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Yilin Qu, Xiao Xie, Shucheng Zhang, Cheng Xing, Yong Cao, Yonghui Cao, Guang Pan and Baowei Song
The manta ray, exemplifying an agile swimming mode identified as the median and paired fin (MPF) mode, inspired the development of underwater robots. Robotic manta typically comprises a central rigid body and flexible pectoral fins. Flexible fins provide...
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Peng Tang, Junlong Chen, Tian Qiu, Honglong Ning, Xiao Fu, Muyun Li, Zuohui Xu, Dongxiang Luo, Rihui Yao and Junbiao Peng
Flexible electronic devices have received great attention in the fields of foldable electronic devices, wearable electronic devices, displays, actuators, synaptic bionics and so on. Among them, high-performance flexible memory for information storage and...
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Myeong-Ho Song, Taek-Kun Nam and Jae-ung Lee
The reliability of propulsion shafting systems is a major concern for ocean-going vessels because mid-ocean repairs can be time-consuming and spare parts must be available. To address this concern, vibration modeling and experimental measurements were co...
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Feng Hu and Hongbing Xin
The flexible bearing is the kernel component of the cam wave generator. In precision transmission applications such as miniature robot joints, flexible bearings are required to have a smaller mass, lower moment of inertia, and larger inner diameter. Base...
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Guangxin Zhou, Qian Sheng, Zhen Cui, Tianqiang Wang and Yalina Ma
Knowledge from historical earthquake events indicates that a submarine tunnel crossing active strike-slip faults is prone to be damaged in an earthquake. Previous studies have demonstrated that the flexible joints are an effective measure for a submarine...
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Man Ru, Ying Zhan, Bin Cheng and Yu Zhang
Space debris severely threatens the safety of spacecraft in near-earth orbit. Dragging space debris into the atmosphere to burn is an effective way to remove it. In this paper, the authors focus on capturing irregular and rotating debris via a flexible n...
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Daqiao Zhang, Xiaolong Zheng, Yangguang Xie and Xiaoxiang Hu
The controller design of hypersonic flight vehicles is a challenging task, especially when its flexible states are immeasurable. Unfortunately, the flexible states are difficult to measure directly. In this paper, an angular-accelerometer-based method fo...
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Tianhu Liu, Wei Liu, Tingjun Zeng, Yifeng Cheng, Yan Zheng and Jian Qiu
Research on the mechanical harvesting of pineapples is currently in its early stages. The purpose of this study is to provide a design and configure a method for multi-flexible-fingered roller pineapple harvester. Depending on the physical and mechanical...
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Mahdi Tabatabaei Malazi, Emir Taha Eren, Jing Luo, Shuo Mi and Galip Temir
A three-dimensional T-shaped flexible beam deformation was investigated using model experiments and numerical simulations. In the experiment, a beam was placed in a recirculating water channel with a steady uniform flow in the inlet. A high-speed camera ...
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Jishnu Narayan, Oded Cats, Niels van Oort, Serge Hoogendoorn
Pág. 109 - 116
The emergence of innovative mobility solutions that offer flexible transport services, is changing the way urban public transport systems will be designed. Such mobility solutions offer on demand transport services and hence can solve the problems inhere...
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M. Mansor,A. ldris
AbstractThe objective of the study was to determine whether employee retention in Malaysian banks can be improved through flexible working. Using a quantitative approach, the effects of five types of flexible working practice, i.e. flex time, jobsharing,...
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Timothy Sands
Automatic controls refer to the application of control theory to regulate systems or processes without human intervention, and the notion is often usefully applied to space applications. A key part of controlling flexible space robotics is the control-st...
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Yu Fu, Shuqing Hao, Junhao Zhang, Liwen Yu, Yuxin Luo and Kuan Zhang
This paper proposes an active?reactive power collaborative scheduling model with cluster division for the flexible distributed energy resources (DERs) of smart-building systems to resolve the high complexity of the centralized optimal scheduling of massi...
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Gabriele Dessena, Dmitry I. Ignatyev, James F. Whidborne, Alessandro Pontillo and Luca Zanotti Fragonara
Beam-like flexible structures are of interest in many fields of engineering, particularly aeronautics, where wings are frequently modelled and represented as such. Experimental modal analysis is commonly used to characterise the wing?s dynamical response...
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Greg White
The construction and maintenance costs, as well as the residual value, were calculated for structurally equivalent rigid and flexible airfield pavements, for a range of typical commercial aircraft, as well as a range for typical subgrade conditions. Whol...
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Haitao He, Monica Menendez, Ilgin Guler
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This paper examines strategies that share road space capacity in a flexible manner at a given element of the arterial (e.g. intersections) to move buses in front of the car queues without continuously banning cars from using one full lane. We build a gen...
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Antonis TARGOUTZIDIS, Savvas ROBOLIS
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"Flexible" employment, such as part-time, temporary, short-term or self- employment increased during last decades in the context of deregulation of labour market in Greece and in other member states of the European Union. However, despite these trends, l...
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Venkatesh Baskaran, Subash Raj C., Subbu Sankar V.R., K. Blessy
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Mike Louw, Sally Farrah, Max Maxwell and Sam Tomkins
For this special issue, sustainability and safety are discussed through the tropes of both material and work process substitution. As an architecture and industrial design team, we examine the potential of William McDonough?s and Michael Braungart?s ?cra...
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João P. Ferreira, Vinicius C. Ferreira, Sérgio L. Nogueira, João M. Faria and José A. Afonso
The sharing of mobile network infrastructure has become a key topic with the introduction of 5G due to the high costs of deploying such infrastructures, with neutral host models coupled with features such as network function virtualization (NFV) and netw...
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