On-Line Parameter Estimation Issues for the NASA IFCS F-15 Fault Tolerant Systems
Mario G. Perhinschi, Marco Lando, Luca Massotti, Giampiero Campa Marcello R. Napolitano, Mario Luca Fravolini *Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506/6106, -Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Polytechnic of Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy. +Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Perugia, 06100 Perugia, Italy.
A Fault-Tolerant Control Architecture for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
projects: Software Enabled Control (SEC), SEC Renegade (a follow-on to the SEC project funded to apply SEC technologies to a full-scale rotorcraft), and Heterogeneous Urban Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition Team (HURT). My deepest thanks are for Professor George J. Vachtsevanos, who advised me through the completion of this work. His critical input, guidance, and mentoring have been invalu-Lastly, my wife Michelle contributed to every page in ways she does not even know. I could not have done it without her.
A model for predicting heat transfer through gypsum‐board/wood‐stud walls exposed to fire
To facilitate the development of cost-effective and flexible design options there is a need to develop models to predict the fire resistance of wood-frame building assemblies. Such assemblies often derive much of their fire resistance from a protective membrane composed of gypsum board. A simple two-dimensional computer model is presented to predict heat transfer through gypsum-board/wood-stud walls exposed to fire. Input data for the thermophysical properties of gypsum board were measured exploying standard bench-scale tests. Input data for wood were selected from the literature. Small-and full-scale fire resistance tests were conducted on gypsum-board/wood-stud wall assemblies to provide data for the validation of the model. The model is shown to predict heat transfer through these walls rather well.