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Wei Hu, Zhouming Gao, Xiaoya Dong, Jian Chen and Baijing Qiu
Contact electrification has attracted interest as a mechanism for generating electrical charges on surfaces. To explore the factors contributing to electrification by droplets impacting the leaf surface, high-speed image capture and current measurements ...
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Md Motiur Rahman, Tahmina Tasnim Nahar and Dookie Kim
This paper investigates the performance of tuned mass damper (TMD) and dynamic behavior of TMD-controlled concrete structure considering the ground motion (GM) characteristics based on frequency content. The effectiveness of TMD in reducing the structura...
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Jin Zou, Shijie Lu, Hanbing Sun, Liru Zan and Jiuyang Cang
In this study, a high-speed planing trimaran hull form is designed, and the effects of different displacements and gravity longitudinal layouts on the performance of the trimaran planing hull in calm water are experimentally investigated in the towing ta...
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Alessandro Crivellari and Euro Beinat
The rapid growth of positioning technology allows tracking motion between places, making trajectory recordings an important source of information about place connectivity, as they map the routes that people commonly perform. In this paper, we utilize use...
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Alessandro Crivellari and Euro Beinat
The interest in human mobility analysis has increased with the rapid growth of positioning technology and motion tracking, leading to a variety of studies based on trajectory recordings. Mapping the routes that people commonly perform was revealed to be ...
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Zhehan Cai, Zhijian Wang, Kaiqi Lin, Ying Sun and Weidong Zhuo
Currently, the seismic designs of reinforced concrete (RC) bridges with tall piers are often accomplished following the ductility-based seismic design method. Though the collapses of the RC bridges with tall piers can be avoided, they are likely to exper...
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Bochang Zhou, Jie Hu, Cheng Yuan, Weiping Wen and Qingzhao Kong
This manuscript investigates the bias introduced by scaling aftershock ground motions when evaluating the performance of structures subjected to earthquake sequences. The study focuses on different hysteretic behaviors exhibited by structures and selects...
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Lars Kooijman, Riender Happee and Joost C. F. de Winter
In future traffic, automated vehicles may be equipped with external human-machine interfaces (eHMIs) that can communicate with pedestrians. Previous research suggests that, during first encounters, pedestrians regard text-based eHMIs as clearer than ligh...
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Pascal Fossat, Madhurima Kothakota, Mohamed Ichchou and Olivier Bareille
This work addresses the dynamic modeling of a negative stiffness absorber consisting of an assembly of curved beams. Design rules are derived from the orders of magnitude of stiffness and elastic energy stored by the negative stiffness elements. Although...
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Michele Conconi, Filippo De Carli, Matteo Berni, Nicola Sancisi, Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli and Giuseppe Monetti
The in-vivo quantification of knee motion in physiological loading conditions is paramount for the understanding of the joint?s natural behavior and the comprehension of articular disorders. Dynamic MRI (DMRI) represents an emerging technology that makes...
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Johannes Pistrol, Mario Hager, Fritz Kopf and Dietmar Adam
Vibratory rollers are mainly used for the near-surface compaction of granular media for a wide variety of construction tasks. In addition to the pronounced depth effect, vibratory rollers have offered the possibility of work-integrated compaction control...
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Shaobai Li, Caixia Li and Wei Wang
The unsteady motion behavior of oil/gas two-phase flow in a novel ventless bearing chamber has significant impacts on the lubrication and heat transfer efficiency of bearings due to the various advantages of lower pressure levels and weaker rotating airf...
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Sung Min Hong, Kyoung Nam Ha and Joon-Young Kim
This paper describes a study on the dynamic modeling and the motion simulation of an unmanned ocean platform to overcome the limitations of existing unmanned ocean platforms for ocean exploration. The proposed unmanned ocean vehicle combines an unmanned ...
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Suge Dong, Daidi Hu, Ruijun Li and Mingtao Ge
Aimed at the problems of high redundancy of trajectory and susceptibility to background interference in traditional dense trajectory behavior recognition methods, a human action recognition method based on foreground trajectory and motion difference desc...
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Alex Kai-Yuan Lo, Yu-Huan Yang, Tsen-Chang Lin, Chen-Wen Chu and Pei-Chun Lin
We report on the model-based development of a monkey robot that is capable of performing continuous brachiation locomotion on swingable rod, as the intermediate step toward studying brachiation on the soft rope or on horizontal ropes with both ends fixed...
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Guojun Yu, Sheng Jia and Yanting Geng
A crude oil tanker usually encounters a rolling motion during sea transportation, which leads to rotational movement and sometimes a sloshing of the liquid hold. This rolling-induced body motion seriously affects the thermal and hydraulic behavior of the...
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Luca Pagliarini, Luca Cattani, Vincent Ayel, Maksym Slobodeniuk, Cyril Romestant and Fabio Bozzoli
The present investigation deals with the quantification of fluid oscillation frequencies in a metallic pulsating heat pipe tested at varying heat loads and orientations. The aim is to design a robust technique for the study of the inner fluid dynamics wi...
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Ichiro Kimura, Taeun Kang and Kazuo Kato
The accumulation of driftwood during heavy rainfall may block river channels and damage structures. It is necessary to mitigate such effects by periodically capturing and removing driftwood from rivers. In this study, the behavior of driftwood in open-ch...
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Yilin Dou, Kelei Wang, Zhou Zhou, Peter R. Thomas, Zhuang Shao and Wanshan Du
In recent years, the air-drop launch technology of near-space UAVs has attracted much attention. Between downfall from the carrier and the flight control system?s initiation, the UAV presents free-fall movement. This free-fall process is very important f...
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Yingjie Tang, Junmin Mou, Linying Chen and Yang Zhou
Through the continuous development of intellectualization, considering the lifecycle of ships, the future of a waterborne traffic system is bound to be a mixed scenario where intelligent ships of different autonomy levels co-exist, i.e., mixed waterborne...
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