For active particles the interplay between the self-generated hydrodynamic flow and an external shear flow, especially near bounding surfaces, can result in a rich behavior of the particles not easily foreseen from the consideration of the active and external driving mechanisms in isolation. For instance, under certain conditions, the particles exhibit "rheotaxis", i.e., they align their direct...

Convergence studies for the static analysis of thin plates resting on Pasternak foundations is performed. The are discretized using two different finite elements, formulations which based Kirchhoff and Reissner-Mindlin plate theories. shear locking problem arises when full integration used in element implementation theory eliminated with selective integration. foundation accounted by adding par...

Locking devices are widely used in robotics, for instance to lock springs, joints or to reconfigure robots. This review paper classifies the locking devices currently described in literature and preforms a comparative study. Designers can therefore better determine which locking device best matches the needs of their application. The locking devices are divided into three main categories based ...

A safe and deadlock free lock policy is introduced, called pre-analysis locking. Pre-analysis locking is based on an efficient geometric algorithm which inserts lock and unlock operations into the transactions. Pre-analysis locking is the first safe and deadlock free general locking policy which is not a variant of two-phase locking. It is an approach conceptually different from policies follow...

This work addresses nonlinear finite element analysis of laminated structures with weak interfaces. Considered first are shallow laminated beams subject to arbitrary large displacements, small layer strains and moderate interface slippage. Under these requirements rigorous development of layer-wise kinematic field is performed assuming First order Shear Deformation Theory (FSDT) at the layer le...

Around one third of humeral fractures and 2-6% of all fractures occur to the distal part of the humerus. There is a bimodal distribution differentiating between young male patients with high-energy and elderly female patients with low-energy trauma related to osteoporosis. The AO classification and Dubberley subclassification are used in daily routine. Most fractures are diagnosed on radiograph...

[1] The principal limitations of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) to measure subtle, long‐wavelength deformation are uncertainties associated with the satellite orbits. We propose a method to remove orbital phase errors from the InSAR data by integrating InSAR and continuous GPS time series. We model the along‐track variation of the baseline errors as second‐order polynomials an...