An idealized electostatically actuated microelectromechanical system (MEMS) consists of a fixed horizontal ground plate held at zero potential above which an elastic membrane held at potential V is suspended. A Coulomb force is generated by the potential difference across the device and results in a deformation of the membrane, thereby converting electrostatic energy into mechanical energy, see...

We study the transient drag force FD on a localized intruder in a granular medium composed of spherical glass particles. A flat plate is translated horizontally from rest through the granular medium to observe how FD varies as a function of the medium's initial volume fraction, ϕ. The force response of the granular material differs above and below the granular critical state, ϕc, the volume fra...

The transient response of a flat circular plate to a sudden impact has been studied experimentally and theoretically. High-speed electronic speckle pattern interferometry reveals the presence of pulses that travel around the edge of the plate ahead of the bending motion initiated by the strike. It is found that the transient motion of the plate is well described by Kirchhoff thin-plate theory o...

Abstract—Punching shear failure is usually the governing failure mode of flat plate structures. Punching failure is brittle in nature which induces more vulnerability to this type of structure. In the present study, a 3D finite element model of a flat plate with low reinforcement ratio and without any transverse reinforcement has been developed. Punching shear stress and the deflection data wer...

In a vehicle license plate recognition system, tilt vehicle license plate has a bad effect on its character segmentation and recognition. In this paper, tilt models of a plate are analyzed and a approach for number plate tilt correction is presented. Hough Transformation is an effective method to obtain vertical or horizontal angle. Though rotating a correct angle, Tilt vehicle license will be ...

The performance of plate anchors in sand, relative to clay, is not well understood, particularly for the more realistic case an inclined load. This paper investigates effect load inclination on horizontal sand through centrifuge tests and numerical finite-element simulations. were performed rectangular loose dense at shallow embedment depths with four different inclinations. experiments showed ...

At two trench segments below the Andes, the Nazca Plate is subducting sub-horizontally over ∼200-300 km, thought to result from a combination of buoyant oceanic-plateau subduction and hydrodynamic mantle-wedge suction. Whether the actual conditions for both processes to work in concert existed is uncertain. Here we infer from a tectonic reconstruction of the Andes constructed in a mantle refere...