Robot-assisted therapy has been proved effective for dyskinesia, and has many unique advantages compared with traditional treatment, such as repeatability, accuracy, objectivity. But some studies show that the effect of the robot-assisted rehabilitation for improving patients' activities of daily life (ADLs) is not obvious. This study introduces a novel auxiliary method-vibration stimulation co...

Nickel-Titanium (Ni-Ti) alloys are very difficult-to-machine materials causing notable manufacturing problems due to their unique mechanical properties, including superelasticity, high ductility, and severe strain-hardening. In this framework, the aim of this paper is to assess the machinability of Ni-Ti alloys with reference to turning processes in order to realize a reliable and robust in-pro...

Free vibration of laminated composite shells with cutouts are presented by a nine noded curved C0 finite element (FE) formulation developed by authors based on higher order shear deformation theory (HSDT) using Sander's approximations. The proposed model satisfies parabolic distribution of transverse shear strains through the shell thickness and zero transverse shear stress conditions at shell ...

The use of titanium and its alloys has increased in various industries recently, because of their superior properties of these alloys. Titanium alloys are generally classified as difficult to machine materials because of their thermo-mechanical properties such as high strength-to-weight ratio and low thermal conductivity. Laser Assisted Machining (LAM) improves the machinability of high strengt...

Machining of micro SiCp/AA2124 composites remains a challenge with conventional machining yielding poor surface quality high tool wear. In this paper, we study two distinct and unique hybrid processes the aim improving outcome three types micro-SiC/AA2124 different particulate volume fractions sizes. The class studied is available commercially being used in industrial applications, thus assessi...

Vibration of the masseter and temporalis muscles in normal human adult subjects elicits a tonic vibration reflex with unexpected features. The electromyographic response is not asynchronous as in the limb muscles, but involves well-defined spikes with a one-to-one temporal relation to the vibration cycles. The effect of various parameters such as muscle stretch, vibration frequency or amplitude...

Moir\'e superlattices - periodic orbital overlaps and lattice-reconstruction between sites of high atomic registry in vertically-stacked 2D layered materials are quantum-active interfaces where non-trivial quantum phases on novel phenomena can emerge from geometric arrangements materials, which not intrinsic to the parent materials. Unexpected distortions band-structure topology lead long-range...

The goal of image segmentation is to separate objects from a cluttered background. It is an important step on the identification of shapes contained in the image. A turning function is a 1D shape signature and can be used as a 2D shape representation. We propose a way to identify and modify classes of shapes by operating directly on the turning function space. In this work we present a formal d...