Academic literature on the topic 'Cable Hook Recovery'

PT. X is one of the companies located in Dumai Industrial Region, produces fertilizer. This company has three production plants. The production capacity of the first plant is 450 tons/day, the second plant produces 750 tons/day and the third plant produces 700 tons/day. PT. X is supported by 2 sub companies, they are PT. A and PT. B. PT. A operates 5 bagging lines and PT. B operates 3 bagging lines. The fertilizer bagging process has three steps where each step has its own work station: putting the labeled sack to the hook followed by filling the sack with fertilizer, installing the tie cable, and sewing the fertilizer filled sack. From the initial survey, it was found that the processing time is not optimal to reach production target. PT. A and B have to set 24 working hours per day to run the target resulting on frequent over time, excessive fatigue and the negative impact of physically and mentally for the workers. Author’s hypothesis is the current condition has been one of the reasons for a decline of the production output. Therefore, the purposes of the research are to find the impact of current working hours and shift work pattern on the physical and psychological response of the workers and to calculate the standard time required to complete one cycle of bagging process. This standard time is very crucial to determine production target thus determine the optimal working hours and shift rotation. Measuring of heart rate are collecting results of a questionnaire of NASA-TLX are the parameters used to evaluate the physical and psychological response of workers. Two workers from different group worker, different shift work, from PT. A and PT. B were selected as samples to evaluate their heart rate pattern. The questioner spread out to all workers. Time standard was determined by observing and taking data of 40 bagging cycles for each shift work.The results show that shift work affecting the physiological response of workers in PT. B in the category between moderate to extreme especially for working element of arranging fertilizer sack to the pallet. This result was found for the two group workers. Frequent short rests between times are required to provide quick recovery for the workers and reduce excessive fatigue. Average standard time complete one bagging cycle was 0.12 minutes and 0.13 minutes for PT. A and PT. B, respectively. These standard times can be used to set the production output target for the two companies. Last, short rotation shift work with an additional number of workers is recommended for the shift pattern.

AbstractTo observe and compare the curative effect of a locking plate plus titanium cable under the Guide device and clavicular hook plate in the treatment of Neer type II distal clavicle fractures. A prospective cohort study was conducted to analyse the clinical data of 36 patients with distal clavicle fractures from January 2016 to January 2019. The results were analysed. According to the random number method, the patients were divided into two groups: the titanium cable group (fixed with a titanium cable in combination with a locking plate) and hook plate group (fixed with a clavicular hook plate only). Under the guidance of a special device (for which a patent was obtained), in the titanium cable group, the coracoclavicular ligament was fixed with tension reduction, and then the distal clavicular fracture was fixed with a locking plate. In the hook plate group, the distal clavicle fracture was fixed with a hook plate. The incision length, operation time, bleeding volume and VAS score before, 1 week after and 1 year after the operation were compared between the two groups. The effect of the operation was evaluated by the Constant-Murley score before and 1 year after the operation. X-ray films were taken 2 days, 3 months, half a year and 1 year after the operation to observe the reduction and healing of fractures. At the same time, complications were recorded. The amount of bleeding was the same in the two groups. The operation time in the hook plate group was relatively short, and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). The VAS score in the titanium cable group was significantly lower than that in the hook plate group one year after the operation. The Constant-Murley score in the titanium cable group and hook plate group was significantly higher 1 year after the operation. The number of postoperative complications in the titanium cable group was significantly lower than that in the hook plate group. The treatment of Neer type II distal clavicle fractures with a titanium cable plus a locking plate has a good curative effect, few complications and good postoperative recovery and thus is worth popularizing.

