PURPOSE It has been shown that mechanical energy is dissipated at the metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint during running and jumping. Furthermore, increasing the longitudinal bending stiffness of the midsole significantly reduced the energy dissipated at the MTP joint and increased jump performance. It was hypothesized that increasing midsole longitudinal bending stiffness would also lead to improv...

[This corrects the article on p. 1367 in vol. 9, PMID: 26229430.].

Mechanisms of energy dissipation during solid-solid and solid-liquid friction are discussed. A conservative van der Waals adhesion force, when combined with surface imperfectness, such as deformation, leads to adhesion hysteresis (AH). When an asperity slides upon a substrate, the substrate is subjected to a loading-unloading cycle, and energy is dissipated due to the AH. Another mechanism, whi...

The pervasive use of wireless sensors in a growing spectrum of human activities reinforces the need for devices with low energy dissipation. In this work, coded communication between a couple of wireless sensor devices is considered as a method to reduce the dissipated energy per transmitted bit with respect to uncoded communication. Different Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes are considere...

Saving energy is a most important challenge in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSNs) to extend the lifetime, and optimal coverage is the key to it. Therefore, this paper proposes a Centralized Immune-Voronoi deployment Algorithm (CIVA) to maximize the coverage based on both binary and probabilistic models. CIVA utilizes the multi-objective immune algorithm that uses the Voronoi diagram proper...

The efficiency and product quality of hydro-abrasive machining (HAM) could be considerably improved if the energy dissipation phenomenon of the jet-like tool during the material removal is clearly understood. An on-line technique for quantifying the amount of energy dissipated in the workpiece during HAM using acoustic emission (AE) measurements is presented in this paper. The measured AE-signa...

Intended contribution proposes an energy-based approach to the assessment of capability semirigid multi-storey steel structures dissipate seismically induced energy via semirigidly connecting zones structure. The state structure is defined in terms balance equation. Total amount divided into its classic components: kinetic energy, strain and dissipated energy. Dissipated - turn split by itself ...

This paper is devoted to the comparison of the evolution of damage governed by a gradient damage model with the evolution of a crack predicted by Griffith’s law. The analysis is made in a two-dimensional setting, assuming that damage is concentrated inside thin bands whose width is proportional to the internal length of the material. Taking advantage of the variational formulation based on the ...