The resonator of a solid-state vibratory gyro is responsible for sensing angular motion. Frequency splitting of an axisymmetric-shell resonator is a common problem caused by manufacturing defects. The defect causes a frequency difference between two working modes which consist of two nodes and two antinodes. The difference leads to the loss of gyroscopic effect, and thus the resonator cannot se...

Computations and experimental validation were conducted to obtain flow field over an axisymmetric cavity with different front wall inclinations at a freestream Mach number of 2.0. Flow oscillation in and around the cavities may incur a damaging effect on the stable flight of the aircraft and store releases. Aero-acoustic from the oscillating flow induces vibration in the local bay structure and...

Shapes of vesicles with toroidal topology are studied in the context of curvature models for the membrane. For two simplified curvature models, the spontaneous-curvature (SC) model and the bilayer-couple (BC) model, the structure of energy diagrams, sheets of stationary shapes and phase diagrams are obtained by solving shape equations for axisymmetric shapes. Three different sheets of axisymmet...

a linear superposition method was used for modeling the time history of the production blast vibrations and optimizing the blast sequence to reduce vibration levels in sar-cheshmeh copper mine, kerman, iran. a single-hole blast for modeling and two double-hole blasts with time delays of 25 and 65 ms between two holes for modeling validation were carried out. the generated vibrations were measur...

The relative motion between the surface of an object and our fingers produces patterns of skin deformation such as stretch, indentation, and vibrations. In this study, we hypothesized that motion-induced vibrations are combined with other tactile cues for the discrimination of tactile speed. Specifically, we hypothesized that vibrations provide a critical cue to tactile speed on surfaces lackin...

Dallmann CJ, Ernst MO, Moscatelli A. The role of vibration in tactile speed perception. J Neurophysiol 114: 3131–3139, 2015. First published September 30, 2015; doi:10.1152/jn.00621.2015.—The relative motion between the surface of an object and our fingers produces patterns of skin deformation such as stretch, indentation, and vibrations. In this study, we hypothesized that motion-induced vibra...

Local Vibrations represent one of the most critical parameters for the comfort evaluation on board of the ship. Normally a limit value of vibration is defined in the ship specification and the shipyard has the responsibility to assure that the specified values are not exceeded. Depending mainly on the extension, vibration phenomena could be divided in Global Hull vibrations and local vibrations...

How and where the brain forms associations between sensation and action are crucial questions in the field of cognitive neuroscience. In this issue of Neuron, add to an already impressive body of work elucidating the neural mechanisms responsible for forming categorical decisions about vibrotactile stimuli that guide behavior. Here they show that single neurons in premotor cortex represent, rem...

Using the fluid-magnetofluid formalism, we obtain axisymmetric stability criteria for a composite disc system consisting of stellar and gaseous magnetized singular isothermal discs (MSIDs). Both (M)SIDs are presumed to be razor-thin and are gravitationally coupled in a self-consistent axisymmetric background equilibrium with power-law surface mass densities and flat rotation curves. The gaseous...