We study the influence of von Karman nonlinearity, van der Waals force, and a athermal stresses on pull-in instability and small vibrations of electrostatically actuated mi-croplates. We use the Galerkin method to develop a tractable reduced-order model for elec-trostatically actuated clamped rectangular microplates in the presence of van der Waals forcesand thermal stresses. More specifically,...

Inhibition usually decreases input-output excitability of neurons. If, however, inhibition is coupled to excitation in a push-pull fashion, where inhibition decreases as excitation increases, neuron excitability can be increased. Although the presence of push-pull organization has been demonstrated in single cells, its functional impact on neural processing depends on its effect on the system l...

Pull-off adhesion fb, in practice determined by the seminondestructive pull-off method, is a measure of the interlayer bond. It should be noted that the effectiveness of the pull-off method depends on the number of cores drilled. According to [1], one core per 3 m2 of floor should be drilled. Such a high density of cores drilled has a significant adverse effect on the condition of the tested fl...

A theoretical model of a single piezoelectric fibre pull-out is developed to study the interaction between fibre deformation, pull-out stress and corresponding electrical field. Computer simulation of the stress–displacement curve of the fibre pull-out process is presented. Numerical examples show that the piezoelectric fibre pull-out behaviour can be both described and affected by its electric...

An XML parser facilitates in simplifying the process of manipulating XML documents. The two commonly used models for parsing XML are pull and push. The Simple API for XML (SAX) [5] is the industry standard for parsing based on the push model. However, no standard exists for pull parsing. In this paper we propose the design, API and implementation, XML Pull Parser 2.0 (XPP2), that allows for bot...

We analyze push and pull for data collection in wireless sensor networks. Most applications to date use the traditional push approach, where nodes transmit sensed data immediately to the sink. Using a pull approach, nodes store the data in their local flash memory, and only engage in communication during dedicated collection phases. We show how one can transform an existing push-based collectio...

Hole quality plays a crucial role in the production of close-tolerance holes utilized in aircraft assembly. Through drilling experiments of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic composites (CFRP), this study investigates the impact of varying drilling feed and speed conditions on fiber pull-out geometries and resulting hole quality parameters. For this study, hole quality parameters include hole size...

Real life networks are generally modelled as scale-free networks. Information diffusion in such networks in decentralised environment is a difficult and resource consuming affair. Gossip algorithms have come up as a good solution to this problem. In this paper, we have proposed Adaptive First-Push-Then-Pull gossip algorithm. We show that algorithm works with minimum cost when the transition rou...

A new CMOS buffer without short-circuit power consumption is proposed. In this work, the gate-driving signal of the output pull-up (pull-down) transistor is fed back to the output pull-down (pull-up) transistor to get tri-state output momentarily, eliminating the short-circuit power consumption. The TSPICE simulations are used to verify the operation of the buffer. It is observed that the power...

A common task in automated manufacturing processes is that of orienting (or feeding) parts prior to assembly. In this paper, we propose a new type of feeder. We consider sensorless orientation of polygonal parts with elevated edges by pull actions with an overhead finger. We show that any asymmetric convex polygonal part can be oriented by a sequence of pull operations. We give an O(n) algorith...