This research project combines computer-aided-engineering methods with practical control strategies to develop precise fabric handling capabilities. The primary goal is to develop mechatronic design concepts for assembly processes such as: folding, joining, placing, and locating that take into account variability in fabric material properties such as weight and stiffness. Three-dimensional mode...

I was trained with femoral catheterization techniques and found catheterization from the right radial artery to be a frustrating experience. Specialized catheters were of no avail in reducing excessive fluoroscopic time or providing the guide catheter support that I was accustomed to from the femoral approach. I nearly abandoned the radial technique. I then chose to cannulate the left radial ar...

Fold duplexes transfer displacement from a lower to an upper bounding detachment system via trains of folds with broadly parallel geometries. While they have been previously recognised in orogenic systems where are considered be kinematically equivalent imbricating thrust ramps, we here describe the first example gravity-driven fold and (FATS) developed within late-Pleistocene mass transport de...