Abstract: A method of forming a friction surface of a friction member with an increased friction coefficient on the friction surface is described. The method includes forming the friction member including a matrix composite of a first material and reinforcing particles of a second material embedded in the first material, wherein the first material has a lower melting temperature than the second material, and forming the friction surface by melting a surface layer of the first material of the friction member to expose a part of the reinforcing particles and thereby to enable an increase of the friction coefficient of the friction surface of the friction member.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining the spectral arrangement of a composite signal that includes a plurality of individual signals, so that one or more individual signals may be separated from the composite signal. According to one embodiment, a first set of samples are taken from the composite signal during a first time duration, and a second set of samples are taken from the composite signal during a second time duration. The first and second time durations are selected such that at least a portion of the second time duration does not temporally overlap the first time duration. A weighing function is applied to the first and second sets of samples to generate weighted sample sets. The autocorrelation between the first and second weighted sample sets is measured, thereby providing information about the bandwidth occupancies of each of a plurality of individual signals within the bandwidth of the composite signal.

Abstract: In a telephone local loop transmission arrangement, data is communicated from the customer premises to the central office utilizing a multidimensional, passband signal illustratively at 480 kb/s. Specifically, the transmitted signal is encoded in a trellis code and precoded using a generalized partial response filter. The received signal is processed by a circuitry that implements a trellis decoding in combination with nonlinear filtering.

Abstract: In a telephone local loop transmission arrangement, data is communicated from the customer premises to the central office utilizing a multi-dimensional, passband signal illustratively at 480 kb/s. Specifically, the transmitted signal is encoded in a trellis code and precoded using a generalized partial response filter. The received signal is processed by a circuitry that implements a trellis decoding in combination with nonlinear filtering.

Abstract: In a telephone local loop transmission arrangement, data is communicated from the customer premises to the central office utilizing a multidimensional, passband signal illustratively at 480 kb/s. Specifically, the transmitted signal is encoded in a trellis code and the received signal is processed by a circuitry that implements decision feedback equalization in combination with trellis decoding.

Abstract: In a telephone local loop transmission arrangement, data is communicated from the customer premises to the central office utilizing a multi-dimensional, passband signal illustratively at 480 kb/s and 1.544 Mb/s.

Abstract: A process for recapturing waste heat from a gas turbine at a single pressure to drive both a high pressure-high temperature steam turbine and a low pressure steam turbine. By placing the reheat coil of the low pressure steam turbine in a common vessel with a portion of the economizer coil (used to preheat the steam for the high pressure-high temperature steam turbine), maximum heat recovery from the exhaust gases of the gas turbine is obtained at a single pressure.