a Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories and Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA b NJU-ECE Institute for Underground Space and Geo-environment, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 210093 c Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Sch...

Analysis of mechanical systems is based on Newton’s laws of motion. Usually, ideal (or point) masses are considered in the analysis, as shown in the Figure 1. Motion is considered with respect to a non-accelerating reference frame, usually a fixed point on earth or another non-accelerating object. The equation of motion for a mass m(t) is based on Newton’s second law which expresses the conserv...

NASA is developing active remote sensors to monitor the health of Planet Earth and for exploration of other planets. Development and deployment of these remote sensors can have a huge economic impact. Lasers for these active remote sensors span the spectral range from the ultraviolet to the mid infrared spectral regions. Development activities range from quantum mechanical modeling and predicti...

Typical Earth system models involve coupled model components in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. In the last few years, several frameworks have been developed for HPC applications. Two of them are component-based frameworks: the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) defining a component interface for Earth system models and the Common Component Architecture (CCA) defining a gener...

During recent years, the fabrics made from different yarns have been used for industrial purposes such as composite materials. Given the importance of the shear properties of these fabrics, a mechanical model based on the Grosberg and Park's Model for hybrid plain-woven fabrics is proposed. In this model, using the Energy method, the initial load-shear angle behavior of hybrid fabrics is calcul...