This chapter addresses two-dimensional motions of capsule systems along a rigid horizontal plane in the presence of Coulomb's dry friction between the plane and the housing. It is required to transfer the system from a given initial position to a …

The absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) developed in the mid-1990s can express large rotation, displacement, and deformation in flexible body analysis. However, there is a disadvantage in that the analysis time increases owing to an …

Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem won the Hugo Award in 2015, the highest honor in science fiction. The Three-Body Problem jumped from the 50s to #1 on Amazon’s book sales chart on the day of the award. A total of 8 million copies of the …

This chapter addresses the control of the motion of systems with movable internal point masses in the absence of external forces. In this case, it is impossible to control the motion of the center of mass, however, the orientation of the housing …

This paper addresses the exact controllability of vibrations in a three-dimensional Cosserat elastic solid body using mathematical techniques such as operator theory and semigroup methods. The verification of exact (shape) controllability is …

The coagulation of the natural rubber in the collecting cup by adding formic acid, natural rubber in the shape of a cup also known as a cup lump. Removing lumps from the collecting cups is one of the main difficulties workers face in rubber …

With increasing age, we become progressively weaker. At some stage, the loss of muscle power is such that it drops below a certain threshold and causes mobility limitations and a reduced quality of life, the ‘disability threshold’. Part of this is …

A novel method has been devised to compute the local integrals of motion (LIOMs) for a one-dimensional many-body localized system. In this approach, a class of optimal unitary transformations is deduced in a tensor network formalism to diagonalize …

Medical Body Area Networks are emerging as remote healthcare solutions where many sensors monitor the physiological parameters of the human body and communicate the data to a central hub. In this work, the goal has been to improve the reliability …

Increasing heterogeneity among Hpc platforms requires applications to be frequently ported and tuned, adding burden to developers. Fast evolution of hardware mandates adaptation of algorithms and data structures to get higher performance, while …

Bioelectromagnetic dosimetry is used to determine the electromagnetic fields in a biological body (human, animal, or experimental phantom) from devices that are far from the body (plane-wave exposures), near the body (near-field exposures), or …

As standards of living rise, so does the amount of waste produced and the need to dispose of it. Landfill is still the most common method of waste disposal. Brownfield sites, especially tailings piles, are well suited for this purpose. Landfills …

The blended wing body Aircraft (BWB) model is an unconventional aircraft that combines the conventional fuselage and flying wing aircraft design. This BWB model aircraft has an aerofoil-shaped body which contributes to the overall lift during the …

In lyric vignettes that follow the author from childhood to an academic career, from massage therapy to physical therapy to acupuncture treatments, from California to Massachusetts and through the Midwest, this essay shapes an embodied self …