The capability of autonomous operation of ship-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in extreme sea conditions would greatly extend the usefulness of these aircraft for both military and civilian maritime purposes. Maritime operations are often associated with Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) procedures, even though the advantages of conventional fixed-wing aircraft over VTOL aircraft in terms of flight speed, range and endurance are well known. In this work, current methods of shipboard recovery are analysed and the problems associated with recovery in adverse weather conditions are identified. Based on this analysis, a novel recovery method is proposed. This method, named Cable Hook Recovery, is intended to recover small to medium-size fixed-wing UAVs on frigate-size vessels. It is expected to have greater operational capabilities than the Recovery Net technique, which is currently the most widely employed method of recovery for similar class of UAVs, potentially providing safe recovery even in very rough sea and allowing the choice of approach directions. The recovery method is supported by the development of a UAV controller that realises the most demanding stage of recovery, the final approach. The controller provides both flight control and guidance strategy that allow fully autonomous recovery of a fixed-wing UAV. The development process involves extensive use of specially tailored Evolutionary Algorithms and represents the major contribution of this work. The Evolutionary Design algorithm developed in this work combines the power of Evolutionary Strategies and Genetic Programming, enabling automatic evolution of both the structure and parameters of the controller. The controller is evolved using a fully coupled nonlinear six-degree-of-freedom UAV model, making linearisation and trimming of the model unnecessary. The developed algorithm is applied to both flight control and guidance problems with several variations, from optimisation of a routine PID controller to automatic control laws synthesis where no a priori data available. It is demonstrated that Evolutionary Design is capable of not only optimising, but also solving automatically the real-world problems, producing human-competitive solutions. The designed UAV controller has been tested comprehensively for both performance and robustness in a nonlinear simulation environment and has been found to allow the aircraft to be recovered in the presence of both large external disturbances and uncertainty in the simulation models.

The number of techniques available for on-site monitoring of low-voltage cables at nuclear plants is limited because of the requirement from station personnel to use non-destructive and non-intrusive techniques. This paper summarizes the results obtained to date using two new non-destructive methods. The first technique is based on the indentation of the cable insulation or cable jacket material and the study of post-indentation parameters to characterize the visco-elastic properties of the material tested. The novelty of the technique consists of measuring the time taken by the polymeric material to recover a set portion of the initial deformation and using this duration as a material degradation indicator. The technique can be used locally on the insulation of hook-up cables, on the insulation at the termination of jacketed cables, or directly on cable jackets. The second technique is based on the measurement of electrical dissipation factors (or tan delta) in the insulating material. A broadband frequency tan delta analyser was used to measure electrical dissipation factors at various frequencies, and identify the frequency ranges showing increased sensitivity to cable degradation. Specific electrodes and measurement methods were developed for practical on-site condition monitoring work. The measurement of electrical dissipation factors can be used to assess the local degradation of cable insulation in hook-up cables and global degradation of multi-pair conductor cables. When used on multi-pair conductor cables, the technique presents the advantage of providing a global indication of the cable condition.

To better study the biology and ecology of hadal trenches for the marine scientists, the hadal science and technology center (HAST) of Shanghai Ocean University has made a significant commitment to develop operational support for the promotion of hadal science. The first focus of HAST is to construct a movable laboratory for hadal trenches which includes a mothership, an full ocean depth (FOD) Human Occupied Vehicle (HOV), an FOD Autonomous and Remotely-operated Vehicle (ARV) and several FOD landers. All of them are named as Rainbowfish series. Presently, the construction of the ARV has been finished and the first phase sea trial has been conducted in South China Sea from September 26th to October 25th 2015. In the sea trial, the ARV was laid down to certain water depth and recovered back to water surface through a load-bearing armored cable. The reliability of the cable is critical to the safety of the ARV, as if the cable was broken, the ARV could hardly be retrieved. In such circumstances, this paper focuses on two important issues, i.e. the tensions of the cable and the ARV offset using numerical methods. Due to the change of the mothership in the final phase before the sea trial, the cable analyses with two different types of supporting vessels (a catamaran and a barge) were performed respectively and a comparison was made. In addition, a sensitivity study of submergence depths and winch hook positions was also conducted. Finally, the first phase sea trial of the ARV was described and discussed.