL AND INCLINED OIL-WATER WELL LOGGING ANALYSIS OF OFFLOADING OPERATIONS IN FPSO UNITS ANALYSIS OF SEVERAL SOFTWARES USED IN PETROLEUM RESERVOIR SIMULATION APPLICATION OF ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUE IN CORE FLOW MONITORING AND CONTROL ASSESSMENT OF STRESS CONCENTRATION ON DENTED PIPELINES AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR PETROLEUM WELL DRILLING USING MUD-LOGGING DATA CALCULATION OF THE DRAG OF A SHIP HULL USING RANS CHARACTERIZATION OF FLUIDS AND POROUS MEDIA TO STUDY FLOW PROCESS CONTROLLED SHORT-CIRCUITING MIG/MAG WELDING (CCC) APPLIED TO THE ROOT PASS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF OFFSHORE OIL PIPELINES - PROCESS ANALYSIS TOOLS DESCRIPTION OF A VERTICAL RISER BEHAVIOR IN FREQUENCY AND TIME DOMAIN DESIGN AND CONTROL OF PIG OPERATIONS THROUGH PIPELINES DESIGN OF ELASTIC BASES FOR VIV EXPERIMENTS DESIGN, ASSEMBLING AND VERIFICATION OF A CIRCULATING WATER CHANNEL FACILITY FOR FLUID DYNAMICS EXPERIMENTS DEVELOPMENT OF A SIX-COMPONENT BALANCE FOR MEASUREMENTS OF FORCES AND MOMENTS ACTING IN IMMERSED CYLINDERS DEVELOPMENT OF PARTICLE METHOD REPRESENTING FLOATING BODIES WITH HIGHLY NON-LINEAR WAVES DISCUSSION OF INDUSTRIAL PIPING VIBRATION FAILURE CRITERIA DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF LAZY-WAVE STEEL RISERS ECONOMICAL ANALYSIS OF PETROLEUM FIELDS UNDER SOLUTION GAS DRIVE. EFFECT OF STEEL CASING SURFACE CONDITIONS ON THE ADHERENCE OF OILWELL CEMENTS EFFECT OF WATER INJECTION UNDER FRACTURING CONDITIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS EVALUATION OF A TOP TENSIONED RISER MODEL FOR EXPERIMENTS EXPERIMENTAL CREEP ANALYSIS ON HMPE SYNTHETIC FIBER ROPES FOR OFFSHORE MOORING SYSTEMS EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF MODELS FOR PREDICTING WAX REMOVAL FORCES IN PIGGING OPERATIONS FATIGUE ANALYSIS OF LAZY-WAVE STEEL RISERS FATIGUE LIFE ASSESSMENT OF REELED RISERS FLOW OF WATER-IN-OIL EMULSIONS - FIELD RESULTS VS. NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS FLOW VISUALIZATION OF EMULSIONS THROUGH A PORE-THROAT CAPILLARY MODEL FRICTIONAL AND ACCELERATING PRESSURE DROPS EFFECTS ON HORIZONTAL OIL WELL PRODUCTIVITY INDEX GAS TURBINE SELECTION IN COGENERATION SYSTEM APPLIED IN OFFSHORE PLATFORMS. GENERATION OF PETROLEUM COKE IN THE REFINE OF HEAVY OILS AND ITS USE IN ROTARY KILNS OF CLINKER PRODUCION HYBRID KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM: A DECISION-SUPPORT PROPOSAL FOR NATURAL GAS COMPRESSOR STATION MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION HYDRODYNAMIC PARAMETER ESTIMATION OF AN UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLE IMPLEMENTATION OF CORNER POINT MESH INTO A PARALLEL, FULLY IMPLICIT, EQUATION OF STATE COMPOSITIONAL RESERVOIR SIMULATOR INFLUENCE OF THE VIBRATION ON THE ABSOLUTE PERMEABILITY OF POROUS MEDIA SATURATED WITH WATER LEAK DETECTION IN GAS PIPELINES - A KNOWLEDGE BASED APPROACH METAL-COMPOSITE PIPES FOR DEEPWATER APPLICATIONS METHODOLOGY FOR GENERATING QUALITY MAPS WITH APPLICATION IN THE SELECTION AND OPTIMIZATION OF DRAINAGE STRATEGIES OF OIL RESERVOIRS MODEL TEST UTILIZATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIRST FULL SCALE RISER SUPPORT BUOY (BSR) MODELING AND EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING DRILLING FLUID INVASION THROUGH RESERVOIR ROCKS NON-INTRUSIVE CAPACITIVE PROBE FOR MEASUREMENT OF IN-SITU VOLUMETRIC FRACTION IN WATER-OIL AND WATER-AIR FLOWS NUMERICAL STUDY OF A SELF STANDING RISER SYSTEM PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF STEEL LAZY-WAVE RISERS PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION OF OIL PRODUCTION PROJECTS USING MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING AND UTILITY THEORY PRESSURE DROP AND RE-START TIME DURING STOP-AND-GO EXPERIMENTS IN CORE-ANNULAR FLOW PROPOSAL OF A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF FOULING IN DISTILLATION PROCESS. PWD ANALYSIS IN DEEPWATER ENVIRONMENTS: CAMPOS BASIN CASE STUDIES RECOVERY MECHANISMS OF FOAMY OIL RECOVERY STRATEGIES FOR NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS. A RESERVOIR SIMULATION APPROACH SIMULATION OF A SOLIDS FREE DRILL-IN FLUID INVASION THROUGH OIL RESERVOIR ROCKS SIMULATION OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL THERMAL GRADIENT IN PETROLEUM RESERVOIR SIMULATION OF HORIZONTAL TWO-PHASE SLUG FLOWS USING THE TWO-FLUID MODEL WITH A CONSERVATIVE AND NONCONSERVATIVE FORMULATION STATIC ANALYSIS OF LAZY-WAVE STEEL RISERS THE EFFECTS OF STIFFENERS MODELED BY SHELL ELEMENTS IN A FPSO 3D FEM HULL ANALYSIS THE INFLUENCE OF PRODUCTION SYSTEM CONSTRAINTS ON THE RESERVOIR STRATEGY OPTIMIZATION THE INFLUENCE OF THE PARAMETER SPACE AND THE OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS DEFINITION IN THE HISTORY MATCHING THE STUDY OF WELL PLANNING USING THE KICK TOLERANCE CONCEPT THREE-DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR THEORY OFWATER IMPACT TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF INTERMITTENT TWO-PHASE FLOWS IN HORIZONTAL PIPING TRANSIENT THERMAL ANALYSIS IN SUBSEA PIPELINES ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVE INSPECTION IN RIGID RISER VALUE OF INFORMATION DURING APPRAISAL AND DEVELOPMENT OF PETROLEUM FIELDS WAX DEPOSITION IN LAMINAR CHANNEL FLOW   top