Electromechanical and systems engineering : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 5th International Congress of Electromechanical and Systems Engineering, 10th-14th November 2008, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City / edited by G. Urriolagoitia-Calderón, L.H. Hernández-Gómez, M. Toledo-Velázquez.

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Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Turbulent Liquid Film Flowing down a Vertical Surface -- Study of Flow over a Step Cylinder -- Experimental Study of Water Filtering Using Textiles as in Traditional Methods -- Laminar Flow through a Rectangular Horizontal Channel with Asymmetrical Contraction -- Influence of the Alignment of Two Airfoils in the Losses Generation -- Inverse Heat Transfer Using Levenberg-Marquardt and Particle Swarm Optimization Methods for Heat Source Estimation -- Effect of Maximum Temperature and Heating-Cooling Repeated Cycles on Thermal Contact Resistance of a Composite Tube -- Pneumatic Artificial Mini-Muscles Conception: Medical Robotics Applications -- Synthesis Optimization of Planar Mechanisms -- Resolution of a 3 RRR Planar Parallel Mechanism -- Synthesis of 4C Mechanism for Generation of a Dual Mathematic Function -- Trajectory Generation of Robot Manipulators Using an Artificial Potential Function and Genetic Algorithms -- Stress and Vibration Analysis of a Lathe Bed Made of Aluminum-Copper Alloy for High Speed Machining -- Model Derivation and Numerical Simulation for a Pivoted Rigid Rotor-Bearing System -- Algorithm for Estimating Natural Frequencies and Mode Shapes of Cantilever MEMS Microbeams -- Tensile Strength of Fibers Extracted from the Leaves of the angustifolia Haw Agave in Function of their Length -- Assessment of the Crack Compliance Method and the Introduction of Residual Stresses by Shot Peening Using the Finite Element Method -- Fractal Analysis of the Solar Radiation in Mexico City -- Fractal Analysis of Tissue Biocompatible Neuroreservoir -- Fractal Analysis of EEG Signals in the Brain of Epileptic Rats, with and without Biocompatible Implanted Neuroreservoirs -- Parametric Analysis of Perfect Matched Layer Model of Finite Difference Time Domain Method.

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This volume presents selected peer-reviewed papers related to diverse aspects of mechanics and materials. Cases related to the flow of fluids under various conditions, as well as heat transfer, are analyzed. There are also contributions, to the field of the design of mechanisms, which focus on biomechanics and the synthesis of mechanisms. Papers on mechanical vibration are linked to the design of machine tools, rotodynamics and vibrations in microbeams. Also, the evaluation of residual stresses and the estimation of the mechanical properties of vegetal materials are treated. Finally, fractal analysis is applied to solar radiation, and to the materials used in nanomedicine. The 21 papers are grouped into: Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Biomechanics and Design of Mechanisms, Mechanical Vibrations, Testing Materials, Fractal Analysis and Numerical Analysis. The result is an intriguing and eclectic guide to some fields of rapidly growing importance.

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