Abstract: Flexure hinge-based compliant mechanisms find extensive applications in micro/nano actuation, where their transmission characteristics are significantly affected by stiffness. Traditional ...

Abstract: In this paper, a novel adjustable-stiffness force sensor is developed for multitask measurements requiring different force resolutions and ranges. The applied force of the force sensor is ...

The Generalized Finite Element Method (GFEM) can be viewed as an extension of the Finite Element Method (FEM) where the approximation space is enriched by shape functions appropriately chosen. Many ...

Due to the importance of mechanical processes in biological organisms, there have been a large variety of methods developed to study these processes. However, most of these methods are limited to ...

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The behavior of many engineering structures, excited from external stresses, is governed by differential equations. We can solve most of these differential equations analytically as long as we ...

Soil-rock mixture is a complex multi-phase composite geotechnical material, and its strength is determined by the physical properties of constituent multi-phase materials and their coupling mechanical ...