Reasonable determination of the ultimate bearing capacity foundation is great significance in engineering applications. Based on self-developed non-contact testing device for plastic zone shallow foundation, this paper carries out model test research sandy soil and analyzes development law under action load. The main advantages functional characteristics system are that it can realize displacem...

This paper presents a novel approach for acquiring dynamic whole-body movements on humanoid robots focused on learning a control policy for the center of mass (CoM). In our approach, we combine both a model-based CoM controller and a model-free reinforcement learning (RL) method to acquire dynamic whole-body movements in humanoid robots. (i) To cope with high dimensionality, we use a model-base...

Lightning and other atmospheric noise interferes with Loran signal reception. This paper develops techniques to improve signal availability under these conditions. While the rootmean square (rms) electric field strengths may be quite large for a given lightning discharge, there is significant time between strikes where the background noise is only modest and signal reception is possible. By imp...

There exist some restrictions and difficulties in performing follicular unit extraction (FUE) in white-haired patients, for several reasons. In this paper, we introduce a novel technique for visualizing white hair during the punching procedure and graft preparation in FUE for white-haired patients. In white-haired older male patients, we dyed the surrounding scalp skin purple with a gentian vio...

Reinforced concrete slab-column structures, despite their advantages such as architectural flexibility and easy construction, are susceptible to punching shear failure. In addition, failure is a typical brittle failure, which introduces difficulties in assessing the functionality probability of structures. Therefore, prediction resistance corresponding reliability analysis critical issues desig...

In this research, creation of higher mechanical natural fiber mat composites was proposed. The hybrid mat with jute and glass mat was fabricated by needle punching system, in which jute mat was placed on glass mat. The ratio of jute and glass mat layers was set to be 1:0,1:1,1:2 and 2:1, respectively. The composites were fabricated by hand-lay up method with unsaturated polyester resin after ne...