If two elastic bodies with rough surfaces are first pressed against each other and then loaded tangentially, sliding will occur at the boundary of the contact area while the inner parts may still stick. With increasing tangential force, the sliding parts will expand while the sticking parts shrink and finally vanish. In this paper, we study the fractions of the contact area, tangential force an...

Recently, evidence has emerged for a radial orientation bias in early visual cortex. These results predict that in early visual cortex a tangential bias should be present for motion direction. We tested this prediction in a human imaging study, using a translating random dot pattern that slowly rotated its motion direction 360 degrees in cycles of 54 s. In addition, polar angle and eccentricity...

Closed pars plana surgery was confined initially to the removal of opaque vitreous gel after vitreous haemorrhage. By modifying the cutting port of the vitrectomy instrument,' taut intravitreal bands and thick secondary membranes could be severed. Because of their proximity to the retina, preretinal membranes and tangential retinal traction bands were difficult to manage. Although the use of a ...

The thin-jet model, applied by Spence to the study of the jet flap, is combined with the vortex-sheet model, applied by Mangler and Smith to the study of leading-edge separation, to study the effect of blowing from the leading edges of a delta wing at incidence. A jet-vortex sheet, supporting a pressure difference related to the curvature of the streamlines in it, leaves the leading edge in a d...

In this paper, we present the LMI conditions to characterize the strictly bounded realness of the state-space realization of the solution to the bi-tangential rational interpolation problem, i.e., they give the solution to the bitangential Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation problem [13], [3]. The bi-tangential Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation problem is the generalization of the classical interpolation...

The oblique collisions between two axisymmetric disks moving on a flat horizontal surface are described in terms of impact modeling based the assumption that normal and tangential restitution mechanisms operate independently friction. Describing these usual Coulomb formulation, model allows for an interpretation some “anomalous” experimental data reported literature. These data, corresponding t...

A novel method is proposed for extracting the mixed-mode cohesive laws of composite materials undergoing delamination with large-scale fibre bridging. In approach, are derived from a potential function expressed in cylindrical coordinates magnitude and phase angle between normal tangential end-openings. The mapped using experimental R-curves terms J-integral describe both crack tip (high tracti...

When humans manipulate objects, the sensorimotor system coordinates three-dimensional forces to optimize and maintain grasp stability. To do this, the CNS requires precise information about the magnitude and direction of load force (tangential to skin surface) plus feedback about grip force (normal to skin). Previous studies have shown that there is rapid, precise coordination between grip and ...

The search task of Luck, Hillyard, Mangun and Gazzaniga (1989) was optimised to test for the presence of a bilateral field advantage in the visual search capabilities of normal subjects. The modified design used geometrically regular arrays of 2, 4 or 8 items restricted to hemifields delineated by the vertical or horizontal meridian; the target, if present, appeared at one of two fixed position...