In this paper effect of pile-soil consideration in obtaining seismic response offshore structure is assessed due to earthquake loading. InducedSeismic force is one of the most important excitations for the dynamic response of an offshore structure. According to API, Seismic forces should be accounted in platform design for seismically active regions in order to determine the allowable seismic r...

A short-time exposure on the concentration--time relationship base, a classification of substances according to the degree of hazard and the program for assessing safety coefficients have been suggested in order to predict the basic toxicometric parameters (chronic exposure thresholds, maximum allowable concentrations, safety coefficients, and others).

Temperature has an influence on damping characteristics of the viscoelastic damping structure. The change of the damping characteristics of the structure under the cycle load is a dynamic and coupled process. The hyperelastic-viscoelastic model was used to describe nonlinear deformation and viscoelasticity simultaneously. The temperature distribution and change of the damping characteristics un...

This paper discusses a new experimental robot load identification method that is used in industry. The method is based on periodic robot excitation and the maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters, techniques adopted from [1]. This method provides (1) accurate estimates of the robot load inertial parameters, and (2) accurate actuator torques predictions, both of which are essential for t...

This paper presents a flexure pressure sensor fabricated by means of 3D printing. This sensor combined with a biosimulant artifact from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is used to measure the severity of injuries caused in the case of a robot impact with a human. The stiffness matrix is derived for the structure by means of screw theory. A Finite Element (FE) model is c...

In the biped robotics domain, head oscillations may be extremely harmful, especially if robot is teleoperated, since vibrations strongly reduce operator’s spatial awareness. particular, undesired occur in under-actuated robots, where springs and passive mechanisms are used to achieve a human-like motion. This paper proposes an approach of robot’s head; proposed solution does not affect dynamic ...

This paper presents dynamic modelling of a two-link flexible manipulator system. The kinematic model is based on standard frame transformation matrices describing both rigid rotation and modal displacement, under small deflection assumption. A two-link flexible manipulator incorporating structural damping, hub inertia and payload is considered. An explicit, complete, and accurate nonlinear dyna...

Evolving models have found applications in many real world systems. In this paper, potentials of the Evolving Linear Models (ELMs) in tracking control design for nonlinear variable structure systems are introduced. At first, an ELM is introduced as a dynamic single input, single output (SISO) linear model whose parameters as well as dynamic orders of input and output signals can change through ...