We report the design of a bottle-brush polymer whose architecture closely mimics the lubricating protein lubricin. Interaction forces, assessed using a Surface Forces Apparatus (SFA), between two mica surfaces fully covered by the polymer demonstrate that the polymer adopts a loop conformation giving rise to a weak and long-range repulsive interaction force between the surfaces. Under high comp...

This paper reports a simulation-based dynamic confined compression analysis of coral sand under an impact load using the discrete element method (DEM). The evolution particle breakage on mesoscale was studied by investigating force chain distributions, crack development, and modes. Crushable particles were simulated replacing rigid with flexible basic unit aggregates. Weibull parameters incorpo...

Test Data Compression techniques have been developed for reducing requirements in terms of Automatic Test Equipments. In this paper, we explore the benefits of using these techniques in the context of core-based SoCs. Test Data Compression is used to reduce the system test time by increasing the test parallelism of several cores without the expense of additional tester channels. In this paper, ...