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Qimin Gao, Lei Cheng, Renbing Wang, Mingjiang Chen, Weisong Zhao, Jingjing Fu and Zhenwei Wang
The mechanical properties of tomato stalk, relevant to the harvesting and crushing of tomato vines, significantly impact its harvesting quality and efficiency. Establishing a simulation model, which accurately mirrors these properties, is foundational fo...
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Bo-Min Bae, Yeon-Soo Kim, Wan-Soo Kim, Yong-Joo Kim, Sang-Dae Lee and Taek-Jin Kim
In the field of agricultural machinery, various empirical field tests are conducted to measure design loads for the optimal design and implementation of tractors. However, conducting field tests is costly and time-consuming, with many constraints on weat...
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Yunjung Jang, Hakgeun Kim and Kiweon Kang
Composite wind turbine blades may experience interlaminar damage, including adhesive failure, cracking, and interlaminar fracture failure, from manufacturing or external fatigue load. Among these, the adhesive failure of adhesive joints is critical. Ther...
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Chengwei Huang, Yong Liu, Bing Bai and Ke Wang
The conventional flying and adhesion robot adsorbs on the wall by controlling the attitude angle to generate a horizontal-direction force combined with the negative-pressure device at the target position. However, when the robot is in contact with the wa...
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Jingchao Zhao, Xiaoyu Wang, Chao Meng, Huitao Song, Zhong Luo and Qingkai Han
As a high-precision motion mechanism, the kinematics and dynamics of cascade thrust reverser are sensitive to the changes of nonlinear factors which are rarely considered in traditional dynamic modeling and optimization. In order to study the effect of n...
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Anis Hasanpour, Denis Istrati and Ian Buckle
Field surveys in recent tsunami events document the catastrophic effects of large waterborne debris on coastal infrastructure. Despite the availability of experimental studies, numerical studies investigating these effects are very limited due to the nee...
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Jianmin Qiu, Ying Yang, Xin Hong, Piotr Vasiljev, Dalius Mazeika and Sergejus Borodinas
This paper presents a disc-type ultrasonic piezoelectric motor, which is designed for micro flying vehicles. It provides a high output rotation speed under low operating voltage, compared with common piezoelectric devices, by employing a ?contact teeth? ...
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Kevin Stein and Katja Mombaur
Maintaining balance on a slackline is a challenging task in itself. Walking on a high line, jumping and performing twists or somersaults seems nearly impossible. Contact forces are essential to understanding how humans maintain balance in such challengin...
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Jing Zhao, Dan B. Marghitu, John Schumacher and Wenzhong Wang
This study aimed to investigate the impact of a horse hoof wall on three solid surfaces: steel, concrete and asphalt. Impact experiments were conducted for different impact angles and different initial impact velocities. The effect of impact surfaces, im...
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Jing Guo, Bo Xiao and Hongliang Ren
Force sensing in robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) is crucial for performing dedicated surgical procedures, such as bilateral teleoperation and palpation. Due to the bio-compatibility and sterilization requirements, a specially designed ...
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