conclusions the he jump mat can be recommended in relation to the validity of constraints. in this study, only a part of the quality criteria were examined. for the final recommendation it is advised to examine the he jump mat on the other quality criteria (test-retest reliability, sensitivity change). background in the field of vertical jump diagnostics, force plates (fp) are the reference sta...

The propagation of elastic waves along composite wire rope is considered. The rope is modeled as co-axial layers of cylindrically anisotropic material. Simple kinematical assumptions lead to a ‘‘rod theory’’ for the wire rope, consisting of three coupled onedimensional wave equations. Solutions of these equations are found. Results for a particular aluminum conductor steel reinforced (ACSR) con...

A study was performed to evaluate effects of elastic energy stored pre-stretch on the mechanical work output while performing vertical jump. Eight male volunteers of age between 21 29 years old participated in the present study. The present study hypothesized that the vertical jump height during countermovement jumps (CMJ) would be higher than that during squat jump (SJ). During squat jump, a v...

The behavior of rope-guided conveyances is so complicated that the rope-guided hoisting system hasn't been understood thoroughly so far. In this paper, with user-defined functions loaded, ANSYS FLUENT 14.5 was employed to simulate lateral motion of rope-guided conveyances in two typical kinds of shaft layouts. With rope-guided mine elevator and mine cages taken into account, results show that t...

To study the design method of sectional area and initial tension of wire rope brace of the prestressed braced steel moment frame structure system, theoretical analysis of this structure system is conducted in this paper. The lateral stiffness formula is derived. It reveals the lateral stiffness is related to the lateral stiffness of bare steel moment frame, story height, the distance between co...

A new model characterizing the response of a multi-strand wire rope subjected to axial tension and axial torque is presented in this paper. Apart frommost of previous approaches which deal with a straight wire strand, the present model fully considers the double-helix structure in multi-strand configuration. To be further, a new method to compute local deformation parameters (two curvatures and...

The conventional handpump is the most popular technology choice for improved potable water supplies in rural sub-Saharan Africa. To date, however, it has failed to deliver satisfactory levels of sustainability, largely due to inadequate maintenance capacity. An alternative option to standardised imported handpumps is the locally manufactured rope-pump, which is considerably cheaper and easier t...

Numerical simulations indicate that there exist conformations of the unknot, tied on a finite piece of rope, entangled in such a manner, that they cannot be disentangled to the torus conformation without cutting the rope. The simplest example of such a gordian unknot is presented. Knots are closed, self-avoiding curves in the 3-dimensional space. The shape and size of a knot, i.e. its conformat...

This study was conducted to detect the presence of rope-producing Bacillus spp. and the rope spore counts in one hundred samples of different types of bread obtained from several bakeries and supermarket stores in Bursa province and to identify the isolates at the species level. Rope spore counts determined using the Most Probable Number (MPN) technique varied between 30 and 90 MPN/g in eight s...