Simulation of flow transients in liquid pipeline systems

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2007

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Zeren, Zekai Uygur

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The most basic property of a muscle is its ability to contract and produce force when stimulated. A muscle is mainly composed of cells consisting of myofibrils with its basic unit called as a sarcomere. A sarcomere is composed of actin and myosin responsible for the muscle contraction. The Hill-type muscle model is the most commonly used model to simulate the behavior of a muscle. A muscle can produce its maximum force at isometric conditions. The level of force produced in the muscle is determined by the the frequency of the signals from the CNS. The force production is also a function of force-muscle current velocity and force-muscle current length relations. A muscle contains two types of sensors; i.e. muscle spindle and golgi tendon organ, which give rise to the feedback control of the muscle length and muscle contraction velocity. In this study a 1-D model of a muscle is formed step by step in Simulink. In the models the muscle mechanics has been investigated and the results are compared with the previous works.

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Mechanical Engineering., Simulink.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17422

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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Z. U. Zeren, “Simulation of flow transients in liquid pipeline systems,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.