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Article Citation - Scopus: 4Investigation of the Motion of a Spherical Object Located at Soft Elastic and Viscoelastic Material Interface for Identification of Material Properties(Academic Enhancement Department, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, 2024) Körük, Hasan; Pouliopoulos, A.N.Measuring the properties of soft viscoelastic materials is challenging. Here, the motion of a spherical object located at the soft elastic and viscoelastic material interface for the identification of material properties is thoroughly investigated. Formulations for different loading cases were derived. First, the theoretical models for a spherical object located at an elastic medium interface were derived, ignoring the medium viscosity. After summarizing the model for the force reducing to zero following the initial loading, we developed mathematical models for the force reducing to a lower non-zero value or increasing to a higher non-zero value, following the initial loading. Second, a similar derivation process was followed to evaluate the response of a spherical object located at a viscoelastic medium interface. Third, by performing systematic analyses, the theoretical models obtained via different approaches were compared and evaluated. Fourth, the measured and predicted responses of a spherical object located at a gelatin phantom interface were compared and the viscoelastic material properties were identified. It was seen that the frequency of oscillations of a spherical object located at the sample interface during loading was 10–15% different from that during unloading in the experimental studies here. The results showed that different loading cases have immense practical value and the formulations for different loading cases can provide an accurate determination of material properties in a multitude of biomedical and industrial applications. © 2023 King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok. All Rights Reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 1Mechanochemical Synthesis and Characterization of Nanostructured Erb4 and Ndb4 Rare-Earth Tetraborides(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2024) Boztemur, B.; Kaya, F.; Derin, B.; Öveçoğlu, M.L.; Li, J.; Ağaoğulları, D.Rare-earth borides have become very popular in recent decades with high mechanical strength, melting point, good corrosion, wear, and magnetic behavior. However, the production of these borides is very challenging and unique. The production of ErB4 and NdB4 nanopowders via mechanochemical synthesis (MCS) is reported in this study first time in the literature. Er2O3 or Nd2O3, B2O3, and Mg initial powders are mechanically alloyed for different milling times to optimize the process. Rare-earth borides with MgO phases are synthesized, then MgO is removed with HCl acid. The nanostructured rare-earth tetraboride powders are analyzed using X-ray diffraction (XRD). Based on the XRD, ErB4 powders are produced successfully at the end of the 5 h milling. However, the NdB4 phase does not occur as the stoichiometric ratio, so the B2O3 amount is decreased to nearly 35 wt%. When the amount of B2O3 is decreased to 20 wt%, NdB4 and NdB6 phases are 50:50 according to the Rietveld analysis. However, a homogenous NdB4 phase is obtained with 30 wt% loss of B2O3. The average particle sizes of ErB4 and NdB4 powders are nearly 100.4 and 85.6 nm, respectively. The rare-earth tetraborides exhibit antiferromagnetic-to-paramagnetic-like phase transitions at 18 and 8.53 K, respectively. © 2024 The Author(s). Advanced Engineering Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 6A New Approach for Measuring Viscoelastic Properties of Soft Materials Using the Dynamic Response of a Spherical Object Placed at the Sample Interface(Springer, 2023) Besli, Ayça; Koç,Ömer Hayati; Körük,Hasan; Yurdaer, Berk Salih; Koc, H. O.; Yurdaer, S. B.; Pouliopoulos, A. N.Background: There are several techniques to characterize the mechanical properties of soft materials, such as the indentation method and the method based on the application of a spherical object placed inside the sample. The indentation systems usually yield the elastic properties of materials and their mathematical models do not consider the inertia of the sample involved in motion and radiation damping, while placing an object inside the sample is not practical and this procedure can alter the mechanical properties of the sample for the method based on the application of a bubble/sphere placed inside the sample. Objective: A new approach for the identification of the viscoelastic properties of soft materials using the dynamic response of a spherical object placed at the sample interface was proposed. Methods: The spherical object placed at the sample interface was pressed using an electromagnet and the dynamic response of the spherical object was tracked using a high-speed camera, while the dynamic response of the spherical object placed at the sample interface was estimated using a comprehensive analytical model. The effects of the shear modulus, viscosity, Poisson’s ratio and density of the soft sample, the radius and density of the spherical object and the damping due to radiation were considered in this mathematical model. The shear modulus and viscosity of the soft sample were determined by matching the experimentally identified and theoretically estimated responses of the spherical object. Results: The shear moduli and viscosities of the three