Semi-structural bonded joints of steel components are exposed to long-term stresses in addition water diffusion, temperature changes and varying external forces during operation. These hygro-thermomechanical loadings lead successive degradation stiffness strength due damage resulting from chemical aging fatigue processes, causing failure the joint when its service life is reached. In following ...

Knowledge of the human multi-joint arm viscoelastic properties is essential in the assistance of building human-like robots. In this paper, a robust estimation method of human multi-joint arm viscoelasticity during natural movement is reviewed, a human arm-like robot control scheme using the measured viscoelasticity from estimation method is proposed. In order to imitate how to adjust the human...

Since the physical behavior of many tissues is shown to be viscoelastic, we propose a novel registration technique for medical images via physical principles of viscoelasticity. It allows the template and the target images to differ by large local deformations like viscous fluid and small local deformations like elastic solid. With an extra elastic term introduced, the proposed model constrains...

The main characteristic of rubber is a viscoelasticity. So it is important to research the characteristic of the viscoelasticity of the high frequency band for the friction between a rubber material and the hard one with roughness, for instance, the tire and the road. As for the measurement of the viscoelasticity of rubber, DMA (Dynamic Mechanical Analysis) is general. However, some problems ar...