One of the main advantages of the Gantry-Tau machine is a large accessible workspace/footprint ratio compared to many other parallel machines. The Gantry-Tau improves this ratio by allowing a change of assembly mode without internal link collisions or collisions between the links and the moving TCP platform. This paper introduces an optimisation scheme based on the geometric approach for the wo...

In this paper, we investigate the controlling design parameters of large-format Li-ion batteries on safety while undergoing nail penetration. We have identified three critical design parameters that control the safety during the nail penetration process: nail diameter (Dnail), single sheet foil area (Afoil), and cell capacity (Qcell).Using commercial AutoLionTM software, we have investigated tw...

In this paper we develop a methodology based on ballistics to estimate the landing footprint associated with the powered terminal descent phase of a Mars soft landing. The analysis is based on an idealized two-impulse thrust maneuver and leads to an analytical expression for the elliptical boundary of the landing footprint. Our goal was to develop a method (with low computational overhead) to e...

Food is a major contributor of greenhouse gases in the world. Changing what you eat to a less greenhouse gas intensive diet can have a major impact on the greenhouse gas emission. While campaigns and efforts about changing diets directed towards individuals have a potential to reduce total greenhouse gases, efforts directed towards institutional producers of meals have much greater potential to...

O the past two decades, a rapid expansion of footprintstyle indicators has been observed by academics, companies, governmental bodies, and nongovernmental organizations, particularly in the arena of environmental and sustainability discourses. Although footprints nowadays have reached worldwide popularity, a dedicated footprint research community is far from being established. The ambiguous rel...

In a process of insect footprint recognition, footprint segments need to be extracted from scanned insect footprints in order to find out appropriate features for classification. In this paper, we use a clustering method in a preprocessing stage for extraction of insect footprint segments. In general, sizes and strides of footprints may be different according to type and size of an insect for r...

The matching status of agricultural water and land resources is a prerequisite for grain production. influence gray footprint has not been paid attention to in the study based on footprint. To measure more comprehensively, total (including blue, green footprint) cultivated area was taken as characterization parameters resources, respectively. Gini coefficient model, model were constructed calcu...

As the threat posed by global climate change becomes more acute, action must be taken to mitigate carbon emission. Carbon footprint, as a widely used term and concept, is increasingly being recognized as a valuable indicator in the field of GHG and carbon emissions management. However, few attempts have been made to investigate precise relationship between carbon footprint and influential facto...