phantoms with the gelatin mass ratios of 0.20, 0.25 and 0.29 were measured to be 3450, 4300 and 4950 Pa and 12.5, 14.0 and 15.0 Pa⋅s, respectively. The shear modulus and viscosity of the phantom increases as the gelatin mass ratio increases. The frequency of oscillations of the hemisphere placed at the phantom interface increases as the gelatin mass ratio increases due to stiffness increase. Conclusions: After matching the experimental and theoretical steady-state displacements and amplitudes of oscillations of the hemisphere at the sample interface, the comparison of the experimentally identified and theoretically predicted frequency of oscillations further confirmed the identified material properties of the samples. The approach presented here is expected to provide valuable information on material properties in biomedical and industrial applications.Article Fuzzy Decision Mechanism for Stock Market Trading(2021) Çapkan, Yavuz; Şenol, Erdi; Ulu, CenkInvestors utilize various methods to make buy/sell decisions depending on time-dependent stock market prices. In this study, a fuzzy decision mechanism that makes buy/sell decisions for stock market data is proposed. The proposed mechanism generates instant buy/sell decisions by evaluating three popular indicators which are the Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) Strategy, Chaikin Money Flow (CMF), and Stochastic Oscillator (SO). The fuzzy decision mechanism has three inputs and one output which are defined by using Gaussian membership functions. In the design of the decision mechanism, Mamdani inference method is used and the rule table is defined by nine rules. Therefore, the structure of the proposed fuzzy decision mechanism is simple and straightforward. The performance of the proposed fuzzy decision mechanism is compared with two classical decision mechanisms using MACD and CMF indicators separately. In the comparisons, the stock market data of Borsa Istanbul 100 Index (XU100), Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI), and S&P 500 (^GSPC) are used. The comparison results show that the proposed fuzzy decision mechanism provides significantly higher profit than the mechanisms using either MACD or CMF indicators for all stock market data.Article Biyomalzemelerin Akustik ve Mekanik Özelliklerinin Arastırılması(2020) Genç, Garip; Körük,HasanBu proje kapsamında, jüt lifleri ve çesitli luffa lifleri kullanılarak, farklı kalınlıklarda reçinesiz (hiçbir reçine kullanılmayan) homojen ve hibrit jüt ve luffa yapılar ve yine farklı kalınlıklarda ve farklı lif/reçine oranlarında reçineli homojen ve hibrit jüt ve luffa yapılar üretilerek, bu yapıların akustik ve mekanik özellikleri ile ilgili kapsamlı bir resmin ortaya konulması hedeflenmistir. Bu kapsamda kullanılan yöntemler/sonuçlar su sekildedir: (i) Akustik testler için farklı kalınlıklarda hem reçinesiz hem de farklı lif/reçine oranlarına sahip reçineli homojen ve hibrit numuneler üretilmistir. Empedans tüp yöntemi kullanılarak bu akustik numunelerin ses yutma ve ses iletim kaybı gibi akustik özellikleri deneysel olarak belirlenmistir. Homojen ve hibrit kompozit yapıların akustik performansları karsılastırılmıstır. Sonuçta, kalınlık ve lif/reçine oranın bu yapıların akustik özellikleri üzerindeki etkisi ortaya konulmustur. (ii) Farklı frekans aralıkları için kalınlıgın ve lif/reçine oranının bir fonksiyonu olarak ölçülen akustik verilere egriler uydurularak, malzemelerin akustik özelliklerini belirlemeye yönelik basit ampirik modeller ortaya konulmustur. Dahası, malzemelerin ses yutma katsayıları Delany-Bazley ve Johnson- Champoux-Allard gibi teorik modeller kullanılarak tahmin edilmis ve sonuçlar deneysel sonuçlarla karsılastırılmıstır. Benzer sekilde, numunelerin ses iletim kayıpları teorik olarak hesaplanmıs ve deneysel sonuçlarla karsılastırılmıstır. Sonuçta, bu yapıların tasarımında akustik amaçla kullanılabilecek ampirik ve teorik modeller ortaya konulmustur. (iii) Titresim testleri için farklı kalınlık ve lif/reçine oranlarına sahip reçineli homojen ve hibrit numuneler üretilmis, üretilen bu yapılar üzerinde akustik ve yapısal frekans tepki fonksiyonları ölçülmüs ve aynı yapıların teorik modellerinden yararlanılarak malzemelerin elastik ve sönüm gibi mekanik özellikleri belirlenmistir. Homojen jüt ve luffa kompozit yapıları hem izotropik varsayılarak hem de bu yapıların yöne baglı elastik özelliklerinin olması durumu dikkate alınarak modellenmislerdir. Sonuçta, kalınlık ve lif/reçine oranın mekanik özellikler üzerindeki etkisi ortaya konulmus ve pratikte bu yapıların tasarımı için kullanılabilecek bazı yaklasımlar ortaya konulmustur.Conference Object The Minimum Variance Distortionless Response Beamformer for Damage Identification Using Modal Curvatures(Association of American Publishers, 2023) Eroğlu, Uğurcan; Pau, A.This study presents a damage identification procedure in beams based on the use of beamforming algorithms, which are mostly utilized in inverse problems of source identification and image reconstruction. We choose the modal curvatures as observed quantities and compare the performance of the Bartlett beamformer, minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) processor, and of a conventional objective function based on the modal curvatures. By means of a set of experiments, we show that the MVDR processor can overcome some of the difficulties encountered with other estimators, especially in cases of slight damage, or damage located between two sensors. © 2023, Association of