Falls that occur as a result of a slip are one of the leading causes of injuries, particularly in the elderly population. Previous studies have focused on slips that occur on a flat surface. Slips on a laterally sloping surface are important and may be related to different mechanisms of balance recovery. This type of slip might result in different gait adaptations to those previously described ...

The 2015 Mw8.3 Illapel, Chile earthquake is the latest megathrust event on the central segment of that subduction zone. It generated strong ground motions and a large (up to 11m runup) tsunami which prompted the evacuation of more than 1 million people in the first hours following the event. Observations during recent earthquakes suggest that these phenomena can be associated with rupture on di...

Large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on two-phase immiscible flows show that, associated with the moving contact line, there is a very large 1/x partial-slip region where x denotes the distance from the contact line. This power-law partial-slip region is verified in large-scale adaptive continuum calculations based on a local, continuum hydrodynamic formulation, which has proved succ...

This paper describes the development, control and evaluation of a mobile platform for microrobots. The platform uses laser-structured piezoceramic plates equipped with ruby hemispheres in order to continuously rotate three steel spheres using the stick-slip effect. The spheres roll on the working surface and can thus move the platform in two translational and one rotational degrees of freedom. ...

[1] Deformation in the northern San Francisco Bay area is dominated by a series of sub-parallel strike-slip faults. Existing GPS observations provide some constraint on the slip rates of these faults, however these have only limited resolution for resolving shallow fault behavior, such as brittle creep. We use a 30 image Permanent Scatterer InSAR (PS-InSAR) dataset spanning the time interval 19...

The aim of the present work is to analyze the accuracy and to extend the capability of lattice Boltzmann method in slip EOF; a phenomenon which was previously studied by molecular dynamics and less considered by LBM. At the present work, a numerical experiment on boundary conditions of slip velocity is performed and the proportionality of slip with shear stress in electroosmotic pump is proved....