Previous studies found that select titanium ultralight rigid wheelchairs (TURWs) had fewer equivalent cycles and less value than select aluminum ultralight folding wheelchairs (AUFWs). The causes of premature failure of TURWs were not clear because the TURWs had different frame material and design than the AUFWs. We tested 12 aluminum ultralight rigid wheelchairs (AURWs) with similar frame desi...

Previous studies found that select titanium ultralight rigid wheelchairs (TURWs) had fewer equivalent cycles and less value than select aluminum ultralight folding wheelchairs (AUFWs). The causes of premature failure of TURWs were not clear because the TURWs had different frame material and design than the AUFWs. We tested 12 aluminum ultralight rigid wheelchairs (AURWs) with similar frame desi...

We consider the numerical simulation of rigid body motion in multiphase incompressible Navier-Stokes flow. The motion is formulated as an optimization problem and determined by minimizing an objective function in terms of forces and moments acting on the body, constrained by the multiphase Navier-Stokes equations. The corresponding adjoint system and boundary conditions are derived and derivati...

Validation by steam sterilization of reusable medical devices requires careful attention to many parameters that directly influence whether or not complete sterilization occurs. Complex implant/instrument tray systems have a variety of configurations and components. Geobacillus stearothermophilus biological indicators (BIs) are used in overkill cycles to to simulate worst case conditions and ar...

A bar-slider framework is a bar-joint framework a part of whose joints are constrained by using line-sliders. Such joints are allowed to move only along the sliders. Streinu and Theran proposed a combinatorial characterization of the infinitesimal rigidity of generic bar-slider frameworks in two dimensional space. In this paper we propose a generalization of their result. In particular, we prov...

Decay of the Kinetic and the Thermal Energy of Compressible Micropolar Fluids. We consider a heat conducting compressible micropolar fluid at rest and filling a closed stationary rigid container. We show that tim energy of arbitrary disturbances of the fluid eventually decays. Abnahme der kinetischcn und der thermischen Energie kompressibler mikropolarcr Fliissigkeiten. Betrachtet wird eine ruh...

Faraday waves near onset in an elliptical container are described by a third-order system of ordinary differential equations with characteristic slow-fast structure. These equations describe the interaction of standing waves with a weakly damped streaming flow driven by Reynolds stresses in boundary layers at the free surface and the rigid walls, and capture the proliferation with decreasing da...

Short-cycle horticulture crops often rely on fertigation to provide immediately available nutrients. This practice poses an environmental threat when nutrients, particularly phosphorus, leach from containers and enter waterways. One method that could be used reduce the loss of phosphorus other key anions horticultural is incorporating activated aluminum into container substrates. study investig...

This paper describes a case-study which illustrates the capabilities of a commercially available software package called SyMech, which runs within Pro/ENGINEER. The software allows a designer to synthesize arbitrarily complex planar mechanisms by sequentially specifying one of three basic mechanism design functions: position, path, or angle. Because the software runs directly within Pro/ENGINEE...