In this article a practical mass-spring system was developed to simulate the draping of woven and knitted fabrics. The material properties important to fabric drape, including aerial density, tensile, shear, and bending properties were measured using the Kawabata Evaluation System and the experimental data were incorporated into the mass-spring model to simulate the dynamic draping behavior of ...

Wave-induced oscillations of submerged horizontal plates are studied by conducting laboratory experiments and developing theoretical computational models. These models include a linear solver based on the Green-function method, nonlinear model Green–Naghdi wave equations, fluid dynamics. The plate oscillates in vertical direction due to oscillatory loads. Oscillations controlled use spring-damp...

In this paper, a physically based modelling method for point-sampled surface is proposed based on mass-spring system. First, a Delaunay based simplification algorithm is applied to the original point-sampled surface to produce the simplified point-sampled surface. Then the mass-spring system for the simplified pointsampled surface is constructed by using tangent planes to address the lack of co...

In this paper, we propose an interactive system for reconstructing human facial expression. In the system, a nonlinear mass-spring model is employed to simulate twenty two facial muscles’ tensions during facial expressions, and then the elastic forces of these tensions are grouped into a vector which is used as the input for facial expression recognition. The experimental results show that the ...

More than 100 years ago, Lionel Robert Wilberforce did investigations On the Vibrations of a Loaded Spiral Spring [1]. The spring was clamped at its upper side and on other side, perpendicular to axis, steel cylinder attached. Four screws with adjustable nuts were symmetrically attached around in order change moment inertia (Fig. 1). In this paper pendulum is modeled by rigid body constrained s...

INTRODUCTION Running, hopping and trotting animals can be modeled as spring-mass systems in which the mechanical behavior of the musculoskeletal system is represented as a leg spring. The stiffness of the leg spring is the primary determinant of the dynamics of running. Biomechanical studies have revealed that larger mammalian species have stiffer legs (Farley et al., 1993). Similarly, large ad...

A robust vibration absorber reduces vibrations of a system over a range of frequencies. Passive vibration absorption is achieved with a tuned mass and spring (known as a dynamic vibration absorber (DVA)). This is a simple, low cost method of reducing vibrations at a single frequency; however, in order to achieve robust absorption a heavy mass is required. Active vibration control is achieved wi...