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This page collects some projects made in collaboration with friends or lab reports. Finally, some "flesh and blood" stuff! |
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Spectroscopy |
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Plasma jet spectroscopy - [written in ENGLISH] - This document reviews basic emission spectroscopy techniques, applied to a plasma jet and ablation of a carbon specimen. Atomic and molecular species are identified from the spectrum, and plasma and wall temperatures are retrieved. |
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Load Cell |
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Data Acquisition on the Road - [written in ITALIAN] - This document is about the design and building of a data acquisition system for aerodynamic forces measurements. The system is composed by a load cell and a data acquisition system to be mounted out of the window of a moving car: one can build a scaled wing or any other lifting shape and test it cheaply this way. |
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Road Spectra - [written in ITALIAN] - Me and my friend have instrumented with strain gauges a bicicle frame and then computed load spectra on some roads in Milan. The document describes the strain gauge configuration, an acquisition circuit and of course contains some nice images! |
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Real Gases |
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Butane data acquisition - [written in ITALIAN] - This pdf is about a system I scratch-built to compress a gas and find it's equation of state. The system is interfaced to the computer, using Octave to read data and plot it real-time: temperature, pressure and piston position are displayed. I experimented with a butane/propane commercial mixture: collected data is fitted on the van der Waals and Redlich-Kwong laws and compared to literature Span-Wagner model for butane. Please note that a poor calibration for the pressure sensor and a little possible gas leackage while moving the piston made data unreliable.. Hope you'll find that useful anyway :) |
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