Sliding-Block Back Analysis of Earthquake-Induced Slides

Water slides--are safety standards sliding?

Earthquake Analysis of 3-D Structures on Sliding Foundation Using Yield Equation of the Contact Surface

A solution technique for the dynamic analysis of asymmetric base-isolated buildings, subject to earthquake ground motion, is presented. To develop the formulation, a yield surface as a function of both shear force and torsion moment of the sliding surface with rigid perfectly plastic behavior is constituted. To achieve the objective, the yield stress is defined by the friction coefficient throu...

Earthquake Analysis of 3-D Structures on Sliding Foundation Using Yield Equation of the Contact Surface

A solution technique for the dynamic analysis of asymmetric base-isolated buildings, subject to earthquake ground motion, is presented. To develop the formulation, a yield surface as a function of both shear force and torsion moment of the sliding surface with rigid perfectly plastic behavior is constituted. To achieve the objective, the yield stress is defined by the friction coefficient throu...

Asynchronous sliding block maps

We deene a notion of asynchronous sliding block map that can be realized by transducers labeled in A B. We show that, under some conditions, it is possible to synchronize this transducer by state splitting, in order to get a transducer which deenes the same sliding block map and which is labeled in A B k , where k is a constant integer. In the case of a transducer with a strongly connected grap...

Pre-sliding Friction Dynamics in High Precision Machine Slides

High precision applications, such as, semiconductor manufacturing and diamond turning of optical elements require positioning accuracy within nanometers and therefore require very precise motion control of machine tool axes. The frictional behavior at the slides is a result of very complex interaction between the contacting surfaces and lubricants. No accurate quantitative prediction of the fri...