This paper focuses on the performance evaluation of the parallel manipulators for milling of composite materials. For this application the most significant performance measurements, which denote the ability of the manipulator for the machining are defined. In this case, optimal synthesis task is solved as a multicriterion optimization problem with respect to the geometric, kinematic, kinetostat...

2 State of the Art Previous studies indicated that introducing adaptable compliance to dynamic walking is beneficial to modulating walking performance and extending the versatility [1-3]. However, in most of these studies, the stiffness is changed off-line. The transition of different walking patterns in real time was not investigated. Our previous study [4] has demonstrated walking pattern tra...

introduction: arterial stiffness is an important predictor of cardiovascular risk. several indices have been  introduced to estimate the arterial stiffness based on the changes in the brachial blood pressure. since the  substitution  of  the  blood  pressure  changes  in  the  central  arteries  such  as  carotid  with  the  blood  pressure  changes in the brachial results in error in the blood...

Dynamic performance of suspension seats depends on characteristics of both the suspension and the seat cushion. The objective of this study is to develop a hybrid method based on the concept of co-simulation between multibody dynamic and finite element models. The methodology is illustrated via simulating a dynamic stiffness test of a seat cushion. The dynamic stiffness of a cushion was measure...

Abstract: This paper studies the dynamic response of a wind turbine gearbox under different excitation conditions. The proposed 4 degree-of-freedom (DOF) dynamic model takes into account the key factors such as the time-varying mesh stiffness, bearing stiffness, damping, static transmission error and gear backlash. Both the external excitation due to wind and the internal excitation due to the ...

Rotating beams have been considerably appealing to engineers and designers of complex structures i.e. aircraft’s propeller and windmill turbines. In this paper, a new flexibility-based method is proposed for the dynamic analysis of rotating non-prismatic Euler-Bernoulli beams. The flexibility basis of the method ensures the true satisfaction of equilibrium equations at any interior point of the...

Viscoelastic material behavior is often characterized using one of the three measurements: creep, stress-relaxation or dynamic sinusoidal tests. A two-stage numerical method was developed to allow representation of data from creep and stress-relaxation tests on the Fourier axis in the Laplace domain. The method assumes linear behavior and is theoretically applicable to any transient test which ...

Many studies simulates the machining process by using a single degree of freedom springmass sytem to model the tool stiffness, or the workpiece stiffness, or the unit toolworkpiece stiffness in modelings 2D. Others impose the tool action, or use more or less complex modelings of the efforts applied by the tool taking account the tool geometry. Thus, all these models remain two-dimensional or so...

ABSTRACT: The problem of lateral load induced on piles under earthquake has been plaguing professional engineers, geo-technical investigators and researchers alike for quite some time. The normal practice is to ensure that the fixed base shear of column does not exceed the static shear load capacity of piles. The inertial and stiffness effect of pile is usually ignored in dynamic earthquake ana...

One of the important issues in the study of steel frames is to find a suitable formulation for semi-rigid connections. In this paper, the explicit stiffness matrix for a two-dimensional beam-column element having end-flexibilities is derived. The effects of the lateral uniformly distributed load on the deflection are considered. Both tensile and compressive axial loads are also taken into accou...