Controllable bending stiffness and damping has significant applications in soft robotics, especially for soft slender manipulator arms inspired by octopus tentacles. The bending moment on a solid slender beam is balanced by the sum of moments generated by internal stresses. Resulting stresses are not controllable and decided by the bending curvature, area moment of inertia and elastic modulus o...

ABSTRAK Penggunaan material baja sebagai strut (batang penopang) pada chassis space-frame sudah sangat umum. Material masih memiliki kekurangan berupa bobot yang relatif berat. Hal ini berpengaruh kendaraan hemat energy, dimana mobil energi membutuhkan lebih ringan untuk mecapai efisiensi tinggi. Dalam penelitian digunakan komposit fiberglassWR-200 membuat beam dengan struktur penguat di dalamn...

This study presents an analytical investigation into the mechanical behavior of a cartilage-polydioxanone (PDS) plate composite grafts. Numerical methods are used to provide a first-order, numerical model of the flexural stiffness of a cartilage-PDS graft. Flexural stiffness is a measure of resistance to bending and is inversely related to the amount of deformation a structure may experience wh...