Researchers have developedmanymodels to simulate the elasto-plastic contact of spheres. However, there does not appear to exist a closed-form analytical model for elasto-plastic three-dimensional sinusoidal contact. This work uses a finite element model (FEM) to characterize elasto-plastic sinusoidal contact. Although at initial contact the sphere and sinusoidal case are very similar and can bo...

This paper proposes a fractal sinusoidal model that is able to reduce the bit-rate of sinusoidal model coders while achieving perceptually lossless quality. This is achieved by removing the redundancy between sinusoidal tracks through encoding similar tracks with the transformation between a template track and the original track. This paper proposes a transform that is able to capture the perce...

A polymer microchannel chip with a symmetrical or unsymmetrical zigzag-side-walled structure was fabricated by an imprinting method, and applied to study shape effects on solution flow characteristics as well as on the liquid/liquid extraction efficiency of an aluminium(III) chelate complex (Al-DHAB: DHAB = o,o'-dihydroxyazobenzene) in a microchannel chip. In an unsymmetrical zigzag-side-walled...

Switches are everyday objects that interface humans to many functionalities and influence our perception of the machinery that they are attached to. This study is aimed at a better understanding of the perceptual attributes of switches. Specifically, the perceptual thresholds for dynamic changes in a rotary switch were evaluated in two experiments using an adaptive procedure. Exp. I measured hu...

A linear perturbation method is used to solve two-dimensional heat conduction problem in which a liquid becomes solidified by heat transfer to a plane mold of finite thickness. Heat flux drawn from the lower surface of the mold is approximately uniform, but contains a small sinusoidal perturbation in one space dimension. Numerical results are obtained for the consequent sinusoidal perturbation ...

copper–silver bimetallic strips were produced by cold roll welding process and were treated by diffusion annealing in the temperature range 250–800 ?c. the interface bonding strength was determined by bending and peeling tests, resistance, conductivity and micro hardness profiles were determined and microstructure in the interface region was observed by optical microscope. electrical resistance...

A versatile vibration energy harvesting platform based on a triboelectricity is proposed and analyzed. External mechanical vibration repeats an oscillating motion of a polymer-coated metal oscillator floating inside a surrounding tube. Continuous sidewall friction at the contact interface of the oscillator induces current between the inner oscillator electrode and the outer tube electrode to co...

Context. The tangential YORP effect is a radiation pressure torque produced by asymmetric thermal emission structures on the asteroid surface. Previous works considered these to be boulders of different shapes lying surface asteroid. Aims. We study rough interface asteroid's regolith. Methods. created an approximate analytic theory heat conduction slightly non-flat sinusoidal analyzed published...

We consider a Mode III lattice with an interface layer where the dynamic crack growth is caused by a localised sinusoidal wave. In the wave–fracture scenario, the ‘feeding wave’ (here also called the knife wave) delivers energy to the moving crack front, while the dissipative waves carry a part of this energy away from the front. The questions addressed here are: What are the conditions of exis...