American Publishers. All rights reserved.Conference Object Perturbations for Vibration of Nano-Beams of Local/Nonlocal Mixture(Association of American Publishers, 2023) Ruta, Giuseppe; Eroğlu, UğurcanHere we extend the perturbation approach, previously presented in the literature for Eringen’s two-phase local/nonlocal mixture model, to free vibration of purely flexible beams. In particular, we expand the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors into power series of the fraction coefficient of the non-local material response up to 2nd order. We show that the family of 0th order bending couples satisfy the natural and essential boundary conditions of the 1st order; hence, the 1st order solution can conveniently be constructed using the eigenspace of the 0th order with no necessity of additional conditions. We obtain the condition of solvability that provides the incremental eigenvalue in closed form. We further demonstrate that the 1st order increment of the eigenvalue is always negative, providing the well-known softening effect of long-range interactions among the material points of a continuum modelled with Eringen’s theory. We examine a simply supported beam as a benchmark problem and present the incremental eigenvalues in closed form. © 2023, Association of American Publishers. All rights reserved.Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 6System-On Based Driver Drowsiness Detection and Warning System(IEEE, 2022) Yazici, Berkay; Ayhan, Tuba; Özdemir, ArdaThe aim of this project is to detect the drowsiness level of the driver in the vehicle, to warn the driver and to prevent possible accidents. Percentage Eye Closure (PERCLOS) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) are used to detect drowsiness. The system is implemented on Xilinx PYNQ-Z2 development board. The system is tested under real world conditions in real time. A high accuracy rate of 92% and a fast working system with 0.8 s is achieved. A speaker is activated to warn the driver when drowsiness is detected. Moreover, the drowsiness information is sent to the cloud by using a Wi-Fi module.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Approximate Closed-Form Solutions for Vibration of Nano-Beams of Local/Non-local Mixture(Springer, 2022) Ruta, Giuseppe; Eroğlu, UğurcanThis paper presents an approach to natural vibration of nano-beams by a linear elastic constitutive law based on a mixture of local and non-local contributions, the latter based on Eringen's model. A perturbation in terms of an evolution parameter lets incremental field equations be derived; another perturbation in terms of the non-local volume fraction yields the variation of the natural angular frequencies and modes with the 'small' amount of non-locality. The latter perturbation does not need to comply with the so-called constitutive boundary conditions, the physical interpretation of which is still debated. The possibility to find closed-form solutions is highlighted following a thorough discussion on the compatibility conditions needed to solve the steps of the perturbation hierarchy; some paradigmatic examples are presented and duly commented.Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Acoustic Cavitation Model Based on a Novel Reduced Order Gas Pressure Law(AIP Publishing, 2021) Pasinlioğlu, Şenay; Delale, Can FuadThe thermal behavior of a spherical gas bubble in a liquid excited by an acoustic pressure signal is investigated by constructing an iterative solution of the energy balance equations between the gas bubble and the surrounding liquid in the uniform pressure approximation. This iterative solution leads to hierarchy equations for the radial partial derivatives of the temperature at the bubble wall, which control the temporal rate of change of the gas pressure and gas temperature within the bubble. In particular, a closure relation for the hierarchy equations is introduced based on the ansatz that approximates the rapid change of state during the collapse of the bubble from almost isothermal to almost adiabatic behavior by time averaging the complex dynamics of change of state over a relatively short characteristic time. This, in turn, leads to the desired reduced order gas pressure law exhibiting power law dependence on the bubble wall temperature and on the bubble radius, with the polytropic index depending on the isentropic exponent of the gas and on a parameter that is a function of the Péclet number and a characteristic time scale. Results of the linear theory for gas bubbles are recovered by identifying this parameter as a function of the Péclet number based on the Minnaert frequency. The novel gas pressure law is then validated against the near-isothermal solution and against the results of the numerical simulations of the original energy balance equations for large amplitude oscillations using spectral methods. Consequently, an acoustic cavitation model that accounts for phase change but that neglects mass diffusion is constructed by employing the reduced order gas pressure law together with the Plesset–Zwick solution for the bubble wall temperature and the Keller–Miksis equation for spherical bubble dynamics. Results obtained using variable interface properties for acoustically driven cavitation bubbles in water show that the time variations of the bubble radius and the bubble wall temperature lie between those obtained by the isothermal and adiabatic laws depending on the value of the Péclet number and the characteristic time scale.