Insulated storage containers, i.e., coolers, continue to serve as the primary means for the portable preservation of food and beverages. Coolers are often essential for camping, picnics, tailgating, ...
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A controller for robot arms and the like having mechanical singularities identifies paths near the singularities and modifies those paths to avoid excessive joint movement according to a minimization ...
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The functional effect of having additional color-sensing cone types in the human eye is implemented by an encoding of some spectral information differently for the left and right eyes. This different ...
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A high throughput rheology machine measures transient response to a material subject to the decaying oscillation to determine nonlinear characteristics of the material with a single test cycle.
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As of 2016, 39% of the total 614,387 bridges in the US had exceed their design lives. In China, almost 10% of its 779,159 bridges are classified as structurally deficient. Other countries in South Ame...
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Lamination includes various techniques of manufacturing materials in multiple layers or ‘plies.’ Laminates are commonly used in the automotive, aerospace, medical and consumer industries. A simple...
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Load bearing structures experience stresses and/or strains that deform the material from which they are made. Regardless of a building component’s size, exposure to or tolerance for stress and s...
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Articulated mechanisms, such as walking robots or robotic arms, can be understood as a set of rigid links connected to each other by joints. The joints are put into motion using motors, sensors that i...
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Articulated mechanisms like robot arms can be understood as a set of rigid segments linked by joints. The motions of each joint are related in a type of movement chain. For example, a wrist joint may ...
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The finite nature of fossil fuels along with rising oil prices has prompted a need for alternative fuel sources. One alternative involves the conversion of biomass materials into biofuel. But current ...
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Strain sensors are useful in a wide variety of applications, including robotics, biomedical devices, fluid flow sensing and vibration dampening. Existing strain sensors -- such as piezoelectric, piezo...
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Robotic systems have many industrial and research applications, such as in the automotive industry.  These robotic systems generally require six degrees of freedom (DOF), which can be broken up i...
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The soil water characteristic curve (SWCC) is an essential parameter for characterizing the hydraulic and mechanical behavior of soils. SWCC is typically determined by using a pressure plate extractor...
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